History

The fandango, emerging in the early-eighteenth century Black Atlantic as a dance and music craze across Spain and the Americas, came to comprise ge...

For a brief period in the early Twentieth Century it seemed as if the future of air travel lay with the giant airships of Count von Zeppelin. The F...

The urbanization of warfare has necessitated the kind of precision targeting that only small arms can deliver. Weapons not often seen on the battle...

A missionary and shelter, a home and salvation, Union Gospel Mission has been a place of refuge for many since 1888. From cowboys to the homeless a...

This is the first detailed account of the 5,000 black troops who were reluctantly sent north by the United States Army during World War II to he...

How do we know that what we remember is the truth? Inspired by the story of her relative Marion Stokes, one of three women who raised the tricolour...

The Bay of Pigs, on the south coast of Cuba, was the scene in 1961 of an unsuccessful attempt by an armed force of exiled Cubans which had been ...

In March 1933, in one of his first acts as president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt declared a bank holiday throughout the United States. Considered...

The Nguyen of Kim Bai (a village in the Red River delta in Vietnam) traces its ancestry back to at least the 15th century. The region is also co...

Pain and Retribution charts the rise and rise of a form of punishment that takes place behind the walls of the institution we have come to call 'pr...

Despite their insistence that the complete withdrawal of U.S. troops was the condition for the release of prisoners of war, the Democratic Repub...

Fascinating facts, laws and lore about currency and the money supply, past and present. Printing, storage, circulation, reclamation, counterfeiting...

D.H. (Herb) Wills fought the Japanese on Bataan, was captured and imprisoned for a year at the infamous Cabanatuan camp, then another year at Da...

A Marine Corps recruiter returns to his old stamping grounds to speak with some of the men he enlisted, their families, and the families of othe...

Thomas Jefferson is best known as one of the founders of the United States. His chief love, however, was not politics, but farming. His writings...

From 1827 to 1861, most Africans in America were either enslaved, propertyless or without citizenship. Yet during that period at least 28 Africa...

8 March 1946 was a red letter day for Virginia. World War II heroes Winston Churchill and General Dwight Eisenhower visited Virginia. For Richmond ...

The post-9/11 War on Terror has spectacularly failed and this book argues that we now need a radically new approach to dealing with international t...

As the world plunged into war in August 1914 two Kaiserliche Marine fleets and several detached cruisers lay beyond the North Sea. These vessels po...

Traditional institutions in the Khasi-Jaintia society are living organisms which have existed for centuries and internally evolved from one phase t...

In today's world of satellites and electronic eavesdropping, it is hard to appreciate the difficulties involved two centuries ago in collecting and...