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The Americas

Books in this genre are set in or about the Americas.

Most Read This Week Tagged "The Americas"

The CIA Book Club: The Secret Mission to Win the Cold War with Forbidden Literature

Disunited Nations: Succeeding in a World Where No One Gets Along

Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution

Conquistadores: A New History of Spanish Discovery and Conquest

Fear Is Just a Word: A Missing Daughter, a Violent Cartel, and a Mother's Quest for Vengeance

Voyage of Mercy: The USS Jamestown, the Irish Famine, and the Remarkable Story of America's First Humanitarian Mission

The Last Emperor of Mexico: The Dramatic Story of the Habsburg Archduke Who Created a Kingdom in the New World

A Brutal Reckoning: Andrew Jackson, the Creek Indians, and the Epic War for the American South

American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850

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Fur, Fortune, and Empire by Eric Jay Dolin

Trade and Resources

147 books — 14 voters

Non US-Centric Science Fiction

84 books — 37 voters

Neither Black Nor White by Carl N. Degler

The Comparative Histories of Slavery in Brazil, Cuba, and the... by Laird W. Bergad

The Masters And The Slaves by Gilberto Freyre

The Hidden History of Capoeira by Maya Talmon-Chvaicer

Freedoms Given, Freedoms Won by Kim D. Butler

Slavery in Brazil - Escravidão no Brasil

48 books — 3 voters

Escape Across the Wide Sea by Katherine Kirkpatrick

Slavery in the Caribbean in YA & MG Historical Fiction

14 books — 8 voters

The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer

Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko

JPGS Y10 RAW Americas - Fiction

34 books — 3 voters

The Freedom Writers Diary by Erin Gruwell

Diary of a Freedom Writer by Darrius Garrett

JPGS Y10 RAW Americas - Non-fiction

10 books — 3 voters

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“ *Providence* The United States Has a specific and certain purpose On Earth. Each American Has a specific and certain purpose In America. God favors our endeavors. And we favor God. This, my brother, George Washington Referred to as providence. ”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr., The Pursuit of Happiness: A Book of Poems Honoring Our American Values

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“ We here goe to cause preach the Gospel where it was never heard, and not to subdue but to civilize the Savages, for their ruine could give us neither glory nor benefit, since in place of fame it would breed infamie, and would defraud us of many able bodies, that hereafter (besides the Christian dutie in saving their soules) by themselves or by their Posteritie may serve to many good uses, when by our meanes they shall learn lawful Trades, and industries. ”
― William Alexander, An Encouragement to Colonies

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