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America, A Country Divided is a book that delves into some of the major societal issues that’s going on in America. From abortion and birth control to the race war and police brutality, those are a few topics of many that are discussed in this book that talk about what’s going on in the country. America has been divided for decades but the country is back to a place where there is racial tension and social divide among citizens. The question that always remains is how did we get to this place, what can be done to resolve these issues, and what does the future hold for this country? A book that will make you think about what’s going on around us and what we can do as a nation to make it a ...

This book takes students from the Pre-Columbian period to today’s America. It examines American history through the documents and speeches of each period. The learning the thinking of the time offers a deep revelation of the struggle for liberty and the continuing fight to keep it.

A brief history of the major wars America fought to defend our Constitution.

On October 14, 1944, Joe Ostrander, 1st Lt. United States Army Air Corp, dropped his eggs in the early morning breakfast line at his Air Force base in southern Italy. He thought, "oh well, I'll just get some more tomorrow". His next eggs would be seven months away, as that morning his B-24 Liberator was shot down while bombing oil refineries over Ploesti, Romania. Join Joe as he takes us on his harrowing journey behind enemy lines. It's the stuff Hollywood movies are made of - except it's all TRUE.

From the mountains of Wyoming, a river flows across Montana, scattering seeds along the way. Somewhere on the eastern plateau of the Great Northern Plains, the last of the seeds wash up onto the river bank. There, in a foreign habitat, they take root and grow into tall, white-barked trees crowned by yellow leaves. Indian legend calls it the Spirit Grove. In 1879, homesteader Silas Rye, discovers the unlikely grove and claims the land on which they stand. Weathering years of drought and hardship, he creates Aspen Grove Ranch. His granddaughter, Fanny, struggles to hold onto the ranch through two World Wars, the Vietnam conflict, and the attack on 9/11. Drawing her strength from the mystic ...

This is the diary kept by Azel D. Hayward in 1861/62, prior to joining the 72nd Illinois Infantry Regiment, letters he wrote home during his service, and letters to his mother written by his friend and fellow officer after his death. There are clues to an African Descent Infantry Regiment forming somewhat before any published history records it, to another A.D. regiment participating in an unrecorded skirmish prior to its first recorded engagement under a new designation, insights into lives well lived, and even some humor in that terrible time of war.