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  • The Enduring Journey of the USS Chesapeake

    Navigating the Common History of Three Nations

    by Chris Dickon ...
    "Fight "til she sinks, boys. Don't give up the ship! Burn her."James Lawrence's command, spoken as his final fighting words in the historic 1813 battle between the USS Chesapeake and the HMS Shannon, would endure as the motto of the U.S. Navy. He lost the battle, however, and a large portion of the Chesapeake was recycled by the ship breakers of Portsmouth, England, until her timbers gave form and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Eastern Shore Railroad

    by Chris Dickon ...
    Series series Images of Rail
    In the 1880s, New York railroad magnate Alexander Cassatt looked at a map of America�s East Coast and decided that he could overcome a challenge of geography if he thought of a new railroad in a non-traditional way. North and South were now trading with each other postwar, and the two mostprominent coastal cities of those regions, New York and Norfolk, were less than 500 miles apart�except for one ... Read more

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  • Chesapeake Bay Steamers

    by Chris Dickon ...
    Series series Images of America
    The Chesapeake Bay has been a multifaceted engine of American history and commerce since its first settlers touched the shore in the early 1600s. Since English settlers first touched the shore of the new country in 1607, the Chesapeake Bay has been a multifaceted engine of American history and commerce. The body of inland tidal water between the largest bay cities, Norfolk and Baltimore, was large ... Read more

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  • Americans at War in Foreign Forces

    A History, 1914-1945

    by Chris Dickon ...
    The role of Americans in the two world wars is well known, but with a glaring exception--one that reveals a little-known aspect of the common history of the United States and Canada. By the time of the American entrance into World War I in April 1917 and World War II in December 1941, tens of thousands of Americans had already fought and died in those conflicts in the uniforms of other nations ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The College of William & Mary

    by Chris Dickon ...
    Series series Campus History
    By the time of the American Revolution, the College of William and Mary was already into its eighth decade as the academic source of what the new nation would become and how it would relate to the larger world. Its land had been surveyed by George Washington, and its first honorary degree had been given to Ben Franklin. It would go on to educate two signers of the Declaration of Independence, ... Read more

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  • Dutch Children of African American Liberators

    Race, Military Policy and Identity in World War II and Beyond

    by Mieke Kirkels, Chris Dickon ...
    In the Netherlands, a small group of biracial citizens has entered its eighth decade of lives that have been often puzzling and difficult, but which offer a unique insight into the history of race relations in America. Though their African American fathers had brought liberation from Nazi tyranny at the end of World War II, they were in a segregated American military derived from a racially ... Read more

    $16.99 USD