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North star to freedom: the story of the underground railroad
Par Gena K Gorrell. 1996
The story of the Underground Railroad, an extraordinary network of farm houses, country lanes, and city streets in the United…
States and Canada which had one purpose - to transport slaves from the terrors of the plantation to the freedom of another country. Grades 5-8. c1996.North to Alaska: Fifty Years On The World's Most Remarkable Highway
Par Kenneth Coates. 1992
"North to Alaska" commemorates the work of those men and women, soldiers and civilians, who endured the bitter cold, the…
blackflies, the mud, and the murderous mosquitoes to build the Alaska Highway. It also celebrates the survival of the highway, the vitality of the community that lives along it, and the spirit of the people who travel its length. 1992.No ordinary time: Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt
Par Doris Kearns Goodwin. 2017
This New York Times best-seller is the compelling chronicle of a nation during a time of incredible change. With detail…
and drama, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author expertly reveals the importance of the Roosevelt White House in the great destiny of the United States. Ultimately, she creates an intimate portrait of the Roosevelts, fusing their human vitality with the monumental scale of domestic and foreign affairs during the Second World War. 2017.Night comes to the Cumberlands: a biography of a depressed area (Southern voices audio)
Par Harry M Caudill. 2012
Caudill explores the southern Appalachian Mountains area's history, from its first settlement to the Civil War, and from the rise…
of coal barons to the economic despair of the 1950s and 1960s. 2012.Traces the Civil War from Fredericksburg in 1862 through the succeeding grim and relentless campaigns to Lee's surrender at Appomattox…
Courthouse and Lincoln's assassination in 1865. Sequel to "Terrible swift sword". 1965. (Centennial history of the Civil War ; v. 3)Native peoples and cultures of Canada: an anthropological overview
Par Alan D McMillan. 1988
A comprehensive overview of all the native groups of Canada -- Indian, Metis and Inuit. Describes their traditional ways of…
life from prehistoric times to the present issues of land claims and self-government. 1988.Mayflower: a story of courage, community, and war
Par Nathaniel Philbrick. 2006
When English Separatists flee to Holland, Dutch urban life corrupts their children and weakens their families. Convinced that God is…
leading them to the New World, these devout Pilgrims bravely cross the Atlantic. But after violent storms carry them far north of Hudson's River, they fight icy New England winds to build crude shelters. When half die of starvation and cold that winter, the weakened survivors have little hope of facing the spectre of Indian attack. 2006.La face cachée des États-Unis: assassinats, trahisons, enlèvements, scandales
Par Patrick Pesnot. 2013
''Le scandale du Watergate, l'assassinat tragique de Robert Kennedy, les méthodes controversées de J. Edgar Hoover au sein du FBI,…
la disparition troublante du syndicaliste Jimmy Hoffa, l'ingérence des États-Unis dans les affaires politiques des pays d'Amérique du Sud, les armées privées à la solde des autorités américaines: revivez quelques-uns des épisodes les plus mystérieux et brûlants du XXe siècle. Scandales politiques, histoires d'espionnage, manipulations de la CIA, syndicats gangrenés par la mafia jettent un éclairage révélateur et inquiétant sur le sombre visage de la première puissance mondiale. '' -- 4e de couv.Lone star rising: the revolutionary birth of the Texas Republic (Lone Star audio)
Par William C Davis. 2004
Following the Louisiana Purchase, Spanish officials in Mexico began to worry about the expansionist desires of the young country now…
bordering their own territory. Once Mexico became independent from Spain, conflicts between the Mexican government and the Texas leaders such as Stephen F. Austin continued. In time, the residents of Texas declared their independence from Mexico and, after many battles, eventually established their own free nation. 2004.Lincoln's lieutenants: the high command of the Army of the Potomac
Par Stephen W Sears. 2017
The high command of the Army of the Potomac was a changeable, often dysfunctional band of brothers, going through the…
fires of war under seven commanding generals in three years, until Grant came east in 1864. The men in charge all too frequently appeared to be fighting against the administration in Washington instead of for it, increasingly cast as political pawns facing down a vindictive congressional Committee on the Conduct of the War. President Lincoln oversaw, argued with, and finally tamed his unruly team of generals as the eastern army was stabilized by an unsung supporting cast of corps, division, and brigade generals. With characteristic style and insight, Stephen Sears brings these courageous, determined officers, who rose through the ranks and led from the front, to life and legend. 2017.Marching home: Union veterans and their unending Civil War
Par Brian Matthew Jordan. 2015
For well over a century, traditional Civil War histories have concluded in 1865, with a bitterly won peace and Union…
soldiers returning triumphantly home. In a landmark work that challenges sterilized portraits accepted for generations, Civil War historian Brian Matthew Jordan creates an entirely new narrative. These veterans - tending rotting wounds, battling alcoholism, campaigning for paltry pensions - tragically realized that they stood as unwelcome reminders to a new America. 2015.Bausum revisits 1968 Memphis, Tennessee, to examine how the sanitation workers' strike set the scene for one of Dr. Martin…
Luther King Jr.'s greatest speeches. It would also be the site of his tragic death, an event that dramatically altered the face of the Civil Rights Movement. Grades 4-7. 2013.March to Armageddon: the United States and the nuclear arms race, 1939 to the present
Par Ronald E Powaski. 1987
A detailed history of the arms race, from the Manhattan Project to the Iceland Summit of 1986. The dynamics of…
the international system, the Cold War, technological pressure and mistrust have proven to have a greater impact on decisions than the virtues of arms control. 1987.Manhattan Project: the untold story of the making of the atomic bomb
Par Stéphane Groueff. 2000
" Ouvrage historique magistral, venant tout juste d'être traduit en français, qui retrace les moyens qu'ont pris les politiciens du…
19e siècle pour exterminer les peuples des Premières nations. L'historien James Daschuk y trace un portrait peu flatteur des bâtisseurs canadiens, à commencer par John A. Macdonald. Celui qu'on connaît comme le " Père de la Confédération " a joué un rôle actif dans le confinement dans les réserves, l'extermination des bisons et la distribution de viande avariée, tout en empochant des pots-de-vin pour " nettoyer " le territoire pour la construction du chemin de fer transcanadien. " -- 4e de couv.Les Grands Lacs: histoire naturelle d'une région en perpétuelle mutation
Par Wayne Grady, Dominique Bouchard. 2007
Cinq lacs immenses logent au cour de l'Amérique du Nord. Ensemble, ils forment la plus grande source d'eau douce aisément…
disponible au monde, soit environ vingt pour cent des réserves totales de la planète. La richesse inouïe des bassins versants des Grands Lacs a attiré et fait vivre des populations humaines et animales depuis plus de 10 000 ans. Ces cours d'eau ont servi de routes pour les transports et les échanges, de fonds de pêche pour la plus importante pêche continentale au monde, de dortoirs pour des milliards d'oiseaux migrateurs et de sources d'eau pour la consommation et l'irrigation. 2007. Titre uniforme: The Great Lakes.Les sorcieres de Salem
Par Liliane Crété. 1995
Etude historique basee sur une celebre affaire de sorcellerie a Salem, en 1692, ou la fille et la niece d'un…
reverend demontrerent des symptomes de possession diabolique. Au proces, les declarations des fillettes secourerent toute l'Amerique. Trois siecles apres l'histoire continue de fasciner. 1995.Aux commencements de l'Amérique: (1497-1803) : récit (Terres d'aventure)
Par Marie Hélène Fraïssé. 1999
Le genou de Lucy: l'histoire de l'homme et l'histoire de son histoire
Par Yves Coppens. 1999
L'auteur, spécialiste de la paléontologie, a rassemblé ici sa conception de l'histoire de l'homme, une science neuve qui n'en finit…
plus de réviser ses éphémères certitudes. Une esquisse d'autobiographie, un portrait de la fameuse Lucy, certes pas la plus vieille femme du monde, mais "le squellette le moins incomplet de la préhistoire."Les dinosaures: en os, en large et en travers ((Les Docudéments ; 15. Sciences))
Par Jean Le Loeuff, Christel Souillat. 1997
Repérer un terrain fossilifère ? Distinguer du premier coup d'œil un théropode d'un marginocéphale ? Facile... Os, œufs, becs, cornes…
et petits bobos, vous n'ignorerez presque plus rien des mastodontes de l'ère secondaire. Pour les lecteurs d’école secondaire. 1997.