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

Although hints of a crisis appeared as early as the 1570s, the temperature by the end of the sixteenth century plummeted so drastically that Medite...

Looming large in the popular imagination as a serious poet and lively drunk who died in penury, Edgar Allan Poe was also the most celebrated and no...

From the early nineteenth century through to the 1960s, the Greeks formed the largest, most economically powerful, and geographically and socially ...

In this compelling history of the men and ideas that radically changed the course of world history, Lawrence James investigates how, within a hundr...

From the leading Wellington historian, a fascinating reassessment of the Dukes most famous victory and his role in the turbulent politics after Wat...

The Journal of the American Revolution, Annual Volume 2018, presents the journals best historical research and writing over the past calendar year....

Hoping to deter the Union navy from aggressive action on southern waterways during the Civil War, the Confederacy led the way in developing torp...

Based on deep consultation of seldom-examined primary sources, this third volume in Richard Lawrence Millers massive Lincoln biography follows Linc...

The U.S.-Mexican War, also known as the Mexican-American War and the Mexican War, took place from 1846 to 1848, and was mainly about control of ...

The turbulent years of 1861-1865 were especially rough for the people of Randolph County, North Carolina. Sentiment to stay in the Union was hig...

Although he never achieved the renown of Ulysses S. Grant or Robert E. Lee, General Alexander Hays was one of the great military men of the Civi...

Thomas Jefferson is best known as one of the founders of the United States. His chief love, however, was not politics, but farming. His writings...

Telling the story of the Civil War's Mississippi River Campaign through the experiences of leading officers, ordinary soldiers, and civilians, t...

In July 1864, Union General William T. Sherman ordered the arrest and deportation of more than 400 women and children from the villages of Roswe...

Few Civil War events produced more important strategic results for the Union than the taking of Vicksburg and Chattanooga. Along with the Federa...

In 1846, political economist Karl Marx wrote that without cotton, you have no modern industry. Indeed, before the American Civil War, cotton brough...

John Wilkes Booth's brash personality emerges as his life unfolds in this unique account - from his childhood as the son of one of America's foremo...

By turns irreverent, sympathetic and amusing, America Writes Its History, 1650-1850 adds to the public discourse on national identity as advance...

Five men joined the Catholic Church in the mid-1840s: a soldier, his bishop brother, a priest born a slave and two editors at odds with each other....

In December 1883, five outlaws attempted to rob the A.A. Castaneda Mercantile establishment in the fledgling mining town of Bisbee in the Arizon...

During an 1865 raid through North Carolina, Major General George Stoneman missed capturing the fleeing Jefferson Davis only by a matter of hours...

Medical student turned professional soldier David S. Stanley offered forty years of service to his country on the western frontier and during th...

The phrase American Revolutionary War Hero usually brings to mind George Washington, John Paul Jones and other famous officers. Heroes, however, e...

Brigadier General Andrew Pickens was a primary force bringing about the end of British control in the Southern colonies. His efforts helped driv...

Once considered the Metropolis of Arizona, Tucson is in many respects a college town with a major military base onto which a retirement communit...

The northern part of Loudoun County was a Unionist enclave in Confederate Virginia that remained a contested battleground for armies and faction...

During the War Between the States, Davidson County, North Carolina, sent nearly 2,000 men into service with the infantry, cavalry, artillery, na...

In the summer of 1779, British general Sir Henry Clinton launched one last attempt to gain control of the Hudson River, the most strategically i...

At the outbreak of the American Revolution in 1775, the colonies faced the daunting task of creating the first American army, and its requisite ...

On July 4, 1776, the Declaration of Independence was read aloud to a crowd gathered outside the Pennsylvania State House. It was engrossed on ve...

From West Point to Fort Donelson, General Charles Ferguson Smith was a soldier's soldier. He served at the U.S. Military Academy from 1829 to 18...

This rereading of the history of American westward expansion examines the destruction of Native American cultures as a successful campaign of co...

Assassination - in Japanese, ansatsu or dark murder - was instrumental in the samurai-led revolution known as the Meiji Restoration, by which the s...

In 1845, sparsely populated Florida had been admitted to the United States along with Iowa in an ill-fated attempt to keep the balance between slav...

William Lloyd Garrison's life as an abolitionist and advocate for social change was dependent on his training as a printer. None who have studie...

Long heralded as a city treasure herself, expert mudlarker Lara Maiklem is uniquely trained in the art of seeking. Tirelessly trekking across miles...

In 1924, Professor Ueno Eizaburo of Tokyo Imperial University adopted an Akita puppy he named Hachiko. Each evening Hachiko greeted Ueno on his ret...

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...

A significant part of the Civil War was fought in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, especially in 1864. Books and articles have been written ab...

This book consists of seven stand-alone accounts of individuals who operated as spies during the American Revolutionary War. They were not train...

This is a documentary work offering a first-person account of a Union soldier's daily adversity while a prisoner of war from 20 September 1863 t...

Tall, handsome and charismatic, James Jaquess impressed men and charmed ladies who knew him as a preacher, a college president or colonel of an Ill...

The Fifth New York Cavalry was a volunteer regiment organized in response to the Union defeat at the Battle of Bull Run in July 1861. The citize...

Every legitimate member of Revolutionary War soldier Francis Jones's family (including his son-in-law Congressman James Strudwick Smith) lies in a ...

Aaron Burr--Revolutionary War hero, third vice president of the United States and a controversial figure of the early republic--was tried and ac...