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Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War, Daniel Stashower

The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War

By Daniel Stashower

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It's history that reads like a race-against-the-clock thriller. Harlan Coben Daniel Stashower, the two-time Edgar award“winning author of The Beautiful Cigar Girl, uncovers the riveting true... read more

History of the Donner Party, C. F. McGlashan

History of the Donner Party

By C. F. McGlashan

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C.F. McGlashan was the newspaper publisher of the local paper in Truckee, California, the closest town to the Donner Pass. McGlashan interviewed the survivors of the Donner Party, gathered artifacts... read more

Emancipation Proclamation, Abraham Lincoln

The Emancipation Proclamation

By Abraham Lincoln

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While the conflict over slavery was a factor in the Civil War, the abolition of slavery did not become a stated objective until Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, which went into effect on... read more

Paradox of Jamestown: 1585-1700, James Lincoln Collier, Christopher Collier

The Paradox of Jamestown: 1585-1700

By James Lincoln Collier, Christopher Collier

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History is dramatic-and the renowned, award-winning authors Christopher Collier and James Lincoln Collier demonstrate this in a compelling series aimed at young readers. Covering American history... read more

Mr. Lincoln's High-Tech War: How the North Used the Telegraph, Railroads, Surveillance Balloons, Ironclads, High-Powered Weapons, and More to Win the Civil War, Roger MacBride Allen, Thomas B. Allen

Mr. Lincoln's High-Tech War: How the North Used the Telegraph, Railroads, Surveillance Balloons, Ironclads, High-Powered Weapons, and More to Win the Civil War

By Roger MacBride Allen, Thomas B. Allen

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Thomas B. Allen's expertise in military history and strategy is combined with Roger MacBride Allen's knowledge of technology to reveal a lesser known yet fascinating side of the sixteenth president... read more

Disease in the Public Mind: A New Understanding of Why We Fought the Civil War, Thomas Fleming

A Disease in the Public Mind: A New Understanding of Why We Fought the Civil War

By Thomas Fleming

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By the time his body hung from the gallows for his crimes at Harper's Ferry, abolitionists had made John Brown a "holy martyr" in the fight against Southern slave owners. But Northern hatred for... read more

Here Is Where: Discovering America's Great Forgotten History, Andrew Carroll

Here Is Where: Discovering America's Great Forgotten History

By Andrew Carroll

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The centerpiece of a major national campaign to indentify and preserve forgotten history, Here Is Where is acclaimed historian Andrew Carroll's fascinating journey of discovery in which he travels to... read more

Kennesaw Mountain: Sherman, Johnston, and the Atlanta Campaign, Earl J. Hess

Kennesaw Mountain: Sherman, Johnston, and the Atlanta Campaign

By Earl J. Hess

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While fighting his way toward Atlanta, William T. Sherman encountered his biggest roadblock at Kennesaw Mountain, where Joseph E. Johnston's Army of Tennessee held a heavily fortified position. The... read more

Frozen in Time: An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II, Mitchell Zuckoff

Frozen in Time: An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II

By Mitchell Zuckoff

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On November 5, 1942, a U.S. cargo plane slammed into the Greenland ice cap. Four days later, a B-17 on the search-and-rescue mission also crashed. Miraculously, all nine men on the B-17 survived. The... read more

Presidential Wisdom: Washington to Obama, Deaver Brown, Harvard AB & MBA

Presidential Wisdom: Washington to Obama

By Deaver Brown, Harvard AB & MBA

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The wisdom of US Presidents has instructive and inspiring quotations from every President from George Washington through Barack Obama. Most of us know something of the most generally respected six:... read more