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

On the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863, Union artillery lieutenant Bayard Wilkeson fell while bravely spurring his men to action...

This is an extraordinary and little-known story of emigration fromScotland. Caithness and Patagonia are literally a world apart, yet in the late19t...

From the prize-winning author of Wartime Lies, an anatomy of the infamous prosecution of a Jewish officer attached to the French Armys General Staf...

From rough frontier soldier to capable politician, Alexander Oswald Brodie earned a reputation as a solid, honorable character in American history....

More Tales Behind the Tombstones tells the stories behind the deaths (or supposed deaths) and burials of even more of the Old West's most nefarious...

Clashes between white and Indian societies are erupting into war when Sarah Wakefield is taken captive in 1862. She is the wife of an Agency doctor...

In this reprint of a classic Indian Captivity Narrative from the 19th century, Nelson Lee recounts his adventures and his narrow escape from the Co...

The Crimean War was the most destructive conflict of Queen Victorias reign, the outcome of which was indecisive; most historians regard it as an ir...

Full of colorful details and engrossing stories, Pursuing Respect in the Cannibal Isles shows that the aspirations of individual Americans to be re...

This text retells the story of a brotherhood of young men who together laid claim to one of the most notorious frontiers in the world: India's nort...

Waterloo is one of the most famous battles in history. Using the latest research combined with detailed illustrations, this title tells the story o...

American business has always had deep roots in community. For over a century, the country looked to philanthropic industrialists to finance hosp...

The Revenger: The Life and Times of Wild Bill Hickok examines Wild Bills life in the context of 19th Century American history, from his birth, thro...

In 1861, war between the United States and the Chiricahua seemed inevitable. The Apache band lived on a heavily traveled Emigrant and Overland Mail...

Huzza for the new World and farewell to the Old One, John Adams wrote in late 1787, wrapping up a decades worth of diplomatic service in Europe. Vo...

In 1861, Francis Moore appeared to be a perfectly ordinary, twenty-three year old man: a carriage maker in the bustling Mississippi River town of Q...

Winner of the Richard B. Harwell Award, Tennessee History Book Award and the Doughlas Southall Freeman AwardA critical moment in the Civil War, the...

In the late 1800s, Arctic Fever swept across the nation as dozens of American expeditions sailed north to the Arctic to find a sea route to Asia an...

The German-American relationship was special long before the Cold War; it was rooted not simply in political actions, but also long-term traditions...

Christopher Gist is a great American hero who has often gone unnoticed. Recognized for giving colonists the first detailed description of the Oh...

The American Revolution is seen as a colossal defeat of the powerful British Empire by colonial rebels. Yet the British emerged from the conflic...

A book of brief essays, illustrative art, and photography from often obscure historical and ethnological studies of Apache history, life, and cultu...

Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy, said F. Scott Fitzgerald. Perhaps no event in American history better illustrates this view than the...

An affectionate but meticulously researched history of one of the most beautiful and best-loved corners of England Crosthwaite Parish, nestling de...

The seven-year campaign that saved Europe from Napoleon told by those who were there.What made Arthur Duke of Wellington the military genius who wa...

Beginning with the Roman army's first recorded encounter with the Gauls and ending in the era of Emmanuel Macron, France takes readers on an endles...

How should one envisage this subject? With a great pomp of words, or with simplicity? Charlotte Brontë, The Death of Napoleon The most celebrated g...

''Delightful... The Hidden Horticulturists pulsates with the extraordinary energy and excitement of the time.'' Daily MailChosen as one of the Sund...

Andrew Jackson was the seventh president of the United States. Known as Old Hickory, he was the first President who championed the rights of the 'c...

Lincoln Mediated provides new information about a historical figure everyone thinks they know. It describes how Abraham Lincoln worked with the pre...