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Rev. Dr. J. Myron Smith is a minister of the gospel as well as an attorney. He handled many Civil Rights cases concerning police misconduct. He even used Chief Van Blaricom, the police misocnduct expert in the 2nd Rodney King case as an expert witness. He cries out for equal justice and equal love in America.

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From 1861 to 1865, the American Civil War saw numerous technological innovations in warfare--chief among them was the ironclad warship. Based on the Official Records, biographical works, ship and operations histories, newspapers and other sources, this book chronicles the lives of 158 ironclad captains, North and South, who were charged with outfitting and commanding these then-revolutionary vessels in combat. Each biography includes (where kn...

Baseball inspires widespread research and publication. Containing some 57, 000 entries, this volume includes citations, such as: books and monographs, scholarly papers, government documents, doctoral dissertations, masters' theses, poetry and fiction, pro team yearbooks, college and professional All-Star Game and World Series programs, and more.

1992 will mark the fiftieth anniversary of the great Pacific naval battles in the Coral Sea and off Midway Island. Occuring within a month of each other, these turning Point engagements brought an end to Japan's military expansion and six months of Allied defeat and retreat in the Pacific. Fought mostly over the ocean by airmen flying primarily from aircraft carriers, the battles were marked on both sides by courage and luck, forewarning and f...

This book-length, annotated bibliography provides more than 1500 citations from 11 languages. Not only is the published literature examined, but care has been taken to cite the main repositories in the USA and abroad holding data for the reinterpretation of the beginning of the War in the Pacific.

A bibliography which aims to bring control to the literature of American-style professional football. Organised by major categories, the book's combined author/subject index keyed to page numbers provides additional access to individuals' names, the teams themselves and other related topics.

PRnew edition of the definitive bibliography of the modern Npy-adventure-intrigue novel. After a discussion of early Dpy fiction, Smith and White provide a detailed listing of DAvels from 1940 onward. The bibliography is organized alphabetically, with entries providing brief content annotations. Access is enhanced by cross references as well as appendixes and author and title indexes.

Reference book listing the various types of printed literature devoted to the USA's various military aeroplanes and helicopters. The listing provides coverage of 525 fixed- and rotary-wing models, including prototypes, built since 1908.

Recounts the campaign to gain control of Yazoo River, which formed the developing northern flank for the South's fortress at Vicksburg, Mississippi. Huge battles and mighty expeditions were launched, but the city, guarded by stout defenses, swamps, and motivated defenders, could not be turned. Finally, Union troops ran down the Mississippi and came up from the south and the river defenses and the bastion itself were taken from the east.

This is the first published biography of Lieutenant Commander Le Roy Fitch, U.S. Navy. Fitch saw action on the Ohio, Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers, fought against Morgan, Wheeler and Forrest, as well as irregulars, commanded an ironclad monitor during the Battle of Nashville, and was renowned for his abilities in counterinsurgency and convoy tactics.

From 1861 to 1865, the Civil War raged along the great rivers of the Ohio and Mississippi valleys. While various Civil War biographies exist, none have been devoted exclusively to participants in the Western river war as waged down the Mississippi to the mouth of the Red River, and up the Ohio, the Tennessee and the Cumberland. Based on the Official Records, county histories, newspapers and internet sources, this is the first work to profile t...

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A Scottish immigrant to Illinois, Joseph Brown made his pre-Civil War fortune as a miller and steamboat captain who dabbled in riverboat design and the politics of small towns. When war erupted, he used his connections (including a friendship with Abraham Lincoln) to obtain contracts to build three ironclad gunboats for the U.S. War Department--the Chillicothe, Indianola and Tuscumbia. Often described as failures, these vessels were active in ...

Once the Union Army gained control of the upper rivers of the Mississippi Valley during the first half of 1862, slow and heavy ironclads proved ineffective in patrolling the waters. Hastily outfitted steamboats were covered with thin armor and pressed into duty. These "tinclads" fought Confederate forces attacking from the riverbanks, provided convoy for merchant steamers, enforced revenue measures, and offered tow, dispatch, and other fleet s...

The USS Carondelet had a revolutionary ship design and was the most active of all the Union's Civil War river ironclads. From Fort Henry through the siege of Vicksburg and from the Red River campaign through the Battle of Nashville, the gunboat was prominent in war legend and literature. This history draws on the letters of Ensign Scott Dyer Jordan and Rear Adm. Henry Walke's memoirs.