A collection of international recipes ranging from the Far East to Mexico.

Step-by-step instructions illustrate how to recreate some of the crafts and special events of the medieval period, including planning a medieval feast, making invitations, and preparing the food that would have graced a noble's table.

Uses activities and projects to illustrate what life was like on the American frontier.

Tunis's re-creation of 17th and 18th century America examines the everyday lives of those sturdy men and women who transplanted European culture to the New World.

In charming, beautiful, and wealthy old-South Savannah, Georgia, the local bad boy is shot dead inside of the opulent mansion of a gay antiques dealer, and a gripping trial follows

"Appalachia North is the first book-length treatment of the cultural position of northern Appalachia--the portion of the official Appalachian Regional Commission zone that lies above the Mason-Dixon line. For Matthew Ferrence this region fits into a tight space of not-quite: not quite "regular" America and not-quite Appalachia. Ferrence's sense of geographic ambiguity is compounded when he learns that his birthplace in western Pennsylvania is technically...

Lady Almina, the 5th Countess of Carnarvon, the real life person behind the PBS series Downton Abbey, is the focus of this book about her life in Highclere Castle, which draws on a rich store of materials from historical archives of diaries, letters, and photographs.