The Battle of Roanoke Island: Burnside and the Fight for North Carolina, Hardcover - Michael P. Zatarga

Reducere. In the winter of 1861, Union armies had failed to win any significant victories over their Confederate counterparts. The Northern populace, overwhe...

Reducere. Well before the Jamestown settlers first sighted the Chesapeake Bay or the Mayflower reached the coast of Massachusetts, the first English colony i...

Through personal experience and years of meticulous research Peter Brown offers a careful analysis of the battle and the tactics involved, vigorous...

Reducere. On August 16, 1777, a motley militia won a resounding victory near Bennington, Vermont, against combined German, British and Loyalist forces. - Thi...

Reducere. At dawn on September 22, 1711, more than 500 Tuscarora, Core, Neuse, Pamlico, Weetock, Machapunga, and Bear River Indian warriors swept down on the...

Reducere. In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson insisted that the policeman is the frontline soldier in our war against crime, and police forces, arms makers, po...

Reducere. The Army of Northern Virginia's chaotic dispersal began even before Lee and Grant met at Appomattox Court House. As the Confederates had pushed wes...

Reducere. When it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. Polarizing debates over their meaning have intensified into legislative maneuver...

Reducere. Tucked away in the northeastern corner of Alaska is one of the most contested landscapes in all of North America: the Arctic National Wildlife Refu...

Reducere. Fought on July 28, 1864, the Battle of Ezra Church was a dramatic engagement during the Civil War's Atlanta campaign. Confederate forces under John...

Reducere. Many soldiers of a Civil War brigade tell of their first battle. "We remember the silent movement of the line through the woods, the ringing cheer ...

Jack London (1876-1916) found fame with his wolf-dog tales and sagas of the frozen North, but Cecelia Tichi challenges the long-standing view of Lo...

Reducere. Americans have long regarded the freedom of travel a central tenet of citizenship. Yet, in the United States, freedom of movement has historically ...

Reducere. This book brings to life the important but neglected story of African American postal workers and the critical role they played in the U.S. labor a...

Reducere. New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison's decision to arrest Clay Shaw on March 1, 1967, set off a chain of events that culminated in the only p...

Reducere. First published in 1981, The Battle for Butte has remained the best treatment of the influence of copper in the political history of Montana. "Fine...

Reducere. Among the staple foods most welcomed on southern tables--and on tables around the world--rice is without question the most versatile. As Michael W....

Reducere. For Such a Time as This is a must-read for anyone disheartened over America's slide into a moral "cesspool of sin." The compelling story of Jim For...

Reducere. Much of the confusion about a central event in United States history begins with the name: the Civil War. In reality, the Civil War was not merely ...

Reducere. Presents a detailed introduction to each of the following maps: White 1585 MS, White-DeBry 1590, Mercator-Hondius 1606, Comberford 1657 MS, Ogilby-...

Reducere. When a Civil War substitute broker told business associates that "Men is cheep here to Day, " he exposed an unsettling contradiction at the heart o...

Reducere. DescriptionThe office of notary public has a long and proud history in our society. Their work is rarely glamorous, but it is so important that the...

Reducere. Hugh Morton has had a long and active public life as an environmentalist, developer, and promoter of tourism. His favorite role, however, is that o...

Hugh Morton was seldom seen in his adult life without a camera around his neck. Much to the benefit of his beloved home state, he crisscrossed Nort...

Reducere. After the Civil War's end, reports surged of violence by Southern whites against Union troops and Black men, women, and children. While some in Was...

Reducere. On March 15, 1781, the armies of Nathanael Greene and Lord Charles Cornwallis fought one of the bloodiest and most intense engagements of the Ameri...

Reducere. In the summer of 1861, Americans were preoccupied by the question of which states would join the secession movement and which would remain loyal to...

Reducere. Classic North Carolina stoneware pots--with their rich textures, monochromatic glazes, and minimal decoration--belong to one of America's most reve...

Reducere. Cherokee Stories of the Turtle Island Liars' Club paints a vivid, fascinating portrait of a community deeply grounded in tradition and dynamically ...

Evoking the spirit--and danger--of the early American West, this is the story of the Battle of Beecher Island, pitting an outnumbered United States...

Weaving together biography and political history, Michael Woods restores Jefferson Davis and Stephen Douglas's fatefully entwined lives and careers...

Reducere. As students of the Civil War have long known, emancipation was not merely a product of Lincoln's proclamation or of Confederate defeat in April 186...

Reducere. The first vice president to become president on the death of the incumbent, John Tyler (1790-1862) was derided by critics as "His Accidency." In th...