During his service in the Confederate army, Major General Lafayette McLaws (1821-1897) served under and alongside such famous officers as Robert E. Lee ...

For poets, priests, and politicians--and especially ordinary Germans--in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the image of the loving nuclear family ...

Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China., a classical book, was published ...

Mastered by the Clock is the first work to explore the evolution of clock-based time consciousness in the American South. Challenging traditional assumptions ...

In Reconstructing the Household , Peter Bardaglio examines the connections between race, gender, sexuality, and the law in the nineteenth-century South. ...

The mid-twentieth century witnessed nations across Africa fighting for their independence from colonial forces. By examining black Americans' attitudes ...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. A sweeping history of the Spanish Civil War, told through a dozen characters, including Hemingway and George Orwell: A ...

An account of the problems facing German veterans after WWII and the ways in which they were addressed in the decade following Germany's defeat. The primary ...

The Tragedy of St. Helena, a classical book, was published more than a century ago and has been considered important throughout the human history, and ...

Between 1920 and 1940, Cuba underwent a remarkable transition, moving from oligarchic rule to a nominal constitutional democracy. The events of this period ...