History

John A. McClernand was a career politician, and those ambitions and qualities continued during his Civil War service. A member of the Illinois G...

Most Americans are aware that their sixteenth president was mortally wounded by a man named Booth at a Washington theater in April 1865. These are ...

The Louisville & Nashville Railroad was completed just as the first salvos of the Civil War erupted. As one of the few railroads linking the...

Imagine stepping into someone elses shoes. Walking back in time a century ago, which shoes would they be? A pair of silk sensations costing thousan...

From 1823 to 1860 a fleet of small, fast brigs and schooners carried chests of opium from India to China, often facing the challenges of pirates an...

Providing an often-overlooked historical perspective, Gordon Lloyd and David Davenport show how the New Deal of the 1930s established the framework...

The greatest airborne operation in history commenced on 17 September 1944. Nine days later nearly four out five of the British 1st Airborne Divisio...

At 0630 hours on 6 June 1944, the US Army's 1st and 29th Infantry Divisions led the assault on Omaha Beach, the most strongly defended of the all i...

In recent decades the Internet has played what may seem to be a unique role in international crises. This book reveals an interesting parallel in t...

This is the illustrated guide to the temples, tombs and pyramids. It is a fascinating tour of the temples built to worship the gods and goddesses o...

The Roman province of Africa was one of richest in the Empire and as a result has some of the most spectacular remains. The Cities of Roman Africa ...

On 4 October 1943, two trainee RAF pilots, Walter Adamson and Gordon Edwards, took off from Kumalo in Zimbabwe. Some time later they were forced to...

When Clyde Eddy first saw the Colorado River in 1919, he vowed that he would someday travel its length. Eight years later, Eddy recruited a handful...

Captured by the Japanese on Corregidor in 1942, the author, a Navy medic, found himself aiding many of his fellow captives who had been wounded in ...

According to the final declaration of the 1954 Geneva Conference, general elections were to be held in July 1956 that would lead to the reunific...

In 1807, Thomas Worthington was born into a wealthy and powerful Ohio family. Though his path in life should have led to fortune and prestige, he d...

Whether touted for its burgeoning economy, affordable housing, and pleasant living style, or criticized for being less like a city than a sprawling...

Which generals were most influential in World War II? Did Winston Churchill really see himself as culturally 'half American'? What really caused th...

With a modest two-story hotel and various small cottages, Long Key Fishing Camp offered a dramatic departure from the usual opulence of Henry Flagl...

Asked how the Missouri State Penitentiary compared to other famous prisons, a historian and former prison administrator replied, ' It's older and m...

The first decade of the new millennium has been an exciting time for the family historian. The increasing availability of online resources has tran...

In 1915, Armenian Christians in Turkey were forced to convert to Islam, barred from speaking their language, and often driven out of their homes as...

Tom Coffmans portrait of Edward Nakamura is both insightful biography and engrossing political history. The arc of the story may sound familiar (th...

Assigned to the District of Utah during the Civil War, physician John Vance Lauderdale spent the next twenty-five years on army posts in the Americ...

In the late 1850s many of the most striking places in Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana had not yet been surveyed by any government expedition. This book...

The numerous essays by many of the state's leading historians in African American Connecticut Explored document an array of subjects beginning from...

No state has embraced and preserved its civil rights history more than Alabama. Nor is there a place where that history is richer. Alabama's Civil ...

Joe Garagiola remembers playing baseball with stolen balls and bats while growing up on the Hill. Chuck Berry had run-ins with police before channe...

This work describes seven historic chefs and authors who had profound influences on the creation of American cuisine. The first section includes bi...