An American Among the orientals

The Life of Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down, Connor, and Dromore. by George L. Duyckinck.

Remembering Texas Lawmen

The history of law enforcement in the Lone Star State goes back well before photography, dating to Texas' days as part of the Spanish empire. After that Texas became a province of Mexico and for nearl...

The toilers of the Sea, by Victor Hugo...

Bushs Wars

From journalistic accounts like Fiasco and Imperial Life in the Emerald City to insider memoirs like Jawbreaker and Three Cups of Tea , the books about America's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan could fil...

The Southern Political Tradition

In The Southern Political Tradition, the distinguished southern historian Michael Perman explores the region's distinctive political practices and behaviors, primarily resulting from the South's perce...

Kogels, dollars en ambities

De strijd om de macht in Nicaragua kent vanaf het moment dat de Spaanse kolonisator verdween aan het begin van de negentiende eeuw een cyclische beweging. Het is een geschiedenis van corruptie, opstan...

Giants

They were the self-made men of their time. Lincoln was born dirt poor, had less than 1 year of formal schooling and became the nation's greatest President. Douglass spent his first 20 years as a slave...

Autobiography

Blessed with enormous talents and the energy and ambition to go with them, Franklin was a statesman, author, inventor, printer, and scientist. He helped draft the Declaration of Independence and later...

Bond of Secrecy

A father&;s last confession to his son about the CIA, Watergate, and the plot to assassinate President John F. Kennedy, this is the remarkable true story of St. John Hunt and his father E. Howard Hunt...

The Right Stuff

The moments of grandeur and weakness, the aspirations, and the problems of America's test pilots and first astronauts are revealed in an exploration of the dimensions of their inner lives in space and...

A History of French Louisiana

Marcel Giraud has long been acknowledged as the leading European scholar in the filed of the history and development of colonial French Louisiana. Now the long-awaited English translation of Volume On...

For God, Gold and Glory: de Soto's Journey to the Heart of La Florida

Between 1539 and 1543 Hernando de Soto led an army of six hundred armored men on a desperate journey of almost four thousand miles through the wilds of La Florida, what is now the southeastern United...

American Cultural Studies

Exploring the central themes in modern American cultural studies and discussing how these themes can be interpreted, American Cultural Studies offers a wide-ranging overview of different aspects of Am...

The Shadow of Solomon

What secrets lie behind the mysterious order of the Freemasons? Published to coincide with Dan Brown's new novel, set in the enigmatic world of Freemasonry, Laurence Gardner's new book draws on his ex...

The Handy Civil War Answer Book

Beginning with the economic, political and social forces behind the conflict, continuing to the first shots fired at Fort Sumter, the military strategies, battles and people, and following Lee's surre...

The Cold War

This book provides a concise and up-to-date analysis of relations between the United States and the Soviet Union during the whole period of the Cold War from 1945 to 1991.The author explains the rise...

How the Other Half Lives

Since 1959 The John Harvard Library has been instrumental in publishing essential American writings in authoritative editions. Jacob Riis's pioneering work of photojournalism takes its title from R...

Geronimo

A fast-paced biography of the most famous North American Indian of all time, with new material to reveal the man behind the legend Renowned for ferocity in battle, legendary for an uncanny ability...

RFK

In honor of the fiftieth anniversary of Robert Francis Kennedy's death, an inspiring collection of his most famous speeches accompanied by commentary from notable historians and public figures. Twe...