Born in Berlin at the end of the nineteenth century, Walter Mehring inherited both his father’s respect for the civilizing power of literature and his formidable library of thousands of books. Like hi
?Hutchins’s new study on Coronado’s famous expedition to the American Southwest in the 1540s focuses on its military aspects rather than its more familiar expansionist or religious ones. His examinati
A Leading Expert on Traditional Archery Offers Insight Into How the Longbow Was Drawn from Medieval Sources to Modern Recreations ?Soar’s book [The Crooked Stick] is indispensible.”?Bernard Cornwell,
“Christopher Mott’s extremely erudite and wide-ranging examination of the history of Central Asia shows us that we have been far too narrow-minded and Eurocentric in thinking about power and how the g
On the morning of January 19, 1847, Charles Bent, the newly appointed governor of the American-claimed territory of New Mexico, was savagely killed at his home in Don Fernando de Taos, a small, remote
Rare, First-Hand Accounts from Newspaper Correspondents Describing the Course of America’s Largest Indian War, Compiled and Edited for the First Time in One Volume“No one commands better the story of
“Dark December occupies a distinguished place among war books. Every paragraph is based upon evidence, not flimsy wartime rumors. Technical enough for the professional, accurate enough for the histori
“No other writer has turned out a book on the fighting in New Guinea that can match Mr. Johnston’s. Superior literary quality projects this work far in advance of those earlier and more hasty accounts
A Treasure Trove of Primary Source Material Chronicling the Role of a Pivotal City in America’s Most Important Conflict The city of Philadelphia played a major role in the Civil War as a manufacturing
The Campaigns of Hannibal begins with an account of the organization, weapons, and chief tactics of both the Romans and Carthaginians, and then proceeds in chronological order through the thirteen
Civil War Hero and Scapegoat, Surveyor of Mexico, General of the Egyptian Army, and Builder of the Statue of Liberty’s PedestalIn the winter of 1861, as the secession crisis came to a head, an obscure
While the great overland migration routes to America’s far west are well known and documented—the California, Oregon, Mormon, and Santa Fe Trails, the Central Overland and Pony Express&m
The Transformation of the Abolitionist Movement from Peaceful Demonstration to Radical Confrontation as Embodied in John BrownEstablishing himself as a fresh and important voice in the history of Afri
The Bitter Battle over the Charter of the Second Bank of the United States and Its Lasting Impact on the American EconomyLate one night in July 1832,Martin Van Buren rushed to the White House where he
