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The Art of Richard Mayhew
A Critical Analysis with Interviews
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
African American and American Indian artist Richard Mayhew was a pivotal member of the movement, headed by Romare Bearden, of the most important black artists of the Abstract Expressionist era. Bearden’s group, Spiral, was formed as a visual response to the March on Washington. Mayhew associated...
American Revolutionary War Leaders
A Biographical Dictionary
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2009
This massive biographical reference work covers both well-known and obscure figures from a variety of backgrounds including soldiers, politicians, plantation owners, farmers, and more. Information is included for officers of the Continental Army, Navy, and Marines; leaders of state militias, for whom...
by Charles F. Faber, Richard B. Faber
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
This is a revision and an updating of the first edition, published in 2000. Presidents from Washington to Obama (not included are William Henry Harrison and James A. Garfield because of very short terms) are rated in five categories: Foreign Relations, Domestic Programs, Administration and Intergovernmental...
Flying Tigers Over Cambodia
An American Pilot’s Memoir of the 1975 Phnom Penh Airlift
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
At the end of World War II, a number of former American military pilots formed the “Flying Tiger Line,” which soon became the world’s leading airfreight company. Its motto of “Anything, anytime, anywhere” was especially applicable in its humanitarian projects. In 1975, the Flying Tigers...
Joe Gans
A Biography of the First African American World Boxing Champion
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
Joe Gans captured the world lightweight title in 1902, becoming the first black American world title holder in any sport. Gans was a master strategist and tactician, and one of the earliest practitioners of “scientific” boxing. As a black champion reigning during the Jim Crow era, he endured physical...
Black Sox in the Courtroom
The Grand Jury, Criminal Trial and Civil Litigation
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
A comprehensive, non-partisan account of the judicial proceedings spawned by the corruption of the 1919 World Series is badly needed. This book provides it. The narrative of events has been crafted from surviving fragments of the judicial record, contemporaneous newspaper accounts of the proceedings,...
Franz Joseph and Elisabeth
The Last Great Monarchs of Austria-Hungary
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
In 1848, an 18-year-old boy assumed the throne of Austria, one of the most powerful countries in Europe. He would be its last significant emperor, the only monarch to serve two countries, and the last cogent head of the prestigious Habsburg dynasty. Emperor Franz Joseph’s reign was marked by revolutions,...
Unconditional Unionist
The Hazardous Life of Lucian Anderson, Kentucky Congressman
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
When U.S. Congressman Lucian Anderson from Kentucky voted for the 13th Amendment to the Constitution in January 1865, abolishing slavery, he gambled more than his political career. Anderson was from Mayfield, one of the most rabidly secessionist towns in the Bluegrass State. During the Civil War,...
Grant's River Campaign
Fort Henry to Shiloh
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013
In Tennessee in the early months of 1862, Ulysses S. Grant captured forts Henry and Donelson and opened the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers to military and commercial shipping. In April the first of many terrible battles of the Civil War was fought near Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River around...
by Michael J. Forsyth
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2015
The Union Army’s Red River Campaign began on March 12, 1864, with a two-pronged attack aimed at gaining control of Shreveport, Louisiana. It lasted until May 22, 1864, when, after suffering significant casualties, the Union army retreated to Simmesport, Louisiana. The campaign was an attempt to...
by E.R. Johnson, Lloyd S. Jones
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2013
Without the support of airlift, the modern American military machine would be brought to a standstill. Since World War II—beginning with the Cold War and continuing up to the present day—the U.S. armed forces have come increasingly to rely upon airlift for mobility. The power to rapidly move and...
Wyatt Earp's Cow-boy Campaign
The Bloody Restoration of Law and Order Along the Mexican Border, 1882
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
What can be learned from another retelling of the Tombstone saga? Recent revelations challenge the traditional view of Wyatt Earp’s campaign against the Cow-boy confederation as a bloody personal feud à la western fiction. It was a seek and destroy mission sanctioned by the United States attorney...
Vietnam Awakening
My Journey from Combat to the Citizens' Commission of Inquiry on U.S. War Crimes in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2014
In this vividly honest memoir, author Michael Uhl details his experiences in Vietnam as first lieutenant of a counterintelligence team attached to the 11th Infantry. Referencing his personal journal and wartime correspondence with friends and family, the author relives the most shocking events that...
Mrs. Mark Twain
The Life of Olivia Langdon Clemens, 1845-1904
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
This is the first book-length biography of Olivia Langdon Clemens, Mark Twain’s wife. Livy was an intelligent, well-educated woman of Victorian values and sensibilities who lived a charmed and tragic life. Raised in the wealthiest family in Elmira, New York, she married the man destined to become...