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by Philip Henry Sheridan
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
When, yielding to the solicitations of my friends, I finally decided to write these Memoirs, the greatest difficulty which confronted me was that of recounting my share in the many notable events of the last three decades, in which I played a part, without entering too fully into the history of these...
The War of 1812, Conflict and Deception
The British Attempt to Seize New Orleans and Nullify the Louisiana Purchase
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
Perhaps no conflict in American history is more important yet more overlooked and misunderstood than the War of 1812. Begun by President James Madison after decades of humiliating British trade interference and impressment of American sailors, the war in many ways was the second battle for United...
by Donald Miller
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Lafayette was a charming French soldier who became like a son to George Washington and rose to lead troops in Virginia during the American Revolution. But what happened to him upon his return to France?
Donald Miller presents the most complete biography in English of an aristocrat who was the...
by Lt. Gen. Ngo Quang Truong
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Includes over 30 maps and illustrations
This monograph forms part of the Indochina Monograph series written by senior military personnel from the former Army of the Republic of Vietnam who served against the northern communist invasion.
“In 1968, a U.S. presidential election year,...
by Philip Henry Sheridan
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
While occupying the ground between Clifton and Berryville, referred to in the last chapter of the preceding volume, I felt the need of an efficient body of scouts to collect information regarding the enemy, for the defective intelligence-establishment with which I started out from Harper's Ferry early...
by Almira Hancock
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
For four decades, Winfield Scott Hancock was a serving officer in the United States Army. In this affectionate memoir by his wife Almira, you learn many details and anecdotes from Hancock's life that appear no where else. Stationed in Los Angeles before the Civil War, southern friends like Armistead,...
Lords of the Desert
The Battle Between the United States and Great Britain for Supremacy in the Modern Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
A path-breaking history of how the United States superseded Great Britain as the preeminent power in the Middle East, with urgent lessons for the present day
We usually assume that Arab nationalism brought about the end of the British Empire in the Middle East--that Gamal Abdel Nasser and other...
A Disposition to Be Rich
How a Small-Town Pastor's Son Ruined an American President, Brought on a Wall Street Crash, and Made Himself the Best-Hated Man in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Ferdinand Ward was the greatest swindler of the Gilded Age. Throughhis unapologetic villainy, he bankrupted Ulysses S. Grant and ran roughshod over the entire world of finance. Now, his compelling, behind-the-scenes story is told—told by his great-grandson, award-winning historian Geoffrey C. Ward.
Ward...
Count Them One by One
Black Mississippians Fighting for the Right to Vote
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
Forrest County, Mississippi, became a focal point of the civil rights movement when, in 1961, the United States Justice Department filed a lawsuit against its voting registrar Theron Lynd. While thirty percent of the county's residents were black, only twelve black persons were on its voting rolls....
Before Brown
Heman Marion Sweatt, Thurgood Marshall, and the Long Road to Justice
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2010
On February 26, 1946, an African American from Houston applied for admission to the University of Texas School of Law. Although he met all of the school's academic qualifications, Heman Marion Sweatt was denied admission because he was black. He challenged the university's decision in court, and the...
Emancipation at 150
The Impact of the Emancipation Proclamation
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012
"Emancipation at 150: The Impact of the Emancipation Proclamation" is a scholarly anthology on the Emancipation Proclamation with contributions from leading Lincoln historians and government officials. Topics covered in the anthology range from views of the Proclamation through the eyes of enslaved people...
by Matthew Mason
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2009
Giving close consideration to previously neglected debates, Matthew Mason challenges the common contention that slavery held little political significance in America until the Missouri Crisis of 1819. Mason demonstrates that slavery and politics were enmeshed in the creation of the nation, and in...
The Boys of Fairy Town
Sodomites, Female Impersonators, Third-Sexers, Pansies, Queers, and Sex Morons in Chicago's First Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
A history of gay Chicago told through the stories of queer men who left a record of their sexual activities in the Second City, this book paints a vivid picture of the neighborhoods where they congregated while revealing their complex lives. Some, such as reporter John Wing, were public figures. Others,...
The Long Emancipation
The Demise of Slavery in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Ira Berlin offers a framework for understanding slavery’s demise in the United States. Emancipation was not an occasion but a century-long process of brutal struggle by generations of African Americans who were not naive about the price of freedom. Just as slavery was initiated and maintained by violence, undoing slavery also required violence.