Overview :Armed with a trove of previously unreleased archives, Edward J. Renehan Jr. offers a compelling portrait of Cornelius Vanderbilt, who built ... Read More
Overview :Armed with a trove of previously unreleased archives, Edward J. Renehan Jr. offers a compelling portrait of Cornelius Vanderbilt, who built ... Read More
Overview :In his The Autocrat at the Breakfast Table, Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote: "The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor i... Read More
Overview :In Paris, during the spring, summer, and autumn of 1782, three remarkable Americans led the representation of the United States in negotiati... Read More
Overview :In The Lion's Pride, Edward J. Renehan, Jr. vividly portrays the grand idealism, heroic bravery, and reckless abandon that Theodore Rooseve... Read More
Overview :The 1830 murder of wealthy slaver Joseph White shook all of Salem, Massachusetts. Soon the crime drew national attention when it was discove... Read More
Overview :John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry was one of the events which sparked the US Civil War. This study looks at the group of Northern aristocr... Read More
Overview :Though reviled for more than a century as Wall Street's greatest villain, Jay Gould was in fact its most original creative genius. Gould was... Read More
Overview :The World Wide Web is loaded with science and science-related material. For everyone who wants to learn more about this amazing resource, Ed... Read More
Overview :Though reviled for more than a century as Wall Street's greatest villain, Jay Gould was in fact its most original creative genius. Gould was... Read More