Rufus King 
Ohio 
First Fruits of the Ordinance of 1787

През 30-те години на ХХ век Ал Капоне е некоронованият цар на престъпността от времето на сухия режим – неговите печалби се изчисляват на 100 милиона долара годишно. През 40-те периметърът на мафията …

In ‘De ruiters van Zuid-Afrika: een verhaal uit de dagen van Jameson en Krugersdorp 1895-96’ neemt L. Penning ons mee naar de spannende gebeurtenissen in Zuid-Afrika tijdens de periode van Jameson en …

Het boek ‘Het Duitsche Witboek: Documenten aangaande het uitbreken van den oorlog’ geschreven door Germany. Auswärtiges Amt is een belangrijke verzameling van documenten die de aanloop naar de Eerste …

Ferdinand Pecora investigated with ruthlessly abandon the nation’s most influential bankers and stockbrokers to determine what caused the Wall Street Crash of 1929, which in turn led to the Great …

Irish-born and Irish-descended soldiers and sailors were involved in every major engagement of the American Civil War. Throughout the conflict, they shared their wartime experiences through songs and …

Winner of the Phi Alpha Theta Best First Book Award Winner of the Southern Indiana Civil War Roundtable Wabash Literary Prize In the latter half of the nineteenth century, three violent national conf …

Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest is perhaps the most compelling and complicated individual that the Civil War brought to prominence. In looking at his life and military career, it quick …

Although rarely discussed by historians, events on North Carolina’s southeastern coast during the months of January to April 1861 challenge the popular narrative that the Civil War began with Preside …

A Place of Rest for Our Gallant Boys is the story of both Civil War horrors and hope – of Army surgeons and civilians risking their own lives to save others. It is the story of heroes and heroines wh …

The epic road trips—and surprising friendship—of John Burroughs, nineteenth-century naturalist, and Henry Ford and Thomas Edison, inventors of the modern age. In 1913, an unlikely friendship blosso …