Author: William J. Phalen

In 1846, political economist Karl Marx wrote that without cotton, you have no modern industry. Indeed, before the American Civil War, cotton brough...

Before the Civil War, Coney Island boasted a beach, a dozen small hotels with ramshackle bathhouses, some chowder stands and a few saloons. Afte...

Invented in the 1830's, the telegraph soon became indispensable. By 1851 there were more than 50 companies providing telegraphic service in the ...

Few topics are as pertinent to the American political scene as immigration. This timely book examines the attitude of American Evangelical Prote...

Friends sometimes have problems with one another, the reasons are myriad, because after all, they are human beings and therefore subject to all of ...