Farquhar scours the annals and rescues 30 of the most intriguing, unusual, and memorable Americans from obscurity. From the mother of Mother's Day to Paul Revere's rival rider, these figures are more than historical runners-up.-- Publisher

From This American Life contributor and self-described "history nerd" Sarah Vowell comes a collection of humorous and personal essays investigating American history, pop culture, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
In this insightful and funny collection of personal stories Vowell travels through the American past and in doing so ponders a number of curious questions: Why is she happiest when visiting the sites of bloody struggles...

An entirely new reference set on a subject that has never been covered as broadly and thoroughly in any other reference publication. It covers 400 of the most important and most publicized scandals throughout the world since the beginning of the twentieth century.

In the tradition of their Haunting of the Presidents, national bestselling authors Joel Martin and William J. Birnes write The Haunting of America: From The Salem Witch Trials to Harry Houdini, the only book to tell the story of how paranormal events influenced and sometimes even drove political events. In a narrative retelling of American history that begins with the Salem Witch Trials of the seventeenth century, Martin and Birnes unearth the roots...