History of the Americas

Never make more free with your inferiors than you are willing they should make with you; it learns them to be saucy. Such sage words of advice come...

This book shows how the American wilderness shaped Scottish experience, imagination and identity. How is the Scottish imagination shaped by its emi...

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 ...

Nearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, todays world leaders are abandoning disarmament treaties, building up their nuclear arsenals, an...

A stunning and ambitious origins story.Ibram X. Kendi, National Book Awardwinning and #1 New York Timesbestselling authorThe remarkable history of ...

Over 400,000 people moved their families in search of a better life in the American West during the Westward Expansion. The pioneers made room f...

Liberty Fund is pleased to present this single-volume collection of Gouverneur Morris's writings. This edition will be a welcome addition to schola...

In this landmark study of American labor history, Meredith Tax charts the actions of women in working-class, feminist, and socialist movements betw...

The Federalist Papers is a collection of political essays in which three United States Founding Fathers intelligently and forcefully advocate the r...

While Jackie Robinson''s 1947 season with the Brooklyn Dodgers made him the first African American to play in the Major Leagues in the modern era, ...

Oregons landscape boasts brilliant waterfalls, towering volcanoes, productive river valleys, and far-reaching high deserts. People have lived in th...

A newly edited collection of the seminal writings and speeches of a legendary writer, orator, and civil rights leader.The life of Frederick Douglas...

With the sweep of an epic novel, Our Revolution follows Jenny Moore, a charismatic and brilliant woman whose life changed as she became engaged in ...

Extraordinary national acclaim accompanied the publication of award-winning historian Linda Gordons disturbing and markedly timely history of the r...

Joaquim Nabuco, for more than three decades a dominant figure in the literary, intellectual and political life of Brazil, was born in Recife in the...

Since the release of his first feature in 1996, Alejandro Amenábar has become the golden boy of Spanish filmmaking, a bankable star director whose ...

Veteran journalist and southern storyteller Tom Poland has been writing about the disappearing rural South for nearly four decades. With a companio...

A gripping history of one of the United States' most controversial Cold War intelligence operations.Project Paperclip brought hundreds of German sc...