Sutherland, Jonathan

The first African slaves were brought to Jamestown, Virginia in 1619 to work on plantations. However, it wasn't until the early 1830s that the modern abolition movement emerged in an effort to end slavery in a nation that viewed all men were created equally. The abolitionists condemned slavery on moral grounds while the slave owners wanted to perpetuate it. Over the following decades, the abolitionists strengthened their demands, fueling divisiveness, ultimately leading to Civil War.

Beginning in 1861, the battles of the Civil War resulted in sacrifice, bloodshed, and heroism. During the first two years of the war, Southern troops won many victories, but their fortune changed at Gettysburg and Vicksburg when Northern forces began to defeat the South. It is estimated that over 10,000 engagements were fought, with the Union forces finally declaring a victory in 1865.

The Civil War was over by the spring of 1865, and all the Confederate armies had surrendered, but for the victors, the peace was marred by the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. The long, painful process of rebuilding a united nation free of slavery began. The 13th Amendment, ratified in December 1865, ended slavery in the United States.

Presents a discussion of forensic techniques and developments in relation to poisonings, covering various cases involving substances such as arsenic, belladonna, digitalis, and thallium.

Photographs, diagrams, and text describe thirteen container ships and oil tankers from around the world, including the nineteenth-century steamship "Natchez" and the dredger "James Cook.".

This book features small creatures that live in nests, hives, and mounds, such as the army ant, dung beetle, and bee-killer wasp.

This book features flying insects, such as the hawker dragonfly, the chemical-spraying bombardier beetle, the tsetse fly, and the flesh fly.

Presents the history of the Berlin airlift during World War II that dropped food and supplies to the Russian people who were surrounded by Nazis. Provides background to the Russian blockade, and discusses the pilots who volunteered, the tonnage of supplies, the end of the airlift, and its legacy. Includes photographs, figures and statistics, a chronology, and primary source documents.

Contains over 250 alphabetically arranged entries that provide information on the participation of African-Americans in U.S. wars from colonial times into the early twenty-first century, covering individuals, themes, and concepts, and including photographs, and a chronology.

Presents a discussion of forensic techniques and developments in relation to violent crimes, covering various cases involving serial killers such as Peter Sutcliffe, Richard Speck, and Ted Bundy.