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

In addition to a thoughtful selection of the essays, speeches, and autobiographical writings of Frederick Douglass, this anthology provides an illu...

When Sophia Dorothea of Celle married her first cousin, the future King George I, she was an unhappy bride. Filled with dreams of romance and privi...

From Windsor to Weymouth, the shadow of scandal was never too far from the walls of the House of Hanover. Did a fearsome duke really commit murder ...

Following an assassination attempt on George III in 1800, new legislation significantly altered the way the criminally insane were treated by the j...

The area astride the Spanish/Portuguese border between the respective fortresses of Ciudad Rodrigo and Almeida was the focus of the Peninsular War ...

Although the worlds of science and philosophy took giant strides away from the medieval view of the world, attitudes to women did not change from t...

Sir William Congreve, political propagandist, lawyer, inventor, and Chief Equerry to King George IV, was one of the foremost military salesmen of t...

For many years I had wanted to write something about Troy and the Classical Age; ever since my earlier archaological 'digs' and flint knapping and ...

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

This previously unexamined history of open-air treatment in English coastal resorts demonstrates how contrasting meanings were assigned to tubercul...

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...

Annotated edition of erudite letters from the eighteenth-century sheds light on intellectual life at the time. One of the more remarkable survival...

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

A dramatic response to American racism occurred in Los Angeles during 1855 when eighteen-year-old Francisco P. Ramírez published a Spanish-language...

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

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 France''s Third Republic, secularism was, for its adherents, a new faith, a civic religion founded on a rabid belief in progress and the Enli...

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...

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

A controversial figure for his views on manumission and his unorthodox marital arrangements, Zephaniah Kingsley Jr. (1765-1843) is mostly known tod...

The Georgian era is known for its lavish fashions and sumptuous food, as well as being a time of great social and political change. It saw the birt...

This book posits that the American Revolution - waged to form a more perfect union - still raged long after the guns went silent. Eight major fugit...

This book is a thorough study of all known guerrilla operations in Civil War Missouri from January through August 1864. It explores the various ...

This book deals with Scotland's role in the French Revolutionary Wars. What role did Scotland play in the British state's war against Revolutionary...

This book situates its contemplation of the nineteenth-century Trinidadian landscape in the context of an emerging sub-field of Caribbean postcolon...

The Second North Carolina Cavalry fought its first major battle in its home state at New Bern on March 14, 1862, and narrowly escaped with its men ...

Most Civil War regiments came from rural areas of the country but the 14th Brooklyn was taken from the city of Brooklyn, New York. Having been a...

This is the first biography devoted to the life of a remarkable young man who, in the words of Civil War historian Ezra Warner, embarked upon a com...