United States History

From all over the state, Tennesseans sent James Ewing their favorite stories. It Happened in Tennessee contains the most fascinating, the most interesting, and the strangest of those stories, including Tennessee's biggest man, Mills Darden from Lexington, who was seven feet, six inches...

Respected scholar William Bennett reacquaints America with its heritage in the second volume of America: The Last Best Hope (Volume II). This engaging narrative slices through the cobwebs of time, memory, and prevailing cynicism to reinvigorate America with an informed patriotism.

What Do You Know about America's Vice Presidents? (The official quiz that you, the reader, should take right now to determine if you need this book) How many vice presidents went on to become president? How many sitting presidents died or were forced from office? How many vice presiden...

William J. Bennett reacquaints America with its heritage in two volumes of America: The Last Best Hope. While national test scores reveal that American students know startlingly little about their history, former U.S. Education Secretary William J. Bennett offers one of the most grippi...

America, how well do you know your history? Who quelled a coup d'etat by putting on a pair of reading glasses? Which U.S. senator was nearly caned to death on the Senate floor? Which first lady refused to serve alcohol in the White House? What famous inventor was called to find the ...

"You and I became reconciled in April 1865, [and] have remained so since. . . . All [others] who are willing to be reconciled can do it by simply becoming good American citizens." ―William T. Sherman in a letter to Joseph E. Johnston It was the most trying time of the United States' you...

"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...

When Union General George McClellan marched toward the Confederate capital of Richmond in 1862, he encountered the Warwick River "where it wasn't supposed to be." McClellan was following a map created by an esteemed topographer, but the map was wrong! "The Cram Map" that McClellan was u...

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.