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Pass Receiving in Early Pro Football
A History to the 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
Big television contracts in the 1960s created the Super Bowl, as well as the 1970 merger of the National Football League with the pass-oriented American Football League. Since then, professional football has been America’s most popular televised team sport, developing into a wide-open passing game...
James F. Jaquess
Scholar, Soldier and Private Agent for President Lincoln
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
Tall, handsome and charismatic, James Jaquess impressed men and charmed ladies who knew him as a preacher, a college president or colonel of an Illinois regiment. In 1864 he and James Gilmore talked to Jefferson Davis about terms of peace. Lincoln recognized his many abilities and invited Jaquess...
by M. Andrew Holowchak
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2017
Much of the scholarship on Thomas Jefferson characterizes him as a consummate immoralist. Yet he had a keen interest in morality and most of his reading—when he was not immersed in politics—was for moral study. Jefferson once told his physician, Vine Utley, that he seldom went to sleep without...
Sherlock and Transmedia Fandom
Essays on the BBC Series
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
The critically-acclaimed BBC television series Sherlock (2010– ) re-envisions Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective for the digital age, joining participants in the active traditions of Sherlockians/Holmesians and fans from other communities, including science fiction, media, and anime. This collection...
Wheeler & Woolsey
The Vaudeville Comic Duo and Their Films, 1929-1937
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
During the Depression years, the comedy team of Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey were second only to Laurel and Hardy at the box office. Each of their over 20 comedies are analyzed in detail here; full filmographic data, production notes, plot synopses, and critical commentary are provided. The research is supplemented by an interview with Bert Wheeler.
The Mossad
Six Landmark Missions of the Israeli Intelligence Agency, 1960-1990
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014
This book describes the clandestine missions that were defining moments in the evolution of the Mossad, including its pursuit of the Black September terrorists who murdered Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympic Games, its acquisition on the high seas of yellowcake uranium for Israel's undeclared nuclear...
New York City 1964
A Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
Five seminal events occurred in New York City in the pivotal year 1964: the “British Invasion,” the arrival of the Beatles in February; the murder of Kitty Genovese in Queens in March; the World’s Fair that ran in Queens between April and October; the “race riots” in Brooklyn and Harlem...
by Phillip Thomas Tucker
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
For the first time, the true story of “The Yellow Rose of Texas” is told in full, revealing a host of new insights and perspectives on one of America’s most popular stories. For generations, the Yellow Rose of Texas has been one of America’s most popular western myths, growing larger over...
The Violent Pilgrimage
Christians, Muslims and Holy Conflicts, 850-1150
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
The notion of Christianity as a religion of peace was severely tested during the Middle Ages, when killing in the name of God became a sanctified act. In this book, Tim Rayborn traces the development of the early Crusades, Christian views of war and violence, and its attitudes toward Islam, primarily...
A New English Music
Composers and Folk Traditions in England's Musical Renaissance from the Late 19th to the Mid-20th Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
The turn of the 20th century was a time of great change in Britain. The empire saw its global influence waning and its traditional social structures challenged. There was a growing weariness of industrialism and a desire to rediscover tradition and the roots of English heritage. A new interest in...
Rebel Guerrillas
Mosby, Quantrill and Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2018
From the hills and valleys of the eastern Confederate states to the sun-drenched plains of Missouri and “Bleeding Kansas,” a vicious, clandestine war was fought behind the big-battle clashes of the American Civil War. In the east, John Singleton Mosby became renowned for the daring hit-and-run...
Frontier Forts Under Fire
The Attacks on Fort William Henry (1757) and Fort Phil Kearny (1866)
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Fort William Henry and Fort Phil Kearny were both military outposts of the North American frontier. Both lasted but briefly—about two years from construction until their walls went up in flames. And both saw what were termed “massacres” by Indians outside their walls. This book reexamines the...
Benevolent Barons
American Worker-Centered Industrialists, 1850-1910
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2015
American business has always had deep roots in community. For over a century, the country looked to philanthropic industrialists to finance hospitals, parks, libraries, civic programs, community welfare and disaster aid. Worker-centered capitalists saw the workplace as an extension of the community...
The Federal Reserve System
A History
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2017
The Federal Reserve banking system was created in 1913 in an effort to bring coherence to nationwide banking practices and prevent crises like the financial panic of 1907. Since it began operating in 1914, the Federal Reserve has played a crucial role in determining American financial policy and practice....