Americans often think of their nation’s history as a movement toward ever-greater democracy, equality, and freedom. Wars in this story are understood both as
In this engrossing narrative of the great military conflagration of the mid-eighteenth century, Fred Anderson transports us into the maelstrom of international
"Born of rebellion and civil war, cut off from the rest of humanity after the Succession Wars, Haven has been bombed back to a pre-tech medievalism by a race of
Defending the Old Dominion describes historical events in Virginia during the War of 1812, examining how Virginia’s militia was organized, supplied, and finan