In the literature of World War II, the relative military effectiveness of the United States and G...

This book presents new frameworks designed by the author to ease integration and facilitation of ...

As a rookie in 1938, Joe 'Flash' Gordon became the American League's first power-hitting second b...

Incorporating recent scholarship and new archival discoveries, this is the updated biography of o...

Professional architects first began to arrive in California in the 1880s. These architects wanted...

Covers sex in William Blake's works and Blake's personal views about sex, and offers a more gener...

This work explores the interconnectivity of Southern Appalachia with other regions of the United ...

George Washington Lee's story, Guarding the Gate City, has been called the great untold epic of t...

The Essence of Strength

The American Film Institute has ranked Some Like it Hot as the greatest comedy of the 20th centur...

In 1907, General J. Franklin Bell, Army Chief of Staff, changed the troubled Regular Army's white...

In 1983, the city of Memphis was in the midst of making attempts to gain an NFL franchise. Instea...

Award-winning author John Kenneth Muir returns for his fifth 'Horror Films of' decade book for Mc...

This book studies masks in worldwide mythology and religion, the stories they tell, and the cerem...

Classic blues, one of America's most unique musical art forms, did not originate out of thin air,...

Film music has become more than sound added to enhance the excitement and suspense of a dramatic ...

Movement plays a fundamental role in human life, shaping how we think, communicate, and engage wi...

Of the many stories from Hollywood's vibrant, free-wheeling pre-Code era, one of the most intrigu...

Of the unelected political figures in American history, Thomas Nast ranks among the most conseque...

Ten days after the US entered World War I, the USSB established the Emergency Fleet Corporation (...

Sometime in the distant past, a human being noticed his or her reflection in a body of water. And...

Wooden barrels have facilitated the past 2000 years of commerce. During the height of their deman...

Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, a small family-owned German company made and exported the world's...

In times of global conflict and international crisis the United States has employed the Navy's fo...

The earliest history of baseball in black America surfaces not just in the pages of the mainstrea...

Opinions vary wildly on the subject of baseball's greatest players. Many books have explored the ...

From 1863 to 1871 in New York City a bank of four banditti politicians led by William M. Tweed re...

Western science fiction has evolved to reflect the social, cultural, and political issues of the ...

Dr. Richard 'Dick' Cohen temporarily stepped away from his tenured university professor's positio...

The Depression of the 1890s caused widespread economic suffering throughout the country and trigg...

An expansive look into the first 100 years of film music, this book delves into music in the movi...

Federal Brigadier General William Haines Lytle was a poet, Civil War soldier, lawyer, orator, fri...

British captain Robert Falcon Scott and Norwegian expedition leader Roald Amundsen were giants of...

Since their inception, superheroes in comic books and other media have endeavored to guide the na...

The Scottish novelist Alistair MacLean didn't speak English until he was six, but he went on to b...

Originally published in 1999, this book won the Nelson Ross Award for 'Outstanding Recent Achieve...

In the wild and woolly world of 1980s Texas Wrestling, the brightest star of all was Gino Hernand...

Blending practical advice, personal stories and historical context, this book highlights North Ca...

Harry 'Bucky' Lew leapt over pro basketball's color wall in 1902 and continued to integrate every...

Since the beginning of the foundation of the United States of America, dance and music combined h...

Montague Summers (1880-1948) collected real-life nightmares from around the world--the legends th...

As a young Vietnamese refugee, Hoangmai Pham suddenly lost her sense of safety and belonging when...

Sit down, my dear,' says the fortuneteller. 'Let's see what the future holds.' She draws her robe...

Provides a comprehensive look at black participation in Baseball. It provides biographical lists:...

Film technology developments in the early 20th century opened up a new world of possibilities for...

From early legislation like the Fugitive Slave Law of 1793 to Reconstruction and the rise of the ...

'The elite French Zouaves, with their distinctive, colorful uniforms, set an influential example ...

Shows how boxers, journalists, politicians, publicans, and others used national, ethnic, religiou...