Overview :In a biography woven from equal parts enchantment and mystery, master illusion designer and today's foremost magic historian, Jim Steinmeyer... Read More
Overview :Ambrose Burnside, the Union general, was a major player on the Civil War stage from the first clash at Bull Run until the final summer of th... Read More
Overview :Join a girl named Rose with a desire to show that we all have differences from our head to our toes. She has a port wine stain on one side o... Read More
Overview :Human twins have many meanings and different histories. They have been seen as gods and monsters, signs of danger, death, and sexual devianc... Read More
Overview :William Marvel's The Confederate Resurgence of 1864 examines a dozen understudied Confederate and Union military operations carried out duri... Read More
Overview :Between February 1864 and April 1865, 41,000 Union prisoners of war were taken to the stockade at Anderson Station, Georgia, where nearly 13... Read More
Overview :This groundbreaking work of history investigates the mystery of how the Civil War began, reconsidering the big question: Was it inevitable? ... Read More
Overview :Few events in Civil War history have generated such deliberate mythmaking as the retreat that ended at Appomattox. William Marvel offers the... Read More
Overview :At 80 years old, NEA Jazz Master Charles Lloyd remains an intrepid musical pioneer, entering his ninth decade at a creative peak in what now... Read More
Overview :Edwin M. Stanton (1814-1869), one of the nineteenth century's most impressive legal and political minds, wielded enormous influence and powe... Read More