Frank Fiske was a young boy in 1890 when he moved to Fort Yates on Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, where Sitting Bull was being held in a form of house arrest. He observed the confrontation of two chosen people. The whites believed...
HISTORY / General
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Which Chosen People? Manifest Destiny Meets the Sioux, As Seen by Frank Fiske, Frontier PhotographerAuthor:Dodge, Robert V.Summary: -
Author:Van Buren, Abigail, Salinger, PierreSummary:In October 1992, Dear Abby asked her readers, "Where were you when President Kennedy was shot?" More than 300,000 people took the trouble to respond. While several responses were published in December 1992, it became obvious...
- Author:Sweeney, EmmetSummary:
Ages in Alignment argues for a complete reconstruction of ancient chronology. The histories of the Near Eastern civilizations are now believed to have commenced around 3300 BC, about 2,000 years before those of China and the New World....
- Author:Sweeney, EmmetSummary:
In The Pyramid Age, Northern Irish historian Emmet Sweeney provides evidence suggesting the pyramids were not built around 2350 BC, as is currently thought, but only around 800 BC. Sweeney's book argues that the dating of ancient...
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Author:Schieffer, BobSummary:One of the most influential families in American history, the Kennedys have had their lives documented by the media for the past 50 years. The Kennedys: America's Front-Page Family tells the story of this fascinating family through...
- Author:Moggridge, JackieSummary:
From her first flight at 15, Jackie Moggridge was hooked on flying. However, with the outbreak of World War II, Jackie's training was cut short. Determined to fly, she joined the ATA. Ferrying aircraft from factory to frontline was...
- Author:Dennis, Anita K., Dennis, Benjamin G.Summary:
Slaves to Racism is a unique cross-racial, cross cultural approach to racism from an insider/outsider viewpoint. Using numerous personal stories from the 1950s to today, from the American South and Midwest to Western Africa, the...
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Author:Andrews McMeel Publishing, The Poynter InstituteSummary:On Tuesday September 11, our world changed forever. The United States was attacked by an unknown terrorist organization. Word of this attack spread instantaneously around the world. Billions of people woke up on September 12 to find...
- Author:Mestrovic, Stjepan G.Summary:
Coalition and Iraqi troops raided an insurgent training camp southwest of Tikrit as part of Operation Iron Triangle May 9-11, 2006. After intelligence sources identified the 60-square-mile Muthana Chemical Complex, 200 soldiers from the...
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Author:Wright, Robert A.Summary:In November 1979, the American embassy in Tehran was invaded by a group of radical students who took 54 workers hostage. However, six diplomats secretly escaped. Here, author Robert Wright chronicles the escapees' harrowing ordeal...
- Author:Siollun, MaxSummary:
The author names names, and explores how British influence aggravated indigenous rivalries. He shows how various factions in the military were able to hold onto power and resist civil and international pressure for democratic governance...
- Author:Woods, Brett F.Summary:
Espionage fiction is one of the most popular forms of entertainment in the literate world and, since its widespread acceptance in the early 20th century, it has sought to pursue the secret politics of Western social order. Drawn from...
- Author:Carpenter, LeeSummary:
A defense analyst who served on the front lines of the struggle for military parity, the author was intensely engaged in the efforts of the U.S. technical, military and diplomatic communities to assess, counter and of course to seek to...
- Author:Hung, Hing MingSummary:
Li Shi Min was a man of great political and military accomplishments, narrated here with the battle stratagems and clever counsel that carried him forward. This book tells how he helped his father Li Yuan to establish the Tang Dynasty...
- Author:Emerson, ElizabethSummary:
In 1888, young Helen Keller traveled to Boston with her teacher, Annie Sullivan, where they met a man who would change her life: Boston Transcript columnist and editor Joseph Edgar Chamberlin. Throughout her childhood and young adult...
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Author:Flanagan, MikeSummary:Sparked by the fateful 73-second Challenger voyage, It's About Time began as a newspaper feature chronicling key moments in history and the length of time each took to occur. This fascinating book, complete with photographs, puts...
- Author:Scott, EmmetSummary:
Over the centuries the figure of the Queen of Sheba has loomed large in poetry and romance. The mysterious Queen, who is said to have visited Solomon in Jerusalem, has cast her spell over poets, painters and storytellers of many lands....
- Author:Skrabec, Quentin R.Summary:
George Westinghouse's story is rich in drama and in breadth, a story of power, city building, and applying the Golden Rule in business. His biography intersects with those of many great personalities of the Gilded Age, such as J.P...
- Author:Metaferia, GetachewSummary:
The book begins with historical references that describe how Ethiopia was viewed by ancient civilizations, then moves to an analysis of Ethiopia's relationship with European powers in the late 19th century which shaped the psyche...
- Author:Woo, X. L.Summary:
Empress Wu was stunning in her beauty, in her ruthless elimination of rivals (including sons and daughters), and, most important, in her discernment. Wu Zetian was esteemed for appointing capable officials throughout the realm, and...
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