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Jack Cameron returns as a white scout for the US army during the Plains Indian Wars, and is soon emulating the feats of his heroic ancestors. Will Jack succeed in his quest for revenge? This superb, …

Susan Nye Hutchison (1790-1867) was one of many teachers to venture south across the Mason-Dixon Line in the Second Great Awakening. From 1815 to 1841, she kept journals about her career, family life …

As military campaigns go, the War of 1812 was a disaster. By the time it ended in 1815, Washington, D.C., had been burned to the ground, the national debt had nearly tripled, and territorial gains we …

What did nineteenth-century cities smell like? And how did odors matter in the formation of a modern environmental consciousness? Smell Detectives follows the nineteenth-century Americans who used th …

A collection of essays highlighting the war not only as a North American conflict but as a global one In an attempt to counter the insular narratives of much of the sesquicentennial commemorations of …

This book is the first systematic comparison of the civic integration of Jews in the United States and France–specifically, from the two countries’ revolutions through the American republic and the …

BETWEEN 1830 and 1848 the idea of political democracy had made steady progress throughout Europe among both the workingmen and the middle class until in the eventful days of 1848 it had thrown the wh …

There is no more marvellous story in human history than that of Napoleon I., Emperor of the French. His career is one long demonstration of the reality of the proverb, “Truth is stranger than fiction …

The book ‘A History of England: Constitutional Monarchy (1689 to 1837)’ covers the period from William and Mary to William IVin British History. The book was written by James Franck Bright who was a …

"This volume is an attempt to rescue from undeserved oblivion a cluster of soldierly autobiographies; and to give to the general reader some pictures of famous battles, not as described by the h …