The words that fell from Hitler’s mouth in 1933 must have chilled the blood of any non-Aryan remaining in the Weimar Republic. He said, “If there are still those in Germany today who say: we will not submit, then I respond: you will... Read More

Who, at the tender age of one-hundred-forty-eight years, wouldn’t love to be described by their son as an “all-scream-glorio[u]s gal[who] can jump a seven rail fence backwards… crack walnuts with her front teeth… laugh a horse... Read More

For Walter Hirsch, escaping Hitler’s wrath was more adventure than vital necessity. Hirsch, a young Jewish boy in 1933 Stuttgart, had “always wanted to go to America…always wanted to be a cowboy.” His dream of traveling across... Read More

Despite misogyny, patriarchy, and the established social mores of the pre- and post-Civil War South, there are women, whose lives are detailed in Negotiating Boundaries, who lived to the fullest extent possible in the space dictated by... Read More

Although there are countless films, books, documentaries, and oral accounts of the male experience in the Vietnam War, there is little or nothing about the approximately 7,500 women who served in South Vietnam. The United States... Read More

“On the eve of a new era when there is to be a great harmony between the Federal and the Confederate… Let us have peace.” With these words, Ulysses S. Grant closed his memoirs and echoed the shared sentiment of countless others as... Read More

This study of the characteristics of successful leadership in the U.S. military is the culmination and summation of Puryear’s thirty-five years of research. He has also produced three other works, Stars in Flight, George S. Brown, and... Read More

As narrative fiction becomes a more popular way to bring actual events in history to the attention of the mass public, books such as Varhola’s Civil War writing reference become essential to writers wishing to delve into the subject of... Read More