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by Kerry Segrave
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2014
Following the 2013 revelations of Edward Snowden, Americans have come to realize that many of us may be under surveillance at any time. It all started 150 years ago on the battlefields of the Civil War, where each side tapped the other’s telegraph lines. It continued in 1895, when the New York Police...
Ralph Kiner
A Baseball Biography
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Ralph Kiner (1922–2014) was one of the most feared power hitters of his era. Babe Ruth predicted Kiner would be the slugger most likely to break Ruth’s single season home run record. While the left fielder from New Mexico missed that mark, he did break one of the Babe’s records, leading his...
by Robert P. Broadwater
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2014
This book chronicles the history of the Philadelphia Athletics, the first real dynasty in Major League Baseball. The focus of the book is the 1931 season, in which Philadelphia, led by superstar pitcher Lefty Grove, had the best season in franchise history, leading to a third consecutive trip to the...
The Story of a Forest
Growth, Destruction and Renewal in the Upper Delaware Valley
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
The re-established forests of the Upper Delaware exist as a living reminder of centuries of both exploitation and good intentions. Emerging after the last glaciation, they were first modified by Native Americans to promote hunting and limited agriculture. The forests began to disappear as Europeans...
The Health of the First Ladies
Medical Histories from Martha Washington to Michelle Obama
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
This first comprehensive study of the medical histories of America’s first ladies—from Martha Washington to Michelle Obama—discusses their illnesses, their treatments and their physicians in the context of their times. As the categories of illness afflicting Americans have changed through history...
Ukraine Over the Edge
Russia, the West and the "New Cold War"
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2018
The Ukrainian crisis that dominated headlines in fall 2013 was decades in the making. Two great schisms shaped events: one within Ukraine, its western and southeastern parts divided along cultural and political lines; the other was driven by geopolitical factors. Competition between Russia and the...
Class and Culture in Crime Fiction
Essays on Works in English Since the 1970s
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
The crime fiction world of the late 1970s, with its increasingly diverse landscape, is a natural beginning for this collection of critical studies focusing on the intersections of class, culture and crime—each nuanced with shades of gender, ethnicity, race and politics. The ten new essays herein...
Secret Lives of the Underground Railroad in New York City
Sydney Howard Gay, Louis Napoleon and the Record of Fugitives
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
During the fourteen years Sydney Howard Gay edited the American Anti-Slavery Society’s National Anti-Slavery Standard in New York City, he worked with some of the most important Underground agents in the eastern United States, including Thomas Garrett, William Still and James Miller McKim. Gay’s...
by Robert J. Scarry
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2003
From the time he left office in 1853, President Millard Fillmore has become increasingly shrouded in mystery and stereotyped by anecdotes with slender connections to facts. The real Fillmore was not the weak and boring figurehead many Americans believe he was. This account of Fillmore’s life is...
Gothic Kings of Britain
The Lives of 31 Medieval Rulers, 1016-1399
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2009
This biographical history tells the story of 31 Gothic monarchs who fought in the crusades, enforced their feudal rights throughout the kingdom, sponsored the growth of representative government through a parliament, and ultimately created a military power that would dominate European affairs. In...
High School Prom
Marketing, Morals and the American Teen
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
The prom has been a fixture in the life of American teenagers for as long as high schools have existed. Both encapsulating and magnifying the drama of adolescence, proms have been transformed from modest tea dances to costly extravaganzas supporting apparel and cosmetic makers, limousine services,...
Subhas Chandra Bose
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
Subhas Chandra Bose continues to be a well-known figure in India more than fifty years after his death, but in the West remains a shadowy figure unknown to many. He made headlines worldwide as the extremist leader of the Provisional Government of Free India after its establishment by the Axis powers...
The Texas Revolution and the U.S.-Mexican War
A Concise History
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
This narrative history describes the events preceding, and the prosecution of, the Texas Revolution and the U.S.–Mexican War. It begins with the introduction of the empresario system in Mexico in 1823, a system of land distribution to American farmers and ranchers in an attempt to strengthen the...
by Gordon S. Brown
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
When separatist revolts erupted in Spain’s American colonies in the early 1800s, opinion in the United States was undecided as to what position to take. Proximity and America’s own anti-colonial ethos favored sympathy with the rebel cause, yet U.S. strategic interests during the tumultuous Napoleonic...