The Long Road to Annapolis examines the origins of the United States Naval Academy and the national debate that led to its founding. --from publisher descriptio

The United States established an academy for educating future army officers at West Point in 1802. Why, then, did it take this maritime nation forty-three more

In the decades before the U.S. Civil War, the city of Boston evolved from a dilapidated, haphazardly planned, and architecturally stagnant provincial town into

This book is primarily based on a collection of letters written by four young farmboy soldiers during the Civil War. The purpose of the book, through the letter

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