This entertaining history blends anecdote, incident, and analysis as it chronicles the story of our national pastime.

This is a study of a disturbing phenomenon in American society—the Ku Klux Klan—and that eruption of nativism, racism, and moral authoritarianism during the 1920s in the four states of the Southwest—Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and ...

In this biography, Charles Alexander turns his skilled eye to this complex individual, weaving the stories of his personal and professional life with a lively history of the sport.

Ty Cobb was one of the most famous baseball players who every lived. The author puts Cobb into the context of his times, describing the very different game on the field then, and successfully probes Cobb's complex personality.

This book takes a detailed look at the many achievements of Project Gemini such as the first spacewalk and the first on-orbit rendezvous of two spacecraft.

This book is lively enough for general readers and students of American history since the Second World War, yet probing and scholarly enough to interest specialists.

Charles C. Alexander, a professor of history at Ohio University, Athens, and the author of Ty Cobb, calls John McGraw "perhaps the single most significant figure in baseball's history before Babe Ruth transformed the game with his mammoth ...