Britain's first Prime Minister, Robert Walpole, smuggled wine up the Thames with the help of the Navy. Tony Blair confessed that a stiff drink and half a bottle of wine a night had become a helpful crutch while in office. Joseph Stalin flushed out traitors with vodka. The disintegration of Richard Nixon and Boris Yeltsin was largely down to drink. Winston Churchill was famous for his drinking, often taking a whisky and soda first thing in the morning and champagne ritually with dinner. But...

"I too am not a bit tamed—I too am untranslatable / I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world." —Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself"The American Yawp is a free, online, collaboratively written American history textbook. Over 500 historians contributed their expertise to create the book they wanted for their own students—an accessible, synthetic narrative that reflects the best of recent historical scholarship and provides a jumping-off point for discussions in the U....

"I too am not a bit tamed—I too am untranslatable / I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world." —Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself"The American Yawp is a free, online, collaboratively written American history textbook. Over 500 historians contributed their expertise to create the book they wanted for their own students—an accessible, synthetic narrative that reflects the best of recent historical scholarship and provides a jumping-off point for discussions in the U....

"I too am not a bit tamed—I too am untranslatable / I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world."—Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself," Leaves of GrassThe American Yawp is a free, online, collaboratively built American history textbook. Over 300 historians joined together to create the book they wanted for their own students—an accessible, synthetic narrative that reflects the best of recent historical scholarship and provides a jumping-off point for discussion...

"I too am not a bit tamed—I too am untranslatable / I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world."—Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself," Leaves of GrassThe American Yawp is a free, online, collaboratively built American history textbook. Over 300 historians joined together to create the book they wanted for their own students—an accessible, synthetic narrative that reflects the best of recent historical scholarship and provides a jumping-off point for discussion...

The God Road by David GullenThe City of Flesh is falling apart. Food and resources are running out. With LucasAna's enemies gaining the upper hand, there seems little choice for him and his people but to leave the city and take their chances in the outside world.But the God Road is a dangerous place, even for mighty six-legged warriors. Faced with deadly horrors at every turn, their survival skills and the bonds of love and friendship will be tested to the limit.To ...

Ben Wright’s Bonds of Salvation demonstrates how religion structured the possibilities and limitations of American abolitionism during the early years of the republic. From the American Revolution through the eruption of schisms in the three largest Protestant denominations in the 1840s, this comprehensive work lays bare the social and religious divides that culminated in secession and civil war. Historians often emphasize status anxieties, market changes, biracial cooperation, an...

The smell of iron emanates from blood, and humanity has always tried to purge it. We have fought, we have created, and we have seen ourselves in our creations, a hazy mirror reflecting what we choose to ignore. In an iron face, we see the best and worst of mankind: the search for connection, For kindness, For grace ... but also cold detachment, cruelty, and love distorted through metallic shine. For years we have dreamed of the final version of this mirror, the ultimate si...

Gnomes hold a mysterious position in folklore and modern pop culture. Some say they are tiny inventors trying to navigate a human-sized world, while others say they are bold adventurers exploring the realms of fantasy. Unfortunately, we still don't know much about them, and even what you think you know may not be true!In What the Gnomes Know, we have assembled a team of talented cartoonist...

Just off the edge of reality, where we can't be sure what is real and what isn't, lie cryptids! Creatures of science fiction and myth, they range from the terrifying, like the Jersey Devil; to the mysterious, like the Mothman; to the downright bizarre, like the Fresno Nightcrawler.Less Than Secret is a black-and-white comics anthology celebrating cryptids in all their forms! We have brough...

NO SECRETS ARE SAFE!Detective Cedric Dustin is a cop with a future: clever, cocky, and opportunistic. So when he receives an anonymous letter accusing a major financial figure of fraud, he jumps at the opportunity to advance his position. As he investigates, however, he discovers that he’s not the only recipient of a letter from the mysterious “L”, and he becomes entangled in the chaos that arises when dark truths are brought to light.

In the Civil War era, Americans nearly unanimously accepted that humans battled in a cosmic contest between good and evil and that God was directing history toward its end. The concept of God's Providence and of millennialism -- Christian anticipations of the end of the world -- dominated religious thought in the nineteenth century. During the tumultuous years immediately prior to, during, and after the war, these ideas took on a greater importance as Americans struggled with the unprecede...