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Washington’s War, 1779Benjamin Lee HugginsISBN: 978-1-59416-301-2Cloth $26.00

Journal of the AmericanRevolutionAnnual Volume 2018ISBN: 978-1-59416-304-3Cloth $35.00

The Road to ConcordHow Four Stolen Cannon Ignited theRevolutionay WarJ. L. BellISBN: 978-1-59416-249-7Cloth $26.00

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In 1904, the United States was formally introduced to thescience of fingerprint identification. Scotland Yard had sentone of their best and brightest to the St. Louis World’s Fairto educate American law enforcement on how to use finger-prints in the pursuit of solving crimes and catching crimi-nals. One of the students was Matthew McClaughry, headclerk at Leavenworth Federal Prison and an agent for theDepartment of Justice. McClaughry would take what hehad learned from Scotland Yard and teach it to police,prison clerks, and others in law enforcement. Then thekillings began. In 1911, a family in Oregon and a couple inWashington State were murdered while they slept. Thekiller in both crimes used an axe he found at each home.The killings were swift and silent. The axe murders contin-ued—Colorado, Illinois, Kansas—but local police and sher-iffs were confident their killer was not “Billy the Axeman,”as some began to call the possible serial killer. The case tookan ominous turn one June evening in 1912, when an axe-wielding murderer extinguished eight souls in a singlehouse in Villisca, Iowa. With the nation desperate to havethe crimes solved, Matthew McClaughry was called in to tryand find latent fingerprints or other evidence that couldlead them to the killer. In Fingerprints: The Strange Case of Matthew McClaughryand Billy the Axeman, Andrew Young once again delves intoa significant historical crime, analyzing what we knowabout the cases—the victims, the suspects, the evidence—and how each was investigated. Using the history of finger-print identification to frame his narrative, the authorchronicles the early successes and failures of this new tech-nique, including the case of Billy the Axeman. No one wascharged with any of the murders and, like Jack the Ripper,the identity of the killer or killers has disappeared intospeculation and legend. The fingerprint database pioneeredby McClaughry, however, remains a major national tool incrime scene investigation.

NOVEMBER 240 p., 15 halftones, 6 x 9ISBN: 978-1-59416-308-1Cloth $26.00American HistoryWorld Rights

ANDREW YOUNG is a public historian and writer focusing onAmerican criminal and social history. He is the author ofThe Lost Book of Alexander the Great (Westholme 2014) andUnwanted: A Murder Mystery of the Gilded Age (Westholme2016). He and his family live in greater Cincinnati.

Praise for Unwanted: A Murder Mystery ofthe Gilded Age:“A sober and carefully researched narra-tive of murder and justice in the latenineteenth century.”—Foreword“Young traces the police investigationand subsequent trial while also placingthis sensational crime in the context of arapidly changing America.”—Gillian O’Brien, author of Blood RunsGreen

Andrew Young

FingerprintsThe Strange Case of Matthew McClaughryand Billy the Axeman

The Birth of Modern Crime Scene Investigation and theSensational Murders that Riveted a Nation

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On January 17, 1781, at Cowpens, South Carolina, thenotorious British cavalry officer Banastre Tarleton and hislegion had been destroyed along with the cream of LordCornwallis’s troops. The man who planned and executedthis stunning American victory was Daniel Morgan. Once abarely literate backcountry laborer, Morgan now stood atthe pinnacle of American martial success. Born in NewJersey in 1736, he left home at seventeen and found himselfin Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley. There he worked in millsand as a teamster, and was recruited for Braddock’s disas-trous expedition to take Fort Duquesne from the French in1755. When George Washington called for troops to joinhim at the siege of Boston in 1775, Morgan organized aselect group of riflemen and headed north. From thatmoment on, Morgan’s presence made an immediate impacton the battlefield and on his superiors. Washington soonrecognized Morgan’s leadership and tactical abilities. WhenMorgan’s troops blocked the British retreat at Saratoga in1777, ensuring an American victory, he received accoladesfrom across the colonies. In Daniel Morgan: A Revolutionary Life, the first biogra-phy of this iconic figure in forty years, historian AlbertLouis Zambone presents Morgan as the quintessentialAmerican everyman, who rose through his own doggeddetermination from poverty and obscurity to become oneof the great battlefield commanders in American history.Using social history and other advances in the disciplinethat had not been available to earlier biographers, theauthor provides an engrossing portrait of this storied per-sonality of America’s founding era—a common man inuncommon times.

ALBERT LOUIS ZAMBONE is host of the popular podcast“Historically Speaking.” He earned his PhD in AmericanHistory from the University of Oxford, an MA in MedievalStudies at the Catholic University of America, and a BA inHistory from Johns Hopkins University. He has received anumber of scholarships and awards in the field of earlyAmerican history, including a Rockefeller Fellowship fromthe Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. This is his firstbook.

Albert Louis Zambone

Daniel MorganA Revolutionary Life

A Major New Biography of a Hero of the Battles ofSaratoga and Cowpens and Leader of the Most FamousRifle Corps in the American Revolution

OCTOBER 384 p., 24 halftones, 6 x 9ISBN: 978-1-59416-315-9Cloth $30.00American HistoryWorld Rights



“I always tried to succor the wounded until medical aid andsupplies could come up—I could run the risk; it made nodifference to anyone if I were shot or taken prisoner.” Sorecorded Clara Barton, the most famous woman to emergefrom the American Civil War. In an age when few womenworked in hospitals, much less at the front, Barton servedin at least four Union armies, providing food and assistanceto wounded soldiers on battlefields stretching fromMaryland to South Carolina. Thousands of soldiers benefit-ed from her actions, and she is unquestionably anAmerican heroine. But how much do we really know abouther actual wartime service? Most information aboutBarton’s activities comes from Barton herself. After the war,she toured the country recounting her wartime experiencesto overflowing audiences. In vivid language, she describedcrossing the Rappahannock River under fire to succorwounded Union soldiers at Fredericksburg, transportingcritical supplies to field hospitals at Antietam, and enduringsearing heat and brackish water on the sun-scorched beach-es of South Carolina. She willingly braved hardship anddanger in order to help the young men under her care,receiving in return their love and respect. Most of Barton’sbiographers have accepted her statements at face value, butin doing so, they stand on shaky ground, for Barton was arelentless self-promoter and often embellished her stories inan effort to enhance her accomplishments. In Clara Barton’s Civil War: Between Bullet and Hospital,distinguished historian Donald Pfanz revisits Barton’sclaims, comparing the information in her speeches withcontemporary documents, including Barton’s own wartimediary and letters. In doing so, he provides the first balancedand accurate account of her wartime service—a service thatin the end needed no exaggeration.

Praise for Richard S. Ewell: A Soldier’sLife :“Shrewd, highly readable, and exhaus-tively researched.”—Kirkus“By far the best biography of Ewell.”

—American Historical Review“Magisterial.”—America’s Civil War

Donald C. PfanzClara Barton’s Civil WarBetween Bullet and Hospital

Through Battle Dispatches, Letters, and Other Records,Discovering the Wartime Service of America’s MostFamous Nurse

DONALD C. PFANZ is a graduate of the College of Williamand Mary. In his thirty-two-year career with the NationalPark Service, he worked at Fredericksburg and SpotsylvaniaCounty Battlefields Memorial National Military Park,Petersburg National Battlefield, and Fort Sumter NationalMonument. He is a founding member of the Associationfor the Preservation of Civil War Sites (now the Civil WarTrust) and has written six books about the Civil War,including Richard S. Ewell: A Soldier’s Life and War SoTerrible: A Popular History of the Battle of Fredericksburg.

OCTOBER 352 p., 25 halftones, 6 x 9ISBN: 978-1-59416-310-4Cloth $28.00American HistoryWorld Rights



CAROL GARDNER earned a PhD in English from JohnsHopkins University, and taught at Johns Hopkins, WakeForest, and Florida State Universities. A writer and journal-ist, she has published pieces in a wide variety of books andperiodicals, including the World of Baseball series,BluePlanet Quarterly, theWomen’s Review of Books, PortlandPress Herald, and theWashington Post. She is a past winnerof a Maryland Individual Artists award. She lives in Alna,Maine.

In the winter of 1650–51, one hundred fifty ragged andhungry Scottish prisoners of war arrived at MassachusettsBay Colony, where they were sold as indentured laborers for20 to 30 pounds each. Among them was Thomas Doughty,a common foot soldier who had survived the Battle ofDunbar, a forced marched of 100 miles without food orwater, imprisonment in Durham Cathedral, and a difficultAtlantic crossing. An ordinary individual who experiencedextraordinary events, Doughty was among some 420Scottish soldiers who were captured during the War of theThree Kingdoms, transported to America, and sold between1650 and 1651. Their experiences offer a fresh perspectiveon seventeenth-century life. The Involuntary American: A Scottish Prisoner’s Journey tothe New World by Carol Gardner describes Doughty’s life asa soldier, prisoner of war, exile, servant, lumberman, miller,and ultimately free landowner. It follows him and his peersthrough critical events: the apex of the Little Ice Age, theWar of the Three Kingdoms, the colonization of NewEngland, the burgeoning transatlantic trade in servants andslaves, King Philip’s and King William’s wars, and the Salemwitch crisis. First-person accounts of individuals who livedthrough those events—Scottish, English, Puritan, NativeAmerican, wealthy, poor, working class, educated or not—provide rich period detail and a variety of perspectives. The Involuntary American demonstrates how even indi-viduals of humble circumstances were swept into the mael-strom of the First Global Age. It expands our understandingof immigration to the colonies, colonial servitude, the link-ages and tensions between Europe, Massachusetts Bay, andAmerica’s northeastern frontier, and of New England socie-ty in the early colonial period.

Carol Gardner

The InvoluntaryAmericanA Scottish Prisoner’s Journey to the NewWorld

A Common Man’s Survival After Being Captured at theBattle of Dunbar and Sold into Servitude in America

NOVEMBER 256 p., 20 halftones, 6 x 9ISBN: 978-1-59416-312-8Cloth $28.00American HistoryWorld Rights



The twenty-first century has been labeled the “PacificCentury,” both in terms of economics as well as militaryaffairs. While South Korea and Japan have stagnated inthese aspects, the growth of China since 1980 is unprece-dented in modern history. While its economic achievementsare both well known and studied, the rapid development ofits military is not. In A Military History of China: From theFirst Recorded Battle to the Twenty-First Century, historianDavid Richard Petriello provides the first English languageaccount of China’s martial history. China’s military prowessextends across the centuries, and includes the invention orfirst use of gunpowder, landmines, rocket launchers,armored cavalry, repeating crossbows, multi-stage rockets,and chemical weapons—in many cases, long before theWest. Illustrated with more than one hundred maps and fig-ures, the book traces the general military history of Chinafrom the Neolithic Age to the present day. Particular atten-tion is paid to specific battles, military thinkers, the impactof geography on warfare in China, and the role played bytechnology. Likewise, the work examines the underlyingphilosophy of why China goes to war. Because China’s mili-tary weakness over the past two centuries compared to theWest has given a false sense of China’s potential, a thoroughknowledge of the men, battles, tactics, geography, strategies,philosophy, and experiences of war throughout Chinesehistory are vital to prepare students, scholars, soldiers, andpoliticians for the return of China as a major innovativeand global military power.

David Richard Petriello

A Military History ofChinaFrom the First Recorded Battle to the Twenty-First Century

A General History of China’s Four Thousand Years ofMilitary Innovation and Expansion

DAVID RICHARD PETRIELLO earned degrees from Seton HallUniversity, Montclair State University, and St. John’sUniversity in American and Asian history, and currentlyteaches history at Caldwell University, New Jersey. The sonof a biologist and a nurse, he incorporates science into hishistorical studies. His publications include Bacteria andBayonets: The Impact of Disease in American MilitaryHistory and Tide of War: The Impact of Weather on Warfare.He and his family live in New Jersey.

OCTOBER 440 p., 120 halftones, 6 x 9ISBN: 978-1-59416-311-1Cloth $35.00Military HistoryWorld Rights



The spring of 1812 found the young American republic onedge. The British Navy was impressing American seamenwith impunity at an alarming rate while vicious attacks onfrontier settlements by American Indians armed withBritish weapons had left a trail of fear and outrage. As callsfor a military response increased, Kentucky, the first statewest of the Appalachians, urged that only by defeating theBritish could the nation achieve security. The very thoughtconjured up embellished memories of the AmericanRevolution, and once war was declared, many soldiersbelieved that the “Spirit of 76” would lead them to victory.But the conflict quickly transformed from a patrioticparade to a desperate attempt to survive against a majormilitary power. While the War of 1812 is known mostly forlater events, including the burning of Washington and thesiege of Fort McHenry, much of the first two years of thewar was fought in the west, with the British Army and theirIndian allies nearly overrunning the Old Northwest andthreatening the borders of the original colonies. In The War of 1812 in the West: From Fort Detroit to NewOrleans, David Kirkpatrick chronicles the near catastrophicloss of the Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois Territories, the bitterfight against both Tecumseh’s Confederation and the CreekNation, and the slow recovery and ultimate victory ofAmerican forces—a large portion of which was supplied byKentucky—from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. Battlessuch as River Raisin, Thames River, Fort Meigs, and NewOrleans are placed in context to show how they securedAmerica’s frontier and opened territory to the west to newsettlement following the war.

DAVID KIRKPATRICK currently serves as the Genealogy/Reference Librarian at Mercer County (Kentucky) PublicLibrary and has spent more than a decade working as anarchivist for the Kentucky Department for Libraries andArchives. He has a BA in history from the University ofLouisville and an MA in history from Western KentuckyUniversity. This is his first book.

NOVEMBER 288 p., 20 halftones, 6 x 9ISBN: 978-1-59416-309-8Cloth $30.00Military HistoryWorld Rights

David Kirkpatrick

The War of 1812 in theWestFrom Fort Detroit to New Orleans

With the State of Kentucky in the Lead, the Battle toSecure the American Frontier for Westward Expansion



Roger Williams’s Key into the Language of America, first pub-lished in 1643, is one of the most important artifacts of earlyIndigenous American culture. In it, Williams recorded theday-to-day experience of the Narragansett people of RhodeIsland in their own words, the first documentation of anAmerican Indian language in English. Williams’s Key can beread at many levels because of its historical, literary, politi-cal, and religious significance. Its greatest value, though, isits intimate portrait of the Narragansett and their linguisticneighbors in the early years of European colonial settlement,before disease, dislocation, warfare—in particular, KingPhilip’s War—and colonial interference had diminishedtheir population and power in the region. An extraordinaryachievement, Williams’s Key gives us a contemporaryaccount of Narragansett family life, of their sociability andskill in business, their dress, foodways, and the farming, fish-ing, and hunting that formed the basis of their sustenancepractices. This new Tomaquag Museum edition includes for the firsttime cultural commentary provided by the NarragansettTribe as well as modern linguistic information provided by aleading authority in the study of American Indian lan-guages. The Tomaquag Museum, located in Exeter, Rhode Island,is an Indigenous nonprofit organization dedicated to shar-ing the culture, arts, and history of the Narragansett andother tribal communities of southern New England.

OCTOBER 288 p., 10 halftones, 6 x 9ISBN: 978-1-59416-314-2Paper $22.00ISBN: 978-1-59416-313-5Cloth $50.00American HistoryWorld Rights

KATHLEEN BRAGDON, PhD, is professor of anthropology atthe College of William and Mary. DAWN DOVE, BSEd, is aNarragansett Elder, language teacher, author, artist, andculture bearer. DOROTHY HERMAN PAPP, MEd, is a copyeditor with a keen interest in Indigenous cultures. SANDRA ROBINSON, MS, is a research scientist and aNarragansett language student. LORÉN SPEARS, MSEd,Narragansett, is the executive director of the TomaquagMuseum, and an artist, author, and cultural educator.

Roger Williams

A Key into theLanguage of AmericaThe Tomaquag Museum Edition

Kathleen Bragdon, Dawn Dove, DorothyHerman Papp, Sandra Robinson, and LorénSpears, Editors



Known to history as “Dunmore’s War,” the 1774 campaignagainst a Shawnee-led Indian confederacy in the OhioCountry marked the final time an American colonial militiatook to the field in His Majesty’s service and under royalcommand. Led by John Murray, the fourth Earl ofDunmore and royal governor of Virginia, a force of colo-nials including George Rogers Clark, Daniel Morgan,Michael Cresap, Adam Stephen, and Andrew Lewis success-fully enforced the western border established by treaties inparts of present-day West Virginia and Kentucky. The cam-paign is often neglected in histories, despite its major influ-ence on the conduct of the Revolutionary War that fol-lowed. In Dunmore’s War: The Last Conflict of America’sColonial Era, award-winning historian Glenn F. Williamsdescribes the course and importance of this campaign. As an immediate result of Dunmore’s War, the frontierremained quiet for two years, giving the colonies the criticaltime to debate and declare independence before Britainconvinced its Indian allies to resume attacks on Americansettlements. Although he was hailed as a hero at the end ofthe war, Lord Dunmore’s attempt to maintain royal author-ity put him in direct opposition to many of the subordi-nates who followed him on the frontier, and in 1776 he wasdriven from Virginia and returned to England.

Praise for Dunmore’s War :“Far-reaching and insightful analysis. . . .Dunmore’s War will become the standardwork on the conflict.”

—Journal of America’s Military Past“At last, we have a gripping narrative ofthat pivotal event that cuts through thehistorical misunderstanding that still sur-rounds it.”—David L. Preston“An outstanding example of how to writehistory.”—Daily News (Galveston, Texas)

Glenn F. Williams

Dunmore’s WarThe Last Conflict of America’s Colonial Era

NEW IN PAPERBACK: The Acclaimed Account of One ofthe Most Important Events on the Eve of the AmericanRevolution

SEPTEMBER 400 p., 20 halftones, 6 x 9ISBN: 978-1-59416-317-3Paper $24.00Military HistoryWorld Rights

GLENN F. WILLIAMS is a historian at the U.S. Army Center ofMilitary History, Fort McNair, Washington, DC. He hasserved as the historian of the National Museum of the U.S.Army Project, the Army Lewis and Clark BicentennialCommemoration, and the National Park Service’s AmericanBattlefield Protection Program. He is the author of a num-ber of books and articles, including the award-winning Yearof the Hangman: George Washington’s Campaign Against theIroquois (Westholme 2005). He earned a PhD in historyfrom the University of Maryland.



A haven for pirates and the center of the New World’s fren-zied trade in slaves and sugar, Port Royal, Jamaica, was anotorious cutthroat settlement where enormous fortuneswere gained for the fledgling English empire. But on June 7,1692, it all came to a catastrophic end. Drawing on researchcarried out in Europe, the Caribbean, and the United States,and utilizing little-known first-hand accounts and otherprimary sources, Apocalypse 1692: Empire, Slavery, and theGreat Port Royal Earthquake by Ben Hughes intertwinesseveral related themes: the rise of sugar plantation slaveryand its horrors; the struggle between England, France, andSpain for control of lucrative Caribbean resources, culmi-nating in England’s bloody repulse of a full-blown Frenchinvasion of Jamaica; and the slave rebellion that led to theestablishment of the first permanent free black communi-ties in the New World. The book also features the mostcomprehensive account yet written of the massive earth-quake and tsunami which struck Jamaica in 1692, resultingin the deaths of thousands, and sank a third of the citybeneath the sea. From the misery of everyday life in thesugar plantations, to the ostentation and double-dealings ofthe plantocracy; from the adventures of former-pirates-turned-treasure-hunters to the debauchery of Port Royal,Apocalypse 1692 exposes the lives of the individuals whomade late seventeenth-century Jamaica the most financiallysuccessful, brutal, and scandalously corrupt of all ofEngland’s nascent American colonies.

Praise for Apocalypse 1692:“A rousing, colorful and deeply researchedaccount. . . . Mr. Hughes has given theeerie ruin of Port Royal a second, vibrantlife.”—Wall Street Journal“Well-crafted narrative history. . . . anentertaining and substantial account of anunderdiscussed era.”—Publishers Weekly“A terrifying, exhilarating voyage of dis-covery.”—Benjamin Woolley, author ofSavage Kingdom

Ben Hughes

Apocalypse 1692Empire, Slavery, and the Great Port RoyalEarthquake

NEW IN PAPERBACK: The Best-Selling History of the Riseof Plantation Slavery, the Battle for the Caribbean, and aPunishing Natural Disaster

SEPTEMBER 288 p., 15 halftones, 6 x 9ISBN: 978-1-59416-316-6Paper $22.00World HistoryWorld Rights

BEN HUGHES is the author of a number of books of history,including Conquer or Die: Wellington’s Veterans and theLiberation of the New World and The Siege of Fort WilliamHenry: A Year on the Northwest Frontier (Westholme 2011).He is a lecturer and teacher trainer. He received his degreefrom Leeds University and has lived and worked in Englandand Colombia and currently resides in Santiago, Chile, withhis family.



Praise for The Rhode Island Campaign:“McBurney has written an importantbook. Using sources that have beenheretofore overlooked, he provides afresh, nuanced, and compelling interpre-tation of the United States’s first jointoperation.”—Dennis Conrad“Colorful descriptions abound, woven intoin-depth accounts of military strategyand action.”—South County Independent

On July 29, 1778, a powerful French naval squadronappeared at the entrance of Narragansett Bay. Its goal wasto help the Americans capture the British garrison atNewport, Rhode Island. As the French moved into the bay,surprised British captains scuttled many of their vesselsrather than risk capture, resulting in the most significantloss of warships suffered by the British navy during the war.The French then turned to sea to engage the main Britishfleet but were scattered and damaged by a huge storm, tak-ing them out of the campaign. The American army underGeneral John Sullivan, meanwhile, was stranded on a smallisland near Newport without the expected French navalsupport. When they tried to retreat, British and Hessianregulars were sent to destroy Sullivan's army; instead of arout, a running battle ensued. The Continentals, brimmingwith confidence after their training during the winter ofValley Forge, once more proved that they were an effectivefighting force, despite the campaign’s failure. The Rhode Island Campaign: The First French andAmerican Operation in the Revolutionary War unravels oneof the most complex and multifaceted events of the war,one which combined land and sea strategies and featuredcontroversial decisions on both sides. Many prominentpatriots participated, including Nathanael Greene, Marquisde Lafayette, John Hancock, and Paul Revere. Most impor-tant, while the lack of success led to harsh criticism of theFrench in some quarters, leaders such as Greene, Lafayette,and George Washington steadfastly worked to ensure thatthe alliance would remain intact, knowing that the nextjoint operation could well succeed. Relying on in-depthresearch from American, French, British, and German origi-nal sources, author Christian M. McBurney has written themost authoritative book on this fascinating episode.

SEPTEMBER 400 p., 35 halftones, 6 x 9ISBN: 978-1-59416-306-7Paper $24.00Military HistoryWorld Rights

Christian M. McBurney

The Rhode IslandCampaignThe First French and American Operation inthe Revolutionary War

NEW IN PAPERBACK: The Definitive History of theCampaign That Laid the Groundwork for Yorktown

CHRISTIAN M. MCBURNEY is author of a number of bookson Rhode Island and American history, including A Historyof Kingston, Rhode Island, 1700–1900, British Treatment ofPrisoners During the Occupation of Newport, 1776–1779, andKidnapping the Enemy: The Special Operations to CaptureGenerals Charles Lee and Richard Prescott (Westholme2014). A graduate of Brown University, he is a partner in aWashington, DC, law firm.



Praise for Mrs. Goodfellow :“A delicious exploration of the life andlegacy of one of America's most influen-tial cooks.”—Pennsylvania Heritage“Fills a large gap in American culinaryhistory.”—Library Journal“A fascinating sociocultural and commer-cial history.”—Publishers Weekly“Becky Diamond is the expert on this fas-cinating historical figure.”—Chef WalterStaib, A Taste of History (PBS)

In Philadelphia during the first decades of the nineteenthcentury, a widow, Mrs. Elizabeth Goodfellow, ran a popularbakery and sweet shop. In addition to catering toPhiladelphia’s wealthy families and a reputation of makingthe finest desserts and sweet dishes in the young country,her business stood out from every other establishment inanother way: she ran a small school to teach the art ofcooking, the first of its kind in America. Despite her notori-ety—references to her cooking as a benchmark abound inthe literature of the period—we know very little about whoshe was. Since she did not keep a journal and never pub-lished any of her recipes, we have to rely on her students,most notably Eliza Leslie, who fortunately recorded manyof Goodfellow’s creations and techniques. Goodfellow isknown for making the first lemon meringue pie and forpopularizing regional foods, such as Indian (corn) meal. By assembling the many parts of this puzzle from oldrecipe books, advertisements, letters, diaries, genealogicalrecords, and other primary sources, the author has beenable to provide a more complete portrait of this influentialfigure in cooking history. Mrs. Goodfellow: The Story ofAmerica’s First Cooking School begins with what we knowabout Elizabeth Goodfellow and the kinds of foods thatwould have been available to her and how she may haveused them, and then turns to the rise of both commercialeating establishments and books of recipes. From here, theauthor explains the rapid expansion of cooking schools,such as the New York Cooking Academy and the BostonCooking School, made famous through its association withFannie Farmer, and ends with a discussion of the role ofcelebrity chefs. Thoroughly researched and including arange of authentic recipes, Mrs. Goodfellow is a deliciousexploration of the life and legacy of one of America’s mostinfluential cooks.

Becky Libourel Diamond

Mrs. GoodfellowThe Story of America’s First Cooking School

NEW IN PAPERBACK: Recovering the Life and Influence ofElizabeth Goodfellow, the “Mother of American Cooking”

SEPTEMBER 288 p., 25 halftones, 6 x 9ISBN: 978-1-59416-307-4Paper $22.00American HistoryWorld Rights

BECKY LIBOUREL DIAMOND is a journalist and research histo-rian who specializes in reconstructing eighteenth- andnineteenth-century American recipes. She is the author ofthe bestselling The Thousand Dollar Dinner: America’s FirstGreat Cookery Challenge (Westholme 2015). She lives inYardley, Pennsylvania, with her family.



SEPTEMBER 256 p., 25 halftones, 6 x 9ISBN: 978-1-59416-318-0Paper $22.00American HistoryWorld Rights

Praise for Southern Reconstruction:"Leigh expands our understanding of thiscrucial period by showing how its focusextended far beyond the issue of racethat some interpretations stress. . . .Highly recommended.”—Choice“Leigh’s thoughtful examination of theReconstruction era delves into the veryreal costs . . . shedding light on why gen-erations of Southerners continue to spiri-tually fight the war.”—Publishers Weekly

Philip Leigh

SouthernReconstruction

NEW IN PAPERBACK: The Powerful Account of theDevastating, Long-Term Effect of Reconstruction Politicson Both Black and White Southerners

The Reconstruction Era—the years immediately followingthe Civil War when Congress directed the reintegration ofthe former Confederate states into the Union—remains, asEric Foner suggested, “America’s unfinished revolution.” ButReconstruction is more than a story of racial injustice; ithas left a complex legacy involving both whites and blacks,Southerners and Northerners, that is reflected today by thefact that the overwhelming number of states with the high-est rates of poverty were part of the former Confederacy. InSouthern Reconstruction, Philip Leigh examines the legisla-tion enacted during and immediately after the Civil War,and the administrations of presidents Andrew Johnson andUlysses S. Grant, to broaden our understanding of this era. With the exception of the Emancipation Proclamation,most histories of Reconstruction fail to explain adequatelyhow other Civil War polices affected the South after thewar. Among them were the Confiscation Acts (1861),Morrill Tariff (1861), Pacific Railroad Acts (1862–1866),Homestead Act (1862), Legal Tender Act (1862), NationalBanking Acts (1863, 1864), and Veterans Pensions Acts(1862–1865). These laws transformed America’s bankingsystem, built a railroad web, and inflated governmentspending with vote-getting pensions for veterans—a sumthat reached a staggering 40 percent of the federal budget in1893. Civil-War-era legislation also created a dubiousalliance between banks and government, sparked corrup-tion, trapped Southern farmers—both black and white—inendless annual peonage cycles, and failed to provide landsfor freedmen. While Reconstruction was intended to returnthe South to the Union, it could not be effective with thecrippling wartime legislation and ensuing federal policiesthat disfranchised many whites, fostered racial animosity,abetted Southern poverty, and lined the pockets of wealthyor politically well-connected business leaders.

PHILIP LEIGH is the author of a number of books, includingLee’s Lost Dispatch and Other Civil War Controversies andTrading with the Enemy: The Covert Economy During theAmerican Civil War. From 2012 to 2015 he was a regularcontributor to the New York Times Disunion Series, whichcommemorated the Sesquicentennial of the Civil War. Hehas an engineering degree from the Florida Institute ofTechnology and an MBA from the Kellogg School ofManagement at Northwestern University.


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Cover: “Kearney’s men wounded at Fredericksburg.” Detail.(Library of Congress ); back,Surrender of General Burgoyne byJohn Trumbull, 1821. Detail showing Daniel Morgan at left.(United States Architect of the Capitol )

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