Stewart Edward White 
The Forty-Niners 
A Chronicle of the California Trail and El Dorado

През 30-те години на ХХ век Ал Капоне е некоронованият цар на престъпността от времето на сухия режим – неговите печалби се изчисляват на 100 милиона долара годишно. През 40-те периметърът на мафията …

In ‘De ruiters van Zuid-Afrika: een verhaal uit de dagen van Jameson en Krugersdorp 1895-96’ neemt L. Penning ons mee naar de spannende gebeurtenissen in Zuid-Afrika tijdens de periode van Jameson en …

Het boek ‘Het Duitsche Witboek: Documenten aangaande het uitbreken van den oorlog’ geschreven door Germany. Auswärtiges Amt is een belangrijke verzameling van documenten die de aanloop naar de Eerste …

Who is the real Donald Trump? A serial liar with long ties to both organized crime and the Kremlin. A corrupt demagogue whom most historians consider the worst U.S. president of all time. And, most u …

The American Civil War is the most written-about war human beings have yet fought. And yet, its controversies are still being argued over: Was it about slavery or States’ rights? Did the South ever h …

Long overshadowed by the American Civil War, the Mexican-American War (1846–1848) has received significantly less attention from historians partly because of its questionable origin and controversial …

This book is a comprehensive analysis of Michael Mann’s Miami Vice, with insight into the social, political and cultural mechanics. Deconstructing a Patriarchal Image not only sheds light on the seri …

A century-long history of immigrant incarceration in the United States Today, U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) detains an average of 37, 000 migrants each night. To do so, they rely on, a …

Between 1861 and 1865, northern voters fortified Abraham Lincoln’s administration as it oversaw the end of the institution of slavery and an unprecedented expansion in the size and scope of the …

A companion to Grant’s Lieutenants: From Cairo to Vicksburg, this new volume assesses Union generalship during the final two years of the Civil War. Steven Woodworth, one of the war’s premier histori …