Ceran St. Vrain, American Frontier Entrepreneur
by Ronald K Wetherington
Life of the Venerable M.-M. Dufrost de Lajemmerais, Mde. D'Youville
by D S Ramsay
Zebulon B. Vance, governor of North Carolina during the devastating years of the Civil War, has long sparked controversy and spirited political comment among scholars. He has been portrayed as a loyal Confederate, viciously characterized as one of the principal causes of the Confederate defeat, and called ""the Lincoln of the South."" Joe A. Mobley clarifies the nature of Vance's leadership, focusing on the young governor's commitment to Southern independence, military and administrative decisio...
The author, Countess Katinka Szapary, recalls the 1920s and 1930s when she was growing up in rural Hungary, her experiences of the Second World War, (particularly the Russian occupation of eastern Europe), and her post-war experiences when she was employed as a translator by the British occupying forces in Vienna, at which time her family, as aristocrats, were being subjected to the deportations and executions of the Stalinist regime. The memoirs include details of past events that occurred in...
A Welsh Childhood (Mermaid Books) (Cascades S.)
by Alice Thomas Ellis
Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth, Volume 1 - Primary Source Edition
by Lucy Aikin
Louisa S.McCord (Publications of the Southern Texts Society)
by Louisa Susanna Cheves McCord
Louisa Susanna Cheves McCord (1810-1879) was one of the most remarkable figures in the intellectual history of antebellum America. A conservative intellectual, she broke the confines of Southern gender roles. Over the past decade historians have begun to pay attention to McCord and find her indespensible to understanding American culture. Among Southerners before the Civil War, she is ranked with Thomas Jefferson, George Mason, James Madison, Sarah Grimke, John C. Calhoun, George Fitzhugh, and F...
When it comes to the Founding Fathers, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and Alexander Hamilton are generally considered the great minds of early America. George Washington, instead, is toasted with accolades regarding his solid common sense and strength in battle. Indeed, John Adams once snobbishly dismissed him as "too illiterate, unlearned, unread for his station and reputation." Yet Adams, as well as the majority of the men who knew Washington in his life, were unaware of his singular dev...
Archibald Wavell was born a few years before Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee and died shortly after the end of the Second World War (1883-1950). During that time the country in which he was born and brought up in changed beyond recognition, undergoing a fundamental revision in the attitudes, expectations, prejudices and hopes of the British people. His life epitomises that of a generation of famous men whose education and upbringing equipped them for a future that was to prove an illusion.At sev...
'A delightful evocation of Irishness and of the author's deep-rooted love of the very fields of home' Publishers Weekly Alice Taylor's classic account of growing up in the Irish countryside, the biggest selling book ever published in Ireland. If ever a voice has captured the colours, the rhythms, the rich, bittersweet emotions of a time gone by, it is Alice Taylor's. Her tales of childhood in rural Ireland hark back to a timeless past, to a world now lost, but ever and fondly remembered. The c...