History

When Andrew Furman left the rolling hills of Pennsylvania behind for a new job in Florida, he feared the worst. While hed heard much of the fabled ...

The famous statue of Kamehameha I in downtown Honolulu is one of the state's most popular landmarks. Many tourists and residents however, are unawa...

Drawn from the historical record and the author's family letters and photographs, this military history follows the 5th Suffolk regiment from Engla...

n October 1859, a group of 22 men led by abolitionist John Brown sought to ignite a slave revolt. They believed that a violent rebellion was the on...

Silence has many causes: shame, embarrassment, ignorance, a desire to protect. The silence that has surrounded the atrocities committed against the...

Between the last battle fought entirely under oars in 1571 and the first fought entirely under steam in 1866, naval warfare in the Middle Seas a...

As the Civil War moved into 1864, people in the North expected newly appointed general-in-chief Ulysses S. Grant to roll over the Confederate ar...

Sandwiched between Nazi Germany and the Russian Bear, Sweden walked a diplomatic tightrope on if and how it should support Finland during the Ru...

The 150,000 women who served in the Women's Army Corps are now seen as the undersung heroes of the Second World War. This memoir describes the life...

An exploration into the beliefs and origins of the Druids, this book examines the role the Druids may have played in the story of King Arthur and t...

A Different Face of War is a riveting account of one American officer in the Medical Service Corps during the early years of the Vietnam War.Assign...

The dramatic account of two American warships in the South Pacific, this book follows the USS Astoria (CA-34) and USS Chicago (CA-29) during the...

Drawing on nearly thirty years of prior analyses of growth, aging, and diversity in Texas populations and households, the authors of Changing Texas...

After the passage of the Butler Act, which made it unlawful for a state-funded school in Tennessee to teach that humans evolved from lower organism...

This first-of-its-kind reference book presents detailed information on the structure, composition and casualties of the Confederate Army of Nort...

Presidents, Third Edition closely examines the hopes and disappointments, the victories and defeats, and the integrity and weaknesses of the men wh...

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...