wired - Historical 12

The United States knew relatively little about Alaska prior to the turn of the century when the Klondike Gold Rush was about to attract thousands of stampeders north, many of them spilling over into……続きを見る

A Grimké Reader provides an excellent introduction to the writings and heroics of this influential family of Massachusetts Abolitionists.  The sisters, Sarah and Angelina, are, perhaps, the mos……続きを見る

Regular Army Corporal is a story of an American family and of a childhood and adolescence in the troubled and now forgotten eras of the Great Depression and World War II, and of a young man's strugg……続きを見る

From the New York Times bestselling author of War Letters and Behind the Lines, Andrew Carroll’s My Fellow Soldiers draws on a rich trove of both little-known and newly uncovered letters and diaries……続きを見る

SHORTLISTED FOR THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2017 Born into nobility and married into the royal family, Catherine Howard was attended every waking hour – secrets were impossible to ……続きを見る

For over half a century, Robert Schmuhl interviewed and wrote about Reverend Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., who served as the president of the University of Notre Dame from 1952 until 1987. Beginning……続きを見る

"Ritter ohne Furcht und Tadel" – so nannte König Ludwig I. Johann Nepomuk von Ringseis. Doch sein "Muckl" begleitete ihn nicht nur als Arzt auf drei Italienreisen; er beriet ihn auch in wichtigen po……続きを見る

Describes Johnson's 33 years in the military, including P-47 Thunderbolt missions in WWII, 13 months in a German POW camp, and his eventual command of the 8th Air Force. 続きを見る

In the first English-language biography of one of the most important figures in postwar German history, Alfred C. Mierzejewski examines the life and service of Ludwig Erhard (1897–1977), West German……続きを見る

The first major modern edition of the wartime correspondence of General William T. Sherman, this volume features more than 400 letters written between the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860 and the……続きを見る

Edwin M. Stanton (1814–1869), one of the nineteenth century’s most impressive legal and political minds, wielded enormous influence and power as Lincoln’s secretary of war during most of the Civil W……続きを見る

She went by many namesーMary Ann Keith, Ann Williams, Lauretta Williams, and moreーbut history knows her best as Loreta Janeta Velasquez, a woman who claimed to have posed as a man to fight for the ……続きを見る

“He gave the taste vogue, teaching the courtiers to smoke their pipes with silver bowls, and supplying them with the leaf.” -Stebbing’s description of Raleigh introducing pipes and tobacco to Englan……続きを見る

In 1908 Ellen Wilkinson, a fiery adolescent from a working-class family in Manchester, was “the only girl who talks in school debates.” By midcentury, Wilkinson had helped found Britain’s Communist ……続きを見る

The names William Bligh, Fletcher Christian, and the Bounty have excited the popular imagination for more than two hundred years. Here is the full text of Captain Bligh's personal journal entries ab……続きを見る

This is the second entry in our important African American Heritage series. The history of African Americans is a long, grim history full of injustices and brutality. But it is also filled with cour……続きを見る

This is the second entry in our important African American Heritage series. The history of African Americans is a long, grim history full of injustices and brutality. But it is also filled with cour……続きを見る

The Complete Edition of " The Cruise of the Snark - Jack London ". (Annotated), With detailed Biography. On April 23, 1907, Jack London sailed out of San Francisco Bay to Hawaii, accompanied by his ……続きを見る

"Chaotic Freedom" is the story of two men transformed for the better through the Civil War. It is also the biography of an iconic photograph. The men are printer and newspaper publisher Henry S. Ger……続きを見る

As members of a tiny ethnic minority in Indonesiaーthe world's largest Islamic nationーChinese-Indonesian women face hurdles of race and gender that others would find insurmountable. In Breaking Bar……続きを見る

Though written during her exile in England, from which she would not return until her death, Asia Booth Clarke's memoir of her famous brother was not published until 1938. She had given the "locked ……続きを見る

This remarkable book has been out of print for over a century and yet is one of the most intimate and compelling personal memoirs of the Civil War. Widow Annie Turner Wittenmyer spent the years of t……続きを見る

At the Battle of the Wilderness, General Ulysses Grant was interrupted in conversation with an aide to request use of an ambulance for a civilian doctor to visit the field hospitals. Grant refused r……続きを見る

What could possibly induce an educated, merchant Scotsman, with no citizenship in the U.S., no sympathy for slavery, and a clear opposition to secession, to join and fight for the Confederate Army? ……続きを見る

One of the most important first-hand account of the Indian Wars you'll ever read. Captain John Gregory Bourke's classic volume on his time as aide-de-camp to General George Crook has been considered……続きを見る

The history of African Americans is a long, grim history full of injustices and brutality. But it is also filled with courage and perseverance. Gathered here in this omnibus edition are ten books th……続きを見る

The last words of Major General John Sedgwick as he strode in front of his men in the open at Spotsylvania were, "What? Men dodging this way for single bullets? What will you do when they open fire ……続きを見る

A vividly detailed account of life aboard U.S. submarines in the Pacific during World War II. 続きを見る

Where Youth and Laughter Go completes LtCol Seth Folsom’s recounting of his personal experiences in command over a decade of war. It is the culminating chapter of a trilogy that began with The Highw……続きを見る

“Dead Man's Plack and An Old Thorn” was written by Argentinian naturalist W. H. Hudson and was first published in 1920. It contains two essays by Hudson, both of which are written in beautiful prose……続きを見る