Overview :Although it is sometimes called a town without a history, Houston actually possesses the kind of sprawling past that includes a frontier por... Read More
Overview :To reach the Port of Houston's Turning Basin, a ship must travel 50 miles along a narrow and twisting channel that passes through Galveston ... Read More
Overview :Ellington Field was one of 32 training airfields authorized by Congress in 1917. During World War I, it became one of the most highly regard... Read More
Overview :George Washington may be one of history's most underrated commanders. Overlooked in favour of his contemporaries such as Napoleon Bonaparte ... Read More
Overview :The Texas coastline and offshore waters are flat, shallow, featureless, and filled with shoals. Texas waters are subjected to extreme weathe... Read More
Overview :The USS Texas was built when dreadnought battleships were kings of the seas. It was the world's most powerful battleship when first commissi... Read More
Overview :Japan 1944-45 examines the only time in history that a major war was ended by the use of air power. It shows how the United States used a co... Read More
Overview :The cruiser Houston was the first warship named for the Bayou City, and the ship proved a favorite of the city for which it was named. It wa... Read More
Overview :To reach the Port of Houston s Turning Basin, a ship must travel 50 miles along a narrow and twisting channel that passes through Galveston ... Read More
Overview :By 1805 the 44-gun frigate was probably viewed as a failed experiment whilst the 38-gun frigate was viewed as the vessel of the future. Ten ... Read More
Overview :The "Original Six" frigates were commissioned by the new-born US Navy at a staggering cost of $688,888.82. Designed to be light and fast, th... Read More
Overview :Japan was closed to the world until 1854 and its technology then was literally medieval. Great Britain, France, and Russia divided the globe... Read More
Overview :In this title, Mark Lardas explores the origins of American warships, primarily light and medium frigates, built for the Continental Navy du... Read More
Overview :Virginia's Shenandoah Valley in 1864 was the scene of one of the most crucial campaigns of the Civil War. The outcome of the fighting there ... Read More
Overview :A detailed and fascinating exploration of the 1945 US combined land, naval and air operation to retake Corregidor and the other Japanese-hel... Read More
Overview :A highly illustrated account of the first and largest fleet action between the navies of Great Britain and France during the French Revoluti... Read More
Overview :This fascinating title explores the conflict between two formidable warship types of the Age of Discovery--the Spanish and English Galleon--... Read More
Overview :In 1910 the first aircraft was successfully launched from a small wooden platform on a stationary ship. Just four years later, seaplane-carr... Read More
Overview :On April 17, 1863 Benjamin Grierson led a force of 1,700 Union cavalrymen across enemy lines into the Confederate-held Tennessee in a bold d... Read More