Focusing on pieces created between 1695 and 1802, this volume offers an examination of the tombstones and grave markers from 18th century... Læs mere
Packed with informative insights from within the game of baseball, this title covers 42 years of Lou Gorman's professional baseball career. It... Læs mere
Examines how epic poetry reflects cultural values, and how, in epic poems, the heroes must meet supernatural beings to find answers to... Læs mere
A biography of Henry Toole Clark, North Carolina's second Civil War governor. It explores Clark's role as a member of the Old South's planter elite... Læs mere
Congress forced post-Civil War Reconstruction on an unrepentant South steeped in resentment and hatred, where... Læs mere
Henry Clay Frick, reviled in his own time, infamous in ours, was blamed for the Johnstown Flood (which killed 2,200 people) as well as the violent Homestead Strike of 1892, and survived... Læs mere
Former Prussian soldier Herman `Baron’ Lamm (1890-1930) adapted his military training to a much less noble occupation after moving to America,... Læs mere
"Henry E. Frye came of age just as the South was beginning a change. Throughout their lives, Frye and wife, Shirley, were in the vanguard... Læs mere
"This book chronicles the development of metal truss and related bridges in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont from the 1860s to 1940.... Læs mere
Traces the 40-year history of high definition television technology from initial studies in Japan, through its... Læs mere
Focuses on the works of conservative American writers and of others who have written of America from... Læs mere