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

Masking the whole interval from the colonial period to the past due 20th century, this booklet is the 1st scholarly heritage of the homeless in the US. Drawing on resources that come with files of charitable firms, sociological reports, and diverse memoirs of previously homeless folks, Kusmer demonstrates that the homeless were an important presence at the American scene for over 200 years.

To Be an FBI Special Agent

FBI designated brokers are especially informed 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 unique Agent presents all-encompassing assurance of the educational strategy. Candid pictures of the FBI's education institution in Quantico, Virginia, provide the reader an exceptional glance behind the curtain.

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 conflict and Reconstruction by myself introduced social and monetary revolution to the South, Eelman reveals that antebellum Spartanburg businessmen endorsed a complete imaginative and prescient for modernizing their area.

Cushing of Gettysburg: The Story of a Union Artillery Commander

" Kent Brown's attractive account of the occupation of Lt. Alonzo Hereford Cushing deals invaluable insights into the character of the Civil battle and the boys who fought it. Brown's brilliant descriptions of the warmth and exhaustion of compelled marches, of the fury of conflict, have seldom been matched in Civil battle literature.