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The Panay incident, December 12, 1937

the sinking of an American gunboat worsens U.S.-Japanese relations
  • Icenhower, Joseph Bryan
1971
Recounts the events and effects of the Japanese sinking of an American gunboat in the Yangtze River in 1937.

The purchase of Alaska, March 30, 1867

a bargain at two cents an acre
  • Sgroi, Peter P
1975
An account of the purchase of Alaska by the United States from Russia in 1867.

The Amistad revolt 1839

the slave uprising aboard the Spanish schooner
  • Kromer, Helen
1973
Recounts the causes, events, and aftermath of the mutiny of African slaves aboard the schooner Amistad enroute to the Americas in 1839.

The Philippine insurrection, 1899-1902

America's only try for an overseas empire
  • Walsh, John E
1973
Traces the causes, events, and results of the insurrection resulting from the United States decision not to grant Philippine independence at the end of the Spanish-American war.

The Tripolitan war, 1801-1805

America meets the menace of the Barbary pirates
  • Castor, Henry
1971
Chronicles the causes and events of the Tripolitan War fought to rid the Mediterranean of the Barbary Pirates.

The Battle of Fallen Timbers, August 20, 1794

President Washington secures the Ohio Valley
  • Tebbel, John William
1972
Examines the events leading to the Battle of Fallen Timbers in 1794 which ended Indian and British control of the Ohio Valley.

The Trent Affair, November, 1861: U.S. detainment of a British ship nearly brings war with England

  • Roscoe, Theodore
1972
Describes the incidents at the beginning of the Civil War that nearly led the United States into another war with Britain.

King Philip's war, 1675-76

the New England Indians fight the colonists
  • Rich, Louise Dickinson
1972
Describes the causes, events, and outcome of the war waged against the English settlers by the Wampanoag Indians in the seventeenth century.

The Boston massacre, March 5, 1770

Submitted by khenkes on Tue, 07/18/2017 - 08:37

An account of the Boston Massacre describing how it resulted from the Boston Tea Party, and how it contributed to the Revolutionary War.

Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, January 1, 1863

Submitted by khenkes on Tue, 07/18/2017 - 08:37

Traces Lincoln's evolving attitude about slavery from his early days in Illinois to the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 and its aftermath.

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