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The Travels of Elkanah Watson
An American Businessman in the Revolutionary War, in 1780s Europe and in the Formative Decades of the United States
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2015
Elkanah Watson (1758–1842) travelled everywhere and associated with everyone—soldiers, politicians, diplomats, Indians, artists, scientists, slave traders and abolitionists. He met the Marquis de Lafayette, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Paine and many other American...
Military Decision-Making Processes
Case Studies Involving the Preparation, Commitment, Application and Withdrawal of Force
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
President Bill Clinton, speaking as might any commander-in-chief, on the eve of his decision to deploy ground troops to Bosnia in 1995, declared he had “no responsibility more grave than putting soldiers in harm’s way.” Such a statement suggests that a study of the decision-making process associated...
Americans in Occupied Belgium, 1914-1918
Accounts of the War from Journalists, Tourists, Troops and Medical Staff
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
Belgium in the First World War—the first country invaded, the longest occupied, and when the war finally ended, the first forgotten. In 1914, Belgium was home to a large American colony which included representatives of American companies, artists, writers and diplomats with the American Legation....
by Daniel M. Callaghan
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2012
When President Lincoln issued his 1861 call to arms, the 63rd, 69th and 88th New York Volunteers were among the first to step forward. Comprised primarily of first and second generation Irish immigrants, these three regiments were later joined by the 28th Massachusetts and the 116th Pennsylvania....
The Melville-Hawthorne Connection
A Study of the Literary Friendship
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
This book offers the first in-depth examination of the friendship between the authors. Hawthorne’s influence upon Moby-Dick is weighed, as is the probability of Melville’s influence upon Hawthorne. This was a friendship whose true basis—beyond an almost instantaneous mutual affinity and admiration...
Captaining the Corps d'Afrique
The Civil War Diaries and Letters of John Newton Chamberlin
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2016
“I have stood by their side in the grim conflict,” wrote Union Captain John Chamberlin of the Corps d’Afrique. “Woe to the nation that long withholds their rights from them.” Chamberlin spent nearly five years in the South during and after the Civil War. A well read, observant and articulate...
The Holy Grail
The Legend, the History, the Evidence
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The existence of the Holy Grail has long been debated, and many of these debates focus on the intellectualized or psychological aspects of it. This work explores the events that gave rise to the legend of the Holy Grail and pays special attention to the texts that form the body of the legend, as well...
Brigadier General Robert L. McCook and Colonel Daniel McCook, Jr.
A Union Army Dual Biography
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
The dramatic battlefield deaths of brother Union Army commanders Robert L. McCook and Daniel McCook, Jr.—members of a prominent Ohio family known as “the Fighting McCooks”—drew the full attention of the news media and a war-weary nation. A veteran of Shiloh and Chickamauga, Colonel Daniel...
A Rogue's Life
R. Clay Crawford, Prison Escapee, Union Army Officer, Pretend Millionaire, Phony Physician and the Most Respected Man in Macon, Georgia
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
This book reveals the life of R. Clay Crawford, his dreams, his schemes, his successes and his failures, as he launched himself into many of the most turbulent episodes of 19th century United States history. Like everyone, he was born with a family history, not just genetic but also cultural determinants;...
The Californios
A History, 1769-1890
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Before the Gold Rush of 1848–1858, Alta (Upper) California was an isolated cattle frontier—and home to a colorful group of Spanish-speaking, non-indigenous people known as Californios. Profiting from the forced labor of large numbers of local Indians, they carved out an almost feudal way of life,...
A Spy for the Union
The Life and Execution of Timothy Webster
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
Timothy Webster, best known for his work as a spy for the Union during the Civil War, began his career as a New York City policeman. In the mid–1850s he left the police department and took a job for Allan Pinkerton with his newly formed detective agency. As an operative for Pinkerton’s agency,...
Jefferson Davis's Flight from Richmond
The Calm Morning, Lee's Telegrams, the Evacuation, the Train, the Passengers, the Trip, the Arrival in Danville and the Historians' Frauds
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
In the space of a few hours on the night of April 2, 1865, Richmond, the Confederate capital, was evacuated and burned, the government fled, slavery was finished in North America, Union forces entered the city and the outcome of the Civil War was effectively sealed. No official documents tell the...
The Historic Murder Trial of George Crawford
Charles H. Houston, the NAACP and the Case That Put All-White Southern Juries on Trial
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
The Depression–era murder trial of George Crawford in Northern Virginia helped end the exclusion of African Americans from juries. Nearly forgotten today, the murders, ensuing manhunt, extradition battle and sensational trial enthralled the nation. Before it was over, the U.S. House of Representatives...
The Red River Campaign and Its Toll
69 Bloody Days in Louisiana, March-May 1864
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
The Red River Campaign in the spring of 1864 was one of the most destructive of the Civil War. The agricultural wealth of the Red River Valley tempted Union General Nathaniel P. Banks to invade with 30,000 troops in an attempt to seize control of the river and confiscate as much cotton as possible...