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 …

Peter Seaborg Award The heroics of black Union soldiers in the Civil War have been justly celebrated, but their postwar lives largely neglected. Donald Shaffer’s illuminating study shines a bright …

In America’s Cold Warrior , James Graham Wilson traces Paul Nitze’s career path in national security after World War II, a time when many of his mentors and peers returned to civilian life. Serving i …

Few people would have expected bloodshed in Kansas Territory. After all, it had few slaves and showed few signs that slavery would even flourish. But civil war tore this territory apart in the 1850s …

By 1860 the South ranked high among the developed countries of the world in per capita income and life expectancy and in the number of railroad miles, telegraph lines, and institutions of higher …

Ulysses S. Grant did more than any other single Union general to secure the North’s victory in the Civil War, but he did not achieve that victory alone. Grant’s ability to inspire and cultivate the t …

The Civil War is the greatest tragedy ever experienced by our nation. The repercussions of the war are still alive today, almost 160 years after the final shots were fired in April 1865. Many …

Originally published in 1998, Like Men of War was a groundbreaking early study of Black troops in the Civil War that is still considered a major contribution to the literature on the United States Co …