United States History

"We need to remember that the separation of church and state must never mean the separation of religious values from the lives of public servants." ―Lyndon B. Johnson "So help me God." Goerge Washington added those words to the presidential oath, and every president since has followed s...

The Nashville I Knew is a nostalgic look at eighty years of memories of Nashville and America that "abound in vivid tints and clear tones of the past wrapped in the old lavender of sentiment." Eighty-four illustrations, indexed.

In Georgia you will find . . . The celebrated locomotive General Mrs. Robert E. Lee's rolling pin The original handwritten Confederate constitution A Confederate statue that was "lynched" and buried The world's largest sculpture The nation's largest national battlefield park A unique d...

Hidden Glory reveals the life and times of a plantation house, now over 250 years old. Human lifespan rarely exceeds one century; therefore this biography necessarily includes generations of owners and occupants in order to acquaint the reader with the main character, Hampton Plantation.

At the beginning of the Civil War, Southern militias moved swiftly to secure the military assets within their borders. In several instances, the action required no more than demanding the key to the fort from a lone ordnance sergeant. By and large these seizures were peaceful, and in on...

In 1775 Cherokee leaders sold most of Tennessee and Kentucky to the recently arrived white settlers, but Dragging Canoe, a proud chief, said that the sacred land should not be defiled by the white man's ax and plow. "This is the Dark and Bloody Ground!" he proclaimed to the assembled ch...

True stories of unusual happenings during the civil war. In 1861, Wilmer McLean, distressed that a cannon ball crashed through his home during the battle of Bull Run, moved to a farm where "the sound of battle would never again reach him and his family." Almost four years later, McLean...

More Civil War Curiosities contains strange but true stories from the four-year conflict that raged across a one-thousand-mile battle front with more than three million men in uniform. Anything could and often did happen. Webb Garrison recounts instances of friendly fire casualties, the...

The Civil War is most often described as one in which brother fought against brother. But the most devastating war fought on American soil was also one in which women demonstrated heroic deeds, selfless acts, and courage beyond measure. Women mobilized soup kitchens and relief societies...