Mcfarland: 2486 books
The Greeks Who Made Us Who We Are
Eighteen Ancient Philosophers, Scientists, Poets and Others
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
Hellenic contributions to Western Civilization are acknowledged by all, but the details of their endowment are under-appreciated. This volume seeks to disclose two distinctive features of Western culture uniquely attributable to the ancient Greeks: A human-centered worldview that elevated humans to...
Victorians and the Case for Charity
Essays on Responses to English Poverty by the State, the Church and the Literati
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
This collection of all new essays seeks to answer a series of questions surrounding the Victorian response to poverty in Britain. In short, what did various layers of society say the poor deserved and what did they do to help them? The work is organized against the backdrop of the 1834 New Poor Laws,...
Hmong and American
Stories of Transition to a Strange Land
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2015
The Hmong were driven out of Laos by the turmoil of the Vietnam War and settled in America in such large numbers that they are now the second largest Southeast Asian population in the United States. Twelve Hmong immigrants, including a female shaman, an ex-military officer, a reformed gang member,...
by Frederick Hatch
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
The eight people charged with conspiring to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln were tried by a military commission under military law. The author contends that this was illegal, since the civilian legal system was fully functioning. The many ways in which the defendants’ rights were violated...
The White House
An Illustrated Architectural History
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2015
Formerly known as the President’s House, then the Executive Mansion, and now for a long time the White House, this famous structure has a fascinating architectural history of ongoing change. The white painted façade of James Hoban’s original structure has been added to and strengthened for more...
President-Making in the Gilded Age
The Nominating Conventions of 1876-1900
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
Nominating conventions were the highlight of presidential elections in the Gilded Age, an era when there were no primaries, no debates and nominees did little active campaigning. Unlike modern conventions, the outcomes were not so seemingly predetermined. Historians consider the late 19th century...
A Confederate in Congress
The Civil War Treason Trial of Benjamin Gwinn Harris
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2016
In May 1865, the final month of the Civil War, the U.S. Army arrested and prosecuted a sitting congressman in a military trial in the border state of Maryland, though the federal criminal courts in the state were functioning. Convicted of aiding and abetting paroled Confederate soldiers, Benjamin...
Aaron Burr in Exile
A Pariah in Paris, 1810-1811
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Aaron Burr—Revolutionary War hero, third vice president of the United States and a controversial figure of the early republic—was tried and acquitted of treason charges in 1807, and thereafter departed for self-imposed exile in Europe, his political career in ruins. Adrift in Paris for 15 months,...
John F. Kennedy in Quotations
A Topical Dictionary, with Sources
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
John F. Kennedy in Quotations is a compilation of more than 2,000 quotations selected from the speeches and other public addresses that Kennedy delivered to an audience, either in person or in a radio or television broadcast, during his term as president, and earlier, between Kennedy’s January 2,...
East Harlem Remembered
Oral Histories of Community and Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The community of East Harlem in New York City lays claim to a rich and culturally diverse history. Once home to 35 ethnicities and 27 languages, the neighborhood attracted Irish, Jewish, and Italian immigrants in the early 20th century and later saw an influx of Puerto Rican immigrants and African...
The First American Declaration of Independence?
The Disputed History of the Mecklenburg Declaration of May 20, 1775
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
This is a comprehensive history of one of the greatest mysteries in American history—did Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, declare independence from Great Britain more than a year before anyone else? According to local legend, on May 20, 1775, in a log court house in the remote backcountry two...
Deconstructing Organized Crime
An Historical and Theoretical Study
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
What is organized crime? There have been many answers over the decades from scholars, governments, the media, pop culture and criminals themselves. These answers cumulatively created a “Mafia Mystique” that dominated discourse until after the Cold War, when transnational organized crime emerged...
Jean Ternant and the Age of Revolutions
A Soldier and Diplomat (1751-1833) in the American, French, Dutch and Belgian Uprisings
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Jean Ternant’s life (1751–1833) spanned a period of enormous change in European life. Born when men were still subject to judicial torture, he lived to see the dawn of the railroad age. It was an era of political upheaval: the American Revolution, the “patriot” movement of the Dutch Republic,...
by Lewis Hartshorn
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2013
This is a consensus-challenging history of the Alger Hiss–Whittaker Chambers controversy of 1948 to 1950, a criminal case in which Hiss was convicted of perjury after two long trials. Chambers claimed that Hiss had passed classified State Department documents to him in 1937 and 1938 for transmittal...