In this collection of stories from "Coastal Chronicles" magazine, Fryar presents 27 true, factually accurate tales of the historic North Carolina coast. (U.S. History)

After embarking on an 8,000-mile journey through the 13 original colonies and Canada in 1848, Lossing published this travelogue, which chronicles virtually every fight and skirmish of the Revolutionary War, with the stories often gleaned from eyewitnesses or their children.

Stockton presents portraits of a number of renowned pirates, male and female, including Columbus and Peter the Great.

Benson Lossing's original two-volume work, published in 1850, has been edited to reflect the Revolutionary War in Virginia and Maryland.