Walter Coffey has written a first class overview of the period following the Civil War (The War Between the States) and in so doing has provided a very good teaching tool. Other than serious students of the subject, most of us have, at best, a...

The American 'baby boom' era was an incredible phenomenon, as the nation witnessed an incredulous amount of births from the years of 1946 and 1964. Today, many of the 'baby boom' generation are grown up, and are raising their own children. In Last of the...

Sanborns' Camp is a memoir written by Doc Sanborn. Doc's great grandfather, Elihu Sanborn, decided that he really wanted to be a carpenter instead of following in his father's footsteps and working the family farm in New Hampshire. As he was the second son, this...

Who Nuked the Duke: Atomic Testing and the Fallout Behind RKO's John Wayne Epic The Conqueror by John William Law is a story that spans over 30 years. The cold war dawned and took hold in the 1950s and the US government worked on the...

Life in a Jar: The Irena Sendler Project by Jack Mayer is the biography of Irena Sendler who was instrumental in saving the lives of 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II. Though her contribution was first suppressed by the Polish...

Jim Allen expresses his fears for the future of this country in his book, Nothing is as it Appears, it's all Smoken Mirrors. “Somewhere in the Constitution it says that when government is no longer for the People, by the People, It is the People’s...

Sullivan's Way: Way of Hearts Saga by Wilhelmina Stolen is a romance novel placed in the post-Civil War era, which introduces readers to a story line containing adventure, suspense, adversity, romance, and heartbreak. As the war between the North and South comes to an end...

Legend and fact intertwine tantalizingly throughout the history of what we now know as the British Isles. The story of the Kingdom of Alt Clut, what fragments survive, is populated by the likes of King Arthur, Saint Patrick, Macbeth and Old King Cole, and it...

The Nobels, written by Lars W. Ehrlander, is a historical romance which started during World War II, and continued after the war ended. It is centered on three young Swedish women, Annika Bengtson and her two friends, Lisa and Camilla, who become attracted to sailors...

A Different Light: The Vietnam War From A Woman's Point of View by Jennifer Thomas is based on the author's personal experiences during the Vietnam War. The book introduces readers to the concepts of war, military and civilian life, the Red Cross, and the Vietnamese...