Religious freedom is so often presented as a timeless American ideal and an inalienable right, appearing fully formed at the founding of the United States.
Originally published in 1985 this book draws attention to the terrible unexploded remnants of mines and other high-explosive munitions that remain hidden in former theatres of war and which claim so many innocent victims - often children - for so many years.
This book tells thirty stories of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Alabama,Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee, and Kentuckyfrom early European exploration to the end of the Civil War.
Religious freedom is so often presented as a timeless American ideal and an inalienable right, appearing fully formed at the founding of the United States.
Among many other developments, World War II saw naval warfare shift from the battleship to the aircraft carrier, which remains one of the iconic weapons of the war and the core of modern battle fleets.
Historic South Carolina: A Tour of the States Top National Landmarks is a carefully curated travel guide, written by a local historian, featuring the most intriguing and significant of the states nationally recognized historic landmarks.
In the 1930s, buoyed by the potential of the New Deal, child welfare reformers hoped to formalize and modernize their methods, partly through professional casework but more importantly through the loving care of temporary, substitute families.
While welfare has been subject to pronounced criticism throughout the twentieth century, social insurance has consistently enjoyed the overwhelming support of European policy makers and citizens.
Meet the bold, the brilliant, and the blunderingWashington's Lieutenants tells the untold story of the generals who won and lost the Revolutionary War.
Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award FinalistA Groundbreaking Portrait of African American ChristianityThe history of African American Christianity is one of the determined faith of a people driven to pursue spiritual and social uplift for themselves and others to God's glory.
An NAACP Image Award Finalist for Outstanding Literary WorkNon FictionJames Beard awardwinning author Adrian Miller vividly tells the stories of the African Americans who worked in the presidential food service as chefs, personal cooks, butlers, stewards, and servers for every First Family since George and Martha Washington.
When we published our initial work on the Seminole Wars in 2004, we lamented the fact that such an important series of events was widely unknown to the American public in general and to the majority of Floridians.
Before stealth bombers flew from Missouri to Tehran and back, battle-worn B-52s pushed crews and machines to the brink in a history-making, out-and-back combat strike.
Covers the secret history of an ancient race of giants that inhabited the Americas long before European contact Presents accounts of these beings from Native American sources, legends, and oral traditions, correlated with archeological reports Examines the Smithsonians role in covering up records of the skeletal remains of giants in the Americas, looking particularly at John Wesley Powell and Ale HrdlikaWriter and researcher Ross Hamilton uses Indigenous voices, beliefs, and oral traditions to reconstruct the origin and secret history of an ancient race of giants that inhabited the continent long before European contact with the Americas.
The third and final volume of the remarkable Sunday Times bestselling diaries of Sir Henry 'Chips' Channon___________________________________________'An utterly addictive glimpse of London high society and politics in the 40s and 50s.
In the tradition of Sebastian Junger's Tribe and Chris Hedges's classic War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning, a powerful investigation into the fraught history and ominous future of military education in the United States, and how it formed and fuels increasingly volatile strains of American masculinity.
Among many other developments, World War II saw naval warfare shift from the battleship to the aircraft carrier, which remains one of the iconic weapons of the war and the core of modern battle fleets.
An NAACP Image Award Finalist for Outstanding Literary WorkNon FictionJames Beard awardwinning author Adrian Miller vividly tells the stories of the African Americans who worked in the presidential food service as chefs, personal cooks, butlers, stewards, and servers for every First Family since George and Martha Washington.
The Moving City is a rich and intimate account of urban transformation told through the story of Delhis Metro, a massive infrastructure project that is reshaping the citys social and urban landscapes.
These books, produced from the archives of the Library of Congress and edited by Vincent Virga, offer a glimpse into the history of the United States through rare historical full-color maps, narrative captions, and short essays.
In the 1930s, buoyed by the potential of the New Deal, child welfare reformers hoped to formalize and modernize their methods, partly through professional casework but more importantly through the loving care of temporary, substitute families.
In the years following Cubas independence, nationalists aimed to transcend racial categories in order to create a unified polity, yet racial and cultural heterogeneity posed continual challenges to these liberal notions of citizenship.
While welfare has been subject to pronounced criticism throughout the twentieth century, social insurance has consistently enjoyed the overwhelming support of European policy makers and citizens.
Meet the bold, the brilliant, and the blunderingWashington's Lieutenants tells the untold story of the generals who won and lost the Revolutionary War.
A Times Best Book of the Year 2025A remarkable micro-history from the author of The Sleepwalkers and Revolutionary Spring'It takes a confident historian to write a short book the story is distilled to its powerful essence; he knows precisely what s important This small book is many things, but for me what shines brightest is a tale of two renegade preachers who understood women and love' - Gerard de Groot, The Times Now part of the Russian Baltic enclave of Kaliningrad, the former Prussian and German port of K nigsberg has always been a somewhat sleepy place, doomed to be famous for having once been the residence of Immanuel Kant.
In the years following Cubas independence, nationalists aimed to transcend racial categories in order to create a unified polity, yet racial and cultural heterogeneity posed continual challenges to these liberal notions of citizenship.
The 78th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment took the field under command of a lackadaisical colonel who was frequently absent and feuded with his own officers and superiors.
From Baroness Pontalba to Kate Chopin to Mahalia Jackson, More than Petticoats: Remarkable Louisiana Women celebrates the women who shaped the Pelican State.
This definitive collection of the Old Dominion's odd, wacky, and most offbeat people, places, and things isfilled with quirky photographs throughout and maps for each region.
