History Press: 2525 books
Hovercraft
A History
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Revealing the development of the multi-faceted hovercraft and its many roles, from racing and leisure to travel and rescue The hovercraft was first created in 1959, when Sir Christopher Cockerell came up with a prototype that crossed the English Channel. The SRN1, the first ever hovercraft, is now...
Fair Lawn, New Jersey
Historic Tales from Settlement to Suburb
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
In Fair Lawn, New Jersey, the layered heritage is clear from the mix of Native American, Dutch and English names adorning its street signs. Author Jane Lyle Diepeveen traces Fair Lawn’s history from its origins as a settlement at Sloterdam, a site of the developing Dutch Colonial architecture, to the...
by Jack Coll
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
The banks of the Schuylkill once echoed with the hum of the steel mills, and immigrants came across the sea to transform Conshohocken and West Conshohocken into thriving industrial towns. When the storm clouds gathered in Europe, the neighboring communities proudly sent more sons and daughters per capita...
Famine Irish
Emigration and the Great Hunger
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
From a range of Ireland's leading academics, this collection looks at Irish emigration during the time of the Great Famine of the 1800s. From the mechanics of how this was arranged to the fate of the men, women, and children who landed on the shores of the nations of the world, this work will provide an insight to one of the most traumatic and transformative periods of Ireland's history.
Spike Island
Saints, Felons and Famine
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
After 14 centuries of military and ecclesiastical heritage, 2005 saw the then-Justice Minister Michael McDowell put in place proposals to turn Spike Island into Ireland’s Alcatraz through the construction of a €70 million super-prison. Spike Island, situated proudly in Cobh Harbour, has a long...
Heroes, Scoundrels and Angels
Fairview Cemetery of Gainesville, Texas
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
Local historian Ron Melugin has roamed this frontier Texas cemetery for over a decade, collecting fascinating stories about the “residents” laid to rest there. Spanning the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, these tales of extraordinary people with ordinary causes of death and ordinary people...
by Laura Cunningham
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
Memphis is a city founded on some of the great vestiges of our past. City staples such as steamboats, cotton plantations and exchange centers, relics symbolic of the city’s rich industrial and agrarian legacy, have either been forgotten or completely lost. Every city, especially one as thoroughly modern...
The Denver Folk Music Tradition
An Unplugged History, from Harry Tuft to Swallow Hill and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
In 1962, Harry Tuft founded the Denver Folklore Center to bring together contemporary folk music fans and performers such as Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, Judy Collins and so many more. In the following decade, a core of folk enthusiasts established the Swallow Hill Music Association. These two organizations...
Great White Hopes
The Quest to Defeat Jack Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2005
In Sydney, Australia, in 1908 the brash and talented black fighter Jack Johnson won the heavyweight championship of the world from the Canadian Tommy Burns. There was an immediate storm of protest. Writers, including Jack London, and politicians feared the accession of the fearless and outspoken Johnson...
Ein Volk, Ein Reich
Nine Lives Under the Nazis
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2011
Through the lives of nine ordinary Germans, tracing their experiences of Nazism from the first hopeful days until the horrors of the Russian occupation of Berlin, Louis Hagen provides a salutary and unforgettable record of the German people in the shadow of the swastika When Louis Hagen returned to...
Clash of Thrones
The Power-Crazed Medieval Kings, Popes and Emperors of Europe
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2015
An approachable and engaging account of 450 years of savagery, treachery, triumph, and disaster Starting with the Great Schism in 1053 and ending with the discovery of the New World in 1492, A Clash of Thrones shows how kings relied on military campaigns and political intrigue while the Popes exploited...
Dracula's Wars
Vlad The Impaler and His Rivals
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2016
According to Stoker novel, Dracula was a cultured man. In reality he was a Romanian warlord of the 15th century. He gained his name, Vlad the Impaler, because his favored execution method was to run a spear through his victim's lower body, then stand them upright so the spear pierced the vital organs....
Titanic Valour
The Life of Fifth Officer Harold Lowe
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
The first biography of Welsh hero Harold Lowe, the only officer to return in a lifeboat for Titanic survivorsI have never prided myself upon being a prophet, but of this I am positive: When the Titanic disaster has become a matter of history, Harold G. Lowe will occupy the hero's place.– Sheriff...
King Zog
Self-Made Monarch of Albania
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
King Zog was a curiosity, and so he has remained the most unusual European monarch of the 20th century, a man entirely without royal connections who created his own kingdom. By contemporaries, he was variously labeled "the last ruler of romance," "an appalling gangster," "the...