Explore the county seat of Chester County, in the southeast corner of Pennsyvania. Its rich history and beautiful environs have made West Chester a...

Vasyl Kuchabsky's Western Ukraine in Conflict with Poland and Bolshevism, 1918-1923 is devoted to one of the most complex periods of twentieth-cent...

The passage of land rights laws in New South Wales in 1983 saw political intrigue, deception and disappointment as well as unprecedented engagement...

Test your knowledge on Canadian quotes, history, words, emblems, holidays, language, sports, geography and so much more: * In the language of the I...

John Hanning Speke writes about the history of his first two explorations in Africa that led to the discovery of the source of the Nile. The manner...

In this volume on the history of the European nobility in the modern era, the boundary between the early modern and 'real' modern periods around 18...

The war was over and Dad was coming home at last! But the days and weeks go by, and when he does return Dad is not the happy man that young Rita on...

Early one spring morning, disaster struck San Francisco, and a young man grabbed his camera and started documenting the destruction and death surro...

This captivating volume brings together case studies drawn from four post-Soviet states—Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Moldova. The collected papers...

The vast deserts of Outback Australia hold many secrets, but there is one great mystery which stands out among all others the mystery of the lost L...

From George Washington to Barack Obama, this book provides the history of the birthplace of every American president, preservation efforts, visitor...

Fifty-two of Henry Lawson's stories and sketches that he had first published in newspapers and magazines from 1888 onwards were gathered in his col...

Whistling Death is the true story, by the test pilot, of the rush to produce the F4U Corsair, the Navy fighter that brought America air superiority...

White Ghosts, Yellow Peril is the first book ever to explore all sides of the relationship between China and New Zealand and their peoples during t...

The American presidency has become one of the most powerful offices in the world with the ascendancy of American power in the 20th century. 'White ...

Strength and Goodness ( Force-Bonté ) by Bakary Diallo is one of the only memoirs of World War I ever written or published by an African. It remain...

Strength and Goodness ( Force-Bonté ) by Bakary Diallo is one of the only memoirs of World War I ever written or published by an African. It remain...

In 1967, in celebration of Canada's 100th birthday, Les Voyageurs left Rocky Mountain House, Alberta, in ten 26-foot canoes. These one hundred gall...

On 8 May 1945, a few days after the end of the war, the Minister of Justice published the War Foster Children Decree. The National Committee for Wa...

Did you know that the great Jewish sage and physician Maimonides practiced medicine while lying flat on his back? That a famous passage penned by G...

This is an account of one woman's Holocaust survival and painful postwar years spent forging an adult identity out of the splinters of a girlhood d...

"A visitor from down south stared at my apple tree and said: 'Those don't grow here you know. It's too cold.' If the apricot tree in Highlands knew...