When most people think of the War of 1812, they think of the Niagara frontier, the British burning of the White House, the harrowing tale of Laura ...

The first and only comprehensive illustrated history of dynamite in the United States.While everyone can mentally visualize a stick or bundle of dy...

A 117-page hardcover pictorial, in handy 6 x 7 format, with 101 colour photos of above-ground graves and monuments in 11 New Orleans cemeteries. Br...

From John Adams’s 1774 diary entries on debates in the Continental Congress to the first ouster of a seated Speaker of the House in U.S. history in...

A photo book profiling the history, architecture, conservation status, and visit details of every covered bridge in Chester County, Pennsylvania, a...

George Washington speaks for himself on behalf of liberty and the emerging American republic in this book, the only one-volume compilation in print...

George Washington speaks for himself on behalf of liberty and the emerging American republic in this book, the only one-volume compilation in print...

On April 2, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson issued a national call to arms against Imperial Germany. What followed in the United States was a frenzi...

The Old South has a rich and fascinating history, filled with extravagant personalities. This collection from ghost researcher Edrick Thay explores...

The ghosts of the past still haunt the dusty gold rush towns and frontier outposts where the legendary West was born and died. Dan Asfar explores t...

The Red Coat Trail of southern Saskatchewan and southeastern Alberta runs near the route of the North West Mounted Police's famous 1874 March West....

Arrowhead, Beaton, and Needles are among the drowned; Waneta is a power dam; Jersey City was auctioned; Comaplix died one fiery night; Cody, Three ...

Explore over 18 beloved ghost towns in New Jersey through over 200 black and white and color photographs, historic vignettes, and touring informati...

Rocky Mountain ghost towns are filled with chilling, but captivating stories. Horace Tabor (in 1879) was said to be the fifth richest man in the Un...

The famous Victoria ghost who appeared to a tour group listening to her story, the little boy playing with a red ball in Nanaimo, the phantom "help...

Many stories involved fearsome creatures with supernatural powers. One of these creatures, now known as Bigfoot, passed beyond the realm of native ...

Welcome to gold creek and ghost town country where towns stand in another century, the echoes of history are audible, and the wilderness is still j...

When Josephine Knowles left for the Klondike gold fields with her husband in 1898, she didn’t know she would be facing a constant battle with cold,...

'Gold, or I'm a Dutchman!' Ernest Mansfield exclaimed as he pored over specimens of rock and sand that the local rector had brought back from Svalb...

When local author Dane Starbuck set out several years ago to write the biography of Pierre Goodrich, scion of one of Indianas most prominent twenti...

A tribute to the courageous chiefs and warriors who fought to protect their people and preserve the Native way of life in the face of European expa...

More chronicles of renowned Native leaders who grappled with the catastrophic arrival of foreigners on their soil, and the measures they took to pr...

Over the years, the Great Lakes - Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario - have carried Native Americans, explorers, immigrants, bandits, min...

This book brings together a sampling of the best of the gold rush stories. From realism to romance, from true-life adventure to droll reminiscence,...