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Focusing on the South's four major military collegesthe Virginia Military Institute (VMI), the South Carolina Military Academy (later The Citadel), the Georgia Military Institute, and the University of AlabamaThe Young Lions is the story of young Confederate military cadets at war.

Using a masterful combination of artistry and accuracy, Don Troiani has dedicated his career to transforming our understanding of the military soldier.

This provocative reassessment challenges the myth of Patton and reveals the manand generalbehind the legend.

For years, North Carolina has been one of the nations fastest-growing states, bringing tremendous change to the states people, industries, jobs, places, environment, and government.

James Ellman digs deep, connects the dots, and concludes that General Douglas MacArthur was decidedly not a military genius.

Founded as a local college ministry in 1951, Campus Crusade for Christ has become one of the worlds largest evangelical organizations, today boasting an annual budget of more than $500 million.

Cubas grassroots revolution prevailed on Americas doorstep in 1959, fueling intense interest within the multiracial American Left even as it provoked a backlash from the U.

The state of Connecticut has 170 town or village greens that still exist today.

New Englands lighthouses project more than lifesaving beams across treacherous expanses of water.

Myths and Mysteries ofOhio reveals the dark and ominous cloud of mysteries and myths that hoversover the Buckeye State.

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.

This edited volume explores the transformation of post-communist societies following the Bulgarian case in the period 1990s-2010s.

Georgias Remarkable Women: Daughters, Wives, Sisters, and Mothers Who Shaped History recognizes the women who helped to shape the Peach State.

The history of New Texas, the Texas we know todayoil-rich, insufferably loud, and unbearably proud of itselfbegins in the late 1920s, when a horned frog wakes from its thirty-one-year nap in a courthouse cornerstone and flabbergasts the nation.

There is something about a treasure, says Joseph Conrad in Nostromo, that fastens on a mans mind.

Japan's momentous Showa era began in 1926, when Emperor Hirohito ascended the throne, and ended with his death in 1989.

A riveting historic narrative that tells the iconic story of the great heat wave that ravaged the continent in the last gasps of the Dust Bowl.

Dwight Eisenhower called General George S.

The first republication of Rheta Childe Dorr's book Inside the Russian Revolution that depicts the overthrow of the tsar as a positive, democratic move with hope of a Russia following the American path to constitutional democracy.

Following the demise of whaling in the late 1800s, the island of Nantucket fell into economic torpor.

Pushing back against the idea that the Slave Power conspiracy was merely an ideological construction, Alice Elizabeth Malavasic argues that some southern politicians in the 1850s did indeed hold an inordinate amount of power in the antebellum Congress and used it to foster the interests of slavery.

During the early and most dangerous years of the cold war, a handful of Americans, led by President Dwight D.

"e;O where are the sympathies of Christians for the slave and where are their exertions for their liberation?

An expert's take on how a coup in China could launch a transition to democracy.

An expert's take on how a coup in China could launch a transition to democracy.

New Englands lighthouses project more than lifesaving beams across treacherous expanses of water.

Myths and Mysteries ofOhio reveals the dark and ominous cloud of mysteries and myths that hoversover the Buckeye State.

A remarkable biography of a Confederate brigadier general's experiences during-and after-the Civil War: "e;Well-written and deeply researched"e; (Eric J.

This book explores the eighteenth-century concept of “mentorship” in literary works, founded on voluntary, reciprocal engagement that nurtures mutual respect, esteem, and affection.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITINGAN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025'The most exquisitely written meditation on family, childhood, and nature' BERNARDINE EVARISTO'An extraordinary, necessary book' ROBERT MACFARLANE'Hold it in your hands and then dream of the green world' MONIQUE ROFFEY'Surprising at every turn and rewarding in ways you never expect' MARLON JAMES'A masterclass on how to write place, dreams and memory into being' OLIVE SENIORThe Possibility of Tenderness is a personal history narrated through the lens of the grung and plants.

Eleven years before Rosa Parks resisted going to the back of the bus, a young black second lieutenant, hungry to fight Nazis in Europe, refused to move to the back of a U.

The history of New Texas, the Texas we know todayoil-rich, insufferably loud, and unbearably proud of itselfbegins in the late 1920s, when a horned frog wakes from its thirty-one-year nap in a courthouse cornerstone and flabbergasts the nation.

Today the Port of New York is where container ships and tankers park while waiting to reload and be on their way around the world.

The Second Battle of Krithia has existed largely in the shadows of the bigger Gallipoli story.

The first book of its kind, with comprehensive up-to-date detailsHistoric sites along the Mall, such as the U.

There is something about a treasure, says Joseph Conrad in Nostromo, that fastens on a mans mind.

For years, North Carolina has been one of the nations fastest-growing states, bringing tremendous change to the states people, industries, jobs, places, environment, and government.

A lit cigarette glows in the dark.

James Ellman digs deep, connects the dots, and concludes that General Douglas MacArthur was decidedly not a military genius.

Founded as a local college ministry in 1951, Campus Crusade for Christ has become one of the worlds largest evangelical organizations, today boasting an annual budget of more than $500 million.

The ';American century' began with the Spanish-American War.

Winner: Abel Wolman AwardNew York State Archives Annual Award for Excellence in ResearchMost historians have credited New Deal initiatives in economic regulation and social welfare policy with bringing about the modern American state.

Pushing back against the idea that the Slave Power conspiracy was merely an ideological construction, Alice Elizabeth Malavasic argues that some southern politicians in the 1850s did indeed hold an inordinate amount of power in the antebellum Congress and used it to foster the interests of slavery.

A remarkable biography of a Confederate brigadier general's experiences during-and after-the Civil War: "e;Well-written and deeply researched"e; (Eric J.

Following France's defeat in the Franco-Prussian War in 1870-71, French patriots feared that their country was in danger of becoming a second-rate power in Europe.

This book explores the eighteenth-century concept of “mentorship” in literary works, founded on voluntary, reciprocal engagement that nurtures mutual respect, esteem, and affection.

The ';American century' began with the Spanish-American War.

Eleven years before Rosa Parks resisted going to the back of the bus, a young black second lieutenant, hungry to fight Nazis in Europe, refused to move to the back of a U.

Today the Port of New York is where container ships and tankers park while waiting to reload and be on their way around the world.