Woodard, Colin

"Explores the ongoing debates throughout history between the fight for individual rights and the community as a whole, from discussions that took place at the Constitutional Convention, through the Civil War, all the way up to the modern Tea Party"--NoveList.

Describes the eleven distinct regional cultures of North America and explains how their fundamentally different historical roots influence their ideals today.

This is an eyewitness account of the state of the world's oceans and a landmark call to action.

Presents the story of the Pirate Republic formed by pirate captains including Blackbeard, Black Sam Bellamy, and Charles Vane. They created a crude democracy with crews largely composed of runaway slaves and indentured servants who craved a measure of freedom. For a brief period the pirates cut off Britain, France, and Spain from their New World empires until a man named Woodes Rogers overcame them.