History of the Americas

Concerns about Haiti suffused the early American print public sphere from the outbreak of the revolution in 1791 until well after its conclusion in...

On a scorching July afternoon in 1878, at the dawn of the Gilded Age, the moons shadow descended on the American West, darkening skies from Montana...

This book provides a fresh account of the major cultural and intellectual trends of the United State in the 1910s, a decade characterised by war, t...

Frederick Douglass recalled that slaves living along Chesapeake Bay longingly viewed sailing ships as freedoms swift-winged angels. In 1813 those a...

This monograph reports on large-scale excavations at Paso de la Amada, an archaeological site in the Soconusco region of the Pacific coast of Mexic...

The history of the Episcopal Church is intimately bound up with the history of empire. The two grew in tandem in the modern era, and as they grew t...

This volume emerged from an international research colloquium jointly organised by National Museums Scotland and the Scottish Centre for Diaspora S...

The study writes a cultural history of transatlantic relations of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Using the example of the Neo-Spanish Domi...

In 1899, U.S. Secretary of State John Hay wrote six world powers calling for an Open Door in China that would guarantee equal trading opportunities...

In Why Texans Fought in the Civil War, Charles David Grear provides insights into what motivated Texans to fight for the Confederacy. Mining import...

While many recognize William Penn as the founder of Pennsylvania and a defender of religious liberty, much less is known about Penn as a man of fai...

An introduction to the rich history of the Tensaw River.

This book explores the transformation of political culture in northwest Spanish America during the age of the Atlantic revolutions and the subseque...

Important and lucidly writtenThe American Revolution involved not simply the wisdom of a few great men but the passions, fears, and religiosity of ...

How one man brought the Olympics to Los Angeles, fueling the city's urban transformation. Dreamers and Schemers chronicles how Los Angeless pursuit...

The first study of Christian murals created by indigenous artists in sixteenth and seventeenth century Yucatán. In the sixteenth and seventeenth ce...

Paul Cuffe is best understood as a member of the Black founding fathersa group of pre-eminent African Americans who built institutions and movement...

Paul Cuffe is best understood as a member of the Black founding fathersa group of pre-eminent African Americans who built institutions and movement...

Rutgers University has come a long way since it was granted a royal charter in 1766. As it migrated from a parsonage in Somerville, to the New Brun...