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Forty Miles a Day on Beans and Hay
The Enlisted Soldier Fighting the Indian Wars
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
The enlisted men in the United States Army during the Indian Wars (1866-91) need no longer be mere shadows behind their historically well-documented commanding officers.
As member of the regular army, these men formed an important segment of our usually slighted national military continuum...
The Rise of Benedict XVI
The Inside Story of How the Pope was Elected and Where He Will Take the Catholic Church
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
From the author of Conclave and All the Pope’s Men comes the story of Pope John Paul II’s last days, the behind-the-scenes dynamics within the College of Cardinals that led to the choice of Joseph Ratzinger as Pope Benedict XVI.
On April 18, 2005, the College of Cardinals of the Roman Catholic...
The World We Used to Live In
Remembering the Powers of the Medicine Men
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
In his final work, the great and beloved Native American scholar Vine Deloria Jr. takes us into the realm of the spiritual and reveals through eyewitness accounts the immense power of medicine men. The World We Used to Live In, a fascinating collection of anecdotes from tribes across the country,...
California through Native Eyes
Reclaiming History
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Most California histories begin with the arrival of the Spanish missionaries in the late eighteenth century and conveniently skip to the Gold Rush of 1849. Noticeably absent from these stories are the perspectives and experiences of the people who lived on the land long before European settlers arrived....
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2016
Emanuel "Mendy" Weiss was a henchman for Murder, Inc., a murder for hire organization that controlled the New York City garment industry in the 1930s. Weiss skipped bail and was apprehended by federal agents in Kansas City, Missouri. He was charged on a narcotics violation and also for the September...
by James B. Jones Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
Tennessee's Civil War history is an oft-told narrative of famous battles, cunning campaigns and renowned figures. Beneath this well-documented history lie countless stories that have been forgotten and displaced over time. Discover how Vigilance Committees sought to govern cities such as Memphis, where...
by William J. Cooper, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
In his masterpiece, Jefferson Davis, American, William J. Cooper, Jr., crafted a sweeping, definitive biography and established himself as the foremost scholar on the intriguing Confederate president. Cooper narrows his focus considerably in Jefferson Davis and the Civil War Era, training his expert...
The 9th Infantry Division in Vietnam
Unparalleled and Unequaled
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
Of all the military assignments in Vietnam, perhaps none was more challenging than the defense of the Mekong River Delta region. Operating deep within the Viet Cong--controlled Delta, the 9th Infantry Division of the U.S. Army was charged with protecting the area and its population against Communist...
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Helen Jewett's murder was the first tabloid sensation. The lurid details of her 1836 hatchet murder were featured in the newspapers of New York City for weeks. The New York Herald of James Gordon Bennett was the most prominent newspaper to cover the story. My work looks at Dorcas Doyen's ancestry....
"Daddy's Gone to War"
The Second World War in the Lives of America's Children
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 1993
Looking out a second-story window of her family's quarters at the Pearl Harbor naval base on December 7, 1941, eleven-year-old Jackie Smith could see not only the Rising Sun insignias on the wings of attacking Japanese bombers, but the faces of the pilots inside. Most American children on the home...
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Belsen and Auschwitz concentration camps were notorious places of torture for both Jewish and Allied prisoners. My e-book considers the testimony of survivors. They graphically depict the atrocious scenes they witnessed and describe the daily lives they endured.After being transferred from Auschwitz...
by Fred Rendon, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
My Battle with PTSD is Fred Rendon, Jr.’s story about how he lost the best years of his life trying to survive PTSD. Then his miracle happened. Fred takes us on a roller coaster ride to the outskirts of hell, descending into the depths of PTSD and its effects on family and self-esteem. There are...
by Earl Schenck Miers, Richard A. Brown, James L. Robertson Jr
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Originally published in 1948, this book tells the story of the three fateful days of Gettysburg in the words of the men and women who lived it. No mere chronicle of troop movements and military decisions, it is a path-breaking work in the reporting of Civil War history. Praised by "The New York...
Fraud of the Century
Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel Tilden, and the Stolen Election of 1876
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
In this major work of popular history and scholarship, acclaimed historian and biographer Roy Morris, Jr., tells the extraordinary story of how, in America's centennial year, the presidency was stolen, the Civil War was almost reignited, and black Americans were consigned to nearly ninety years of...