Book excerpt: Articles Include: The 1570s; Armor Through the Ages; Mothers of Invention; Everyday Life in the Confederacy; Confederates in Brazil; Missions in the Southwest; The Women Who Won the West; Enduring Diamonds; Zoo Mania; Pope Joan; The 1810s; Gardening; Percivall Pott; Medieval Bookmaking; The Company of Adventurers; Russian America; The First Flight; A Day at the Beach; Hooked on Cod; The Doctor Who Started the Boer War; Veterinarians; Hindsight; Chewing Gum; The 1490s; Stagecoaches; The Victorian Internet; The Origins of Baseball; Belles of the Ballgame; The King James Version; The Life of a Maid; Windmills; Yellow Fever; Secret Intelligence; Board Games; Liquor and Language; The 1720s; The Hunt for Pancho Villa; The Age of the Viking Raids; The Grand Tour; Daughters of the King; The Piano; The Illustrious History of the Hearse; Guardian of the Crown's Pleas; The Long Hair'd Star; The History of Foxhunting; Microbe Wars; On a Carousel; The 1680s; Nose Jobs; River Steamboats; Life on the Canals; On Her Majesty's Service; The Conquest of Hawaii; Beekeeping; When the World Came to St. Louis; The Red River Rebellion; The Great Race; The Ferris Wheel Revolution; The 1200s; The History of Syphillis; The Silk Route; The Original Tom and Jerry; Everyday Life During the War of 1812; The Heirs of Copernicus; The History of Basketball; The Development and Decline of the American Poorhouse; The Introduction of Firearms; The Icyball. A4980HB - $25.00