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The Arctic Exploration Anthology
The Personal Accounts of the Great Arctic Explorers
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
The stories of the first explorers of the Arctic and the North Pole have always been somewhat overshadowed by the famous and tragic race for the South Pole a decade later. In truth the story is no less riveting to the reader, in terms of bravery, resilience and determination.
What is...
by Matthew Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Longlisted for the National Book Award. Where did the ideas come from that became the cornerstone of American democracy?
America’s founders intended to liberate us not just from one king but from the ghostly tyranny of supernatural religion. Drawing deeply on the study of European philosophy,...
John Quincy Adams and the Politics of Slavery
Selections from the Diary
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
In the final years of his political career, President John Quincy Adams was well known for his objections to slavery, with rival Henry Wise going so far as to label him "the acutest, the astutest, the archest enemy of southern slavery that ever existed." As a young statesman, however, he...
by Matthew Restall
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2003
Here is an intriguing exploration of the ways in which the history of the Spanish Conquest has been misread and passed down to become popular knowledge of these events. The book offers a fresh account of the activities of the best-known conquistadors and explorers, including Columbus, Cortes, and...
Unholy Sabbath: The Battle of South Mountain in History and Memory, September 14, 1862
The Battle of South Mountain in History and Memory, September 14, 1862
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2012
Many readers of Civil War history have been led to believe the battle of South Mountain (September 14, 1862) was but a trifling skirmish, a preliminary engagement of little strategic or tactical consequence overshadowed by Antietams horrific carnage just three days later. In fact, the fight was a...
The Golden Age of Piracy
The Rise, Fall, and Enduring Popularity of Pirates
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Shrouded by myth and hidden by Hollywood, the real pirates of the Caribbean come to life in this collection of essays edited by David Head. Twelve scholars of piracy show why pirates thrived in the New World seas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century empires, how pirates operated their plundering...
Breaking Ranks
Iraq Veterans Speak Out against the War
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2010
Breaking Ranks brings a new and deeply personal perspective to the war in Iraq by looking into the lives of six veterans who turned against the war they helped to fight. Based on extensive interviews with each of the six, the book relates why they enlisted, their experiences in training and in early...
Murder and Madness
The Myth of the Kentucky Tragedy
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
The "Kentucky Tragedy" was early America's best known true crime story. In 1825, Jereboam O. Beauchamp assassinated Kentucky attorney general Solomon P. Sharp. The murder, trial, conviction, and execution of the killer, as well as the suicide of his wife, Anna Cooke Beauchamp -- fascinated Americans....
Seeking Jordan
How I Learned the Truth about Death and the Invisible Universe
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
If you have lost someone you deeply love, or have become strongly aware of your mortality, it’s hard to avoid wondering about life after death, the existence of God, notions of heaven and hell, and why we are here in the first place. The murder of Matthew McKay’s son, Jordan, sent him on a journey...
Tigers at Dunkirk
The Leicestershire Regiment and the Fall of France
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2010
In this compelling new study of the disastrous 1940 campaign in France and Flanders, Matthew Richardson reconstructs in vivid detail the British army’s defeat as it was experienced by the soldiers of a single battalion, the 2nd/5th Leicesters.
These men typified the ill-equipped, under-trained...
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...
Lincoln's Sanctuary
Abraham Lincoln and the Soldiers' Home
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2003
After the heartbreaking death of his son Willie, Abraham Lincoln and his family fled the gloom that hung over the White House, moving into a small cottage in Washington, D.C., on the grounds of the Soldiers' Home, a residence for disabled military veterans. In Lincoln's Sanctuary, historian Matthew...
Cowboys, Mountain Men, and Grizzly Bears
Fifty of the Grittiest Moments in the History of the Wild West
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2010
From slaughters, shootouts, and massacres to maulings, lynchings, and natural disasters, Cowboys, Mountain Men, and Grizzly Bears cuts to the chase of what draws people to the history and literature of the Wild West. Matthew P. Mayo, noted author of Western novels, takes the fifty wildest episodes...
by Brian Matthew Jordan
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015
An acclaimed, groundbreaking, and “powerful exploration” (Washington Post) of the fate of Union veterans, who won the war but couldn’t bear the peace.
For well over a century, traditional Civil War histories have concluded in 1865, with a bitterly won peace and Union soldiers returning...