History

Julian Romero, Sancho Davila, Cristobal de Mondragon, and Francisco de Valdes were prominent Spanish military commanders during the first decade of...

This monograph is the first new study of a pivotal character in colonial, revolutionary and federal relations with the Amerindian tribes of western...

Hunters and Killers is the first comprehensive history of all aspects of anti-submarine warfare (ASW) from its beginnings in the 18th century throu...

Are you researching the history of the Milwaukee area and looking for suggestions about what to read next? If so, this Bibliography of Metropolitan...

The story begins at high seas on a 12-day voyage across the Indian Ocean in the bowels of the SS Karanja bound for Bombay. It is February 1972 and ...

Tejanos (Texans of Mexican heritage) were instrumental leaders in the life and development of Texas during the Mexican period, the war of independe...

George C. Marshall once called him the brains of the army. And yet General Lesley J. McNair (1883-1944), a man so instrumental to Americas military...

Author Roman Popadiuk served in the Bush White House from 1989 to 1992 as deputy assistant to the president and deputy press secretary for foreign ...

A hunter, woodsman, and frontiersman who was an excellent shot with a rifle, Davy Crockett''s adventures became well-known legend after his death a...

On the morning of June 6, 1944, the largest and most powerful armada of warships the world had ever seen left southern England bound for the beache...

In the fourteenth century, a culture arose in and around the Edwards Plateau of Central Texas that represents the last prehistoric peoples before t...

Two of the worlds leading scholars of the Aztec language and culture have translated Sahagúns monumental and encyclopedic study of native life in M...

London has always been home to outsiders. To people who won't, or can't, abide by the conventions of respectable society. For close to two centurie...

Few 19th-century Americans were as adventurous as Henry Baxter. Best known for his Civil War exploits--from leading the 7th Michigan Volunteer I...

This biography of General Edwin Vose Sumner emphasizes his role in developing the mounted arm of the U.S. Army. Born in Boston in 1797 he abando...

This third combined and bound volume in the Irish Historic Towns Atlas series follows volumes I (1995) and II (2005). A 300-page special publicatio...

In July 1935, a month before the notorious Nuremberg Laws prohibiting marriage between Jews and non-Jews came into effect, the official Nazi SS new...

On 22 January 1879 a powerful British column invading Zululand was decisively defeated beneath a hill called Isandlwana. Later on the same day, 4,0...

After falling for one historical misconception too many, the time is now right to launch a spirited fightback. The moment has come to set the recor...

This book describes the political history of Pakistan from the time of Partition to the Musharraf government. In considerable detail, the authors h...

The bifurcation of Pakistan resulting in the emergence of Bangladesh in December 1970 was a decisive and irreversible event in the short history of...

'You have to read it' Volodymyr Zelensky'Laurence Rees brilliantly combines powerful eye-witness testimony, vivid narrative and compelling analysis...

Timothy Webster, best known for his work as a spy for the Union during the Civil War, began his career as a New York City policeman. In the mid-...

The story of the French Resistance is central to French identity, but it is a story built on myths. Not simply an effort to free the country from G...

In May 1904, the residents of Halcyona small utopian community on Californias central coastinvited their neighbors to attend the grand opening of t...

The forty years of American Indian literature taken up by James H. Coxthe decades between 1920 and 1960have been called politically and intellectua...