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

Protecting the complete interval from the colonial period to the overdue 20th century, this booklet is the 1st scholarly background of the homeless in the United States. Drawing on resources that come with files of charitable companies, sociological experiences, and various memoirs of previously homeless individuals, 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 in particular educated group 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 distinctive Agent presents all-encompassing assurance of the learning strategy. Candid images of the FBI's education institution in Quantico, Virginia, provide the reader an unheard of 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 struggle and Reconstruction on my own introduced social and financial revolution to the South, Eelman unearths that antebellum Spartanburg businessmen recommended a complete imaginative and prescient for modernizing their sector.

Cushing of Gettysburg: The Story of a Union Artillery Commander

" Kent Brown's attractive account of the profession of Lt. Alonzo Hereford Cushing bargains useful 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.