Reference works

American military advisors in South Vietnam came to know their allies personally--as few American soldiers could.

This comprehensive reference work presents detailed bibliographical information about chess publications--books, bulletins and programs--covering competitions held around the world from 1971 through 2010.

Of all the anomalous phenomenon reported, ghost sightings are by far the most common.

Much has changed in the world of self-taught art since the millennium.

Operation Hump, the first major battle between the U.

From 1937 through 1945, Hollywood produced over 1,000 films relating to the war.

In 1931 Antonio Moreno completed Santa, Mexico's first true sound film.

The Korean experience changed the way Americans viewed war.

Created around the world and available only on the Web, internet "e;television"e; series are independently produced, mostly low budget shows that often feature talented but unknown performers.

The Battle of An Loc was one of the bloodiest battles in the Vietnam War and a defining moment in the history of the Republic of South Vietnam.

Britain's peacekeeping role in Southeast Asia after World War II was clear enough but the purpose of the Commonwealth in the region later became shadowy.

This comprehensive bibliography covers writings about vampires and related creatures from the 19th century to the present.

When Bob Dylan professed in a Rolling Stone interview to be the guy who "e;owned the Sixties,"e; he was not overstating.

The teaching profession has a long history in motion pictures.

Since its dedication in 1982, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial has become an American cultural icon symbolizing the war in Vietnam--the defining experience of the Baby Boom generation.

Theodor Seuss Geisel--known worldwide as the beloved children's author Dr.

The battle that unfolded at the Little Big Horn River on June 25, 1876, marked a watershed in the history of the Plains Indians.

The effects of the War outside present-day Vietnam are ongoing.

Created by and for a specific American Indian community and offering special materials related to the tribe itself, a tribal library may also serve as homework center, a reading room, a tribal archive or a community center.

A young U.

Retelling 30 myths and legends of the Eastern Cherokee, this book presents the stories with important details providing a culturally authentic and historically accurate context.

This book provides original essays that suggest ways to engage students in the classroom with the cultural factors of American literature.

During the Depression years, the comedy team of Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey were second only to Laurel and Hardy at the box office.

With the arrival of Europeans in North America, the Cherokee were profoundly affected.

Vietnam's Year of the Rat explores the lunar New Year 1960 and the dynamic relationship between two competing groups vying for control in the Republic of Vietnam.

In 1965, drafted into the Army to serve in Vietnam, Lawrence Climo, a young physician just out of training, learned of a unique humanitarian mission with counter-insurgency objectives that was looking for doctors: MILPHAP (Military Provincial Hospital Augmentation Program).

This book is a cultural tour of the burial places of Southern musicians.

The combat engineers of the First Marine Division, 9th Engineer Battalion, risked their lives daily in Vietnam as they cleared the roads of mines, repaired and paved the famous "e;Highway 1,"e; disarmed booby traps, built bridges and culverts, and destroyed enemy bunkers and tunnels.

The sound of chainsaws revving on "e;haunted"e; Halloween trails has evoked untold screams since Tobe Hooper's 1974 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre hit the cinemas.

Ellison "e;Tarzan"e; Brown was one of America's premier marathon runners during the 1930s and 1940s.

As a first lieutenant in Bravo Company of the Third Battalion, 187th Infantry, Frank Boccia led a platoon in two intense battles in the Vietnamese mountains in April and May 1969: Dong Ngai and the grinding, 11-day battle of Dong Ap Bia--the Mountain of the Crouching Beast, in Vietnamese, or Hamburger Hill as it is popularly known.

The career of Claude Rains is often, and unfairly, overshadowed by the careers of the ever-popular Karloff, Lugosi, Chaney and Rathbone, but few can dispute that he was truly one of the world's foremost character actors.

Hitler and the Nazis saturated their country with many types of propaganda to convince the German citizenry that the Nazi ideology was the only ideology.

This unique state-by-state directory covers monuments, memorials, museums, markers, statues and library collections that relate to the veterans, weapons, vehicles, airplanes, victims or any other aspect of war in which the United States participated.

William Weaks Morris was a writer defined in large measure by his Southern roots.

Military obligations rested lightly upon the Filipino people for much of the period that America occupied the Philippines, but Filipinos could enlist in the United States Army and Navy, attend the service academies at West Point and Annapolis, or join military organizations restricted to duty in the islands such as the Philippine Scouts, Philippine Constabulary, Philippine National Guard, and the navy's insular force.

This work covers ninety years of animation from James Stuart Blackton's 1906 short Humorous Phases of Funny Faces, in which astonished viewers saw a hand draw faces that moved and changed, to Anastasia, Don Bluth's 1997 feature-length challenge to the Walt Disney animation empire.

Republic Pictures Corporation, began as a motion picture laboratory in 1915.

In the 1990s alone, more than 400 works on angels were published, adding to an already burgeoning genre.

Archaeological digs have turned up sculptures in Inuit lands that are thousands of years old, but "e;Inuit art"e; as it is known today only dates back to the beginning of the 1900s.

"e;He had that rarest of all things, common sense.

Some may only know the jazz legend Stan Getz, tenor saxophonist, for his bossa nova hits "e;Desafinado"e; and "e;The Girl from Ipanema.

Millions of people practice some form of yoga, but they often do so without a clear understanding of its history, traditions, and purposes.

Nothing better represented the early spirit of American expansion than the railroad.

From classics like King Kong, to beloved B-movies like The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, to blockbusters like Jurassic Park, it's easy to see that filmmakers and audiences alike love to see dinosaurs on the screen.

The slasher film genre got its start in the early 1960s with filmmakers such as Alfred Hitchcock Psycho and Michael Powell Peeping Tom making provocative mainstream films, but it is most associated with the late 1970s and the releases of Halloween and Friday the 13th.

With a career in films spanning nearly fifty years, Burt Lancaster brought his unique charisma and energy to roles in films ranging from the adventurous to the bittersweet.

Titanic scholars contend that the demise of "e;the unsinkable ship"e; left more behind than a memory of April 15, 1912, as an important point in history.

This book, one of the first ever written on its subject, focuses on Russian America and American Alaska and their impact on the native population.

Beginning in 1948 with Paramount's Saigon and Universal's Rogue's Regiment, Hollywood has produced hundreds of features and made-for-television films about Vietnam and the ensuing conflict.