ศตวรรษที่ 20 จนถึงปี 1945

The years following the American Civil War were particularly unjust to those who called the South home. Most families had suffered tremendous loss to the horrors of a war they didn’t fully understand …

When George C. Marshall became Secretary of State in January of 1947, he faced not only a staggering array of serious foreign policy questions but also a State Department rendered ineffective by negl …

In the tradition of the bestselling Chesapeake Requiem,  WALK THROUGH FIRE is the first book to examine the Waverly Train Disaster of 1978, its impact on the rural community of Waverly, Tennesse …

“How long must our dear land be desolated by the ravages and our bravest sacrificed upon thy altars?”   What was it like to live through the turmoil of the Civil War as it exploded day by day? …

The Twilight Zone is remembered as a science fiction television series that reflected the uneasiness of Cold War America. Its creator, Rod Serling, was a secular Jew who fought in World War II and re …

Housewives, hard hats, and an Ohio town’s restoration of the radioactive wasteland in its backyard In 1984, a uranium leak at Ohio’s outdated Fernald Feed Materials Production Center highlighted the …

Thirty years after the headlines, Love Canal remains synonymous with toxic waste. When this neighborhood of Niagara Falls, New York, burst upon the nation’s consciousness, the media focused on a work …

When TV celebrity Dinah Shore sang “See the USA in your Chevrolet, ” 1950s America took her to heart. Every summer, parents piled the kids in the back seat, threw the luggage in the trunk, and took t …

Available in a new digital edition with reflowable text suitable for e-readers This rare epistolary collection from the Civil War era preserves, amidst a recounting of the martial actions of the Iris …

Farm women of the twentieth-century South have been portrayed as oppressed, worn out, and isolated. Lu Ann Jones tells quite a different story in Mama Learned Us to Work. Building upon evocative oral …