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Hear about the pursuit of riches turning to grief in this mesmerizing story collection! A thrilling exploration of the world's most intriguing and dangerous treasure hunts, Lost Loot: Cursed Treasures and Blood Money collects dozens of fascinating stories of reward, riches, greed, and ruin, including curses, deaths, and centuries-old treasure on Oak Island,

Historian Thomas D. "Tom" Perry reflects on his mentor Dr. James I. Robertson, Jr. of Virginia Tech, a renown Civil War Historian.

La rebelión iniciada por José Gabriel Condorcanqui, Túpac Amaru II, bien pudo acabar con gran parte del poder español en América en 1781 en regiones que ahora pertenecen al Perú, Bolivia y Argentina. Para ese entonces, se había dado una importante confluencia entre el descontento generalizado de la población criolla, mestiza e indígena contras las distintas medidas económicas impuestas por la corona y el empoderamiento de una nueva identidad inca que generaba supuestas profecías del resurgimiento del imperio incaico. La captura de Túpac Amaru en abril de 1781 y la firma de paz ...

Muchos de los gánsteres de Chicago procedían de Nueva York. Hay que considerar que la ciudad de los rascacielos era la entrada de los emigrantes a Estados Unidos. Por ello, en principio, se establecían ahí. Luego, iban buscando otros destinos. De acuerdo con lo anterior, hay muchas menciones de la ciudad de los rascacielos, en este libro, ya que los inicios de La Mafia, The Combine u otras organizaciones, incluyendo Mano Nera, nacieron en Nueva York. Lo mismo que Torrio y Capone. Los gánsteres de Chicago difieren de los de Nueva York en que, en Chicago, Al Capone reinó casi en ...

この教科書はスペイン語の読解をより深くマスターすることと共に、ラテンアメリカの歴史をより深く理解することを目的とします。ラテンアメリカは広い領土で多様で豊かな文化を保っています。スペイン人やポルトガル人が到着する以前から存在する多文化に加えて、征服者と移住者によるそれぞれの地域の人口の構成が独立以前でも変わり続けました。 　教科書のそれぞれの章は二ページで構成されています。一ページ目はスペイン語...

Escribí la versión original de este libro en japonés para utilizarlo como libro de texto en “Estudios Latinoamericanos”, una asignatura que tuve a mi cargo en la universidad Kansai Gaidai. En la misma universidad me ocupaba también de enseñar “Economía de América Latina” y “Política en América Latina”. En “Estudios Latinoamericanos” tenía libertad para escoger la temática. Elegí presentar la historia de la Guerra Fría en el subcontinente a través del cine. En el texto me ocupo principalmente del contexto social, político y cultural de modo que los lectores ...

In the heart of Flower Valley, a gentle panda, discovers something remarkable: a pregnant bee, glowing softly with a rare golden hue. But this isn't any ordinary bee. Legend speaks of a bee born once in a millennia, capable of ensuring the harmony between all creatures. As Panda befriends Bee, he learns that her unique baby has the power to bring peace to the ever-warring insect clans. However, not everyone is eager to see peace prevail. A vengeful wasp with a personal vendetta against Bee's lineage, learns of her condition and sees an opportunity for power and control. He believes that ...

LOTS OF CONTENT WITH GRAPHICS. This book series includes research on the evolution of the DePriest family in America: Volume 1 (c 1650-1750) starts with Robert DePriest, French Huguenot, who immigrated before 1689 and his children with a wealth of information about early Virginia. Copies of original documents are included and data were obtained from Parish documents, Tax lists, Processioning Lists, War records, Censuses, Maps, Comparison tables, and more. Documentation includes not only the DePriests and their descendants but also neighbors as well as conspirators and Revolutionary soldiers...

A traveller's observations and impressions of the United States and its people since the sixties including views and perspectives of Americans on how they see themselves and their country.

During the 2016 presidential campaign, numerous high-level officials within the U.S. Government hated Donald Trump. They were shocked and horrified when Trump won the election over their favored candidate, Hillary Clinton. A "Resistance" movement against Trump arose involving many high-level government officials -- including departing President Obama and his team. The Resistance members feared President-Elect Trump's designee as National Security Advisor, Lt. General Michael Flynn. Flynn had worked in intelligence for 33 years. He was a decorated combat veteran. More important to The ...

This powerful, intensely dramatic book is the definitive account of the Haitian Revolution of 1794-1803. It is the story of the French colony of San Domingo, a place where the brutality of master toward slave was commonplace and ingeniously refined. And it is the story of a barely literate slave named Toussaint L'Ouverture, who led the black people of San Domingo in a successful struggle against successive invasions by overwhelming French, Spanish, and English forces and, in the process, helped form the first independent nation in the Caribbean.

A major new biography of the Civil War general and American president, by the author of the New York Times bestseller A. Lincoln. The dramatic story of one of America's greatest and most misunderstood military leaders and presidents, this is a major new interpretation of Ulysses S. Grant. Based on seven years of research with primary documents, some of them never tapped before, this is destined to become the Grant biography of our times.

Is America a source of pride, as Americans have long held, or shame, as Progressives allege? Beneath an innocent exterior, are our lives complicit in a national project of theft, expropriation, oppression, and murder? Or is America still the hope of the world? New York Times best-selling author Dinesh D'Souza says these questions are no mere academic exercise.

The anchor of The O'Reilly Factor recounts one of the most dramatic stories in American history - how one gunshot changed the country forever. In the spring of 1865, the bloody saga of America's Civil War finally comes to an end after a series of increasingly harrowing battles. President Abraham Lincoln's generous terms for Robert E. Lee's surrender are devised to fulfill Lincoln's dream of healing a divided nation. But one man and his band of murderous accomplices are not appeased....

John Jay was a central figure in the early history of the American Republic. A New York lawyer, born in 1745, Jay served his country with the greatest distinction, and was one of the most influential of its Founding Fathers. In this first full-length biography of John Jay in almost 70 years, Walter Stahr brings Jay vividly to life, setting his astonishing career against the background of the American Revolution. Drawing on substantial new material, Walter Stahr has written a full and highly enjoyable portrait of both the public and private man.

Art T. Burton sifts through fact and legend to discover the truth about one of the most outstanding peace officers in late 19th-century America - and perhaps the greatest lawman of the Wild West era. Fluent in Creek and other Southern native languages, physically powerful, skilled with firearms, and a master of disguise, Bass Reeves was exceptionally adept at apprehending fugitives and outlaws, and his exploits were legendary in Oklahoma and Arkansas.

Eve Haas is the daughter of a German Jewish family that took refuge in London after Hitler came to power. Following a terrifying air raid in the blitz, her father revealed the family secret - that her great-great grandmother Emilie was married to a Prussian prince. He then showed her the treasured leather-bound notebook inscribed to Emilie by the prince.

Here, witness Chicago's growth from a desolate fur-trading post in the 1830s to one of the world's most explosively alive cities by 1900. Donald Miller's powerful narrative embraces it all: Chicago's wild beginnings, its reckless growth, its natural calamities (especially the Great Fire of 1871), its raucous politics, its empire-building businessmen, its world-transforming architecture, its rich mix of cultures, its community of young writers and journalists, and its staggering engineering projects.

The Hawaiian kingdom was tiny, and the big world was huge. The 19th century was the high water mark of Western imperialism, worldwide, and the great powers were planting their flags across the Pacific. Hawai'i was in their sights. By late in the century, two strong American currents were running: one east from the islands, one west from the continent. Sugar plantations had become Hawai'i's biggest moneymaker. And many of the biggest names in the business were of American blood - the sons of missionaries, devout capitalists.

Dee Brown's eloquent, meticulously documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the 19th century uses council records, autobiographies, and firsthand descriptions. Brown allows great chiefs and warriors of the Dakota, Ute, Sioux, Cheyenne, and other tribes to tell us in their own words of the battles, massacres, and broken treaties that finally left them demoralized and defeated.