Kenneth C Davis

This revised, updated, and expanded edition includes the history of the "Era of Broken Trust," from the end of the Clinton administration through the recent Great Recession, plus the events of 9/11, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Hurricane Katrina, the global financial meltdown, the election of Barack Obama, and the same-sex marriage controversy.

This book tells the story of forty-three of America's presidents and their families.

Historian Kenneth C. Davis brings his remarkable ability for making the past vital and entertaining to this in-depth study of the United States' bloodiest conflict. Not content to rehash the one-dimensional accounts that traditional history textbooks have foisted upon students, Davis reexamines with a fresh, critical eye the situations leading up to and the key events that shaped the Civil War. He begins by reaching back to the earliest days of American...

Questions and answers present information about who the Pilgrims were, how and why they came to America on the Mayflower, and what happened in the colony of New Plymouth.

Provides assorted facts about each of the fifty states in question and answer format.

Presents, in question and answer format, a history of the United States from the exploration of Christopher Columbus to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.