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

Overlaying the full interval from the colonial period to the overdue 20th century, this booklet is the 1st scholarly heritage of the homeless in the US. Drawing on resources that come with documents of charitable corporations, sociological stories, and diverse memoirs of previously homeless folks, 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 detailed brokers are particularly educated team of workers, selected from an intensive pool of candidates simply because they own particular components of workmanship, together with counterterrorism, counterintelligence, and cybercrime. To Be an FBI detailed Agent presents all-encompassing assurance of the educational strategy. Candid photographs of the FBI's education college in Quantico, Virginia, supply the reader an unparalleled 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 battle and Reconstruction on my own introduced social and financial revolution to the South, Eelman reveals that antebellum Spartanburg businessmen encouraged a entire imaginative and prescient for modernizing their quarter.

Cushing of Gettysburg: The Story of a Union Artillery Commander

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