Between 1867 - the year of the Alaskan purchase - and the beginning of World War I, Russian and American dignitaries, diplomats, businessmen, writers, tourists, and entertainers crossed between the tw
Popularized by books and films like Andersonville, The Great Escape, and The Hanoi Hilton and recounted in innumerable postwar memoirs, the POW story holds a special place in American culture. Robert
The second volume of a proposed five-volume work that is intended to offer a comprehensive, schematic, and interdisciplinary study of the economics of America's wars from the colonial period to the pr
Hirt (history, Arizona State U.) presents a history of how the electric grid developed from the early 20th century to the 1970s in the Pacific Northwest (Oregon, Washington, Idaho and British Columbia
"The United States' health care system stands out for its strict division of policies dealing with public health and individual medicine. Seeking to explain how this division came to be, what alternat
Provides an incisive portrait of Herman Melville during the Civil War era, examining his complex attitudes about the war and his writings during and about the period, including Battle-Pieces, poems ch
Laurie (Histories Division, US Army Center of Military History) details the creation, evolution, and field of operation of the overseas branch of the Office of War Information, the Morale Operations B
The Carpathian campaign of 1915, described by some as the "Stalingrad of the First World War," engaged the million-man armies of Austria-Hungary and Russia in fierce winter combat that drove them to t
A doctor of American studies who served as Prince Charming and other capacities during the opening year of the American theme park in France, Lainsbury finds that the phenomenon was more complicated t
