The focus is on 20th-century America in this week’s sample list of history e-books available to MI members. Click on any title below to learn more about it, or click here to browse the wealth of history selections accessible through the e-book app Axis 360.* Just follow the onscreen prompts for checkout. (Coming next week - history-makers’ biographies!)
American Avatar: The United States in the Global Imagination by Barry A. Sanders
The extensive literature on the United States’s image abroad leaves readers with a false impression that foreigners’ views of America are normally negative. Sanders analyzes both anti-American and pro-American biases but focuses on the former.
A History of American in Ten Strikes by Erik Loomis
This book is a thrilling and timely account of ten moments in history when labor challenged the very nature of power in America.
One Summer: America 1927 by Bill Bryson
Bill Bryson, one of our greatest and most beloved writers, transports readers on a journey back to one amazing season in American life. The book begins with Charles Lindbergh becoming the first man to cross the Atlantic by plane nonstop.
The Pioneers by David McCullough
The author rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in the American story, the settling of the Northwest Territory by dauntless pioneers who overcame incredible hardships to build a community based on ideals that would come to define our country.
What Unites Us: Reflections on Patriotism by Dan Rather and Elliot Kirschner
In discussing our national identity, Rather has emerged as a voice of reason and integrity, reflecting in a collection of original essays on what it means to be an American. He examines the freedoms that define us, the values that have transformed us and the institutions that sustain us.
The World Remade: America in World War I by G.J. Meyer
A bracing account of U.S. involvement in the Great War and the consequences of plunging the country into the savage European conflict that would redraw the map of the globe.
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