“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know
Pulled out of a combat deployment, the author found himself bringing his younger brother home from war “Sergeant Donleigh Gaunky’s moving memoir speaks to everyone who has lost a loved one in defense
How Paine’s Common Sense and Adams’s Thoughts on Government shaped our modern political institutions Initially admiring Thomas Paine’s efforts for independence, John Adams neve
The first complete account of the largest supernatural crisis in American history, and how ordinary citizens brought it to a close By July 1692, the witch hunt surrounding the town of Salem and Salem
Kenya has produced the greatest concentration of world-class runners, and fellow athletes have long been intrigued by their remarkable success. Toby Tanser has devoted much of his professional care
Fought in New York, New England, and Canada, the conflict that began the long French and English struggle for the New World While much has been written on the French and Indian War of 1754–1763, the
Known to history as “Dunmore’s War,” the 1774 campaign against a Shawnee-led Indian confederacy in the Ohio Country marked the final time an American colonial militia took to the field in His Majesty’
Considered one of the first acts of rebellion to British authority over the American colonies, a fresh account placing the incident into historical context Between the Boston Massacre in 1770 and the
"An excellent account . . . . His descriptions of the events sort out many confusions that appear in other studies." —The Niagara Loyalist"Mr. Williams's prose is clear and direct, his narrative tho