History of the Americas

This follow-up to the first Mine to Mill book continues the exploration of the American iron ore trade on the Great Lakes from the golden age of pi...

During the height of the Cold War, the United States started to develop and expand its air defense capabilities to knock down Russian Air Force nuc...

Filled with 140 finely-crafted original drawings and paintings, this book is designed to guide readers as they explore the rich and diverse heritag...

This is a study of one of the 8th USAAFs sub-units. The 1st Combat Bomb Wing (1CBW), created on 13 September 1943, was preceded first by the 1st Bo...

This volume examines what the citizen soldiery of the New England states wore when they marched off to save the Union in 1861. An exhaustive search...

Americans have been almost constantly at war since 1917. In addition to two world wars, the United States has fought proxy wars, propaganda wars, a...

Long before the smokestacks and factories of industrial Akron rose from Ohio''s Cuyahoga Valley, the region was a place of tense confrontation. Beg...

Many thousands of books have been written about the Civil War, but only a handful cover the story of the Southern soldiers and sailors who wore the...

Where did Native Americans come from and when did they first arrive? Several lines of evidence, most recently genetic, have firmly established that...

A patriotic celebration of Canada's superlatives. Canada is the second largest country in the world by area. People around the world recognise its ...

Only four men in American history have been promoted to the five-star rank of Admiral of the Fleet: William Leahy, Ernest King, Chester Nimitz and ...

With US soldiers stationed around the world and engaged in multiple conflicts, Americans will be forced for the foreseeable future to come to terms...