Eastern National Publications

An estimated two hundred photographers rushed to Johnstown to record what was clearly the greatest natural disaster of the 19th century. Carrying p...

Even at an early age, Frederick Douglass understood that knowledge led to freedom and that the written word could lead to change. As a formerly ens...

"Surrender did not stop the guns, nor did it solve any profound social and emotional issues that had ignited the war," writes author Trudeau. "Yet ...

By the end of the 18th century, over 15,000 enslaved African men, women, and children had arrived, labored, and died in what is now known as New Yo...

Part of the National Park Civil War Series. The Wilderness and Spotsylvania operations stand among the most fascinating episodes in American milita...

Fearing that as soon as the news of this defeat should reach the French...I began to raise a fort with a little palisade... - George Washington, Ma...

The image of a young soldier-scholar sitting in his bunk, writing by candlelight while enemy shells explode overhead certainly appeals to the roman...

Welcome to America’s National Parks! Get to Know Your Parks encourages young people to visit and learn about America’s national parks. This book h...

For more than 75 years, 14 journals, dating from 1835 to 1851, sat inside a trunk located within an attic of a Greek Revival town house at 210 Stat...

In mid-1864, to circumnavigate a direct assault on the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, Union Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant set his...

Paula Steichen was only two when she moved with her immediate family, the Sandburgs, to Connemara, a beautiful old mansion on more than two hundred...

Part of the National Park Civil War Series. For Missouri, the years immediately preceding the Civil War personified its status as a border state. A...

During the 30 years of the Cold War, America expanded its force of Minuteman inter-continental ballistic missiles. Today, some 450 Minuteman III mi...

Rene de Goulaine de Laudonnière (c. 1529–1582) was the leader of La Caroline, the first permanent French settlement in the western hemisphere. In ...

Established in 1949, Effigy Mounds National Monument in northeast Iowa covers 2,526 acres in the upper Mississippi River region. The mounds at the ...

Who owned the Ohio valley? What were the limits of the French’s incontestable territory? What was the goal of M. de Jumonville’s mission? And did W...

As a National Historical Park, Cumberland Gap is a magical and sometimes mysterious place brimming with an incredible diversity of plant and animal...

In April 1863, the 60,000 Confederate men marching under the orders of the Army of Northern Virginia were but a fraction of the size of General Jos...

Before the Battle of Antietam, Sharpsburg, Maryland was a simple city of farms and industries. But as with any village or town touched by war, Shar...

...the story is one of patriotism...what these people sacrificed, what they dared, and what they accomplished...was not simply the patriotism of in...

“Simply ‘Father’...is a wonderful book about my great-grandfather, Theodore Roosevelt, as seen ‘through the eyes of his children.’ It shows why his...

Why was a fort constructed along the Mississippi named Massachusetts? Why build a fortification on a barrier island far from the mainland shore? Wh...

Fortress. Redoubt. Stronghold. Tower. Castle. Bastion. No matter the word for them, forts across the United States have stood the test of time and ...

Fort George Island is located near the mouth of the St. Johns River in the northeastern corner of Florida. During the eighteenth and nineteenth cen...