In America’s National Cemeteries, Timothy B. Spears takes the reader on a grand tour of these singular places of commemoration, the final resting place for more than four million American military personnel who died either in wartime, during their time of service, or after their honorable discharge. His absorbing account—part historical narrative and part travelogue—is enhanced by 180 of his remarkable photographs, which capture the spirit, grandeur, and solemn remembrance to be found in each of the 155 national cemeteries across America and abroad.

A groundbreaking exploration of the Jewish marriage contract and its evolution in English translation

How Tennessee reformers reconciled Southern heritage with rising nationalism, weaving the Lost Cause into the fabric of American progress and identity

A revealing study on the little-known and misunderstood provincial navies established by North American British colonists

In “Echoes of Exile,” Daniela Spenser weaves together a history of Europe’s calamitous 20th century conflicts—the Holocaust, Communism, the Cold War—by tracing those events in the lives of her parents and grandparents of Czech, Polish, and German descent. Enhancing and humanizing extensive archival research with interviews and hundreds of personal letters, Echoes of Exile brings complex political history to vivid life in the story of one family's struggle to survive.

In “Echoes of Exile,” Daniela Spenser weaves together a history of Europe’s calamitous 20th century conflicts—the Holocaust, Communism, the Cold War—by tracing those events in the lives of her parents and grandparents of Czech, Polish, and German descent. Enhancing and humanizing extensive archival research with interviews and hundreds of personal letters, Echoes of Exile brings complex political history to vivid life in the story of one family's struggle to survive.