1842-1910

Provides insights to actions taken after the explosion of the USS "Maine" in 1898 in Havana Harbor, focusing on the key players at the time, Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge, William Randolph Hearst, Thomas Reed, and William James.

Provides insights to actions taken after the explosion of the USS "Maine" in 1898 in Havana Harbor, focusing on the key players at the time, Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge, William Randolph Hearst, Thomas Reed, and William James.

A narrative about personalities and American history is told through the story of an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872 to talk about ideas.

Biography of American author Henry James, discussing his early years, family, explorations of pragmatism and pluralism, and impact on modern intellectual history.

Chronicles the efforts of a small group of nineteenth-century scientists to examine unexplained instances of clairvoyance and ghostly visitations and find definitive proof of life after death.

Examines the development of an American philosophy between the end of the Civil War and 1919 by exploring the lives of four key metaphysical thinkers: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., William James, Charles Sanders Peirce, and John Dewey.

An invalid for most of her life, Alice James, sister to author Henry James and alienist William James, helps her brothers track Jack the Ripper.

Presents a look at the life and work of American philosopher, psychologist, and theologian, William James, providing information on his early life, his education, and his impact on philosophy and the social sciences.

Traces the origins, development, and flowering of the intellectual family, from its eighteenth-century Irish origins to the death of the novelist Henry James in 1916.