20ème siècle (jusqu’en 1945)

През 30-те години на ХХ век Ал Капоне е некоронованият цар на престъпността от времето на сухия режим – неговите печалби се изчисляват на 100 милиона долара годишно. През 40-те периметърът на мафията …

Het boek ‘Het Duitsche Witboek: Documenten aangaande het uitbreken van den oorlog’ geschreven door Germany. Auswärtiges Amt is een belangrijke verzameling van documenten die de aanloop naar de Eerste …

In ‘De ruiters van Zuid-Afrika: een verhaal uit de dagen van Jameson en Krugersdorp 1895-96’ neemt L. Penning ons mee naar de spannende gebeurtenissen in Zuid-Afrika tijdens de periode van Jameson en …

This study tells for the first time the story of a bitter cultural and political conflict that arose between the leading writers and intellectuals of Great Britain and the United States during the Ci …

From Texas to Virginia, towns, regions, counties, regiments, prisons, and even refugee camps played a significant role in shaping the contours of the Civil War. According to historian Daniel E. Suthe …

Doomsday prepping has gone mainstream. Survivalists star in reality TV shows; celebrities hawk emergency gear; and ordinary people stockpile essentials in the hope that they can outlast a slew of thr …

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 …

The Consequences of Confederate Citizenship is a vast collection of Civil War correspondence from the affluent Pickens family of Greene County, Alabama. Unlike nearly all published letter collections …

In Late to the Fight, Alexandre F. Caillot explores the combat performance of the Union soldiers who filled newly raised regiments that fought through the Civil War’s final year. Historians have typi …

David T. Ballantyne’s Fractured Freedoms is a riveting history of central Louisiana from the 1860s to the 1890s, focusing on majority-Black Rapides Parish during Reconstruction. Using the region as a …