History

A thorough look at the Civil War and Reconstruction--from family life to favorite pastimes. Characterized by the tragedy of the Civil War and its a...

The first to admit that he did not volunteer for military service, Myrrl W. McBride, Sr., was just a young man trying to work and return to coll...

In 1861, Colonel Grenville Dodge organized the 4th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment and led them off to war. They had few uniforms or weapons an...

Historians acknowledge that World War II touched every man, woman, and child in the United States. In Small Town America in World War II, Ronald E....

This is an iconoclastic work, based on a vast knowledge of the relevant literature and on archival materials in French, English, and Russian. It ef...

This book features biographies of 32 of the most notable figures in Latin American history. To the 23 individuals from the first edition, consis...

Lieutenant John Huddleston Taber was a New Yorker assigned to the 168th Third Iowa Infantry Regiment of the American Expeditionary Force's 42nd ...

This assessment of the statesmanship, principles, and policies of Robert F. Kennedy places him in the stream of history, to assess what came before...

Aaron Burr--Revolutionary War hero, third vice president of the United States and a controversial figure of the early republic--was tried and ac...

Between 1850 and 1950, at least 115 women were lynched by mobs in the United States. The majority of these women were black. This book examines ...

European explorers reached North America more than 400 years ago, and since that time Native Americans have had to struggle to survive. Yet, despit...

This is an examination of reminiscences of the primary leaders on both sides at the battle of Gettysburg and a comparison of these reminiscences...

During his rise to national prominence, Richard Nixon as forced to confront the political ambitions of fellow Californians Earl Warren, William ...

An account of the political career of Albert Luthuli, former President of the African National Congress (ANC). It centres around the launching of t...

Paul du Quenoy's acclaimed book reinterprets the works and ideas of Richard Wagner and their profound influence on the artistic, intellectual, and ...

As law enforcement officer and game manager for the Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission, Lt. Tom Shirley was the law in one of the last tr...

A Scots-Irish immigrant, James McHenry determined to make something of his life. Trained as a physician, he joined the American Revolution when war...

The Battle of the Little Big Horn was the decisive engagement of the Great Sioux War of 1876-1877. In its second edition this biographical dicti...

When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in December 1941,the citizensboth men and womenof the United States foundtheir plans drastically altered. Man...

In 1871, newly freed slaves established the community ofTaminathen called Tammanynorth of Houston, near therich timber lands of Montgomery County. ...

At the beginning of Americas Great Depression, Texas andOklahoma armed up and went to war over a 75-cent toll bridgethat connected their states acr...

The Declaration of Independence proclaimed freedom for Americans from the domination of Great Britain, yet for millions of African Americas caught ...

Lubbock Lake, one of the best-dated and best-stratified archaeological sites in the New World, was discovered in 1936, when City of Lubbock work cr...

In War in the Modern World, 1990-2014, Jeremy Black looks at the most modern of conflicts from the perspective that war is a central feature of the...

Strange Histories is an exploration of some of the most extraordinary beliefs that existed in the late Middle Ages through to the end of the sevent...

This completely revised and updated edition of A Short History of Reno provides an entertaining and informative account of Renos remarkably colorfu...

In the depths of the Great Depression, when foreclosure rates skyrocketed across the United States, more than two dozen states passed mortgage-exte...

From the bestselling author Simon Winchester, a human history of land around the world: who mapped it, owned it, stole it, cared for i...