Mcfarland: 2486 books
At the Helm of USS America
The Aircraft Carrier and Its 23 Commanders, 1965-1996
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Only the best officers are given command of U.S. Navy ships, and only the elite of these are selected for aircraft carriers. The USS America was the third of four Kitty Hawk–class super-carriers. Commissioned in 1965, decommissioned in 1996, she served three times in Vietnam, and once each in Libya,...
The U.S.-Mexican War
A Complete Chronology
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
The U.S.–Mexican War, also known as the Mexican-American War and the Mexican War, took place from 1846 to 1848, and was mainly about control of Texas. Mexico claimed this territory despite Texas having declared itself a republic years earlier, while the U.S. wished to annex Texas and make it the...
Minorities in the Middle East
A History of Struggle and Self-Expression, 2d ed.
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2015
The struggle for independence by minorities in the Middle East (those people who are non–Arab or non–Muslim) is affecting the political climate around the world. War and terrorism are threatening the safety of many minority communities and repression of minorities still remains standard state...
Submarine Torpedo Tactics
An American History
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
Never-before-published, firsthand accounts of under-sea action presented with a summary of torpedo tactics illustrate how a submarine’s crew can hit a target trying to avoid being hit. Legendary figures in American submarine history come to life in actual logs of undersea warfare, and in accounts...
The Death Penalty in the United States
A Complete Guide to Federal and State Laws, 2d ed.
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
The death penalty landscape has changed considerably since the 1998 first edition of this book. For example, six states that had the death penalty—Connecticut, Illinois, Maryland, New Jersey, New Mexico and New York—no longer impose the punishment. Some of the changes set out in this second edition...
Observing Hancock at Gettysburg
The General's Leadership through Eyewitness Accounts
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
General Winfield Scott Hancock was perhaps the most influential officer in the federal lines, though he commanded only one of seven Union corps at Gettysburg. On day one, he rallied fleeing troops and placed them in the formidable position the Union army occupied for the remainder of the battle. In...
by Brian Allen Santana
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
For nearly 150 years, William Lloyd Garrison, founder of the famed antislavery newspaper The Liberator, has been represented by scholars, educators, politicians and authors as the founder of the American abolitionist movement. Yet the idea that Garrison was the leader of a coherent movement was strongly...
by Paul R. Misencik
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2015
Sally Townsend of Oyster Bay was a petite, vivacious, intelligent and remarkably beautiful young lady with beguiling eyes. A 1779 Valentine poem from an admiring British officer reads: “Thou know’st what powerful magick lies Within the round of Sarah’s eyes.” She was the sister of Robert Townsend,...
The Timberclads in the Civil War
The Lexington, Conestoga and Tyler on the Western Waters
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2008
In the most detailed history ever of Union warships on the western waters of the Civil War, the author recounts the exploits of the timberclad ships Lexington, Tyler, and Conestoga. Converted to warships from commercial steamboats at the beginning of the conflict, the three formed the core of the...
Tinclads in the Civil War
Union Light-Draught Gunboat Operations on Western Waters, 1862-1865
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2010
Once the Union Army gained control of the upper rivers of the Mississippi Valley during the first half of 1862, slow and heavy ironclads proved ineffective in patrolling the waters. Hastily outfitted steamboats were covered with thin armor and pressed into duty. These “tinclads” fought Confederate...
North Carolina Musicians
Photographs and Conversations
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
Daniel Coston’s career in photography began accidentally. A magazine writer, he began taking photographs for his stories when the regular photographer was unavailable, and his contacts as a writer led him to invitations to take pictures of local musicians. His life-long fascination with the sounds...
Mike Torrez
A Baseball Biography
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
The history of baseball is filled with players whose careers were defined by one bad play. Mike Torrez is remembered as the pitcher who gave up the infamous three-run homer to Bucky "Bleeping" Dent in the 1978 playoffs tie-breaker between the Red Sox and Yankees. Yet Torrez's life added up to much...
The Monetary Imagination of Edgar Allan Poe
Banking, Currency and Politics in the Writings
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
In this first-of-its-kind treatment, Heinz Tschachler offers an account of Edgar Allan Poe’s relation to the world of banking and money in antebellum America. He contends that Poe gave the full force of his censure to the acrimonious debates about America’s money, Andrew Jackson’s bank war,...
Friendship and Happiness
And the Connection Between the Two
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
This philosophical and sociological look at friendship and happiness begins with a review of Aristotle’s three categories of friendship—friends of utility, friends of pleasure and friends of the good. Modern variations—casual friends, close friends, best friends—are described, along with the...