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The Pig War and the Pelican Girls is a riveting and well-researched collection of little-known and obscure tales from history. This page-turner unearths the stories of men and women who strove to save their country from aggressors or better the lives of others or simply survive under mysterious...

Un viaje fascinante por la historia cultural del miedo, desde los oráculos griegos hasta los monstruos posmodernos, que revela cómo nuestras sociedades han dado forma a sus terrores para comprender (y controlar) el mundo. Desde los oráculos de la antigua Grecia hasta los monstruos de la...

The Shipyard Agent reveals the untold story of Augusta Clawson, the undercover investigator who helped shape the future for World War II’s women welders. From the Pacific Northwest to the Gulf Coast and up the Eastern seaboard, during World War II women welders worked at a fever pitch in the...

Along North Carolina's Outer Banks, where thousands of ships met their doom, the brave surfmen of the U.S. Life-Saving Service braved raging seas, defied death itself, and saved countless lives from certain disaster. This gripping book chronicles the extraordinary men of the U.S. Life-Saving...

Maine has a rich supernatural history and ghost stories from the state are as varied as they are prolific. Freelance writer and reporter Tom Verde first became interested in such eerie occurrences while researching first-hand encounters with ghosts for a series of public radio programs. This...

One hundred and sixty minutes. That is all the time rescuers would have before the largest ship in the world slipped beneath the icy Atlantic. There was amazing heroism and astounding incompetence against the backdrop of the most advanced ship in history sinking by inches with luminaries from...

SUBMERGED STORIES FROM THE GRAVEYARD OF THE PACIFIC Over the past 350 years, an untold number of ships have met their end along the northern Oregon and southern Washington coasts. Shipwrecks of the Pacific Northwest investigates some of the most compelling historic shipwrecks—from the infamous...

Massacres, mayhem, and mischief fill the pages of Outlaw Tales of Utah, 2nd Edition. Ride with horse thieves and cattle rustlers, stagecoach, and train robbers. Duck the bullets of murderers, plot strategies with con artists, hiss at lawmen turned outlaws. A refreshing new perspective on some of...

Everyone knows about Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and his 20th Maine Regiment, but there’s much more to the story of Maine at the Battle of Gettysburg. Soldiers from Maine made their presence felt all over the battlefield during three days of fighting in July 1863. There’s Oliver Otis Howard...

This is the story of the oldest warship afloat in the world, the venerable frigate USS Constitution, the cornerstone of the nascent American navy created by act of Congress in 1794. Colonel David Fitz-Enz re-creates the world of sail, when seven knots an hour was considered blinding speed for a...

Being a game warden in Maine is not just a job, it’s a way of life. This honest and entertaining book by a twenty-two-year veteran of the service tells the story of America’s oldest game warden service. The stories told cover the risks wardens face dealing with poachers, rogue wildlife, and...

George Washington and the Creation of the American Republic debunks the portrayal of George Washington in what is described by historians as the “Critical Years” (1781–1789), a time when he was deeply involved in land speculation, western expansion, scientific farming, canal building...

En un día de graduación en Miami, un joven espera escuchar su nombre. A su alrededor, las familias se reúnen y estallan los aplausos. Una ceremonia avanza al ritmo habitual de finales y nuevos comienzos. Pero algunos momentos encierran mucho más de lo que aparentan. Detrás de ese momento vive una historia forjada a lo largo de generaciones: una historia de exilio y regreso, silencios y memoria, fe y reinvención; de nombres preservados, preguntas sin respuesta y patrones que atraviesan familias mucho antes de que alguien sepa cómo nombrarlos.

Largely created by immigrants, the film industry evolved over its first few decades thanks to the work of people outside the traditional ruling class— immigrants, people of color, women—partly as a result of elites denigrating the fledgling field. As the moving picture industry transitioned...

Sydstaternes historie af Jeppe Wedel Nielsen er det første gennemførte værk på dansk om Amerikas sydstaters historie. Del 1 dækker fra de første mennesker kom til området 15.000 f.kr. og frem til den amerikanske revolution år 1783. I Sydstaternes historie gennemgås områdets...

On October 8, 1871, fire turned night into a living hell. While Chicago's blaze claimed the headlines, a fiercer and more devastating inferno swept across Wisconsin's Green Bay peninsula-obliterating farms, forests, and families in its path. Here, among immigrant settlers carving new lives from the wilderness, survival came down to split-second choices: to run, to hide, to fight the flames. Mothers shielded children with their bodies, fathers vanished into smoke, and neighbors faced the firestorm with nothing but faith and will.

Boston fans are passionate about sports and are proud of their players and teams, all of which have enjoyed tremendous success through the years. In The 50 Greatest Athletes in Boston Sports History, Martin Gitlin ranks the top 50 superstars in the city’s rich sports history with legends like...

Los indios de nuestros tiempos no pueden dar ningunas noticias acerca de la historia de ese pueblo desconocido; los que vivían hace trescientos años, al tiempo del descubrimiento de América, tampoco han dicho nada de que se pueda siquiera inferir una hipótesis; las tradiciones, que son monumentos perecederos y sin cesar renacientes del mundo primitivo, no dan luz ninguna; y sin embargo, no se puede poner en duda que allí vivieron miles y miles de nuestros semejantes. ¿Cuándo llegaron pues? ¿Cuál fue su origen, su destino y su historia? ¿Cuándo y cómo perecieron? Nadie lo podrá decir.

Uncover the archaeological secrets of monumental landscape art engineered into the unforgiving Peruvian desert. Perfect for a focused commute or immersive armchair travel, this historical deep-dive transports you to an arid plateau filled with hauntingly beautiful geoglyphs. Trace the origins of...

A fascinating history of the daily lives of Americans in the first fifty years of the new republic, told often in their own words. The years between the patrician leadership of George Washington and the campaign that elected William Henry Harrison marked a period of startling changes in American...