History of the Americas

An unprecedented history of Brooklyn, told through its places, buildings, and the people who made them, from the early seventeenth century to today...

In the early 1930s women practicing criminal law were often held in the same low regard as the clients they served. When a corrupt prosecutor wa...

Elbridge Durbrow served as the third United States ambassador to the Republic of Vietnam from 1957 to 1961. His relationships with Vietnamese pr...

Organized in the fall of 1862, the 125th Ohio Volunteer Infantry was commanded by the aggressive and ambitious Colonel Emerson Opdycke, a citize...

The national monuments of Wupatki, Walnut Canyon, and Montezumas Castle showcase the treasures of the first people who settled and developed farms,...

In recent years scholars have turned their attention to the rich experience of the Jesuits in France and Spain''s American colonies. That attention...

Throughout Tennessee, Civil War monuments stand tall across the landscape, from Chattanooga to Memphis, and recall important events and figures wit...

2021 Publication Award in Biography from the Wyoming State Historical Society Westerners International Co-Founders Book Award, second place George ...

Today well over two hundred museums focusing on African American history and culture can be found throughout the United States and Canada. Many of ...

When Rains Became Floods is the gripping autobiography of Lurgio Gavilán Sánchez, who as a child soldier fought for both the Peruvian guerrilla ins...

Covering the history of the U.S. Coast Guard from 1790--when it was called the U.S. Revenue Marine--through World War I, this book describes the...

There is a time to preach and a time to fight. And now is the time to fight. With those words, the Rev. John Muhlenberg stepped from his pulpit,...

During the Civil War, each side accused the other of mistreating prisoners of war. Today, most historians believe that there was systemic and de...

The personal and professional story of a former FBI agent, this is the journey Don Adams has taken over the past 50 years that has connected him to...

Irrigation, Timber, and Hydropower is the story of the Flathead Irrigation Project and the Flathead Lake Dam, two early twentieth-century enterpris...

You see it everywhere: on bumper stickers, tee shirts, lapel pins, in shop windows, and in front of nearly every school or government building. Yet...