Old Is Gold

Created in a world of empires, the United States was to be something new: an expansive republic proclaiming commitments to liberty and equality but eager to extend its territory and influence. Yet from the beginning, Native powers, free and enslaved Black people, and foreign...

Based on extensive research from national collections and recent studies, this book looks at Ireland's love affair with claret in the eighteenth century which began in earnest with the establishment of Irish families in the wine trade in Bordeaux early in the century. So...

A study of three controversies that illuminate the changing cultural role of art exhibition in the nineteenth century From the antebellum era through the Gilded Age, New York City's leading art institutions were lightning rods for conflict. In the decades before the Civil War,...

A Nation of Veterans examines how the United States created the world's most generous system of veterans' benefits. Though we often see former service members as an especially deserving group, the book shows that veterans had to wage a fierce political battle to obtain...

Recent legal history in the United States reveals a hardening tendency to treat religious freedom and sexual and reproductive freedom as competing, even opposing, claims on public life. They are united, though, by the fact that both are rooted in our culture's understanding of...

In the 1970s, the divorce rate in the United States doubled, and longtime homemakers suddenly found themselves at risk of poverty, not only because their husband's job was their sole source of income, but also because their insurance, retirement, and credit worthiness were all...

By the end of France's long seventeenth century, the seminary-trained, reform-minded Catholic priest had crystalized into a type recognizable by his clothing, gestures, and ceremonial skill. Although critics denounced these priests as hypocrites or models for Molière's Tartuffe, seminaries associated the features of this...

Highlights Watergate as a critical turning point in Christian engagement in US politics The Watergate scandal was one of the most infamous events in American democratic history. Faith in the government plummeted, leaving the nation feeling betrayed and unsure who could be trusted anymore....

"My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see. That--and no more, and it is every-thing." So wrote Joseph Conrad in the...

The clich of the Ugly American--loud, vulgar, materialistic, chauvinistic--still expresses what people around the world dislike about their Yankee counterparts. Carrie Tirado Bramen recovers the history of a very different national archetype--the nice American--which has been central to ideas of U.S. identity since the...

Throughout today's postcolonial world, buildings, monuments, parks, streets, avenues, entire cities even, remain as witness to Britain's once impressive if troubled imperial past. These structures are a conspicuous and near inescapable reminder of that past, and therefore, the built heritage of Britain's former colonial...

Lieutenant Frederick G. Schwatka lived a short, but adventurous life filled with notable exploits largely forgotten today. He is best remembered, to the extent remembered at all, as leading an historic Arctic sledge journey while searching for the written records of the ill-fated expedition...

From Goethe to Gundolf: Essays on German Literature and Culture is a collection of Roger Paulin's groundbreaking essays, spanning the last forty years. The work represents his major research interests of Romanticism and the reception of Shakespeare in Germany, but also explores a broader...

Text in FrenchA century of blood is coming to an end. Begun with the War of the Spanish Succession under the reign of an elderly Louis XIV, it ended with the American War of Independence and that of the first years of the Revolution....

By: Mitchell Hall, Pub. 1928, reprinted 2021, 556 pages, soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-044-2.Located within the Big Sandy Valley, Johnson County was formed in 1844 from: Floyd, Lawrence and Mason Counties. This book is similar to other history books of the era with such topics...

By: Rosa F. Yancey, Pub. 1935, reprinted 2021, 522 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-007-7.The city of Lynchburg sits within Campbell County and was created in 1786 but not incorporated until 1805. This book is not too different from other county history books of...

By: Helen & Tim Marsh, Pub. 2004, 436 pages, Index, Soft cover, ISBN #0-89308-702-5. Bedford County was formed in 1807 out of Rutherford County. And in turn, the lower half of Bedford County was cut off to form Lincoln county in 1809. Once in...

By: A. Goff Bedford, Pub. 1958, reprinted 2019, 582 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #0-89308-893-5.Original known as Bourbon County, Virginia, Clark County was created in 1785 from Fayette County, KY. It was much larger area than present-day Bourbon County, as its original territory included...

By: James A. Sartain, Pub. 1932, Reprinted 2019, 570 pages, Index, ISBN #0-89308-887-0. Walker County was created in 1833 from Murray County which in turn was created from Cherokee County in 1832 and Cherokee was created in 1832 from Indian lands in the northwestern...

By: Mattie T. Thompson, Pub. 1939, Reprinted 2018, 570 pages, ISBN #0-89308-423-9.Barbour County was formed in 1832 from parts of Pike and Henry Counties and from Creek Indian lands. Biographies: Alston, Alexander, Adams, Andrews, Baker, Ballowe, Barnett (2), Brown (2), Bennett (2), Bray, Brassell,...