Mcfarland: 2486 books
A Rogue's Life
R. Clay Crawford, Prison Escapee, Union Army Officer, Pretend Millionaire, Phony Physician and the Most Respected Man in Macon, Georgia
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
This book reveals the life of R. Clay Crawford, his dreams, his schemes, his successes and his failures, as he launched himself into many of the most turbulent episodes of 19th century United States history. Like everyone, he was born with a family history, not just genetic but also cultural determinants;...
The Californios
A History, 1769-1890
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Before the Gold Rush of 1848–1858, Alta (Upper) California was an isolated cattle frontier—and home to a colorful group of Spanish-speaking, non-indigenous people known as Californios. Profiting from the forced labor of large numbers of local Indians, they carved out an almost feudal way of life,...
A Spy for the Union
The Life and Execution of Timothy Webster
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
Timothy Webster, best known for his work as a spy for the Union during the Civil War, began his career as a New York City policeman. In the mid–1850s he left the police department and took a job for Allan Pinkerton with his newly formed detective agency. As an operative for Pinkerton’s agency,...
Jefferson Davis's Flight from Richmond
The Calm Morning, Lee's Telegrams, the Evacuation, the Train, the Passengers, the Trip, the Arrival in Danville and the Historians' Frauds
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
In the space of a few hours on the night of April 2, 1865, Richmond, the Confederate capital, was evacuated and burned, the government fled, slavery was finished in North America, Union forces entered the city and the outcome of the Civil War was effectively sealed. No official documents tell the...
The Historic Murder Trial of George Crawford
Charles H. Houston, the NAACP and the Case That Put All-White Southern Juries on Trial
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
The Depression–era murder trial of George Crawford in Northern Virginia helped end the exclusion of African Americans from juries. Nearly forgotten today, the murders, ensuing manhunt, extradition battle and sensational trial enthralled the nation. Before it was over, the U.S. House of Representatives...
The Red River Campaign and Its Toll
69 Bloody Days in Louisiana, March-May 1864
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
The Red River Campaign in the spring of 1864 was one of the most destructive of the Civil War. The agricultural wealth of the Red River Valley tempted Union General Nathaniel P. Banks to invade with 30,000 troops in an attempt to seize control of the river and confiscate as much cotton as possible...
Surviving Andersonville
One Prisoner's Recollections of the Civil War's Most Notorious Camp
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
This is a documentary work offering a first-person account of a Union soldier’s daily adversity while a prisoner of war from 20 September 1863 to 4 June 1865. In 1891, while a patient at the Leavenworth National Home, Irish immigrant Edward Glennan began to write down his experiences in vivid detail,...
by Samuel Grant Williams, J. Ross Browne, Charles H. Robbins
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2014
In 1873, 21-year-old Sam Williams embarked on a whaling journey on the two-masted F.H. Moore—he steered one of the boats and threw the harpoon. He kept a personal log and reworked it into this never-before-published manuscript, now supplemented by additional research and relevant excerpts of the...
Japanese and American Horror
A Comparative Study of Film, Fiction, Graphic Novels and Video Games
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
Horror fiction is an important part of the popular culture in many modern societies. This book compares and contrasts horror narratives from two distinct cultures—American and Japanese—with a focus on the characteristic mechanisms that make them successful, and on their culturally-specific aspects....
Tracking the Weretiger
Supernatural Man-Eaters of India, China and Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Drawing on dramatic accounts by European colonials, and on detailed studies by folklorists and anthropologists, this work explores intriguing age-old Asian beliefs and claims that man-eating tigers and “little tigers,” or leopards alike, were in various ways supernatural. It is a serious work...
Religion and the Ku Klux Klan
Biblical Appropriation in Their Literature and Songs
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
As with other terrorist and extremist organizations, religion forms the basis of the Ku Klux Klan’s dogmatic philosophy, providing justification for its beliefs and actions. The Klan represents a link to America’s cultural past. While America has undergone tremendous social change, the secretive...
Thurman Munson
A Baseball Biography
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
When in 2000 the Baseball Writers Association of America elected the ever-durable Carlton Fisk to the National Baseball Hall of Fame, many fans quietly pointed to the Hall’s omission of Fisk’ greatest American League contemporary, Thurman Munson. And when in 2001 the writers honored Kirby Puckett,...
Dizzy and the Gas House Gang
The 1934 St. Louis Cardinals and Depression-Era Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
Led by the colorful pitcher Dizzy Dean, the 1934 St. Louis Cardinals personified Depression-era America. The players were underpaid, wore uniforms that were almost always torn and dirty, and had wandered into professional baseball from small towns in the Midwest where other jobs were scarce. Despite...
Baseball's Funnymen
Twenty-Four Jokers, Screwballs, Pranksters and Storytellers
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
From Nick Altrock to Casey Stengel, Dizzy Dean to Satchel Paige, Bill Veeck to Bob Uecker, baseball has always admired the clever. This book tells the stories of some of the players, coaches, managers and broadcasters who had the most fun in the Major Leagues and made fans laugh out loud (or shake...