20st Century up to 1945

The holiday eve festivities in the dingy, second floor speakeasy showed no signs of abating as the clock neared three that Fourth of July morning in 1925. The orchestra had just finished a lively rag …

Unmasking the Dangerous Deception of Democratic Tolerance: A Call to Reinforce American Values Amidst Rising Threats to Faith, Family, and Freedom. In this provocative and compelling book, Vince Ever …

Explore the enigmatic world of America’s most secretive society with SKULL AND BONES: Inside America’s Most Mysterious Secret Society (2024 Guide for Beginners). Dwight Tenny takes you on a journey t …

As weavers, garment workers, and peddlers, Syrian immigrants in the Americas fed the early twentieth-century transnational textile trade. These migrants and the commodities they produced—silk, linen, …

Damian Shiels’s Green and Blue explores Irish American service in the United States military by analyzing the written correspondence of ordinary rank-and-file soldiers drawn from across the Union’s a …

Winner: Caroline Bancroft Prize Winner: Western Heritage Book Award Just what and where is the West? Why have so many been so obsessed with finding and saving that mythic time and place? What has the …

‘America First: Donald J. Trump’s Vision for a Stronger Nation’ offers an in-depth look at the political philosophy that shaped one of the most polarizing presidencies in modern American history. Thi …

Charles Holbrook Prentiss (1830-1924), my fathers great uncle by marriage, wrote many letters home while serving in the 19th Michigan Volunteer Infantry between 1862 and 1865. These letters came to m …

Isaac Johnson was born in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, in 1844. His father, Richard Yeager, was a white farmer and his mother, Jane Johnson, was an enslaved African from Madagascar. His parents lived tog …

This vivid work, first published by UNC Press in 1954, reveals General Joseph Orville Shelby as one of the best Confederate cavalry leaders–and certainly the most colorful. Born in Lexington, Kentuc …