Military history

As the public increasingly questioned the war in Vietnam, a group of American scientists deeply concerned about the use of Agent Orange and other herbicides started a movement to ban what they called "e;ecocide.

In 1861 young Joseph Twichell cut short his seminary studies to become a Union Army chaplain in New York's Excelsior Brigade.

About half of today's nation-states originated as some kind of breakaway state.

"e;It is well that war is so terrible,"e; Robert E.

In this first book-length environmental history of the American Civil War, Lisa M.

In 1943, while the New York Yankees and St.

In antebellum America, both North and South emerged as modernizing, capitalist societies.

In this first book-length environmental history of the American Civil War, Lisa M.

During the Civil War, cities, houses, forests, and soldiers' bodies were transformed into "e;dead heaps of ruins,"e; novel sights in the southern landscape.

Apples and Ashes offers the first literary history of the Civil War South.

Georgians, like all Americans, experienced the Civil War in a variety of ways.

Philip D.

Georgians, like all Americans, experienced the Civil War in a variety of ways.

';The art of war is of vital importance to the State.

The author enlisted in the Marine Corps at 17, with dreams of becoming a hero.

A Marine Corps recruiter returns to his old stamping grounds to speak with some of the men he enlisted, their families, and the families of others who were killed in action.