A history of the television program and its celebrity character Bill Cody reveals the mixture of fiction, fact, and hype behind the scenes, and shows how it linked national identity, popular culture, and American history.

Michael Howard (1922–2019) was a leading British military historian who held professorships at the University of Oxford and Yale University. His many books included The Franco-Prussian War and War in European History. Peter Paret (1924–2020) was professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. His many books include Clausewitz in His Time, The Cognitive Challenge of War (Princeton), and Clausewitz and the State (Princeton)....

The founder of History Hustle presents a handy guide for expressing oneself with history's best words. This collection features scores of unique words that deal with surprisingly modern issues like sleeping in and procrastination--proving that some things never change.ange.

"Kliph Nesteroff's The Comedians brings to life a century's worth of rebels and groundbreakers, mainstream heroes and counterculture iconoclasts, forgotten stars, and workaday plodders in a groundbreaking history of this unique American art form."--Page 4 of cover.

Alfred Ryan Nerz is a Yale-educated author, journalist, and TV producer. He's also a longtime marijuana enthusiast who has made it his mission to better understand America's long-standing love-hate relationship with our favorite (sometimes) illegal drug. His cross-country investigation started out sensibly enough: taking classes at a cannabis college, hanging out with a man who gets three hundred pre-rolled joints per month from the federal government,...

"The Art of Eating through the Zombie Apocalypse" is a cookbook and culinary field guide for the busy zombie apocalypse survivor. Included are more than 80 recipes (from "Overnight of the Living Dead French Toast" and "It's Not Easy Growing Greens Salad" to "Down & Out Sauerkraut," "Honey & Blackberry Mead," and "Twinkie Trifle"), scads of gastronomic survival tips, and dozens of diagrams and illustrations that help you scavenge, forage, and improvise...

"In this beautifully written and powerful memoir, author Craig K. Collins ushers readers down a remarkable path--one that wends from the American frontier to present-day suburbia. Along the way, he explores the meaning of a history--of his family's and his country's--that is infused with the culture of the gun. Stops include an Indian massacre at Bad Axe, the siege of Vicksburg, the slaughter of buffalo in Montana, and the discovery of gold in a remote...

"During the academic calendar year of 1969 and 1970, there were 9000 protests and 84 acts of arson or bombings at schools across the country. Two and a half million students went on strike, and 700 colleges shut down. Witness to a Revolution, Clara Bingham's oral history of that year, brings readers into this moment when it seemed that everything was about to change, when the anti-war movement could no longer be written off as fringe, and when America...

"Meet Jake, a studious new freshman weighing how far to go to find a brotherhood that will introduce him to lifelong friends and help conquer his social awkwardness; and Oliver, a hardworking chapter president trying to keep his misunderstood fraternity out of trouble despite multiple run-ins with the police. Their year-in-the-life stories help explain why students are joining fraternities in record numbers despite scandalous headlines. To find out...

A comprehensive biography of the life and accomplishments of Jim Henson, puppeteer and creator of the Muppets.