History of the Americas

At the heart of Houston stands the Texas Medical Center. This dense complex of educational, clinical, and hospital facilities offers state-of-the-a...

A positive legacy of the troubled Nixon administration--and one virtually unknown to the American public--is the extensive acquisition of valuab...

Despite the plethora of books about the Civil War, the origins of many of the placenames associated with the conflict remain a mystery. This gaz...

With the outbreak of World War I in August 1914, Kiffin Yates Rockwell, from Asheville, North Carolina, volunteered to fight for France. Initial...

Fascinating facts, laws and lore about currency and the money supply, past and present. Printing, storage, circulation, reclamation, counterfeiting...

Few families have influenced America like the Roosevelts--two presidents from different parties, including our longest-serving chief executive, ...

Brigadier General Andrew Pickens was a primary force bringing about the end of British control in the Southern colonies. His efforts helped driv...

John Harrison Surratt, Jr., was a courier for the Confederate Secret Service and the only one of John Wilkes Booth's co-conspirators in the Lincoln...

When the need for telephone operators arose in the 1870s, the assumption was that they should all be male. Wages for adult men were too high, so bo...

Once considered the Metropolis of Arizona, Tucson is in many respects a college town with a major military base onto which a retirement communit...

The northern part of Loudoun County was a Unionist enclave in Confederate Virginia that remained a contested battleground for armies and faction...

During the War Between the States, Davidson County, North Carolina, sent nearly 2,000 men into service with the infantry, cavalry, artillery, na...

In the summer of 1779, British general Sir Henry Clinton launched one last attempt to gain control of the Hudson River, the most strategically i...

From the time of early settlement in Virginia, water-powered mills played a primary role in the state's economy. This work provides an overview ...

During the Civil War, the outcome of many a battle or campaign hinged on the proper wording, dissemination and interpretation of battlefield ord...

At the outbreak of the American Revolution in 1775, the colonies faced the daunting task of creating the first American army, and its requisite ...

The community of East Harlem in New York City lays claim to a rich and culturally diverse history. Once home to 35 ethnicities and 27 languages,...

On July 4, 1776, the Declaration of Independence was read aloud to a crowd gathered outside the Pennsylvania State House. It was engrossed on ve...

From West Point to Fort Donelson, General Charles Ferguson Smith was a soldier's soldier. He served at the U.S. Military Academy from 1829 to 18...

This rereading of the history of American westward expansion examines the destruction of Native American cultures as a successful campaign of co...

Churchill took a three-month vacation to North America in the summer and fall of 1929, a little known event in his long career. In the company o...

The single-wire telegraph revolutionized long distance communication but it was not the brainchild of one inventor, Samuel Morse. His colleagues...

In the midst of the Great Depression, an elite group of New Yorkers lived seemingly unaffected by the economic calamity. They were writers, play...

In 1845, sparsely populated Florida had been admitted to the United States along with Iowa in an ill-fated attempt to keep the balance between slav...

William Lloyd Garrison's life as an abolitionist and advocate for social change was dependent on his training as a printer. None who have studie...

With the arrival of Europeans in North America, the Cherokee were one of the many Indian nations profoundly affected. This book thoroughly discusse...

During his presidency, Jimmy Carter received a comprehensive analysis of his family's genealogy, dating back 12 generations, from leaders of the...

Virginia played an important role during World War I, supplying the Allied forces with food, horses and steel in 1915 and 1916. After America en...

As the Civil War moved into 1864, people in the North expected newly appointed general-in-chief Ulysses S. Grant to roll over the Confederate ar...

A significant part of the Civil War was fought in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, especially in 1864. Books and articles have been written ab...

This book consists of seven stand-alone accounts of individuals who operated as spies during the American Revolutionary War. They were not train...

This book presents a comprehensive history of the seven Apache tribes, tracing them from their genetic origins in Asia and their migration throu...

This is a documentary work offering a first-person account of a Union soldier's daily adversity while a prisoner of war from 20 September 1863 t...

This work tells the personal stories of boys and girls who left home and enlisted in the U.S. military at ages 11 to 16. Many had difficult home...

Tall, handsome and charismatic, James Jaquess impressed men and charmed ladies who knew him as a preacher, a college president or colonel of an Ill...

The Fifth New York Cavalry was a volunteer regiment organized in response to the Union defeat at the Battle of Bull Run in July 1861. The citize...

The Jackson Purchase is the far western section of Kentucky. In 1861, it was a rich agricultural and iron producing region. It also controlled the ...

The role of Americans in the two world wars is well known, but with a glaring exception--one that reveals a little-known aspect of the common hi...

Music was everywhere in pre-Revolutionary Williamsburg, Virginia. In 1771, plantation owner Landon Carter noted in his diary that he could hear ...