Military History

Civil War histories typically center on the deeds of generals and sweeping depictions of battle. This unique study of one Southern county's war ...

The Napoleonic Wars have an important place in the history of Europe, leaving their mark on European and world societies in a variety of ways. In m...

One hundred and fifty years after the first shots were fired on Fort Sumter, the Civil War still captivates the American imagination, and its rever...

Explore the First World War as never before in stunningly designed infographics, and enjoy a unique way of finding out about all aspects of this gr...

Monuments honoring leaders and victorious armies have been raised throughout history. Following the American Civil War, however, this tradition ...

At the conclusion of World War II, war crimes tribunals were carried out at Nuremberg, Germany. Justice was meted out for major war criminals, a...

In July 1941 the United States, after a decade of worsening economic relations, announced a total embargo against Japan. The embargo had actuall...

Malta in the summer of 1942, a Malta wide open to air attack from the Germans and Italians and defended by a handful of Spitfires and a few anti-ai...

Most histories of World War I revolve around gruesome battles, ribboned generals and feats of military heroism. All too often the acts of those ...

America's second oldest higher education institution experienced the full violence of the Civil War, with a wartime destiny of destruction compound...

This book reveals the life of R. Clay Crawford, his dreams, his schemes, his successes and his failures, as he launched himself into many of the...

This is the history of a legendary battalion. The product of more than a decade's toil, Going Back the Way They Came is a thoroughly researched, co...

In what may have been the single largest outbreak of vigilante violence in American history, forty suspected Unionists were hanged at Gainesville,...

On a late November morning in 1864, Col. Kit Carson and his U.S. troops, under orders from the commander of the New Mexico Military Department, att...

A Confluence of Transatlantic Networks demonstrates how portions of interconnected trust-based kinship, business, and ideational transatlantic netw...

This book is a thorough study of all known guerrilla operations in Civil War Missouri between September 1864 and June 1865. It explores different...