Traditions say that in May 1637, a force of English colonists and Native allies marched undected ...

J.P. Dunn wrote Massacres of the Mountains in an attempt to separate historical fact from sensati...

Abner Doubleday was an 1842 graduate of the U. S. Military Academy at West Point and a veteran of...

Lieutenant George Washington De Long was an American explorer whose disastrous Arctic expedition ...

Nurse and Spy is a record of events which transpired in the experience of military life in Camp, ...

Born in 1822, Grant was the son of an Ohio tanner. He went to West Point reluctantly and graduate...

This DSI edition is lavishly illustrated with over 192 pen-and-ink drawings. This 1885 edition ha...

IN WESTERN MARYLAND is a stream called Antietam Creek. Nearby is the quiet town of Sharpsburg. Th...

The writing of Hard Tack and Coffee was the result of a reunion of Civil War veterans at a White ...

The Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology Handbook of American Indians. Reprint o...

The men who formed the United States came from all thirteen colonies. The real Josiah Bartlett di...