This work combines a biography of Captain Thomas Tingey, charged with building the Washington Navy Yard from the ground up in 1800, with background on the evolution of the shipyard. The book examines
This study investigates the US response to independence movements in Mexico and South America during the early decades of the 19th century, revealing the pressures put on America’s policy of neutralit
Brown, a retired ambassador and diplomat, outlines how the descendants of Vikings based in what is now northern France replaced the Byzantine and local rulers in the Italian provinces of the Byzantine
While the majority of scholarship on early Washington focuses on its political and physical development, in Incidental Architect Gordon S. Brown describes the intellectual and social scene of the lat
In its formative years, America, birthplace of a revolution, wrestled with a volatile dilemma. John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and many other founding fathers clashed. What was to be
While the majority of scholarship on early Washington focuses on its political and physical development, in Incidental Architect Gordon S. Brown describes the intellectual and social scene of the late
