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  • Stammtisch Tales

    Told Around the Family Table. Old Stories of the Famous and Not-So-Famous

    by Peter Lubrecht ...
    The immigrant communities in New York, for example, Little Italy, Frankfurt on the Hudson (Inwood) in Manhattan, Arthur Avenue (Bronx), Ridgewood (Queens), Bedford Avenue (Brooklyn), produced many heroes in America over the past three centuries. There are family tales and folklore about ancestors, good and bad, who traversed the oceans to get a fresh start in America. They include “jumping ship,” ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • New Jersey Hessians

    Truth and Lore in the American Revolution

    by Peter T. Lubrecht ...
    Series series American Legends
    During the American Revolution, Great Britain hired thirty thousand German troops to fight rebellious colonists. Five thousand of those troops marched across New Jersey from Princeton and Trenton all the way to the northern tip of Sussex County. Though popular legend would cast them as cold and vicious mercenaries, many were prisoners of war with little choice. Stories of their exploits still ... Read more

    $17.60 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Statesman and the Socialite: Carl Schurz and Fanny Chapman

    Secret Love, Letters, and Life in the Gilded Age

    by Peter Lubrecht ...
    Carl Schurz was a larger-than-life public figure whose exploits, real and concocted appeared in newspapers nationwide during the nineteenth century. His letters to Fanny Chapman, his secret love, leave a picture of an age of turmoil, corruption, social graces, and artistic explosion. It took a renaissance man like Carl Schurz to travel among the greats in the literary, artistic and political ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Liebe Kück!

    A German Soldier’S Story from the Great War

    by Peter Lubrecht Sr. ...
    One hundred years ago, the world suffered a brutal and destructive conflict. The Great War, World War I, or the War to End All Wars, by whatever name, cost the lives and the fortunes of millions of people. The modern world, now concerned with its own problems and conflicts, has pushed the memory of it deep into the recesses of collective memory. The veterans and the war dead are honored and ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • New Jersey Butterfly Boys in the Civil War

    The Hussars of the Union Army

    by Peter T. Lubrecht ...
    Series series Civil War Series
    The New Jersey Butterflies, officially the Third New Jersey Cavalry, was formed for the last year of the Civil War. They were also known as the First American Hussars; their creation by an alcoholic ex-officer of the Union Army was supposed to entice men to join a galloping, dashing, romantic cavalry unit. Clothed in orange gilt trimmed hats and capes, they were supposed to charge armed only with ... Read more

    $17.92 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Germans in New Jersey

    A History

    by Peter T. Lubrecht ...
    Series series American Heritage
    German immigrants and their descendants are integral to New Jersey's history. When the state was young, they founded villages that are now well-established communities, such as Long Valley. Many German immigrants were lured by the freedom and opportunity in the Garden State, especially in the nineteenth century, as they escaped oppression and revolution. German heroes have played a patriotic part ... Read more

    $18.24 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • David McCullough American History E-book Box Set

    John Adams, 1776, Truman, The Course of Human Events

    by David McCullough ...
    A special ebook boxed set from Pulitzer Prize–winning author David McCullough, featuring four books on American history.This ebook box set includes the following American History-themed books by David McCullough:John Adams is the magisterial, Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of the independent, irascible Yankee patriot, one of our nation’s founders and most important figures, who became our second ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Scars of Independence

    America's Violent Birth

    by Holger Hoock ...
    **A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICEA magisterial new work that rewrites the story of America's founding**The American Revolution is often portrayed as an orderly, restrained rebellion, with brave patriots defending their noble ideals against an oppressive empire. It’s a stirring narrative, and one the founders did their best to encourage after the war. But as historian Holger Hoock ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • Czechs Won't Get Lost in the World, Let Alone in America

    Portraits and Vignettes from the Life of Czech Immigrants in America

    by Miloslav Rechcigl Jr. ...
    This book features a panorama of the lives of selected personalities, whose roots had origin in the Czech lands and who, in the US, reached extraordinary success and who, with their activities, substantially influenced the growth and development of their new homeland. It is a saga of plain, as well as powerful, people whose influence and importance often exceeded the borders of the US. A great ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • A Daughter’S Search for Her Father

    by Bruce Eekma ...
    Margaret was already twenty years old, married and had her first child, when she found out from strangers that the man she called Dad was not her biological Father. She was told her biological Father was a German, during the second World War, an enemy of the Dutch people therefore neither her Mother or any of her Family were willing to talk about her birth. Then on a trip to Amsterdam the ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • German New York City

    by Richard Panchyk ...
    Series series Images of America
    German New York is an interesting history of the rich cultural heritage of this community.German New York City celebrates the rich cultural heritage of the hundreds of thousands of German immigrants who left the poverty and turmoil of 19th- and 20th-century Europe for the promise of a better life in the bustling American metropolis. German immigration to New York peaked during the 1850s and again ... Read more

    $17.96 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Common Blood

    The Life and Times of an Immigrant Family in Charleston, Sc.

    by Robert Alston Jones ...
    COMMON BLOOD sets the experiences of an extended family of post-Colonial English and German immigrants against the backdrop of more than eighty years of Charlestons tumultuous nineteenth-century history. For the reader who appreciates that history does indeed repeat itself, and who finds social, cultural, and political history fascinating in its ability to provide a vision of both the past and the ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD