In print for the very first time, Carmen Franceschelli's diary tells in candid detail about 366 days spent working and living aboard the USS Hornet (CV-12) during World War II.
Come aboard the Hornet aircraft carrier with Carmen and his Navy buddies as they support actions in the Pacific's Mariannas, Marshalls, and Philippines. Early in 1944, their captain says to them, ". . . every man has to do his job with the best effort he can."
Writing in secret under his blanket every night by flashlight, the 19-year-old sailor records shipboard fears and frustrations, dreams and delights. Patriotic Carmen writes with pride of the Hornet's many successful missions--all the while longing for dry land underfoot and his mom Rachel's home cooking.

Carmen's Secret Diary: Aboard the USS Hornet (CV-12) in 1944

Naomi Sokol Zeavin

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The theory of peculiar affinity implies that Black people and White people in the 21st-century United States are connected by family, kinship, surnames, and genes. Peculiar affinity is profoundly implicated with racism in the United States. Peculiar affinity remained after the demise of slavery, but it transformed and adapted to the system of separate but equal. Peculiar Affinity: The World the Slave Owners and Their Female Slaves Made presents the discovery of a vital socioeconomic interconnection and interrelationship between White slave owners and enslaved Black women of the antebellum South during the second slave era of the 19th century, the domestic slave era. This interconnection and interrelationship consisted of a very strange dialectic of sex, which led to the reproduction of the bodies of the slave owners and their female slaves.
On a grand scale, and implemented on a consistent basis, this dialectic of sex transformed to a nexus of sex and reproduction of human bodies as commodities. The visual aspects appeared as a kind of veil that obscured actual family and kinship relations. In the antebellum South, the slave owner was the father, and the female slave and his wife were the mothers. The children from the slave owner's female slave and the children from the slave owner's wife were real and objective brothers and sisters with the same biological father.

Peculiar Affinity: The World the Slave Owners and Their Female Slaves Made

Gerald S. Norde Sr.

In 2008, we saw Hillary Clinton battle political outsider Barack Obama for the presidential nomination. This was followed by President-elect Obama appointing Clinton as his Secretary of State. In 1860, Abraham Lincoln was the unknown political outsider. Lincoln appointed his opponent as Secretary of State. Abe's fight wasn't waged for months on television. He didn't raise campaign funds on the Internet. He didn't even attend the nominating convention. Instead, his "Lincoln men" manipulated delegate votes (and more) behind the scenes in Chicago for a few days in May of 1860. Lincoln's First Nomination tells the exciting tale of tough infighting--along with the touchy racial and social issues that aroused our nation then, too. You'll hold your breath at every political twist and turn! And be amazed at the political parallels between 1860 and 2008.

Lincoln's First Nomination: Champagne, Deals, & Dirty Tricks

Jay C. Miner

Dozens of families helped shape these neighborhoods on the edge of the historic City of Fairfax, Virginia. Nothing Remains the Same describes and shows many of the small, single-family homes now gone. A property-by-property tour helps you envision this area of Fairfax County before it was changed by the construction of Route 66 and the Fair Oaks Mall&#8212;built-landscape features that we of the 21st century take for granted without thinking about the people who once called these lands "home." For genealogists, the author provides interesting details about relatives and neighborhood friends' daily lives, too.

Nothing Remains the Same: Jermantown, Legato, Pender, and Waples Mill during the 1920s and 1930s in Fairfax County, Virginia

Vincent D. Sutphin

Although he's not remembered as such anymore, Dr. William Christmas invented inset ailerons, which are still used over 100 years later on nearly every modern aircraft. His contemporaries included the Wright brothers and Glenn Curtiss. A Christmas Flight is the first-ever biography about the talented, yet now forgotten, man who made many important contributions to aviation. He built his first plane in secret on a farm in Fairfax County, VA, then moved his operations to College Park Air Field in Maryland, and later established a factory on Long Island, NY. A gifted inventor, Dr. Christmas was awarded his first patent, one of many, at age 18. He also designed an underground airport and a flying hotel. A Christmas Flight has 60 illustrations, 3 maps, an appendix of his aviation-related patents, and a timeline listing the aeronautical accomplishments of Dr. Christmas alongside those of Dr. Samuel P. Langley and the Wright brothers.

A Christmas Flight: Aviation Pioneer, Dr. William Christmas

Mary Buckingham Lipsey

Tennessee farm boy Clyde Taylor enlisted in the Signal Corps in 1917.  This book full of photographs draws you into Clyde's world of planes (LePere, De Havilland, Huff-Daland, Keystone, Fokker, Martin), fellow airmen (87th Aero Squad, 2nd Bomb Group, Lighter-Than-Air-Section, Jiggs Squadron), and places (Riverside, Venice, San Francisco, San Diego, Virginia Beach, Williamsburg, Long Island, Albuquerque, Salt Lake City) much changed in the 80 years since these pictures were taken. Many have never been published before. 160 pages; 147 illustrations; 1 map

Tennessee Aviator: The Military Flight Career of Clyde Taylor from 1917-1946 (Vol. 1: Photo Albums)

Thomas, Taylor

Whether they are beloved or despised, adored or ignored, our families indelibly make a mark on who we are. Director and screenwriter Terrell Tannen's life story, When Blood is Gone: A Memoir of Time, Place, and Family, is a star-studded, action-packed family drama. From venturing to a remote Mexican peninsula to meet storied director and actor John Huston to surviving one of America's worst train crashes to hanging out with guitar legend Link Wray as a teenager, Tannen's story is full of almost unbelievable encounters except they're all true.
But the greatest adventure in Tannen's memoir is family life and death. The son of an intelligence officer and a military nurse, Tannen and his older brother Bob spent their summers at Azalea s Acres, their Cofield grandparents farm in Monroe, Georgia. They also lived in an Indiana college town, desert New Mexico, the government employee communities of Washington, DC, and post-war Naples, Italy. While on a car trip through Italy, Tannen's father suffered a heart attack and passed away in his son's arms.
This event initiated what would become, for Tannen, a strange, close association with death, culminating in the eerily similar death of his brother decades later, and serving as a counterpoint to the challenges of assisting his aged mother through the last few months of her life.

When Blood is Gone: A Memoir of Time, Place, and Family

Terrell Tannen

Samuel Wilbert Tucker: The Story of a Civil Rights Trailblazer and the 1939 Alexandria Library Sit-In

Nancy Noyes Silcox

Lt. John Rob's adrenaline-fueled vignettes bring you the Vietnam War through the eyes of a 21-year-old who interrupted his college education to enlist in the U.S. Army. Initially trained as a tanker, Rob was reassigned to helicopter flight school at Fort Wolters, Texas. Once in Vietnam, he first worked out of LZ Sharon and then moved south to Tay Ninh. Rob was a flight leader with the 1st Cavalry 229th Assault Helicopter Battalion (AHB), a highly decorated unit. He led combat assaults in both I Corps and III Corps. He also flew Special Forces and Marine recon missions in Laos and North Vietnam. Strap on your chicken plate body armor, and fly along on missions ranging from psyops to Zippo-lit troop insertions to sling-loading a live water buffalo! FOREWORD by Hugh L. Mills Jr. author of Low Level Hell: A Scout Pilot in the Big Red One "This book's vignettes capture the bizarre to the sublime, and the mundane to the masterful use of helicopters in Vietnam. I know the story. I know the man. And I know you will be well served by this new memoir." 60 photos; 1 map; 2 Huey diagrams. Professionally edited and printed in the USA by History4All, Inc.

North Flag: My Service in the Republic of Vietnam, June 1968-June 1969

John V. Rob

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Carmen's Secret Diary: Aboard the USS Hornet (CV-12) in 1944

Peculiar Affinity: The World the Slave Owners and Their Female Slaves Made

Lincoln's First Nomination: Champagne, Deals, & Dirty Tricks

Nothing Remains the Same: Jermantown, Legato, Pender, and Waples Mill during the 1920s and 1930s in Fairfax County, Virginia

A Christmas Flight: Aviation Pioneer, Dr. William Christmas

Tennessee Aviator: The Military Flight Career of Clyde Taylor from 1917-1946 (Vol. 1: Photo Albums)

When Blood is Gone: A Memoir of Time, Place, and Family

Samuel Wilbert Tucker: The Story of a Civil Rights Trailblazer and the 1939 Alexandria Library Sit-In

Samuel Wilbert Tucker: The Story of a Civil Rights Trailblazer and the 1939 Alexandria Library Sit-In

North Flag: My Service in the Republic of Vietnam, June 1968-June 1969