From Valley Forge to Yorktown, follow the astonishing real-life journey of the Revolutionary War's most mythic warrior. Contemporaries called him the Virginia Giant, the One-Man Army, the American Hercules. He fought in an honor roll of Revolutionary War battles: Brandywine, Germantown, Camden, and Guilford Courthouse. He wintered at Valley Forge ......
A Tale of Friendship and the Plight of the American Indian
On a November night in 1879 in Boston, Massachusetts, a lecture was given by Chief Standing Bear of the Ponca Tribe. It was attended by a forty-nine-year old woman who sat mesmerized as the dignified Indian told of the injustice that had driven his people from their ancestral lands. The next day the woman sent a cable to her husband at home in ......
Wrenched by tragedy from a peaceful and respectable middle-class home in Victorian London, Hannah Kemball finds herself accompanying her father, Captain "Cracker Jack" Kemball, aboard the tea-clipper Erl King on a voyage to China. It is 1869. In Shanghai and Foochow, the crack British tea-clippers are loading the season's tea, preparing for the ......
Seasonal Recipes and Historical Treasures from New York City's Iconic Restaurant
From Central Park's most iconic dining destination comes the cookbook that brings a century of culinary excellence directly to your table. For nearly a century, Tavern on the Green has been Manhattan's crown jewel--a place where celebrities, locals, and visitors from around the world gather to create unforgettable memories. Now, with reservations ......
Abolitionists of the Northeastprofiles the little-known yet historically prolific Black figures who actively participated in the abolitionist movement in America. The movement, which began in the 1820s in Northeastern America, was about ending slavery in the United States. History books have long emphasized the lives and work of Harriet Tubman, ......
How Modern Convenience Is Dumbing Down Our Children and What Parents and Schools Can Do about It
Modern society's excessive focus on convenience and simplicity has led to a decline in human intelligence. It is essential for families and schools to rethink how we raise our children. Emergence emphasizes the cultivation of five types of intelligence: intellectual, social, emotional, ethical, and physical, meeting this existential reality ......
The Remarkable Journeys of Baseball's Greatest Deaf Players
They couldn't hear the roar of the crowd--but the baseball world heard them loud and clear. Meet the deaf baseball stars who rewrote the rules. Billy Hoy and Luther Taylor endure as two of the most fascinating--and unknown--players in 150-plus years of major-league baseball. At the turn of the twentieth century, both men were marque stars, with ......
"Nostalgic and timeless, convenient and functional. You name it--or need it--and it can be found in this seemingly all-inclusive 'how-to' tome of more than seven hundred projects." --David Stiles, from the Introduction Practical Projects for the Handy Man, Third Edition, is the perfect book for any model maven, do-it-yourselfer, or just plain ......
The fifth volume in The Privateersman Mysteries 1795: The discovery of an abandoned Spanish merchant ship off the coast of America plunges the Ludlows into a far-reaching conspiracy fueled by jealousy, ambition and nationalistic fervor. The Bucephalas lies trapped under the gaping muzzles of the 32-pounder Spanish guns of New Orleans' harbor fort. ......
