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Here’s a little-known secret the agenda driven main stream media will never talk about: conservatives, independents, and liberals ALL own guns. It’s quite honestly one of the only issues that many on both sides of the isle can agree on, regardless of the agenda pushed by a biased media. Guns Save Lives describes 22 dramatic cases of self-defense with firearms in which intended victims stood up to violent criminals who were hell-bent on causing murder and mayhem. These would-be victims heroically protected the lives of their families, themselves, and in some cases, complete strangers, ...

Death Penalty: Where justice ends, execution begins. The death penalty has shaped legal systems, moral debates, and public opinion for centuries. In Death Penalty: Where Justice Ends and Execution Begins, author Alan Key explores the long and complex history of capital punishment and the ongoing debate over whether the state should ever have the power to take a human life. From ancient civilizations that relied on public executions to modern courtrooms wrestling with constitutional limits, this book traces how execution has evolved alongside society itself. Readers will learn how methods of...

The Civil War Did Not End the Way You Think What if the most important surrender in American history was not the final word? What if the war that tore a nation in half did not truly conclude at Appomattox, but instead fractured into a shadowy, chaotic aftermath that history quietly buried? In The Last Stand, acclaimed historian James Miller Francis pulls readers into the violent and emotionally charged final chapter of the American Civil War, where armies were still fighting, commanders were still defying orders, and thousands of soldiers refused to believe the war was over. Long after the ...

In Old Warhorse vs. Redemption Seeker, the clash between James Longstreet and Ambrose Burnside unfolds in the Western Theater, shaping the fate of East Tennessee and Chattanooga during the Civil War. For James Longstreet, the transfer to the Western Theater in 1863 offered opportunity. For his opponent Ambrose Burnside, the hope of redemption. Longstreet, who Robert E. Lee called his "Old Warhorse," had long labored in the shadow of both his army commander and the late Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson.

This book examines how authority in the United States is organized, how it shifted over time, and why the system now feels unstable and adversarial regardless of which party holds power. It is not about elections or candidates. It is an examination of how the system itself works and how it drifted away from the balance it was designed to maintain. At its core, the book focuses on federalism.

This captivating narrative brings the American Revolution to life through the perspectives of its many participants, both celebrated and unsung. Featuring imagined interviews with key figures like George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and King George III, alongside Native American leaders, European allies, and everyday civilians, the book offers an immersive, multifaceted exploration of the war that shaped a nation. Dive into the complexities of the era as historical figures share their thoughts, struggles, and triumphs in a unique conversational style that bridges past and present.

Deep in Louisiana's marshlands, where mist rises from ancient waters and Spanish moss whispers secrets in the wind, mysterious lights have danced for millennia. The Cajuns call them fifolet. Scientists call them marsh gas combustion. But for the people who've lived alongside these phenomena for generations, they're something far more profound—messengers from the spirit world, guides through treacherous waters, and the eternal call of home. LIGHTS IN THE DARKNESS explores the fascinating intersection where folklore meets physics, where ancestral wisdom encounters modern science.

Days of the Old Wild West charts the lives and times of the American expansion into the west during the 19TH century. It was a hard life for many but it paved the way for a new life and new opportunities to find the American Dream. Many of the names you will recognise and some could be new to you. But these frontier men, these gunslingers and card sharps made The West wild. They became the legends that many books and films have immortalised, and made the life of the Wild West so fascinating even now.

With the first shots fired across Charleston Harbor, Amy Ross knew her life would never be the same. When the War Between the States lands right on her family's doorstep that April 12th morning, they are forced to live with unprecedented hardships to survive. From the bombardment of their Charleston home and running the Union blockade, to stragglers from both sides taking what they no longer had to give, runaway slaves, murder, and the destruction of their plantation home by the Union Army, Amy and her family struggle to make it through every day alive. When everything she holds precious is...

Many famous battles throughout Native American and American history have been fought with both sides gaining victories or incurring losses. But those battles were fought by many famous warriors of the time. And not all of them were male warriors. “Where Everyone Knows Her Name” delves into the lives and the bravery of some of the female warriors fighting alongside their male compatriots and winning through in those battles. Some names you will recognise and some will be new to you. But put them altogether and read about the courage, determination and valour these female warriors showed ...

Before Jackie Robinson, there were the Pythians. In the summer of 1869, a team of young Black men took the field against white opponents in Philadelphia—the first recorded interracial baseball game in American history. They called themselves the Pythians, and their captain was Octavius Valentine Catto: scholar, athlete, Civil War veteran, and the most dangerous Black man in Philadelphia. Catto and his teammates weren't just playing baseball. They were waging a campaign for equality, using athletic excellence to challenge the assumptions of a nation struggling to define itself after the ...

The Comanche were the fiercest and most feared of tribes. A warring tribe. And a tribe, a people, fighting to preserve their traditions, values and the land they loved. Find out how such a tribe lived their everyday lives, how the Comanche almost fell into obscurity with the help of the ‘white man’ and how they rose again to be the Comanche Nation that they are today.

What if “discovery” didn’t mean what you think it means? Most people imagine discovery as curiosity, bravery, or exploration. A journey into the unknown. A story of first encounters and heroic endurance. This book suggests something quieter—and far more consequential. Uncovered does not argue that history was malicious. It shows how authority often arrives without announcing itself—through records, names, measurements, and rituals that feel harmless in the moment and decisive later. You will not find conspiracy claims here. You will not be told what to think. And you will not be ...

While serving as a crew chief aboard a US Air Force Rescue helicopter, Airman First Class William A. Robinson was shot down and captured in Ha Tinh Province, North Vietnam, on September 20, 1965. After a brief stint at the "Hanoi Hilton", Robinson endured 2,703 days in multiple North Vietnamese prison camps, including the notorious Briarpatch and various compounds at Cu Loc, known by the inmates as the Zoo.

Drawing comparisons to empires past, Johnson explores in vivid detail the likely consequences of US dependence on a permanent war economy, and what it will mean when the globe's sole "hyperpower" is no longer capable of paying for the vaulting ambitions of its leaders - and becomes the greatest hyper-debtor of all time. In his stunning conclusion, Johnson suggests that the crisis of a financial breakdown could ultimately prove to be the only path to a renewed nation.

How did a young tradesman in early 18th-century Philadelphia with no money, no connections, and no formal education end up as a leading scientist, an inventor, a master diplomat - and even a Founding Father of the United States of America? He used the same resource we have inside ourselves: a capacity for self-improvement.

Throughout the course of history, civilization has been blessed by strong-minded men and women who have impacted our world in extraordinary ways. Their imprint upon humanity is beyond dispute. And many would contend that they were no less than the result of Divine Providence - a gift of God to the human race. The Mark of a Giant examines the lives and contributions of seven men and women who changed the world: Abraham of Ur, Pericles, the Apostle Paul, Sir Isaac Newton, Marie Curie, Martin Luther King Jr., and Mother Teresa.

A classic story of imperiled love on the western frontiers of 19th-century America. While a battle rages between two outlaw gangs in a remote Utah canyon, Jim Wales struggles to rescue Helen Herrick, who has been captured and held for ransom. Robbers' Roost tells the story of their personal struggle to escape the clutches of the murderous outlaws while simultaneously safeguarding their passion, one that is not likely to survive the beautiful, yet deadly, terrain and people of the old American West.

A monumental tale of American ambition, told by Pulitzer Prize–winning author and master historian David McCullough. This gripping saga of the creation of the Brooklyn Bridge, one of the country’s boldest engineering achievements, reveals not only the politics and personalities behind...

A widening gulf between performance and accountability has caused history to be kinder to the American generals of World War II than to those of later wars. In The Generals we meet leaders from World War II to the present who rose to the occasion - and those who failed.