History: Specific Events & Topics

This is the history of air racing from its beginnings in 1909 at Reims, France, to the end of the 2008 racing season at Reno, Nevada. The history o...

This work offers a new and comprehensive account of the fastest and most beautiful sailing ships ever built. It explores the quest for speed on the...

In 1972, the Philadelphia Phillies experienced one of their worst seasons in franchise history, finishing with an abysmal 59-97 record. Yet through...

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 ...

The Nguyen of Kim Bai (a village in the Red River delta in Vietnam) traces its ancestry back to at least the 15th century. The region is also co...

During World War II, Guam was the only American territory where Japan administered the occupied local people. Organic integration was the purpos...

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,...

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...

Bette Davis as a madam. Orson Welles hosting The Twilight Zone. Mae West voicing a cartoon character. Shirley Temple playing a social worker. While...

Paper dolls might seem the height of simplicity--quaint but simple toys, nothing more. But through the centuries paper figures have reflected re...

In 1924, Professor Ueno Eizaburo of Tokyo Imperial University adopted an Akita puppy he named Hachiko. Each evening Hachiko greeted Ueno on his ret...

The history of emotions is a new approach to social history, and this book is the first in English to systematically examine emotions in Colonial M...

The antislavery movement entered an important new phase when William Lloyd Garrison began publishing the Liberator in 1831a phase marked by massive...

Every legitimate member of Revolutionary War soldier Francis Jones's family (including his son-in-law Congressman James Strudwick Smith) lies in a ...

This collection of new essays covers the myriad portrayals of the figure of the pirate in historical records, literary narratives, films, televi...

Women played an integral role in the theater of the Antebellum and Civil War South. Yet their contributions have largely been overlooked by hist...

Vit Nam is the home of more than fifty ethnic minorities--such as the Cham and Thai--many of which have distinctive clothing and weaving traditi...

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

As the Civil War ended, thousands of Union veterans imagined Kansas as a place to make a new beginning. Many veterans settled in the southeaster...

During the Cleveland Indians' checkered 110-year history, only two of its teams have brought home baseball's ultimate prize. While the 1948 team co...

When a decades-long court battle resulted in her familys freedom in 1855, seven-year-old Mary Mildred Williams unexpectedly became the face of Amer...