William Cullen Bryant & Sydney Howard Gay 
A Popular History of the United States 
From the First Discovery of the Western Hemisphere by the Northmen, to the End of the Civil War

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 …

The remarkable story of the man behind the book that helped spark the Civil War, in a stunning historical detective story In December of 1850, a faculty wife in Brunswick, Maine, named Harriet …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Florence Kling Harding has come down through history as one of our most scorned first ladies. Victimized by caricatures and branded a shrew, she stands at the bottom of historians’ polls, her reputat …