This book brings together a variety of primary sources that inform the reader about the colony's earliest European inhabitants and the sparsely populated and fragile communities in which they lived...
The Revolutionary War encompassed at least two struggles: one for freedom from British rule, and another, quieter but no less significant fight for the liberty of African Americans, thous...
The first comprehensive history of the UK government overseas intelligence service, MI6, by an acknowledged expert and author of the highly acclaimed Smear!
Epitomised in the pu...
Here is the most complete account available of the long and varied history of Louisiana's Native American population. Focusing on the history and cultural evolution of the state's Indians, The Hist...
Writing in the Dark: The Workbook has received the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Non-FictionLike Tim Waggoner's Bram Stoker Award-winn...
"Densely documented with personal accounts, drawing on interviews and letters to let the women tell their own stories. As the first full-length scholarly book on female Irish servants, it will be a...
According to bestselling historian Yuval Noah Harari, today'rsquo;s average American has their foot in three ideological camps: nationalism, free market capitalism, and humanism. The first two m...
In Imagining the Holocaust, Daniel R. Schwarz examines widely read Holocaust narratives which have shaped the way we understand and respond to the events of that time. He begins with first person n...
The meaning of race in the antebellum southern United States was anchored in the racial exclusivity of slavery (coded as black) and full citizenship (coded as white as well as male). These traditio...
Contributions by Kelly Blewett, Claudia Camicia, Alisa Clapp-Itnyre, Lisa Rowe Fraustino, Elisabeth Graves, Karlie Herndon, KaaVonia Hinton, Holly Blackford Humes, Melanie Hurley, Kara K. Keeling, ...
A new English translation of the classic work by Adolf Hitler. This edition brings together the best, timeliest, and most interesting passages from the original two-volume work. It i...
Cashews from Africa's Gold Coast, butterflies from Sierra Leone, jalap root from Veracruz, shells from Jamaica—in the eighteenth century, these specimens from faraway corners of the Atlantic ...
There are mysteries in the woods of the Hudson Valley of New York and northern New Jersey. There are stone sites that are assumed to be the work of colonial farmers, but author and researcher Linda...
Jack Bewes' story of war is seen through the eyes of the mates who flew Lancasters together from England to Germany and France and saw their best friends killed. There was the mate they celebrat...
"Austin Statesman" journalist Cox explores the origin and rise of the famed Texas Rangers, and shows how the Rangers had been a defining force in the stabilization and creation of Texas.