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A Confederate in Congress
The Civil War Treason Trial of Benjamin Gwinn Harris
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2016
In May 1865, the final month of the Civil War, the U.S. Army arrested and prosecuted a sitting congressman in a military trial in the border state of Maryland, though the federal criminal courts in the state were functioning. Convicted of aiding and abetting paroled Confederate soldiers, Benjamin...
Aaron Burr in Exile
A Pariah in Paris, 1810-1811
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Aaron Burr—Revolutionary War hero, third vice president of the United States and a controversial figure of the early republic—was tried and acquitted of treason charges in 1807, and thereafter departed for self-imposed exile in Europe, his political career in ruins. Adrift in Paris for 15 months,...
John F. Kennedy in Quotations
A Topical Dictionary, with Sources
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
John F. Kennedy in Quotations is a compilation of more than 2,000 quotations selected from the speeches and other public addresses that Kennedy delivered to an audience, either in person or in a radio or television broadcast, during his term as president, and earlier, between Kennedy’s January 2,...
East Harlem Remembered
Oral Histories of Community and Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The community of East Harlem in New York City lays claim to a rich and culturally diverse history. Once home to 35 ethnicities and 27 languages, the neighborhood attracted Irish, Jewish, and Italian immigrants in the early 20th century and later saw an influx of Puerto Rican immigrants and African...
The First American Declaration of Independence?
The Disputed History of the Mecklenburg Declaration of May 20, 1775
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
This is a comprehensive history of one of the greatest mysteries in American history—did Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, declare independence from Great Britain more than a year before anyone else? According to local legend, on May 20, 1775, in a log court house in the remote backcountry two...
Deconstructing Organized Crime
An Historical and Theoretical Study
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
What is organized crime? There have been many answers over the decades from scholars, governments, the media, pop culture and criminals themselves. These answers cumulatively created a “Mafia Mystique” that dominated discourse until after the Cold War, when transnational organized crime emerged...
Jean Ternant and the Age of Revolutions
A Soldier and Diplomat (1751-1833) in the American, French, Dutch and Belgian Uprisings
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Jean Ternant’s life (1751–1833) spanned a period of enormous change in European life. Born when men were still subject to judicial torture, he lived to see the dawn of the railroad age. It was an era of political upheaval: the American Revolution, the “patriot” movement of the Dutch Republic,...
by Lewis Hartshorn
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2013
This is a consensus-challenging history of the Alger Hiss–Whittaker Chambers controversy of 1948 to 1950, a criminal case in which Hiss was convicted of perjury after two long trials. Chambers claimed that Hiss had passed classified State Department documents to him in 1937 and 1938 for transmittal...
by Kerry Segrave
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2014
Following the 2013 revelations of Edward Snowden, Americans have come to realize that many of us may be under surveillance at any time. It all started 150 years ago on the battlefields of the Civil War, where each side tapped the other’s telegraph lines. It continued in 1895, when the New York Police...
Ralph Kiner
A Baseball Biography
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Ralph Kiner (1922–2014) was one of the most feared power hitters of his era. Babe Ruth predicted Kiner would be the slugger most likely to break Ruth’s single season home run record. While the left fielder from New Mexico missed that mark, he did break one of the Babe’s records, leading his...
by Robert P. Broadwater
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2014
This book chronicles the history of the Philadelphia Athletics, the first real dynasty in Major League Baseball. The focus of the book is the 1931 season, in which Philadelphia, led by superstar pitcher Lefty Grove, had the best season in franchise history, leading to a third consecutive trip to the...
The Story of a Forest
Growth, Destruction and Renewal in the Upper Delaware Valley
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
The re-established forests of the Upper Delaware exist as a living reminder of centuries of both exploitation and good intentions. Emerging after the last glaciation, they were first modified by Native Americans to promote hunting and limited agriculture. The forests began to disappear as Europeans...
The Health of the First Ladies
Medical Histories from Martha Washington to Michelle Obama
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
This first comprehensive study of the medical histories of America’s first ladies—from Martha Washington to Michelle Obama—discusses their illnesses, their treatments and their physicians in the context of their times. As the categories of illness afflicting Americans have changed through history...
Ukraine Over the Edge
Russia, the West and the "New Cold War"
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2018
The Ukrainian crisis that dominated headlines in fall 2013 was decades in the making. Two great schisms shaped events: one within Ukraine, its western and southeastern parts divided along cultural and political lines; the other was driven by geopolitical factors. Competition between Russia and the...