Product Description: Winner of the Society for American Travel Writers’ Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism 2016 Gold Award in the Guidebook CategoryFew regions of the United States boast as many historically significant sites as the mid-Atlantic. Travels through American History in the Mid-Atlantic brings to life sixteen easily accessible historical destinations in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Washington, D...read more

All but forgotten by Americans, the War of 1812 (1812–1815) was a dramatic watershed for the young, groundbreaking United States Republic. Ill-prepared to fight the powerful English nation, the U.S. struggled through three years of conflict but emerged more unified with new patriotic symbols like the "Star-Spangled Banner." Much of the fighting occurred in the Chesapeake region and this new book, In Full Glory Reflected, uncovers its gripping stories of devastating raids, heroic defense, gallant privateers, fugitive slaves, and threatened lands. The historic tales unfold with a lively narrative, well over a hundred vivid illustrations, and clear maps to follow the action. In addition, a travel section provides a rich guide for adventurers who want to step back 200 years and explore the tidewater world where the war was fought. In Full Glory Reflected is an enchanting invitation to travel the Star- Spangled Banner National Historic Trail and discover the amazing world of our ancestors.

Welcome to War of 1812 tidewater country. Here, in the waters and on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay, Americans fought to preserve their recently won independence from the British. Detailing sites from Maryland to Virginia to the District of Columbia, this portable guidebook points readers to the war’s most important battlefields and historic places. The book is organized into eighteen tours. Five Historic Route Tours guide enthusiasts down the same roads and past the same buildings that proved critical in the struggle. Thirteen Historic City, Town, and Regional Tours feature key sites in Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia. Visitors can pick a tour and follow the President and First Lady as they fled Washington, D.C., or British troops as they landed at North Point, or the Declaration of Independence as patriots saved it from the invaders. The tours are organized geographically to make trip planning easy. All are accessible by car or on foot; bike and water excursions are also suggested where appropriate. Each tour includes a brief history and information every visitor will need to know, such as the address, phone number, website, parking availability, days and hours of operation, and entrance fees. The guide is richly illustrated throughout, showing many structures that no longer exist and numerous historic sites not visible from public roads. Detailed maps direct visitors to each site. Tourists can step back in time as they travel the same roads and waterways that American and British troops did two centuries ago.

Product Description: To most history travelers, Virginia IS the Civil War. It is the state where the Battles of Chancellorsville, Fredericksburg, Petersburg, the Wilderness, and Manassas took place. The city of Richmond was the capital of the Confederacy...read more

Product Description: The War of 1812 between the United States and Great Britain was fought throughout nearly all of the country, from the waters of the Atlantic Ocean to the vast frontier between the U.S. and Canada. No theater of war suffered more than the Chesapeake Bay region, where 11 battles―including Craney Island, Hampton, Bladensburg, and Baltimore―63 skirmishes, and 86 raids took place...read more

Product Description: Haunted Battlefields leads you on a literary journey to thirteen of Virginia's most haunted Civil War sites in search of spectral residents. Visit Cold Harbor, Henry House Hill, and the Bull Run Bridge at Manassas, Fredericksburg's Sunken Road, Grant's Headquarters at Appomattox Manor, and many more ghostly places...read more

Product Description: Using five self-guided loop driving tours, Blue Ridge Roadways introduces its readers to the culture and history of a sixteen-county area in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains.

Product Description: FASTEN YOUR SEAT BELTS for a car tour that tracks the end of the British Southern Campaign to its conclusion at the Battle of Yorktown, the last major battle of the Revolutionary War. The colonial routes of Massachusetts were deemed far enough inland to be safe from enemy attack...read more

Product Description: A dizzying series of momentous military actions occurred in Virginia in 1863. A year that began with Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia possessing the advantage in the field ended with the Southern army in tatters but still strong enough to hold back George G...read more

Product Description: Independent scholar Johnson describes the life of Confederate military leader Stonewall Jackson through an examination of the places he knew in the U.S. and Canada. These include the church in New York City where he was baptized, famous battle sites, and his horse's grave...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book guides the reader through Mosby's battles and his early years. As some of Mosby's trails erode and buildings he used come down, many of the photographs can never be retaken. Includes both long and short tours the reader can take. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: The first volume in The Civil War Explorer Series to be set in the eastern theater of the Civil War, Forged in Fire describes the significant campaigns of 1861 and 1862 and provides an easy-to-follow tour guide of the battlefields today. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The reader is taken along the bloody routes during the final year of the Civil War visiting more than 200 sites. The book is organized so that the reader has the option of touring the entire campaign or a single battle. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: From back cover - What is Inside: Story of Americas First Frontier; Descriptions of 20 Historic Seventeenth-Century Sites; Information About Each Site; Hours of Operation for Each Site; Directions to Each Site; Suggested Reading; Fold-Out Locator Map. (Description by http-mart) (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Each volume in this series features up to da te site information that includes location, visiting hours, phone numbers, and fee information, plus additional travel t ips. Maps offers broader views of each area and help plan yo ur own trips of discovery. '

Lists sites of political, military, cultural, and commerical significance in Virigina, Maryland, Delaware, and the District of Columbia and includes addresses and telephone numbers for each site

Briefly describes Virginia's cultural heritage, suggests things to see and do in each region of the state, and recommends hotels and restaurants

Describes the history of Virginia and depicts the parks, museums, historic sites, cultural activities, special events, and other attractions in the state's various regions