miscellanea

A collection of facts, features, obscure details, and overlooked information about America's Civil War.

A colorful search and find activity book about various places in Canada including the Chilkoot Trail, Toronto, and Newfoundland.

A collection of anecdotes and stories about unusual people, attitudes, and events that occurred during the Civil War.

A collection of essays, cartoons, thoughts, and poems in which famous Americans say how they would make America a better place.

Answers such astronomical questions as "Why don't we fall off the earth?", "Can anybody go near the sun?", "Do stars shine forever?", and "Are there any space creatures?".

Profiles the wildest, strangest, and most outrageous people, places, and things in the state of New York.

Presents hundreds of facts about ancient Egypt, arranged by categories that include King Tut, pyramids, famous queens, and mummies and tomb-robbers.

Discusses the six tabloid articles which appeared in 1835 on the pages of a small New York City newspaper--the Sun--that supported claims of life existing on the Earth's moon, and describes unicorns, beavers that walk upright, and four-foot-tall flying man-bats.

Historian Richard Brookhiser uses his knowledge of the Founding Fathers to apply their views to the political and social issues that face modern society, including weapons of mass destruction, unwed mothers, minorities in the military, and other topics.

Contains 1,001 entries, arranged chronologically from 1860 through 1865, that provide information about significant characters, events, and cultural phenomena related to the Civil War.