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Ten days after the US entered World War I, the USSB established the Emergency Fleet Corporation (...

Although slavery is illegal in all countries and banned by international law, there are an estima...

'The undead. Horrific monstrosities that will not remain at rest nor let the living be at peace. ...

Dr. Richard 'Dick' Cohen temporarily stepped away from his successful tenured university professo...

Moving from the volatile 1960s into the 1970s, baseball faced many challenges. The growing streng...

Go behind the scenes of Hollywood's horror and science fiction classics (and classic schlock) in ...

' A National Medal of Arts winner, Mel Brooks has kept us in stitches for 70 years, laughing at t...

From their first pairing in Hamlet (1948) to House of the Long Shadows (1983), British film stars...

Flash Gordon, Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars, and Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe, the most expen...

A top ten world chess player, George H. Mackenzie (1837-1891) dominated in the US for more than a...

After the first full-fledged punk singles arrived in 1976, many punks threw out nearly all their ...

Professional architects first began to arrive in California in the 1880s. These architects wanted...

This text provides a clear introduction to today's urban transportation issues and offers solutio...

With climate collapse looming and chemical geo-engineering poisoning the Earth's air and water, h...

George Washington Lee's story, Guarding the Gate City, has been called the great untold epic of t...

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' After 30 years, the beloved award-winning comic book series The Sandman has finally been adapte...

Science fiction and fantasy comics present colorful if disparate visions of the future, from post...

'Utilizing traditional academic and Indigenous research methodologies, this comprehensive work de...

Sportswriting has often been overlooked in histories of journalism, much as it was slighted by ne...

The Black Ball era of segregated baseball from the 1880s to the mid-1940s involves much more than...

One of the greatest teams in professional football history, and perhaps the best ever from the AF...

This book examines in detail for the first time the screen legacy of the great Irish-born Antarct...

During the antebellum period, African American women were at the center of the nation's battle be...

The Depression of the 1890s caused widespread economic suffering throughout the country and trigg...

An expansive look into the first 100 years of film music, this book delves into music in the movi...

''Ravens and crows, both members of the Corvidae family, have long captured human imagination. Ar...

In September 1999, the North Carolina Museum of History in Raleigh presented North Carolina and t...

The myth of the 'Black Legend'--a persistent representation of Spaniards as little more than loot...

In 1907, General J. Franklin Bell, Army Chief of Staff, changed the troubled Regular Army's white...

The earliest history of baseball in black America surfaces not just in the pages of the mainstrea...

Federal Brigadier General William Haines Lytle was a poet, Civil War soldier, lawyer, orator, fri...

British captain Robert Falcon Scott and Norwegian expedition leader Roald Amundsen were giants of...

Through conducting painstaking research and dozens of interviews, Robert Gaunt produced an except...

Even voracious readers are often unaware that women have worked outside the home from the earlies...

For millennia, ships have been used to fish; transport passengers and cargo; and bring divers to ...

In 1967, Marion Thede released The Fiddle Book, among the first instruction books ever printed fo...

This book studies masks in worldwide mythology and religion, the stories they tell, and the cerem...

Covers sex in William Blake's works and Blake's personal views about sex, and offers a more gener...

''The second in a two-volume set, this volume presents horror fans with a treasure trove of conte...

' Screen legend Peter Sellers first pratfalled onto the silver screen as the bumbling Inspector J...

''Since 1858 when the first piece of baseball music was published and performed, music has been a...

Since their inception, superheroes in comic books and other media have endeavored to guide the na...

Film music has become more than sound added to enhance the excitement and suspense of a dramatic ...

Shakespeare's identity--isn't that evident? How can anyone doubt that the world's greatest playwr...

The Scottish novelist Alistair MacLean didn't speak English until he was six, but he went on to b...

Originally published in 1999, this book won the Nelson Ross Award for 'Outstanding Recent Achieve...