History of the Americas

In 1861, Colonel Grenville Dodge organized the 4th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment and led them off to war. They had few uniforms or weapons an...

This book presents profiles of sixteen individuals born and raised in countries other than America who voluntarily joined the revolutionary caus...

Following the loss of the CSS Arkansas in early August 1862, Union and Confederate eyes turned to the Yazoo River, which formed the developing n...

America's Rum War tells the riveting true stories of Prohibition's most notorious rumrunners - the daring men and women who sailed the high seas to...

Although World War II began as a war in Europe, many in the United States, foreseeing the inevitable, began to prepare for war, putting no faith in...

Writer and artist Margie Crisp has traveled the length of Texas Colorado River, which rises in Dawson County, south of Lubbock, and flows 860 miles...

Soldier mortals would not survive if they were not blessed with the gift of imagination and the pictures of hope, wrote Confederate Private Henry G...

During the fourteen years Sydney Howard Gay edited the American Anti-Slavery Society's National Anti-Slavery Standard in New York City, he worke...

Now that the United States has declared war upon the German Empire, and that men will more than likely be conscripted into the service, I shall ...

During the era often commonly known as McCarthyism, many motion picture and television creators were blacklisted for supposed communist ties. Th...

In March 2003 the United States military launched an invasion of Iraq. Months afterwards rumors began circulating about human rights violations ...

Opening the Doors is a wide-ranging account of the University of Alabamas 1956 and 1963 desegregation attempts, as well as the little-known story o...

In January 1, 1885, Wells, Fargo & Company's chief detective James B. Hume and special agent John N. Thacker published a report summarizing the...

As the Civil War's toll mounted, an antiquated medical system faced a deluge of sick and wounded soldiers. In response, the United States create...

With its fiery crosses and nightriders in pointed hoods and flowing robes, the Ku Klux Klan remains a recurring nightmare in American life. What be...

This book follows the 7th Tennessee Infantry Regiment from their May 1861 mustering-in to the war's final moments at Appomattox in April 1865. I...

President Ronald Reagan's folksy way with words and evocative delivery earned him the moniker The Great Communicator. From witty political challeng...

During the Civil War, African American war correspondent Thomas Morris Chester was so inspired by the men of the 36th United States Colored Troops ...

The Civil War experience of the 10th Minnesota Volunteer Regiment resembles that of few other regiments. On the day the 10th Minnesota first mus...

This work is an accurate, wide-ranging, and entertaining account of the illegal liquor traffic during the Prohibition Era (1920 to 1933). Based ...

The eight people charged with conspiring to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln were tried by a military commission under military law. It is my ...

The CSS Shenandoah fired the last shot of the Civil War and was the only Confederate warship to circumnavigate the globe. But what was Captain J...