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American History: Celebrating 250 Years of Hidden Stories, Forgotten Heroes, and the Nation They Built
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20th Century United States HistoryArmed ForcesColonial Period (1600-1775)
Publisher Price: $30.99
Publisher: History Brought Alive
Published: Jun 1 2026
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
As the United States reaches its 250th anniversary, the country is about to spend the year retelling the official story for the hundredth time.
But there is more to the story. Behind the Founding Fathers, the Civil War, the Greatest Generation, and the moon landing stand millions of forgotten heroes - soldiers, spies, builders, inventors, mothers, and ordinary citizens - whose hidden stories built the nation alongside the names you were taught.
This is the celebration the country has owed them for 250 years.
Discover American history through the people who actually built it. Ten chapters. Hundreds of stories. From Washington's spies to NASA's mathematicians, from the Black regiment at Yorktown to the engineers who built the internet - the names you weren't taught alongside the ones you were.
Inside this book, you will discover:
- Why the first President was so personally broke he had to borrow 500 pounds from a Virginia merchant just to travel to his own inauguration - and how the office he built from nothing has shaped every American presidency since
- The illiterate Cherokee silversmith who became one of only four people in recorded human history to invent a complete writing system from scratch - and gave the world's largest trees their name
- The Richmond spinster who ran a Union spy ring from inside the Confederate capital - and placed a Black woman she had personally educated as a maid in Jefferson Davis's own house
- The Hollywood bombshell and an avant-garde composer who accidentally invented the frequency-hopping technology that now powers every Wi-Fi network, GPS receiver, and Bluetooth device on Earth - and donated the patent to the U.S. government
All of this and much, much more..
Drawing on declassified archives, presidential papers, military records, and the leading scholarship of the past forty years, this is American history as it was actually lived - by the soldiers, spies, builders, inventors, women, and ordinary citizens who built the country alongside the names you already know.
Scroll up, click Buy Now, and discover the America that 99% of the people who built it actually built.
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