Details the lives of Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie, and William Travis, and the Alamo.

Jean and Pierre Laffite's lives were intertwined with the most colorful period in New Orleans' history, the era from just after the Louisiana Purchase through the War of 1812. Labeled as corsairs and buccaneers for methods that bordered on piracy, the brothers ran a privateering cooperative that provided contraband goods to a hungry market and made life hell for Spanish merchants on the Gulf. Later they became important members of a syndicate in New...

The famous Civil War battle between the U.S.S. Monitor and the C.S.S. Virginia is revealed from contemporary journals and letters.

Focuses on the individuals who played pivotal roles in the establishment of the Republic of Texas, describing the contributions of such figures as Sam Houston, Stephen Austin, and Juan Seguin.

An account of the valor of soldiers and commanders on both sides of the battlefield.

An account of a Civil War battle that took place in 1864 in the strategic Shenandoah Valley in Virginia, a battle in which 257 young cadets from the Virginia Military Institute turned the tide against the Union forces.

Tells the story of the first major conflict between North and South, which also served as an early example of the strategic use of railroads. Includes some of the first war photographs ever taken.

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Audubon was not the father of American ornithology. That honorific belongs to Alexander Wilson, whose encyclopedic American Ornithology established a distinctive approach that emphasized the observation of live birds. In the first full-length study to reproduce all of Wilson's unpublished drawings for the nine-volume Ornithology, Edward Burtt and William Davis illustrate Wilson's pioneering and, today, underappreciated achievement as the first ornithologist...