Modern History to 20th Century: c 1700 to c 1900

By the middle of 1811, Brigadier General Robert Craufurd's Light Division was emerging as the elite of the Peninsular Army and Wellington was seeki...

The number one New York Times bestselling authors of Vanderbilt return with another riveting history of a legendary American family, the Astors, an...

An exploration of the origins and evolution of Georgian landscape architecture, a period of innovative and diverse garden structures in which some ...

Explores the political meanings that Italian opera - its composers, agents and institutions - had for audiences in eighteenth-century Britain. The...

Examines sermons preached at national thanksgiving celebrations to show in detail what it meant to be properly British in the period. This book is...

A comprehensive history of censorship in modern BritainFor Victorian lawmakers and judges, the question of whether a book should be allowed to circ...

April 2, 1865 is perhaps the most famous night in American history. It was certainly the most action-packed. In the space of a few hours the Confed...

A colliery explosion, more disastrous than any that can be remembered, took place on Thursday afternoon, the 18th June, 1835An Account of the Dread...

Hattie Lawton was a young Pinkerton detective who with her partner, Timothy Webster, spied for the U.S. Secret Service during the Civil War. Wor...

The 1856 presidential race was the most violent peacetime election in American history. War between proslavery and antislavery settlers raged in Ka...

This work chronicles the story of 400 young men who willingly and knowingly sacrificed themselves to save the Continental Army at the Battle of ...

This book follows the 2nd Maine Cavalry from their muster in the late winter of 1863 through their action against Confederate forces in Louisiana, ...