20世纪到1945

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s open access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Who are the dom …

Dodge, a military historian who fought in the Civil War as a young man and lost a leg at Gettysburg, gives an overview of the war in this 1883 work. A superb one-volume introduction to the war, he pr …

When President Barack Hussein Obama was first elected president, he promised he would use the presidency as a bully pulpit to fundamentally change America. In the first four years, he has brought the …

In the spring of 1861, Richmond, Virginia, suddenly became the capital city, military headquarters, and industrial engine of a new nation fighting for its existence. A remarkable drama unfolded in th …

“Fascinating . . . a lively and perceptive cultural history.” —Annette Gordon-Reed, The New Yorker In this wide-ranging, brilliantly researched work, David S. Reynolds traces the factors that made Un …

This book provides a glimpse at the lives, weapons, and equipment of these soldiers through a collection of artifacts and exacting reproductions. As 1862 dawned, the Civil War, the conflict that had …

With the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment, ‘drying up’ New York City promised to be the greatest triumph of the proponents of Prohibition. Instead, the city remained the nation’s greatest liquor m …

First published by the University of South Carolina in 1952, Ersatz in the Confederacy remains the definitive study of the South’s desperate struggle to overcome critical shortages of food, medicine, …

Mystery & History in Georgia, Volume I, is a compendium of information on historic sites, incidents and mysterious unexplained events relating to what today is the state of Georgia, from prehistory u …

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 …