Fallen Leaders: Favorite Stories and Fresh Perspectives from the Historians at Emerging Civil War recounts the fall of some of the most famous, infamous, and underappreciated commanders from both the North and South.
Insubordinate Spirit is a unique exploration into the life of Elizabeth Winthrop and other seventeenth-century English Puritans who emigrated to the rough, virtually untouched wilderness of present-day New England.
In January 1868, a Union veteran named Gilbert Bates set out from his Wisconsin farm for Vicksburg, Mississippi, to prove a point and win a bet: that he could safely walk across the postCivil War Southalone, unarmed, with no moneywhile carrying the flag of the United States.
Long before the Montgomery bus boycott ushered in the modern civil rights movement, black and white southerners struggled to forge interracial democracy in America.
In this groundbreaking work of cultural history, Alice Fahs explores a little-known and fascinating side of the Civil War--the outpouring of popular literature inspired by the conflict.
Colorado's Rocky Mountain National Park welcomes more than 4 million visitors every year, but this jewel of America's parks has seen more than its fair share of deaths among its tourists.
How does a heartwarming, charitable public relations stunt designed to break a harmless world record end up completely paralyzing a major American city, shutting down an international airport, and thwarting a deadly Coast Guard rescue mission?
Wie kann eine winzige, unbemerkte und defekte Kontrolllampe in einem hochmodernen Kernkraftwerk eine fatale Kettenreaktion menschlicher Fehlinterpretationen auslosen, die letztendlich zur partiellen Kernschmelze eines Reaktors fuhrt?
Whether you're a born-and-raised New Mexican, a recent transplant, or just passing through, New Mexico Curiosities will have you laughing out loud as it introduces you to the most fascinating characters in the Spanish State, and takes you places you never could have imaginedsome of them right around the corner!
Whether you're a born-and-raised New Mexican, a recent transplant, or just passing through, New Mexico Curiosities will have you laughing out loud as it introduces you to the most fascinating characters in the Spanish State, and takes you places you never could have imaginedsome of them right around the corner!
Pull up a chair or gather round the campfire and get ready for thirty creepy tales of ghostly hauntings, eerie happenings, and other strange occurrences in California.
A thorough yet concise walking guide to one of America's most important historic destinationsRelive the birth of America along Boston's historic two-and-a-half-mile Freedom Trail with this guide to twenty-six legendary landmarksincluding the site of the Boston Massacre and the Bunker Hill Monument.
Pull up a chair or gather round the campfire and get ready for thirty creepy tales of ghostly hauntings, eerie happenings, and other strange occurrences in California.
A thorough yet concise walking guide to one of America's most important historic destinationsRelive the birth of America along Boston's historic two-and-a-half-mile Freedom Trail with this guide to twenty-six legendary landmarksincluding the site of the Boston Massacre and the Bunker Hill Monument.
In the summer of 1656, two Quaker women stepped off a ship in Boston harbour and walked into a world that would spend the next five years trying to destroy them.
Was treibt eine friedliche mexikanisch-amerikanische Grenzgemeinde dazu, sich schwer zu bewaffnen und in eine blutige, wochenlange Schlacht gegen die beruchtigten Texas Rangers zu ziehen?
From an out-of-control wildfire that nearly destroyed a town to a serial spouse killer in Estes Park, It Happened in Rocky Mountain National Park looks at intriguing people and episodes from the history of Colorado's largest national park.
Going Driftless is a book that explores a whole world within a world in the upper Midwest and looks at the nostalgia of small towns and local living (eating, shopping, etc.
From the day in 1893 that Gigi and Hobart Johnstone Whitley stood on a hill overlooking the areathey christened ';Hollywood,' to modern-day tales of murder and mayhem, It Happened in Hollywood recounts in thirty short episodes the behind-the-scenes events that shaped Tinseltown.
From an out-of-control wildfire that nearly destroyed a town to a serial spouse killer in Estes Park, It Happened in Rocky Mountain National Park looks at intriguing people and episodes from the history of Colorado's largest national park.
