History: Specific Events & Topics

In the early 20th century, immigration, labor unrest, social reforms and government regulations threatened the power of the countrys largest employ...

Sir John Franklin's Arctic expedition departed England in 1845 with two Royal Navy bomb vessels, 129 men and three years' worth of provisions. N...

Between 1870 and 2010, 165 Jewish Americans have played Major League baseball. This work presents oral histories featuring 23 of these Jewish majo...

By 1871, the popularity of baseball had spread so thoroughly across America that one writer observed, It is as much our national game as cricket...

During the Great Depression, Henry Alsberg, a journalist with a passion for social justice, directed the Federal Writers' Project, a New Deal pr...

Following the 2013 revelations of Edward Snowden, Americans have come to realize that many of us may be under surveillance at any time. It all s...

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

H.G. Salsinger, the undisputed leading expert on Ty Cobb during the last century, analyzed and reported on Cobb's exploits on the diamond for 50 ye...

What didn't you like about the 1990s--the peace or the prosperity? Setting aside nostalgia for the end of the 20th century, this book takes a ca...

The traditional narrative of the American West tells of a frontier settled by pioneers emigrating from the east to the Pacific coast. Yet Spanis...

The past quarter-century has seen a number of biographies and anthologies on women travelers but to date there has been little comprehensive ref...

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

James Claude Beasley tells his personal story of service in the US Navy during World War II. Born in 1924 he was a typical teenager in the 1940s, a...

Action figures are more than toys or collectibles--they are statements on race, gender, class, body positivity and more. This collection of nine...

On Friday 15 April 1927, the Derry Standard began to publish local photographs in the pages of its newspaper, with the hope `to present in the Derr...

Approaching 21st-century Dublin by boat, the topography of the sight before you - the hill of Howth, the Dublin and Wicklow Mountains - is much the...

Racundras First Cruise is Arthur Ransomes account of Racundras maiden voyage, which took place in August and September 1922. The cruise took him f...

The 1957 PCL season faced uncertainty about the pending invasion of major league baseball in 1958. While the meetings, wheeling and dealing and pol...

In 1983, Interpol named Northern Ireland the most dangerous place in the world to be a police officer. In 1968, the RUC was catapulted into the T...