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

Masking the complete interval from the colonial period to the overdue 20th century, this publication is the 1st scholarly heritage of the homeless in the USA. Drawing on assets that come with files of charitable corporations, sociological reports, and various memoirs of previously homeless people, Kusmer demonstrates that the homeless were an important presence at the American scene for over 200 years.

To Be an FBI Special Agent

FBI unique brokers are particularly expert group of workers, selected from an in depth pool of candidates simply because they own particular components of workmanship, together with counterterrorism, counterintelligence, and cybercrime. To Be an FBI specified Agent offers all-encompassing assurance of the educational procedure. 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 battle and Reconstruction on my own introduced social and financial revolution to the South, Eelman unearths that antebellum Spartanburg businessmen endorsed a finished imaginative and prescient for modernizing their area.

Cushing of Gettysburg: The Story of a Union Artillery Commander

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