Recounts myths of the closing decades of the western frontier viewed through the eyes of Nellie Courtright and her brother Jackson, orphans that make good in th

A complete history of how the telegraph revolutionized technological practice and life in America. Telegraphy in the nineteenth century approximated the interne

In the popular literature and scholarship of the Civil War, the days immediately after the surrender at Fort Sumter are overshadowed by the great battles and se