Tommy Atkins at War: As Told in His Own Letters, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is ...

The thirty-year period that marked the advent of the supersonic jet in military aviation was a particularly dangerous one for fighter pilots. As they learned ...

What and where and who is Europe? This unique collection contends that Europe cannot be defined as simply a particular geographic location or a group of ...

Now in its third edition, this is a bigger (more than 11,000 entries), updated version of the 1989 original covering the enormous kaleidoscope of changing ...

This unconventional biography of Benjamin Franklin, the great American Renaissance man, explores examples of Franklin's diverse genius and accomplishments ...

The contemporary reader probably best remembers the State of Bonny for the 1967 capturing of Nigeria's main oil port terminal from the secessionists by ...

This collection of essays results from a history conference held at the University of Port Harcourt in 2005. Attended by some 40 scholars in the field ...

In February of 1897 a family of six--four generations, including twin infant sons and their aged great-grandmother--was brutally murdered in rural North ...

Satan in America tells the story of America's complicated relationship with the devil. "New light" evangelists of the eighteenth century, enslaved African ...

Up-to-date information on over 700 sites in 28 states dedicated to the American Revolution, including battlefields, memorial markers, statues, museums ...