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  • America at the Fair

    Chicago's 1893 World's Columbian Exposition

    by Chaim M. Rosenberg ...
    At the time of the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, the United States was fast becoming the world's leading economy. Chicago, the host city, had grown in less than half a century from a village to the country's second-largest metropolis. During this, the Gilded Age, the world's most extensive railroad and steamship networks poured ceaselessly through Chicago, carrying the raw goods and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Child Labor in Greater Boston

    1880-1920

    by Chaim M. Rosenberg, Linda Clare Reed ...
    Series series Images of America
    From its earliest days, Boston decreed that its children be taught to read and write English and understand the laws. In 1826, free and compulsory education was introduced. The wish to educate the young conflicted with the great need for unskilled labor in the fields and factories. With adult wages low, schoolchildren helped their families by selling newspapers, shining shoes, hawking goods, or ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Shield of David

    A History of Jewish Servicemen in America's Armed Forces

    by Chaim M. Rosenberg ...
    Jews first arrived in the New World in 1654, seeking religious freedom. Since the beginning of American nationhood, Jewish volunteers and conscripts fought in the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, on both sides of the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, in both World Wars, and in the Korean, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Over the years, the American military learned to integrate its ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • John Lowell Jr. and His Institute

    The Power of Knowledge

    by Chaim M. Rosenberg ...
    This book examines the life and legacy of John Lowell Jr (1799–1836) through the establishment of the Lowell Institute, still active in Boston, which offers free education. ... Read more

    $98.89 USD

  • Losing America, Conquering India

    Lord Cornwallis and the Remaking of the British Empire

    by Chaim M. Rosenberg ...
    On October 19, 1781, British general Charles Lord Cornwallis surrendered his army at Yorktown, effectively ending the Revolutionary War and conceding the independence of the United States of America. Britain soon overcame the humiliation of defeat by expanding its empire elsewhere. Five years after Yorktown, Cornwallis was installed as governor and commander of the army in India, determined to ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • The International Harvester Company

    A History of the Founding Families and Their Machines

    by Chaim M. Rosenberg ...
    Ancient farmers used draft animals for plowing but the heavy work of harvesting fell to the humans, using sickle and scythe. Change came in the mid-19th century when Cyrus Hall McCormick built the mechanical harvester. Though the McCormicks used their wealth to establish art collections and universities, battle disease, and develop birth control, members of the family faced constant scrutiny and ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Child Labor in America

    A History

    by Chaim M. Rosenberg ...
    At the close of the 19th century, more than 2 million American children under age 16--some as young as 4 or 5--were employed on farms, in mills, canneries, factories, mines and offices, or selling newspapers and fruits and vegetables on the streets. The crusaders of the Progressive Era believed child labor was an evil that maimed the children, exploited the poor and suppressed adult wages. The ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Yankee Colonies across America

    Cities upon the Hills

    by Chaim M. Rosenberg ...
    The arrival in 1620 of the Mayflower and Puritan migration occupy the first pages of the history of colonial America. Less known is the exodus from New England, a century and a half later, of their Yankee descendants. Yankees engaged in whaling and the China Trade, and settled in Canada, the American South, and Hawaii. Between 1786 and 1850, some 800,000 Yankees left their exhausted New England ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

  • The Loyalist Conscience

    Principled Opposition to the American Revolution

    by Chaim M. Rosenberg ...
    Freedom of speech was restricted during the Revolutionary War. In the great struggle for independence, those who remained loyal to the British crown were persecuted with loss of employment, eviction from their homes, heavy taxation, confiscation of property and imprisonment. Loyalist Americans from all walks of life were branded as traitors and enemies of the people. By the end of the war, 80,000 ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • The Life and Times of Francis Cabot Lowell, 1775–1817

    by Chaim M. Rosenberg ...
    After the Revolutionary War, despite political independence, the United States still relied on other countries for manufactured goods. Francis Cabot Lowell was one of the principal investors in building the India Wharf and the shops and warehouses close to Boston harbor. His work was instrumental in establishing domestic industry for the United States and brought the Industrial Revolution to the ... Read more

    $119.09 USD

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    Shield of David

    A History of Jewish Servicemen in America's Armed Forces

    by Chaim M. Rosenberg ...
    Narrated by Eric Burgher ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 48 min

    Since Revolutionary times, Jews have served in the United States armed forces and fought bravely in America's wars.Jews first arrived in the New World in 1654, seeking religious freedom. Since the beginning of American nationhood, Jewish volunteers and conscripts fought in the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, on both sides of the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, in both World Wars, and in ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    by David McCullough ...
    The Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of Harry S. Truman, whose presidency included momentous events from the atomic bombing of Japan to the outbreak of the Cold War and the Korean War, told by America’s beloved and distinguished historian.The life of Harry S. Truman is one of the greatest of American stories, filled with vivid characters—Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, Eleanor Roosevelt, Bess ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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