Don't Know Much About History [30th Anniversary Edition]: Everything You Need to Know About American History but Never LearnedHarperCollins, 2020 M11 3 - 752 pages A New York Times bestseller · More than 1.7 Million Copies Sold! “Reading Davis is like returning to the classroom of the best teacher you ever had!” —People magazine From the arrival of Columbus through the historic election of Barack Obama and beyond, Kenneth C. Davis carries readers on a rollicking ride through more than five hundred years of American history. In this 30th anniversary edition of the classic anti-textbook—which includes a new preface by Davis—he debunks, recounts, and serves up the real story behind the myths and fallacies of American history. |
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... attacks on the United States and the ongoing war on terrorism that followed the worst global economic crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s the historic 2008 election of Barack Obama, the nation's first African American ...
... attacks on the United States and the ongoing war on terrorism that followed the worst global economic crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s the historic 2008 election of Barack Obama, the nation's first African American ...
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... attack in metropolitan New York were next to nil. But march we did. And then, suddenly, the Berlin Wall fell, Germany was unified, and the Soviet Union was gone. In a stunning burst of freedom movements around the world in the early ...
... attack in metropolitan New York were next to nil. But march we did. And then, suddenly, the Berlin Wall fell, Germany was unified, and the Soviet Union was gone. In a stunning burst of freedom movements around the world in the early ...
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... attacks of September 11, 2001. If the terror attacks haven't changed anything else, they certainly changed many Americans' appreciation of the past and what it has to do with the present. History explains how we got where we are. We can ...
... attacks of September 11, 2001. If the terror attacks haven't changed anything else, they certainly changed many Americans' appreciation of the past and what it has to do with the present. History explains how we got where we are. We can ...
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... attack, a pregnant Norse woman frightened the skrelings off by slapping a sword against her bare breast. Terrified at this sight, the skrelings fled back to their boats. In his fascinating book Cod, Mark Kurlansky asks, “What did these ...
... attack, a pregnant Norse woman frightened the skrelings off by slapping a sword against her bare breast. Terrified at this sight, the skrelings fled back to their boats. In his fascinating book Cod, Mark Kurlansky asks, “What did these ...
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... attack of the Spanish Armada, failed to reach the colony in 1588, and when ships finally did arrive in 1590, the pioneers left by Raleigh had disappeared without a trace. All that was found was some rusted debris and the word croatoan ...
... attack of the Spanish Armada, failed to reach the colony in 1588, and when ships finally did arrive in 1590, the pioneers left by Raleigh had disappeared without a trace. All that was found was some rusted debris and the word croatoan ...
Contents
Jane Roe sue Wade? | |
From the Evil Empire to the Axis of Evil | |
Authors Note | |
Acknowledgments | |
Is the Electoral College a Party School? A Presidential Election Primer | |
Index | |
About the Author | |
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