Cañon City Public Library

"A groundbreaking exploration of the science of why and how we age and die-from Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist Venki Ramakrishnan"--

"Grounding the causes and philosophies of the Civil War in an international context, Andre Fleche examines how questions of national self-determination, race, class, and labor the world over influenced American interpretations of the strains on the Union and the growing differences between North and South. Setting familiar events in an international context, Fleche enlarges our understanding of nationalism in the nineteenth century"--Jacket.

According to the traditional telling, the American Revolution began with "the shot heard 'round the world." But the people started taking action earlier than many think. The First American Revolution uses the wide-angle lens of a people's historian to tell a surprising new story of America's revolutionary struggle. In the years before the battle of Lexington and Concord, local people-men and women of common means but of uncommon courage-overturned...

A Boston merchant describes the American colonists' act of protest against British taxation and the tea monopoly of the East India Company.

Describes the events preceding, during, and following the event which helped precipitate the American Revolutionary War.

Examines the problems of slavery, expansion, and sectionalism between 1848 and 1861.

Explores the beginning of the Revolutionary War, discussing the causes and leaders of the rebellion, and how the first shots fired at Lexington and Concord began America's long road to independence.

Map on lining papers. Provides a portrait of the beginning months of World War I, compiled from eyewitness accounts of British soldiers.

"From protective tariffs to the expansionist agenda, this work illustrates the ways in which the foremost issues of the time influenced relations between the North and the South"--Provided by publisher.