History
Maxims of James Abram Garfield
Authored by James A. Garfield
James A. Garfield (1831-1881) was the 20th President of the United
States, and a member of the United States House of Representatives from
1863 to 1881. He is the only president to have been an ordained clergyman and was president of Hiram College in Ohio, and a general in the Civil
War. Widely read, he had a propensity for apt pithy observations on life.
The Historic Codfish
by George H. Proctor, Samuel D. Hildreth and
William Frank Parsons
There may be 160 representatives in the Massachusetts legislature, but
there is only one codfish. The nearly five-foot carving hanging from the ceiling is the third reminder of the importance of fishing to the state. The first
was burnt in a 1747 fire and the second destroyed during the Revolution.
The present fish was enshrined in 1784.
The Story of Secret Service by Richard Wilmer Rowan
Introduction by Rahima Schwenkbeck
Rowan packs in thirty-three centuries of world history in this volume. The
history of espionage is a particularly difficult history to uncover because of
its clandestine nature. Readers gain a new understanding not only of how
espionage played a significant, but well hidden, role in shaping his ѽ