164円 This is the actual report submitted by Col. Joshua Chamberlain describing the pivotal actions of the 20th Maine Volunteers as they conducted the defense of the Union left flank and the bayonet charge proved decisive at the historic battle of Gettysburg. Chamberlain eloqently and concisely sums up...

827円 The bloodiest day in the history of the United States took place on the 75th anniversary of the signing of the Constitution. On September 17, 1862, Robert E. Lees Army of Northern Virginia fought George McClellans Army of the Potomac outside Sharpsburg along Antietam Creek. That day, nearly 25,00...

11,440円 This work explores the dynamic issues of race and religion within the Cherokee Nation and to look at the role of secret societies in shaping these forces during the nineteenth century.

1,957円 'Simultaneously frightening and hilarious' - *The Times The Men Who Stare at Goats* reveals the extraordinary – and completely nutty – national secrets at the core of Bush’s government. Often funny, sometimes chilling and with first-hand access to the leading players, Jon Ronson’s Sunday Times be...

1,709円 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The definitive account of one of the most accomplished, controversial, and polarizing figures in American history Bill Clinton is the most arresting leader of his generation. He transformed American politics, and his eight years as president spawned arguments that contin...

1,243円 In Every Day by the Sun, Dean Faulkner Wells recounts the story of the Faulkners of Mississippi, whose legacy includes pioneers, noble and ignoble war veterans, three never-convicted murderers, the builder of the first railroad in north Mississippi, the founding president of a bank, an FBI agent,...

1,921円 Of the settlers who journeyed to North Texas 165 years ago, 12 families from Missouri traveled in oxen-drawn wagons to the Eastern Cross Timbers. These families laid claim to land in Peters Colony that was promised by the Republic of Texas�s first empresario. The hardscrabble colonists built log ...

150円 Includes Civil War Map and Illustrations Pack – 224 battle plans, campaign maps and detailed analyses of actions spanning the entire period of hostilities. Born into a distinguished Virginian family, Randolph McKim left university to join the Confederate cause in 1861. Heavily engaged in the figh...

777円 “George W. Bush is a liar. He has lied large and small, directly and by omission. He has mugged the truthーnot merely in honest error, but deliberately, consistently, and repeatedly.” ーfrom the Introduction All American presidents have lied, but George W. Bush has relentlessly abused the truth. ...

777円 After a nomadic childhood, Charles Siringo signed on as a teenage cowboy for the noted Texas cattle king, Shanghai Pierce, and began a life that embraced all the hard work, excitement, and adventure readers today associate with the cowboy era. He "rid the Chisholm trail," driving 2,500 heads of c...

3,179円 Houston Blue offers the first comprehensive history of one of the nations largest police forces, the Houston Police Department. Through extensive archival research and more than one hundred interviews with prominent Houston police figures, politicians, news reporters, attorneys, and others, autho...

496円 Follow a barge of Ore from the mines to Boonton New Jersey in the mid 19th century, with glimpses of the tow boat life and the New Jersey wilds, into the hands of the nail makers, with their furnaces and machinery. A good look at New Jersey and at the manufacturing of Nails in New Jersey at the ...