20ème siècle (jusqu’en 1945)

The Shenandoah Valley Campaign, often referred to as Jackson’s Valley Campaign, saw Gen. Stonewall Jackson lead fewer than seventeen thousand Confederate soldiers on a 464-mile march that defeated th …

In The Battles at Patterson and Fort Benton, readers are taken deep into Missouri’s Civil War experience-a fierce struggle within the broader conflict. Known for having one of the highest numbers of …

How debt and speculation financed the suburban American dream and led to today’s inequalities In the popular imagination, the suburbs are synonymous with the “American Dream” of upward mobility and e …

On the fiftieth anniversary of the Edmund Fitzgerald’s sinking, the bestselling author of The Great Halifax Explosion tells the definitive story of the “Mighty Fitz.” For three decades following Worl …

An eye-opening look into the founding of the American Museum of Natural History and its original racial underpinnings. From 1908 to 1933, the American Museum of Natural History launched more scientif …

On a November afternoon in 1864, the weary Gen. John Bell Hood surveyed the army waiting to attack the Federals at Franklin, Tennessee. He gave the signal almost at dusk, and the Confederates rushed …

"The Every-Day Life of Abraham Lincoln" through Francis Fisher Browne is a biographical painting that gives readers an intimate glimpse into the everyday reviews and individual of considere …

A president defying Congress. Disrespect for the law. Attacks on the press. Evasion in the courts. The privatization of war. Quid pro quos with foreign nations. The mounting dangers to American democ …

Fourteen-year-old George Maguire was eager to serve the Union when his home state, Maryland, began raising regiments for the coming conflict. Too young to join, he became a “mascot” for the Fifth Mar …

A testament to the resilience and determination of Black North Carolinians to achieve educational equality This book examines the educational experiences of Black North Carolinians during the America …