history

"Oleg Gordievsky took his first posting for Russian intelligence in 1968 and became the Soviet Union's top man in London, but from 1973 on he was secretly working for MI6. Desperate to keep the circle of trust close, MI6 never revealed Gordievsky's name to its counterparts in the CIA, which in turn grew obsessed with figuring out the identity of Britain's obviously top-level source. The CIA officer assigned to identify him was Aldrich Ames, who would become infamous for secretly spying for the Soviets"--OCLC.

Focuses on six individual Latino heroes who impacted this critical period in American history.

Profiles the American Conservation Movement. Discover how Sierra Club founder John Muir seeded a grassroots movement before the turn of the century and created a philosphy of living with nature.

Black cowboys taught Teddy Roosevelt how to break a horse and showed Will Rogers his first rope trick. And black couboy Bill Pickett is considered the best rodeo performer ever. There are many great unsung African-American heroes of the Old West. Some were brave individualists, like fur trader Jean Baptiste DuSable who became known as the father of Chicago, and some were outlaws, like Cherokee Bill, the most nototious of all black desperados. But most were settlers who ran hotels, boarding houses, and restaurants, and gave birth to generations of cattlemen. This is their amazing story, told for the first time on video through live-action re-enactments, rare archival photography, and interviews with descendents of western pioneers.

This book tells the stories of women in these changing and growing settlements, American women regardless of their region, color or status.