American Nurses in the early 1800's were for the most part drunks, illiterate and totally unreliable. Then inspired by Florence Nightingale's example in england, Bellevue Nurse Training Scho ...more on ebook "The Nightingale Sisters: The Making..."

A Pulitzer Prize winner explores the role of the first machine gun in transforming America into a superpower Although it was little used during the American Civil War-the time in which it ...more on ebook "Mr. Gatling's Terrible Marvel..."

From the Anti-Federalists to the Know-Nothings, Formisano traces populist political movements in the U.S. chronologically from the Revolution to the Civil War, contextualizing them and demon ...more on ebook "For the People..."

Considered a failure upon leaving the White House in 1857 and thought to be on his way to a well-deserved obscurity, Franklin Pierce during the Civil War emerged as a major spokesman for tha ...more on ebook "The Expatriation of Franklin Pierce..."

"The Garden of eden" was first published in 1875. This version is a 58-page facsimile of the version in The Human Body The Temple of God published in 1890 London. Here Victoria Woodhull expl ...more on ebook "The Garden of Eden; or, Paradise Lo..."

Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery expedition conjures up images of high adventure. Up the Missouri River with Lewis and Clark tells of the beginning stages of the United States' fi ...more on ebook "Up the Missouri River with Lewis an..."

Fanny reports accurately about our forefathers' harsh pioneer character, and points out the lack of education everywhere. For example, men spitting tobacco on the floor, ladies off in anothe ...more on ebook "Domestic Manners of the Americans..."

Americans: Democratic experience, The ...more on ebook "Americans: Democratic Experience, T..."

Published when Theodore Roosevelt was only twenty-three years old, The Naval War of 1812 was immediately hailed as a literary and scholarly triumph, and it is still considered the definitive ...more on ebook "The Naval War of 1812..."