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

Protecting the total interval from the colonial period to the overdue 20th century, this booklet is the 1st scholarly historical past of the homeless in the United States. Drawing on resources that come with files of charitable organisations, sociological reports, and various 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 distinctive brokers are especially knowledgeable group of workers, selected from an intensive pool of candidates simply because they own particular parts of workmanship, together with counterterrorism, counterintelligence, and cybercrime. To Be an FBI distinct Agent offers all-encompassing insurance of the educational method. Candid pictures of the FBI's education college in Quantico, Virginia, supply the reader an exceptional 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 unearths that antebellum Spartanburg businessmen encouraged a entire imaginative and prescient for modernizing their sector.

Cushing of Gettysburg: The Story of a Union Artillery Commander

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