With the unification of Germany, it is now possible to trace German ancestry with a greater degree of accuracy than could be accomplished in earlier years. ...

This series consists of two complementary volumes. The second volume of this work contains biographical sketches of the 1,456 known immigrants who came ...

The twentieth century was a period of astounding changes in this world, and the Prairie Daughter, Essie Mae Thompson Hill, was both witness and participant ...

English immigrants who came from Europe to start a new life in colonial North America soon discovered that the methods they used in organizing and training ...

These Civil War memories were written by General Reuben Williams and were published in the two Warsaw, Indiana, newspapers that he was editor of and owned. ...

Having collected considerable information on the 3rd English-Waldeck Regiment and having translated the diary of the regimental chaplain, Philip Waldeck; ...

The story of the South Atlantic campaign in World War II, and that of the U.S. 4th Fleet and Royal Navy forces in the theater, was primarily one of ships ...

Covers the Palatinate communities along the Rhine River in Germany, their great exodus to the American colonies in the early 1700s, and their settlement ...

This road, opened in 1818, began at Cumberland, Maryland, and ended in Illinois. Until the coming of the railroads west of the Allegheny mountains in 1852 ...

In a practical narrative style, Mrs. Ellet relates all of the major events of the American Revolution, begining with the difficulties with Great Britain ...