General and world history

In 1855 in the South Puget Sound, war broke out between Washington settlers and Nisqually Indians.

In his expansive history of documentary work in the South during the twentieth century, Scott L.

Once part of the Kalmar Union-along with Denmark and Norway-the Kingdom of Sweden broke free in order to govern itself in the early 1500s, and for more than a century afterwards it was a force to be reckoned with.

Just fifty years ago the literary critic Lionel Trilling spoke of liberalism as "e;not only the dominant but even the sole intellectual tradition"e; in American society.

In the halls of knowledge, amidst the towering stacks of books, more than just facts and fiction await.

The History of Castles is the ultimate guide to the world's most fascinating castles and strongholds.

When women were denied a major speaking role at the 1963 March on Washington, Dorothy Height, head of the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW), organized her own women's conference for the very next day.

In the wake of the firing on Fort Sumter, outraged Northerners looked forward to a quick and decisive victory over the Confederate rebels.

In The Lives in Objects, Jessica Yirush Stern presents a thoroughly researched and engaging study of the deerskin trade in the colonial Southeast, equally attentive to British American and Southeastern Indian cultures of production, distribution, and consumption.

Here are the personal philosophies, opinions, thoughts, witticisms, and feelings of such upstanding and quintessential Americans as Abigail Adams, Dolly Madison, Eleanor Roosevelt, Jacqueline Kennedy, Nancy Reagan, Barbara Bush, and Hillary Clinton.

Most studies of World War II assume that it was, in some way, a triumph for Britain.

In mid-1943 Nazi Germany entered a crisis from which it was to emerge vanquished.

The Civil War brought many forms of upheaval to America, not only in waking hours but also in the dark of night.

Written early in Tate's career, this study of the Confederacy's fallen leader is highly critical of his flaws yet ultimately sympathetic to the Southern cause.

Beginning with the origins of their population in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the author traces the Scotch-Irish development from Lowland Scotland to Northern Ireland to the American colonies.

A WWII Soviet officer recalls leading a battalion of convict-soldiers in this rare firsthand account of a Red Army penal unit.

John Hodgkins was eight years old when his father was drafted into the army and left for Europe for fight in WWII.

Throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as Americans increasingly came into contact with the Islamic world, U.

From George Washington to Martin Luther King to George W.

In 1937, Japan blundered into a debilitating war with China, beginning with a minor incident near Peking (now Beijing) that quickly escalated.

Why does the Torah begin with the letter beit, the second letter of the Hebrew alphabet?

In tracing the rise of the modern idea of the American "e;new woman,"e; Lynn Dumenil examines World War I's surprising impact on women and, in turn, women's impact on the war.

From 1850 to 1854, the ambitious Commander Robert McClure captained the HMS Investigator on a voyage in search of the missing Franklin Expedition, which sailed from England into the Arctic in 1845 to map the last uncharted section of the North-West Passage.

Part I of this book begins with a scriptural study of all Sheba references, particularly the origins and genealogy of the name and its connections with Hebrew patriarchs such as Abraham and kings Saul and David; it later explores the literature and legends surrounding king Solomon and his trade negotiations with Sheba.

The Albanian Operation, carried out by British and American secret services from 1949 to 1953, was one of the first Western attempts to subvert a country behind the Iron Curtain.

At a time when race and inequality dominate national debates, the story of West Charlotte High School illuminates the possibilities and challenges of using racial and economic desegregation to foster educational equality.

Denmark is the oldest monarchy in Europe.

Making use of the methodology developed in his Origins of Arthurian Romances (McFarland, 2012), the author explores the question of King Arthur's existence in several original approaches to the subject.

The collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the late 5th century A.

Whether as wine, beer, or spirits, alcohol has had a constant and often controversial role in social life.

African American and American Indian artist Richard Mayhew was a pivotal member of the movement, headed by Romare Bearden, of the most important black artists of the Abstract Expressionist era.

Nagasaki, on the west coast of the Japanese island of Kyushu, is known in the West for having been the target of an atomic bomb attack on August 9, 1945.

In recent years, the Euro-American powers have made multiple armed incursions into Africa.

After Operation Valkyrie--the failed July 20, 1944, plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler and seize control of the German government--both the Third Reich and Hitler came to a violent end.

This fourth comprehensive study of international terrorist attacks covers 2017, during which the Islamic State suffered continued reversals yet retained its status as the most active, well-financed and well-armed terrorist group worldwide.

This firsthand account, never before published in English, details a secret World War II mission in 1944 called Operation Salamander, in which Tadeusz Chciuk (writing as Marek Celt) parachuted into German-occupied Poland with the enigmatic political adviser Dr.

Hellenic contributions to Western Civilization are acknowledged by all, but the details of their endowment are under-appreciated.

The Battle of the Little Big Horn was the decisive engagement of the Great Sioux War of 1876-1877.

Unassuming but formidable, American maritime insurers used their position at the pinnacle of global trade to shape the new nation.

This book, one of the first ever written on its subject, focuses on Russian America and American Alaska and their impact on the native population.

This first comprehensive analysis of the Third Reich's efforts to confiscate, loot, censor and influence art begins with a brief history of the looting of artworks in Western history.

Informers have been active during many periods of unrest in Ireland but, until Tudor times, they had never been an organized phenomenon until the twentieth century.

After the Americans withdrew from the Vietnam War, their Indochinese allies faced imprisonment, torture and death under communist regimes.

The effects of the War outside present-day Vietnam are ongoing.

This book presents a comprehensive history of the seven Apache tribes, tracing them from their genetic origins in Asia and their migration through the continent to the Southwest.

This dictionary gives an enormous amount of basic information on the Third Reich era by listing, and often depicting, German terms connected to Nazism and the Germany of World War II.

With the arrival of Europeans in North America, the Cherokee were profoundly affected.

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American military advisors in South Vietnam came to know their allies personally--as few American soldiers could.

This book is an exploration of the history and ideology of Revisionist Zionism--the stream of Zionism represented by the ruling Likud Party in Israel--from its inception in the 1920s under Vladimir Ze'ev Jabotinsky through its modification under Herut Party leader Menahem Begin to the present.