Books written by Tim McNeese

George W. Bush: First President of the New Century

After attending Kinkaid for two years , he transferred to Phillips Academy in Andover , Massachusetts . What Kinkaid represented to the elite and powerful of Texas , Phillips Academy , also known as Andover , represented for the wealthy ...
Salvador Dali

THE GREAT HISPANIC HERITAGE Miguel de Cervantes Cesar Chavez Salvador Dali Frida Kahlo Pedro Martinez Pablo Picasso Juan Ponce de Leon Diego Rivera Carlos Santana Sammy Sosa Pancho Villa Salvador Dali Tim McNeese.
Causes of the Civil War: The Differences Between the North and South

Collins, Bruce. The Origins of America's Civil War. New York: Holmes and Meier Publishers, 1981. Craven, Avery. The Coming of the Civil War. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1957. . Civil War in the Making.
Revolutionary America, 1764-1789

Few of the early men who rallied others to the Patriot cause played a greater singular role than Bostonian Samuel Adams. His cousin John Adams, according to historian George Carey, credited him as a key figure in the Revolution: ...
Sieges That Changed the World

A six-volume set covers sieges from the ancient and modern worlds, discussing their impact on regional and international affairs.
The World at War

Deal. With the Delano Roosevelt With the election of 1932, Hoover's presidency by the Great Depression. The Rise of Adolph Hitler. The Great Depression of the 1930s disrupted life in every industrialized nation in the world.
The Oregon Trail: Pathway to the West

In an 1844 journal entry, pioneer Martha Ann Morrison makes this observation: The men had a great deal of anxiety and all the care of their families, but still the mothers had the families directly in their hands and were with them all ...
Marco Polo and the Realm of Kublai Khan

In 1271, 17-year-old Marco Polo traveled from Venice to meet the great ruler of the east, Kublai Khan.
Christopher Columbus and the Discovery of the Americas, Explorers of New Lands

Table of Contents Introduction by William H. Goetzmann vi 1 A Battle at Sea 1 2 Birth of a Great Seaman 12 3 A Life Lived by the Sea 28 4 Selling His Dream 43 5 Setting Sail at Last 58 6 A Voyage of Discovery 73 7 Exploring a New World ...
Time in the Wilderness: The Formative Years of John “Black Jack” Pershing in the American West

Jasper Morrison, Capt. Sidney Cloman, and Capt. Thomas Swobe— but Morrison was already dead, and the other two denied any such knowledge. Swobe even presented a personal vouch for Pershing: “We messed at the same table, our rooms were ...
The Labor Movement: Unionizing America

Their efforts produced about 1,000 McCormick reapers a week—50,000 annually—and these machines were then put to work in America's fields, helping to bring in the nation's abundant harvests. A profile of the men who worked in McCormick's ...
American Frontier (eBook)

... the most significant mechanics applied to farming were embodied in a threshing machine invented by Cyrus McCormick.Patented in 1834, McCormick's mechanical reaping device cut the time required to bring in a fall harvest of grain.
Conflict and Change in the West: The American Frontier

Perhaps the most significant mechanics applied to farming were embodied in a threshing machine invented by Cyrus McCormick. Patented in 1834, McCormick's mechanical reaping device cut the time required to bring in a fall harvest of ...
Early National America 1790-1850

Farmers found their work eased by such inventions as John Deere's steel plow (1837) and Cyrus McCormick's automatic reaping machine (1831), which replaced workers who had previously cut grain with hand-held scythes.
The Donner Party: A Doomed Journey

Recounts the journey of the Donner Party which, in 1846, sought to travel from Independence, Missouri, to California but took an untried shortcut that trapped them in the Sierra Nevada mountains during a terrible winter.
American Colonies

From the earliest primitive encampments on the Atlantic seacoast to the settled societies of the later colonial period, this book vividly describes the disastrous first years, the strained reliance on native peoples, the horrors of the ...
The Fascinating History of American Indians: The Age Before Columbus

"Examines the history of American Indians before the arrival of Christopher Columbus and other European explorers to North America"--Provided by publisher.
Ancient Rome I: Origins to the First Triumvirate

This was only possible for Rome to accomplish as long as Carthage was weak. With the threat of Rome growing even after the end of the First Punic War, Hamilcar soon realized that Carthage would have to fight Rome a second time.
The Mississippi River

Known as "Old Man River," the Mississippi is one of the great rivers of the world, with a watershed covering 1.2 million square miles. For thousands of years, people have made their homes along and within sight of the river.
Brown V. Board of Education: Integrating America's Schools

Here is the story of the relentless legal campaign launched by the NAACP civil rights organization and a persistent black lawyer named Thurgood Marshall, and how it changed history forever. Brown v.