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"National Book Award winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Nathaniel Philbrick, author of In the Heart of the Sea and Mayflower, reveals how California's Gold Rush forged the modern United States-and lit the long fuse to civil war In January 1848, a carpenter spotted flecks of gold in a shallow stream at Sutter's Mill in California-triggering the greatest voluntary migration in U.S. history and jolting a fragile republic already sliding toward crisis....

The Shortest History of the United States tells the 250-year story of a nation often divided and the people who have stood up for its citizens' inalienable rights. Don Watson traces moments of liberty and justice, inequity and oppression, to show how a country at war with itself in the 1860s, and the leader of the free world less than a hundred years later, became a nation beset by wild division and turmoil in the twenty-first century.

"Hobby Lobby is a multibillion-dollar craft store chain with more than a thousand US locations, founded and owned by the Greens-an evangelical Christian family committed to establishing the Bible as the ultimate authority behind our laws and society. In The Gospel According to Hobby Lobby, Michael Blanding reveals how the Greens have quietly yet effectively used their vast wealth to spread their beliefs throughout the US and beyond. They've run expensive,...

Volume C tells the story of America from 1865 to 1932, including the challenges of westward expansion and industrialization..

Volume D tells the story of America from 1929 to the present day, including the transformations of the New Deal, the trials of two world wars, the American experience during the Cold War, the struggles of the Civil Rights movement, and the complex challenges facing the United States in the 21st century.

"Can one person change the world? In his acclaimed and influential books Guns, Germs, and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now, in Profits, Prophets, Coaches and Kings, he studies leaders throughout time to answer the question: do the actions of individuals truly influence history? Or is humanity subject to larger historical, technological, cultural, geographical forces, far...

Celebrates the ancient cultures and distinctive landscapes of the American southwest.

Explains the fundamental principles of time.

A history of Cross of Christ Lutheran Church in Houston, Minnesota that was formed by the merger of Houston Lutheran Church and St. Peter's Church of Houston, Minnesota. Includes list of confirmands by year.