American Exploration

Even as one challenge is dealt with, a greater threat appears. Now, Silas finds himself adrift in the multiverse, but this is exactly the sort of adventure he's been longing for. There are monsters to slay, crafting to be done, and friends to make...

Greatly expanding on his blockbuster 1421, distinguished historian Gavin Menzies uncovers the complete untold history of how mankind came to the Americas—offering new revelations and a radical rethinking of the accepted historical record in Who Discovered America? The iconoclastic...

Winner of the inaugural Theodore Roosevelt Association Book Prize A captivating account of how Theodore Roosevelt’s lifelong passion for the natural world set the stage for America’s wildlife conservation movement and determined his legacy as a founding father of today’s museum naturalism...

Trace five centuries of North American history, where epic exploration and brutal colonial rivalries forged a new nation. From ancient Indigenous trade routes to the modern battlegrounds of climate politics, this sweeping narrative reveals how a vast northern landscape was ruthlessly contested...

1912 was an incredible year, marking the height of the Heroic Age of Exploration. Curiosity about Antarctica was at fever pitch, and between 1910 and 1914 five teams of intrepid explorers embarked on the greatest race of the era, to travel beyond the edges of the known world and conquer this...

Five hundred feet underground, Jeanne Marie Laskas asked a coal miner named Smitty, “Do you think it’s weird that people know so little about you?” He replied, “I don’t think people know too much about the way the whole damn country works.” Hidden America intends to fix that. Like...

Four short, engaging biographies of some of America's most famous pioneers. This series includes the lives of... - Daniel Boone and his daring settling of the Kentucky frontier - Colonel George Rodgers Clarke and his heroic service to the Colonial Army during the American Revolution - Davy...

California’s transformation into the most populous state in America and the home of some of the country’s richest citizens spread amongst Silicon Valley and Hollywood, was certainly no accident. California has always been one of the most diverse and multicultural states in the United States, way before it was a state at all, and even before the arrival of the Europeans.

Four short, engaging biographies of some of America's most famous pioneers. This series includes the lives of... - Daniel Boone and his daring settling of the Kentucky frontier - Colonel George Rodgers Clarke and his heroic service to the Colonial Army during the American Revolution - Davy...

Four short, engaging biographies of some of America's most famous pioneers. This series includes the lives of... - Daniel Boone and his daring settling of the Kentucky frontier - Colonel George Rodgers Clarke and his heroic service to the Colonial Army during the American Revolution - Davy...