20th century (fino al 1945)

In the late 1970s, Hollywood producers took the published biography of Crystal Lee Sutton, a white southern textile worker, and transformed it into a blockbuster 1979 film, Norma Rae, featuring Sally …

Being released on the 161st observance of the Gettysburg Dedication Day , this new book is being published to follow up the solemnity and caring characterizing how Lincoln eulogized these honored dea …

Shedding important new light on the history of the Cold War, Philip Nash tells the story of what the United States gave up to help end the Cuban missile crisis of 1962. By drawing on documents only r …

‘Between these pages the reader will learn that North Carolina citizens did not idly stand by as their soldiers marched off to war. The women worked themselves into “patriotic exhaustion” through Aid …

Abraham Lincoln recognized that the US Civil War would be a ‘hard war’. Secession and slavery represented abiding beliefs central to Southern life. Overcoming them would require a war of attrition re …

Unique among presidents’ wives, Lady Bird Johnson was not only one of the leading environmentalists of the twentieth century, she also redefined the institution of First Lady. In this first book in a …

Letters from Mississippi offers a riveting, personal and multi-faceted narrative of the dramatic events that took place during the summer of 1964, ‘Freedom Summer, ‘ when hundreds of people came to M …

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, …

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 …