Fourteen Mind-Boggling Tales from the Badger StateWas Joe Davis, Civil War veteran and Menominee Indian, really the son of Confederate president Jefferson Davis?
The Hardening is the third volume of The Trump Chronicles, a week-by-week documentary record of the second Trump administration, written from the outside-American vantage of Brisbane, Australia.
From an eighteenth-century Cherokee feast to a deadly wildfire that destroyed a town, It Happened in the Great Smokies looks at intriguing people and episodes from the history of America's most visited national park.
The economic consequences of the peace presents a sharp critique of the post-World War I settlement, focusing on the economic dangers embedded within the Treaty of Versailles.
It Happened in Glacier National Park takes readers on a rollicking, behind-the-scenes look at some of the characters and episodes from the Park's storied past.
Focusing on Marburg, a contentious university town where voters demonstrated strong electoral support for Adolf Hitler's National Socialist party, this imaginative study discusses the political role of small-town organizational life and painstakingly reconstructs the full range of Nazi sympathizers' cross-affiliations with local voluntary groups.
In 24 chapters, this volume explores the spread of Islam and the process of Islamisation over 11 centuries of its history: both conversion to Islam and the adoption of Muslim culture.
A fascinating collection of thirty-five compelling stories about events that shaped Old Dominion, It Happened in Virginia describes everything from the invention of America's original instrument, the banjo, to how Stonewall Jackson acquired his nickname.
Part of our new and growing Mysteries and Legends series, Mysteries and Legends ofVirginia explores unusual phenomena, strange events, and mysteries in Virginia's history.
Historic Illinois: A Tour of the State's 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 a groundbreaking new historical account, this book locates the origins of modern Jewish literature within the turbulent events that reshaped Europe during the late eighteenth century: the partitions of Poland, the French Revolution, and the Napoleonic Wars.
"e;An absolute gem of a history"e; for the Confederacy's Branch-Lane North Carolina Brigade: "e;His clear and engaging narrative keeps the reader entranced"e; (Thomas G.
The latest entry in Stackpole's Battle Briefings Series covers the Vietnam War, from its roots in the French war through the evacuation of the embassy.
In We Shall Conquer or Die, Derrick Lindow unveils the untold story of the deadly guerrilla warfare in 1862 Western Kentucky, highlighting the fierce battles and personal struggles that shaped the region's Civil War narrative.
Balinese Art is the first comprehensive survey of Balinese painting from its origins in the traditional Balinese village to its present position at the forefront of the high-priced Asian art scene.
Provides a detailed account of the 1777 Battle of Brandywine, revealing how Washington's forces fought bravely despite ultimately losing Philadelphia to the British.
Originally published in 1972, social change was one of the key issues in the study of Western industrial society: by blending widely accepted social science concepts with profound historical insight, Professor Cochran synthesizes scholarship of the time in a stimulating interpretation of the causes and consequences of social change in the United States and the Western world since 1900.
Bringing together 46 original contributions from a broad range of international scholars, this comprehensive volume maps the key debates, histories, concepts, and practices that shape animation studies today.
The Sunday Times bestselling author of The Children of Ash and Elm and award-winning expert on the Vikings brings us even closer to their worldWho do we think of when we think about the Vikings?
In the past decades, commemorative volumes with contributions from esteemed scholars have been published at each decade anniversary of the Hungarian Holocaust (the ghettoization and deportation of 1944).
From the wreck of the USS Alligator to the mystery of the marooned dolphins, It Happened in the Florida Keys looks at intriguing people and episodes from the history of this island chain.
