Pathfinder: John Charles Fremont and the Course of American Empire by Tom ChaffinRequirements: .MP3 reader, 564 MBOverview: The career of John Charles Frémont (1813-90) ties together the full breadth of American expansionism from its 18th-century origins through its culmination in the Gilded Age. Tom Chaffin’s biography demonstrates Frémont’s vital importance to the history of American […]
Revolutionary Brothers: Thomas Jefferson, the Marquis de Lafayette, and the Friendship that Helped Forge Two Nations by Tom ChaffinRequirements: .ePUB reader, 15.6 MBOverview: In a narrative both panoramic and intimate, Tom Chaffin captures the four-decade friendship of Thomas Jefferson and the Marquis de Lafayette. Thomas Jefferson and the Marquis de Lafayette shared a singularly extraordinary […]
Revolutionary Brothers: Thomas Jefferson, the Marquis de Lafayette, and the Friendship that Helped Forge Two Nations by Tom ChaffinRequirements: .ePUB reader, 16,4 MBOverview: In a narrative both panoramic and intimate, Tom Chaffin captures the four-decade friendship of Thomas Jefferson and the Marquis de Lafayette. Thomas Jefferson and the Marquis de Lafayette shared a singularly extraordinary […]
Giant’s Causeway: Frederick Douglass’s Irish Odyssey and the Making of an American Visionary by Tom ChaffinRequirements: .ePUB reader, 9 MBOverview: In 1845, seven years after fleeing bondage in Maryland, Frederick Douglass was in his late twenties and already a celebrated lecturer across the northern United States. The recent publication of his groundbreaking Narrative of the […]
Odyssey: Young Charles Darwin, The Beagle, and The Voyage that Changed the World by Tom ChaffinRequirements: .ePUB reader, 26mbOverview: An illuminating and lively narrative of Charles Darwin’s formative years and adventurous voyage aboard the H.M.S. Beagle. Charles Darwin—alongside Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein—ranks among the world’s most famous scientists. In popular imagination, he peers at […]