Before she became one of the most controversial women in American history, Mary Todd Lincoln was a brilliant, ambitious young woman who saw greatness in Abraham Lincoln long before the world did.She became the wife of a president, the First Lady of a nation at war, and a witness to some of the darkest moments in America’s history. Behind the grandeur of the White House, however, was a woman carrying unbearable burdens—relentless public criticism, political enemies, devastating pers...

Before they were soldiers, they were ordinary young men with dreams, ambitions, and plans for the future.Then the world went to war.When Jack Miller and his closest friends answer the call to serve, they are thrust into the brutal realities of the Pacific Theater during World War II. Through grueling training, fierce island battles, and moments of unimaginable loss, they discover the true meaning of courage, sacrifice, and brotherhood. As the war tests their bodies and spir...

The Extraordinary True Story of Courage, Shipwreck, and Survival Against Impossible OddsThe sea promised opportunity, adventure, and fortune. Instead, it delivered catastrophe.In an age when vast oceans remained largely uncharted, and voyages could stretch across months or even years, one ship set sail toward a distant horizon, carrying a crew bound by ambition, duty, and hope. They could not have known that a single disaster would transform their journey into a desperate s...

From the road back to the White House to the inner workings of the Situation Room, from immigration crackdowns and national security crises to clashes with Congress, the courts, and the press, The Unchecked traces how power was exercised, challenged, and redefined during one of the most consequential periods in American political history.At its core, this book is about more than one presidency. It is about the transformation of the American executive office over generation...

A pictorial chronicle of the Stones’ classic summer concert tour from the Life magazine photographer who followed them—with a foreword by Keith Richards.In 1972, the Rolling Stones marked their first decade as a band with the release of Exile on Main St. and a summer concert tour of America that set new standards for magnificence in live performance. Covering the tour for Life magazine, photographer Jim Marshall captured indelible moments...

A long-overdue biography of the dedicated commander from New Zealand who helped ward off the Luftwaffe and save Britain from a Nazi invasion.The Battle of Britain from July to September 1940 is one of the finest moments in Britain's history. While credit rightly goes to "The Few," victory could never have happened without the inspirational command and leadership of New Zealander Keith Park.He and Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding ensured that Fighter Command...

Future Folk Horror: Contemporary Anxieties and Possible Futures analyzes folk horror by looking at its recent popularity in novels and films such as The Ritual (2011), The Witch (2015), and Candyman (2021). Countering traditional views of the genre as depictions of the monstrous, rural, and pagan past trying to consume the present, the contributors to this collection posit folk horror as being able to uniquely capture the anxieties of the twenty-first ce...

The Handbook of Peer Tutoring is the authoritative resource on the emerging interdisciplinary field of peer tutoring in higher education. Addressing the multiple audiences of undergraduate tutors in advanced trainings, students immersing themselves in the research of learning and writing centers, professionals seeking to understand the history and current state of the field, and researchers specializing in peer-led learning, the book gathers in one volume the voices that define th...

Investigates how Americans have remembered violence and resistance since the Civil War, including Confederate monuments, historical markers, college classrooms, and history books.George Floyd’s murder in the summer of 2020 sparked a national reckoning for the United States that had been 400 years in the making. Millions of Americans took to the streets to protest both the murder and the centuries of systemic racism that already existed among European colonists but ...

James Francis Edward Keith (in later years Jakob von Keith; 11 June 1696 – 14 October 1758) was a Scottish soldier and Generalfeldmarschall of the Royal Prussian Army. As a Jacobite he took part in a failed attempt to restore the Stuart Monarchy to Britain. When this failed, he fled to Europe, living in France, and then Spain. He joined the Spanish and eventually the Russian armies and fought in the Anglo-Spanish War and the Russo-Swedish War. In the latter he participated in the conquest ...

During the Cold War, the United States conducted atmospheric tests of nuclear weapons in the Marshall Islands of the Pacific. The total explosive yield of these tests was 108 megatons, equivalent to the detonation of one Hiroshima bomb per day over nineteen years. These tests, particularly Castle Bravo, the largest one, had tragic consequences, including the irradiation of innocent people and the permanent displacement of many native Marshallese. Keith M. Parsons and Robert Zaballa tell th...

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