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America's Hidden History: Untold Tales of the First Pilgrims, Fighting Women, and Forgotten Founders Who Shaped a Nation

by Kenneth C. Davis

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History. Reference. Nonfiction. HTML:Kenneth C. Davis presents a collection of extraordinary stories, each detailing an overlooked episode that shaped the nationâ??s destiny and character. Davisâ??s dramatic narratives set the record straight, busting myths and bringing to light little-known but fascinating facts from a time when the nationâ??s fate hung in the balance.

Spanning a period from the Spanish arrival in America to George Washingtonâ??s inauguration in 1789, Americaâ??s Hidden History explores these episodes, among others:

The story of the first real Pilgrims in America, who were wine-making French Huguenots, not dour English Separatists
* The coming-of-age story of Queen Isabella, who suggested that Columbus pack the moving mess hall of pigs, which may have spread disease to many Native Americans
* The long, bloody relationship between the Puritans and Indians that runs counter to the idyllic scene of the Thanksgiving feast
* The little-known story of George Washington as a headstrong young soldier who committed a war crime, signed a confession, and started a war!

Full of color, intrigue, and human interest, Americaâ??s Hidden History proves why Davis is truly Am
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    A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (Sandydog1)
    Sandydog1: Equally fascinating and enlightening. It's amazing how selective traditional history books, are.
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I learned so much about America's history that even I didn't know. It's all about Revolutionary War and before so don't expect recent history to be in here. Totally fascinating. ( )
  WellReadSoutherner | Apr 6, 2022 |
Readers who "don't know much about history" might get more out of this than I did. None of the chapters are really "untold tales" as the subtitle states. However, a few probably have less familiarity, such as that of Hannah Dustan. Kenneth Davis does have a knack for presenting history from a multitude of secondary sources in a readable manner. Some information acted as a refresher for me.

I read this because it was on the National Daughters of the American Revolution Library's Book Club 2021-2022 reading list. ( )
1 vote ValerieAndBooks | Sep 28, 2021 |
Interesting stories that are not in the history books covering the periods 1469-1789 in American history. Thought it was a good book for giving "forgotten" background information for the Revolution and Pre-Revolutionary times. I'd read another by this author. But the best part is this paragraph in the intro: "The eight-hundred-pound gorilla sitting squarely in the center of this story is religion...this volatile mixture of fearful ignorance and righteous certitude allows one group to demonize and dehumanize another. And once you have accomplished that, it is much easier to hang people as heretics..." I think that should be required reading of every college student in a liberal arts intro to history class.
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  Jeff.Rosendahl | Sep 21, 2021 |
It is an early US history book, full of stories of humans. ( )
  Wanda-Gambling | May 9, 2020 |
Some stories from American history, from the earliest colonial days through George Washington's first term. I knew a lot of the tales already, but it was fun to come across some new-to-me anecdotes. Probably best for people with a casual interest in colonial America; it's not a good book to entice the uninitiated to learn more about the period, and enthusiasts will have already heard it all. ( )
1 vote melydia | Jan 24, 2018 |
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In grateful memory of my father, Richard McShane Davis, for those childhood camping trips to Lake Champlain, Valley Forge, and Gettysburg that sparked my abiding passion for history.
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History. Reference. Nonfiction. HTML:Kenneth C. Davis presents a collection of extraordinary stories, each detailing an overlooked episode that shaped the nationâ??s destiny and character. Davisâ??s dramatic narratives set the record straight, busting myths and bringing to light little-known but fascinating facts from a time when the nationâ??s fate hung in the balance.

Spanning a period from the Spanish arrival in America to George Washingtonâ??s inauguration in 1789, Americaâ??s Hidden History explores these episodes, among others:

The story of the first real Pilgrims in America, who were wine-making French Huguenots, not dour English Separatists
* The coming-of-age story of Queen Isabella, who suggested that Columbus pack the moving mess hall of pigs, which may have spread disease to many Native Americans
* The long, bloody relationship between the Puritans and Indians that runs counter to the idyllic scene of the Thanksgiving feast
* The little-known story of George Washington as a headstrong young soldier who committed a war crime, signed a confession, and started a war!

Full of color, intrigue, and human interest, Americaâ??s Hidden History proves why Davis is truly Am

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