Old Is Gold

One of the most compelling, yet little known stories of race relations in the twentieth century is the account of blacks who chose to leave the United States to be involved in the Soviet Experiment in the 1920s and 1930s. Frustrated by the limitations...

This work is a reprint of the Report from the Secretary of War, John C. Calhoun, to President James Monroe, March 28, 1818, listing ""all the pensioners of the United States, the sum annually paid to each, and the states or territories in which...

Based upon exhaustive research in all presidential libraries from Hoover to Clinton, the voluminous archives of the African National Congress [ANC] at Fort Hare University in South Africa, along with allied archives of the NAACP, the Ford and Rockefeller fortunes, etc., this is the...

By Helen S. Foley, Pub. 1976, Reprinted 2015, 376 pages, Index, ISBN 0-89308-160-4.The families discussed in this book were selected by the author because they were living in the area when Barbour County was founded in 1832 from parts of Pike and Henry counties...

By: Thomas Partlow, Pub. 1997, Reprinted 2018, 356 pages, Index, ISBN #0-89308-524-3.Wilson County is a pivotal county in the early settlement of Tennessee and in the subsequent migration of people westward. It is surrounded by the counties of: Cannon, DeKalb, Rutherford, Smith and Sumner....

By: Helen & Timothy Marsh, Pub. 1981, Reprinted 2019, 338 pages, maps, Index, ISBN #0-89308-238-4.Marshall County was formed in 1836 from parts of Lincoln, Bedford, and Maury Counties, to which was added a part of Giles in 1870. This book contains records from all...

The riveting, secret story of the hundred-year intelligence war between Russia and the West with lessons for our new superpower conflict with China.Spies is the history of the secret war that Russia and the West have been waging for a century. Espionage, sabotage, and...

During the Jazz Age and Great Depression, radio broadcasters did not conjure their listening public with a throw of a switch; the public had a hand in its own making. The Listener's Voice describes how a diverse array of Americans--boxing fans, radio amateurs, down-and-out...

The Crowley Millers were the talk of minor league baseball in the 1950s, with crowds totaling nearly 10 times Crowley's population and earning Crowley the nickname of "The Best Little Baseball Town in the World." The Best Little Baseball Town in the World: The...

Author: Tom ClavinPublisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintPublished: 12/11/2024Binding Type: Library BindingISBN: 9781420519594

Author: Adam HigginbothamPublisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintPublished: 09/11/2024Pages: 885Binding Type: Library BindingISBN: 9781420516593

Author: Bob Drury, Tom ClavinPublisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintPublished: 06/12/2024Binding Type: Library BindingISBN: 9781420513585

The sweeping new novel from New York Times bestselling author Katherine Arden.______________ World War One, and as shells fall in Flanders, a Canadian nurse searches for her brother believed dead in the trenches despite eerie signs that suggest otherwise in this gripping and powerful...

The thrilling true story of the Dalton Gang and the most brazen heist in history, by the multiple New York Times bestselling author. The Last Outlaws is the thrilling true story of the last of the great gang of outlaws. The Dalton Gang consisted...

Tom Clavin's Follow Me to Hell is the explosive true story of how legendary Ranger Leander McNelly and his men brought justice to a lawless Texan frontier. In turbulent 1870s Texas, the revered and fearless Ranger Leander McNelly led his men in one dramatic...

As modern-day muckraker Danny Schechter writes in his new introduction, exclusive to this Cosimo Classics edition: "In this era of financial crisis compounded, and even perhaps enabled, by a dearth of investigative reporting, it is valuable to go back in time to learn from...

Nazi Germany provides a comprehensive survey of the National Socialist dictatorship, artfully balancing social and cultural history with a political and military history of the regime. The book unravels the complexities of the daily lives of perpetrators, victims, and bystanders in the 'Third Reich',...

In The Great Gypsy Moth War, Robert J. Spear presents the untold story behind the importation and release of the gypsy moth in North America and the astonishing series of coincidences that brought the state of Massachusetts to a decade-long war against this tenacious...

The veteran contributors to this volume take as their central drama, and their essential task for analysis, the enduring literary and political legacy of Israel Prize laureate Amos Oz (1939-2019). Born a decade prior to the establishment of the state of Israel, in what...

The division of the Kurdish people among the modern nation states of Iraq, Turkey, Syria and Iran and their struggle for national rights continues to influence the politics of the Middle East. David McDowall's ground-breaking history of the Kurds from the 19th century to...