The bestselling author of 1421: THE YEAR THE CHINESE DISCOVERED THE WORLD uncovers the truth behind the mystery of Atlantis. Updated with thrilling new discoveries for the paperback.
Highlights the tools and information sources used by geographers and their applications to family history research. This book examines family history as a socio-cultural practice, including the activities of tourism, archival research, and DNA testing.
Beginning with their first confrontation in 1922, this book examines the similarities, covert collaborations and common goals of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Ku Klux Klan. It explores the development of their association and the specific ways in which each organization furthered the other's goals.
This sweeping tour through America's military past provides a fascinating glimpse into the life of the soldier of the colonial wars, the American Revolution, the War of 1812, the Mexican War, and the Civil War.
Irish historians have minimized Daniel O'Connell's role in the Irish liberty movement in favor of later nationalist leaders, largely because of his failure in the 1843 movement for repeal of the Act of Union.