History

Scottish Arctic Whaling brings to light a previously little-known but important Scottish industry. The author's extensive use of original sources s...

The life of Colonel Fawcett is now the subject of the major motion picture The Lost City of Z.The disappearance of Colonel Fawcett in the Matto Gro...

The 95th Bomb Group (Heavy), the most highly decorated bomb group of World War II, participated in every major mission of the war in Europe from Ma...

Medical student turned professional soldier David S. Stanley offered forty years of service to his country on the western frontier and during th...

The 21st North Carolina Troops (11th North Carolina Volunteers) was one of only two Tar Heel Confederate regiments that in 1865 could boast From Ma...

'Golden-shielded, silver-sworded, man-loving, male-child slaughtering Amazons,' is how the fifth-century Greek historian Hellanicus described the A...

This book is a detailed and original study of the creation of the province of Equatoria, located in present-day Southern Sudan. No detailed account...

This book brings together in English translation for the first time the two editions of Sir Syed Ahmed Khan''s classic account of the monuments and...

Forget everything you thought you knew about Henry the Eighth. While Henry VIII has frequently been portrayed as a womanizer, author Philippa Jones...

Ignored by critics and readers of the time, these poems were written by Canadians who witnessed the horror of World War I first-hand, forming an an...

The period from 1200 BC onwards saw vast changes in every aspect of life on both the Greek mainland and islands as monarchies disappeared and were ...

The Quakers came to America in the 17th century to seek religious freedom. After years of struggle, they achieved success in various endeavors a...

A new biography of Albert Speer, Hitlers chief architect and trusted confidant, reveals the subjects deeper involvement in Nazi atrocitiesKitchen, ...

During the 1920s and '30s, Major General George Owen Squier was one of the most famous men in America and abroad, as a scientist, soldier, milit...

The Dakota people, alternatively referred to as Sioux Native Americans or Oceti Sakowin (The People of the Seven Council Fires), have a storied ...

First published in 1986, James Belich's groundbreaking book and the television series based upon it transformed New Zealanders' understanding of th...

During World War II, as Allied forces sought to combat the Axis powers by conventional military means, recent advances in nuclear science led the U...

All states are not created equal, at least not when it comes to their influence on American history. That assumption underlies Massachusetts and th...

How has the current US economic crisis affected Mexicans on both sides of the border? This volume answers that question, drawing on a 2010 study of...