Down and Out, on the Road: The Homeless in American History

Protecting the whole interval from the colonial period to the past due 20th century, this publication is the 1st scholarly heritage of the homeless in the United States. Drawing on assets that come with documents of charitable businesses, sociological reports, and diverse memoirs of previously homeless individuals, Kusmer demonstrates that the homeless were an important presence at the American scene for over 2 hundred years.

To Be an FBI Special Agent

FBI distinctive brokers are in particular educated body of workers, selected from an intensive pool of candidates simply because they own particular parts of craftsmanship, together with counterterrorism, counterintelligence, and cybercrime. To Be an FBI specific Agent offers all-encompassing assurance of the educational strategy. Candid pictures of the FBI's education university in Quantico, Virginia, provide the reader an unheard of glance backstage.

Entrepreneurs in the Southern Upcountry: Commercial Culture in Spartanburg, South Carolina, 1845-1880

In marketers within the Southern Upcountry, Bruce W. Eelman follows the evolution of an entrepreneurial tradition in a nineteenth-century southern neighborhood outdoors the plantation belt. Counter to the view that the Civil warfare and Reconstruction on my own introduced social and monetary revolution to the South, Eelman reveals that antebellum Spartanburg businessmen recommended a finished imaginative and prescient for modernizing their quarter.

Cushing of Gettysburg: The Story of a Union Artillery Commander

" Kent Brown's lovely account of the occupation of Lt. Alonzo Hereford Cushing deals important insights into the character of the Civil warfare and the lads who fought it. Brown's vibrant descriptions of the warmth and exhaustion of compelled marches, of the fury of conflict, have seldom been matched in Civil conflict literature.