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

May God forgive me for the order, Confederate Maj. Gen. John C. Breckinridge remarked as he ordered young cadets from Virginia Military Institute i...

The explosive findings within this book are history-changing. They discount the age-old belief that Captain James Cook, the great circumnavigator, ...

West Virginia was the child of the storm, concluded early Mountaineer historian and Civil War veteran, Maj. Theodore F. Lang. The northwestern thir...

Colonel Elmer Ellsworth was the first Union officer killed in the American Civil War. When it happened, on May 24, 1861, the entire North was aghas...

Ironclad against ironclad, we maneuvered about the bay here and went at each other with mutual fierceness, reported Chief Engineer Alban Stimers fo...

Johnsonville doesnt mean much to most students of the Civil War. Its contribution to Union victory in the Western Theater, however, is difficult to...

Johnsonville doesnt mean much to most students of the Civil War. Yet, its contribution to the Union victory in the Western Theater is difficult to ...

Long called by some the Andersonville of the North, the prisoner of war camp in Elmira, New York, is remembered as the most notorious of all Union-...

Dickens's Idiomatic Imagination offers an original analysis of how Charles Dickens's use of low and slangular (his neologism) language allowed him ...

Reassesses the ancient Indigenous McKeithen site in northern Florida in light of new data, analyses, and theoriesRevisiting McKeithen Weeden Island...

Reassesses the ancient Indigenous McKeithen site in northern Florida in light of new data, analyses, and theoriesRevisiting McKeithen Weeden Island...

The important contributions of the Irish in winning the struggle against Mexico and establishing a new republic are noticeably absent from the Alam...

Most studies of the Mississippi River focus on Union campaigns to open and control it, overlooking Southern attempts to stop them. Now in paperback...

Thirteen Months in Dixie, or, the Adventures of a Federal Prisoner in Texas, is a frolicking true tale of adventure, hardship, and heroism during t...

June 1863. The Gettysburg Campaign is underway. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia pushes west into the Shenandoah Valley and then north tow...

This book addresses the unresolved question of how urban retailing and consumption changed during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It ...

Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year 2022Shortlisted for the 2021 Highland Book PrizeScots were involved in every stage of the slave trade: fr...

One of the most enigmatic figures of the American Revolutionary War, Colonel David Fanning is best known for his 1781 capture of Thomas Burke, the ...

The 12th Virginia has an amazing history. John Wilkes Booth stood in the ranks of one of its future companies at John Browns hanging. The regiment ...

The present seems to be the most propitious time since the commencement of the war for the Confederate Army to enter Maryland, wrote Robert E. Lee ...

In this definitive account of the Peninsular War (1808-14), Napoleon's six-year war against Spain, Ronald Fraser examines what led to the emperor's...

Samuel Johnson famously referred to his future biographer, the unsociable magistrate Sir John Hawkins, as a most unclubbable man. Conversely, this ...