History

The 11th Missouri Infantry distinguished itself as just the type of regiment the Union needed in the Civil War. Hard as nails and loyal to a fau...

A study of U.S.-Chinese relations involving the U.S. Army, this work focuses at the personnel level on the Army's service in China. While studie...

The turbulent life of Gregory Pappy Boyington, the top U.S. Marine ace of the Pacific, is captured in memorable detail by the acclaimed author of O...

For nearly three hundred years, the Vikings set out on voyages from Scandinavia reaching every corner of the northern world. As raiders, traders, e...

What are the Brown Mountain Lights? Geologist Ed Speer investigates North Carolina's most famous ghost story-the 120-year-old legend of mysterious ...

Providing a multifaceted view of modern Finland, this book describes its history, culture, language, geography, natural history and the mythology o...

This singular collection of articles, essays, poems, criticism and personal recollections by a Vietnam veteran documents the author's reflection...

Pierre-Claver Ndacyayisenga was teaching history in Kigali, Rwanda, when he was forced to flee to the neighbouring Congo with his wife and three ch...

Clint Palmer has spent much of his adult life in the SAS and has fought in this elite military unit as it developed from its fledgling beginnings i...

This second comprehensive chronology of international terrorist attacks covers three eventful years during which the Islamic State supplanted al...

World War II could not have been won without the U.S. Merchant Marine. Crewed by civilian seamen in peacetime and carrying much of the nation's ...

Fugitive slaves were reported in the American colonies as early as the 1640s, and escapes escalated with the growth of slavery over the next two hu...

World War I fighter pilot William C. Lambert of Ironton, Ohio, flew for the British Royal Air Force in 1918. When he left the Western Front in A...

Caring for the wounded in the World War II Pacific Theater posed serious challenges to doctors and surgeons. The thick jungles, remote atolls and h...

Richmond in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was home to a lively underworld of tricksters, swindlers, confidence men and thieves. The for...

The battle that unfolded at the Little Big Horn River on June 25, 1876, marked a watershed in the history of the Plains Indians. While a stunnin...

Sir Roderick Impey Murchison (19th February, 1792 - 22nd, October, 1871), KCB, DCL, LLD, FRS, FGL, etc., was one of the founders of modern geology....

In an era when the dominant ideology divided the world into separate public and private spheres and relegated women to the private, Anna J. Hardwic...

An important contribution to Colombian historical writing. Rausch''s works have helped orient and stimulate a school of historical writing in Colom...

At 7:05 am on February 19, 1955, TWA Flight 260 took off from the Albuquerque airport for a short flight to Santa Fe. The plane's approved air rout...

The legendary explorer of Titanic and Lusitania reveals the secret military missions behind his famous exploits and unveils a major new discovery o...

Florida has a titillating underbelly that few tourists ever see. Beyond the theme parks and the beaches lies a periphery most residents know about ...

Ellis paints a portrait of a politician who, like many other politicians, often publicly sailed with the prevailing political winds of the day but ...

Louisianas Neutral Strip, an area of pine forests, squats between the Calcasieu and Sabine Rivers on the border of East Texas. Early in its history...

Capturing Education examines the founding of the first tribally controlled American Indian colleges in the late 1960s and early 1970s and follows t...

Elvis Presley and Richard Nixon are two of the most important and controversial figures of the twentieth century. Although fame came to them in ...