Mcfarland: 2486 books
The Mind and I
Reflections of a Psychoanalyst
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2015
Psychoanalysts must be patients for years before they can practice. The “talking cure”—the basis of all psychotherapy—is best explained from two perspectives: one patient lying on the couch and the other seated behind it. The author of this memoir was both. He candidly discusses his own analysis,...
The Original American Spies
Seven Covert Agents of the Revolutionary War
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2013
This book consists of seven stand-alone accounts of individuals who operated as spies during the American Revolutionary War. They were not trained as covert agents, which meant they had to develop their skills and techniques on their own, often while in the midst of the enemy where discovery meant...
McClellan and the Union High Command, 1861-1863
Leadership Gaps That Cost a Timely Victory
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2017
With Washington’s proximity to the Confederate capital of Richmond, Union military operations in the first two years of the Civil War focused mainly on the Eastern Theater, where General McClellan commanded the Army of the Potomac. McClellan’s “On to Richmond” battle cry dominated strategic...
Joe Louis
The Life of a Heavyweight
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
Joe Louis held the heavyweight boxing championship longer than any other fighter and defended it a record 25 times. (In the 1930s and 1940s, the owner of the heavyweight title was the most prominent non-team sports competitor.) In addition, Louis helped bridge the gap of understanding between whites...
Rube Foster in His Time
On the Field and in the Papers with Black Baseball's Greatest Visionary
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Although Andrew “Rube” Foster (1879–1930) stands among the best African American pitchers of the 1900s, this baseball pioneer made his name as the founder and president of the Negro National League, the first all-black league to survive a full season. In addition to founding this groundbreaking...
Joining the United States Coast Guard
A Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
This book is for the teenager or young adult who is interested in enlisting in the United States Coast Guard. It will walk him or her through the enlistment and recruit training process: making the decision to join, talking to recruiters, getting qualified, preparing for basic training, and learning...
"Death does seem to have all he can attend to"
The Civil War Diary of an Andersonville Survivor
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
On August 7, 1862, George Alfred Hitchcock (born in Massachusetts in 1844) was mustered into Company A, 21st Massachusetts Infantry. From this date until January 1, 1865, he kept a meticulous daily diary. His first experience in battle was at Fox’s Gap on South Mountain, and then an attack across...
by Rebecca H. Dartt
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
On the heels of the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education, the Georgia General Assembly enacted a series of massive anti-desegregation laws to stand in opposition to the federal mandate. Governor Ernest Vandiver was elected with an overwhelming majority after promising to close...
Turning the Pages of American Girlhood
The Evolution of Girls' Series Fiction, 1865-1930
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
Alternating chapters of historical background and literary analysis, this study argues that postbellum series books inspired young women by illustrating the ways in which girls could participate in social change, whether through church societies, benevolent organizations, educational institutions...
by Katherine H. Adams, Michael L. Keene
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2015
Winifred Black worked in journalism from 1888 to 1936, often writing under the pseudonym Annie Laurie. Her work appeared in the Hearst papers—especially the San Francisco Examiner—and in fifty additional newspapers weekly through syndication. Black wrote 10,000 short pieces, as well as three books,...
by Michael Daigh
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
John Brown’s father on the day of his birth, May 9, 1800, wrote “John was born one hundred years after his great grandfather. Nothing else very uncommon.” Many years later came the 1856 Pottawatomie Massacre, where his uncommon convictions led him and his band of abolitionists to kill five pro-slavery...
African American Lives in St. Louis, 1763-1865
Slavery, Freedom and the West
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
The African American presence in St. Louis began in 1763 with the arrival of several free men of color who accompanied Pierre Laclede from New Orleans to set up a fur trading fort on the Mississippi. Within a few decades, the fort had become a prosperous commercial center whose proximity to the western...
The Crouching Beast
A United States Army Lieutenant's Account of the Battle for Hamburger Hill, May 1969
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
As a first lieutenant in Bravo Company of the Third Battalion, 187th Infantry, Frank Boccia led a platoon in two intense battles in the Vietnamese mountains in April and May 1969: Dong Ngai and the grinding, 11-day battle of Dong Ap Bia—the Mountain of the Crouching Beast, in Vietnamese, or Hamburger...
Vietnam-Perkasie
A Combat Marine Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016
In 1982, John Newman, curator of the Vietnam War Literature Collection at Colorado State University, said of W.D. Ehrhart: “As a poet and editor, Bill Ehrhart is clearly one of the major figures in Vietnam War literature.” This autobiographical account of the war, the author’s first extended...