On January 7, 1891, in the immediate aftermath to the assassination of Sitting Bull and the massacre at Wounded Knee Creek, an obscure Sioux Indian shot and killed one Lieutenant Casey in cold blood. This is the forgotten story of the civil trials of Plenty Horses for the murder of the last Whiteman to die in the Great Plains War, trials that ......
"What is the body? Endurance." --Rumi This book records the remarkable, heartwarming story of a courageous teenage boy who, after being gravely injured while using a farm machine, takes on its powerful manufacturer and wins. Steven Sharp was a hardworking, energetic sixteen-year-old, growing up happily in a tiny farming community in the ......
Joseph McCabe (1867-1955), a former Catholic priest became one of the best-known champions and a prolific populariser of free-thought and rationalism in the first half of the 20th century. He tackled some of the most controversial issues of the modern era such as: evolution, biblical errancy, and belief in God. This book features his biography.
Gad Franco in the Turmoil of the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic
This book explores the life of Gad Franco (1881-1954), a prominent Sephardi journalist, then a lawyer and a jurist, who worked relentlessly for the Jewish community's acceptance as part of the national Turkish polity, and for the consolidation of the rule of law.
In 1842, Peter Houston, an original settler of Boone's Station, Kentucky, wrote his recollections about the famous woodsman Daniel Boone. Houston's memoir spanned decades, from Boone's earliest forays into Kentucky until 1799, the year the famed woodsman left the Commonwealth for Spanish Missouri.
A True Account of Whaling and Redemption in the South Pacific
Nestled at the bottom of an old leather trunk for well over a century lay a forgotten manuscript—a long-lost story the authors great-great-grandson has now brought to life. At the heart of A Whaler at Twilight is the true account of an American whaler who embarked on a harrowing adventure in the South Pacific during the mid-nineteenth century ......
Hailed as the definitive portrait of the sixteenth president, Lincoln scholar Michael Burlingames impressive two-volume biography has been masterfully abridged and revised.
Sixteenth president of the United States, the Great Emancipator, and a surpassingly eloquent champion of national unity, freedom, and ......
Stella Adler towers high among the memorable acting teachers in American theatre. Her methods of training, her principles of acting and character interpretation, and her analyses of the seminal plays of the modern theatre comprise a legacy for everyone who followed her. Acting with Adler looks at that legacy through the particular immediacy and ......
