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by Harriet C. Frazier
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
In 1933, Genevieve Yost, Kansas State Historical Society cataloger, published a “History of Lynching in Kansas.” The present book is a development of that work, researched with the benefit of modern technology. The author locates 58 lynchings Yost missed and removes 19 from her list that for various...
Legal Executions in Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia
A Comprehensive Registry, 1866-1962
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2015
In the century following the Civil War, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia legally executed hundreds of men and women convicted of capital crimes. Based on exhaustive research of court records, newspapers death certificates and even gravestones, this book provides...
by Ryan Ellett
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
More than 700 uncredited scriptwriters who created the memorable characters and thrilling stories of radio’s Golden Age receive due recognition in this reference work. For some, radio was a stepping stone on the way to greater achievements in film or television, on the stage or in literature. For...
The Northwest Ordinance
Constitutional Politics and the Theft of Native Land
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Passed by Congress in July 1787, the Northwest Ordinance laid out the basic form of government for all U.S. territory north of the Ohio River. That summer, the Constitutional Convention drafted the defining document of the American Republic as a whole. A bargain struck between Congress and the Convention...
by Quentin Scott King
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
Any biography of Henry Clay’s 46 year political career quickly becomes entangled with his monumental, though youthful, political leadership of the War Hawks in urging the Madison Administration to arm the United States for war with Great Britain. He continued to advise in the war’s progress and...
Texas Land Grants, 1750-1900
A Documentary History
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
The Texas land grants were one of the largest public land distributions in American history. Induced by titles and estates, Spanish adventurers ventured into the frontier, followed by traders and artisans. West Texas was described as “Great Space of Land Unknown” and Spanish sovereigns wanted...
Tucson
A History of the Old Pueblo from the 1854 Gadsden Purchase
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
Once considered the “Metropolis of Arizona,” Tucson is in many respects a college town with a major military base onto which a retirement community has been grafted. A sprawling city of one million in the Sonoran Desert, Tucson was developed during and especially for the second half of the 20th...
by Jack H. Lepa
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2016
During the summer and fall of 1864, Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley was one of the most contested regions of the South. Federal armies invaded the Valley three times—twice they were repulsed. This book describes the third campaign, the supreme achievement of the Army of the Potomac’s Sixth Corps....
The Pennsylvania Reserves in the Civil War
A Comprehensive History
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
Until its soldiers mustered out of service in mid–1864, the Pennsylvania Reserve Division was one of only a few one-state divisions in the Union army. Known as the Pennsylvania Reserves, or simply the Reserves, the division saw action in most of the major battles of the Civil War, including Mechanicsville,...
by Bruce Nichols
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
This book is a thorough study of all known guerrilla operations in Civil War Missouri in 1862, the year such warfare became the primary type of military action there and the year that the state saw almost constant fighting. An enormous variety of sources—military and government records, private...
The Terrible Indian Wars of the West
A History from the Whitman Massacre to Wounded Knee, 1846-1890
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
Expansion! The history of the United States might well be summed up in that single word. The Indian Wars of the American West were a continuation of the struggle that began with the arrival of the first Europeans, and escalated as they advanced across the Appalachians before American independence...
by Joseph Connole
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
The U.S. government’s Indian Policy evolved during the 19th century, culminating in the expulsion of the American Indians from their ancestral homelands. Much has been written about Andrew Jackson and the removal of the Five Nations from the American Southeast to present-day Oklahoma. Yet little...
Rebels in the Rockies
Confederate Irregulars in the Western Territories
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
The Civil War in 1861 found Southerners a minority throughout the West. Early efforts to create military forces were quickly suppressed. Many returned to the South to fight while others remained where they were, forming a potentially disloyal population. Underground movements existed throughout the...
The Strategy of Defeat at the Little Big Horn
A Military and Timing Analysis of the Battle
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014
The battle that unfolded at the Little Big Horn River on June 25, 1876, marked a watershed in the history of the Plains Indians. While a stunning victory for the Sioux and Cheyenne peoples, it initiated a new and vigorous effort by the U.S. government to rid the west of marauding tribes and to realize...