History of the Americas

On the night of the sixteenth of December, 1773, after the largest town meeting Boston had ever seen broke up in the winter dark, a body of men with soot-blackened faces marched to Griffin's Wharf, boarded three merchant ships, and in three orderly hours threw three hundred and forty-two chests of the East India Company's tea into the harbor.

Circleville's Poison Pen delves into one of the most chilling unsolved cases in American history.

In July 1847, a Maya community in the eastern Yucatán Peninsula rose against the criollo state that had enclosed their land, taxed their ceremonies, and conscripted their men into other people's wars.

In the spring of 1689, a German-born wine merchant named Jacob Leisler seized control of a crumbling fort at the tip of Manhattan and held it for nearly two years in the name of the Protestant monarchs William and Mary.

New Mexico is where the UFO story changed from sightings to possession.

Many great discoveries have been made from the First Temple period in Jerusalem.

Leadership talent without leadership wisdom is one of the most dangerous combinations in human society.

Discover the untold story of Kansas paleontologist Marion Charles Bonner, as told through the eyes of his daughter in Old Man of the Fossil Beds.

In August 1921, ten thousand armed coal miners marched south through the West Virginia mountains toward Blair Mountain, carrying Springfield rifles and wearing red bandanas at their throats.

The Great Kentucky Meat Shower takes readers on a thrilling journey into one of America's most bizarre unsolved mysteries.

In the Shadow of the Electric Chair: The Last Hours and Final Words Under the Voltage of DeathImmerse yourself in a poignant and profoundly human account of the history of the death penalty in the United States.

You thought the story was over.

Q: People are confused as to why so many religions and do not know which one can really get them into Heaven and what is the true God doing about it?

Popularity of the Ten Spies is filled with Wisdom Poems on Fear, Influence, Leadership, and Trusting God.

The Black Dahlia delves into the chilling murder of Elizabeth Short, the aspiring actress whose brutal death shocked 1940s Los Angeles and continues to haunt the world today.

Anthony Fauci stopped answering.

In 1765 there was no such thing as an American.

CRAZY BLUESMamie Smith and the Three Minutes That Changed American MusicOn August 10, 1920, a vaudeville singer named Mamie Smith stepped in front of a recording horn in a cramped New York studio and sang a song called "e;Crazy Blues.

Most books on priestly celibacy are written for bishops, rectors, and formation directors - about seminarians, rather than to them.

At one minute past midnight on January 17, 1920, the United States did something no modern nation had ever tried: it abolished its own liquor trade by constitutional amendment.

Across the Americas, football is a map of memory, identity, and cultural imagination.

In August 1918, eight thousand American soldiers arrived at the Russian port of Vladivostok with orders that simultaneously authorised their deployment and prohibited almost everything a soldier normally does.

In The Apostles of Faith: In the Writings of Friar Bartolomé de las Casas, author Agustin V.

In 1920 America staggered out of a world war and a plague, exhausted and grieving.

What happens when political satire meets Dante, Donald Trump, and the Republican Party?

This book seeks to restore Spain to its rightful place within the history of the United States.

Discover the Philosophy of Self-Sovereignty, Personal Autonomy, and Modern Satanic PracticeAre you ready to look beyond the myths, misinterpretations, and sensationalism surrounding modern Satanism?

It's hard to imagine discussing welfare policy without discussing race, yet all too often this uncomfortable factor is avoided or simply ignored.

It's hard to imagine discussing welfare policy without discussing race, yet all too often this uncomfortable factor is avoided or simply ignored.

Working Juju examines how fantastical and unreal modes are deployed in portrayals of the Caribbean in popular and literary culture as well as in the visual arts.

Working Juju examines how fantastical and unreal modes are deployed in portrayals of the Caribbean in popular and literary culture as well as in the visual arts.

A comprehensive, deeply researched history of the pivotal 1863 American Civil War battle fought in northern Virginia.

Much has changed in the lives of children, and in the health care provided to them, over the past century.

Demoniality: A Look at the Phenomena of Incubi and Succubior Sexual Intercourse with DemonsTable of Contents:I.

A comprehensive, deeply researched history of the pivotal 1863 American Civil War battle fought in northern Virginia.

In the spring of 1862, George McClellan and his massive army were slowly making their way up the Virginia Peninsula.

An in-depth look at the unique actions of the newly formed state of West Virginia during the Civil War While the taking of hostages by both the Union and the Confederacy was common during the Civil War, it was unique for an individual state government to engage in this practice.

Winner, New Hampshire PBS Award for Literary Excellence 2023Examining the life and career of Harriet Dame, Civil War battlefield nurse, and her major contributions to the Union causeIn June of 1861, 46-year-old Harriet Patience Dame joined the Second New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry Regiment as a matron.

The first complete biography of Col.

This compact history of the war attempts to separate myth from reality.

Imagining Adoption looks at representations of adoption in an array of literary genres by diverse authors including George Eliot, Edward Albee, and Barbara Kingsolver as well as ordinary adoptive mothers and adoptee activists, exploring what these writings share and what they debate.

Imagining Adoption looks at representations of adoption in an array of literary genres by diverse authors including George Eliot, Edward Albee, and Barbara Kingsolver as well as ordinary adoptive mothers and adoptee activists, exploring what these writings share and what they debate.

If you could go back in time and experience your parents or grandparents falling in love would you?

Bringing together scholars from a range of disciplines to assess the use and meaning of language in the South, a region rich in dialects and variants, this comprehensive edited collection reflects the cutting-edge research presented at the fourth decennial meeting of Language Variety in the South in 2014.

The southern womens reform movement emerged late in the nineteenth century, several decades behind the formation of the northern feminist movement.

Much has changed in the lives of children, and in the health care provided to them, over the past century.

The southern womens reform movement emerged late in the nineteenth century, several decades behind the formation of the northern feminist movement.