History of the Americas

In September 1823, three men met at Rainy Lake House, a Hudson''s Bay Company trading post near the Boundary Waters. Dr. John McLoughlin, the propr...

Alexander M. McCook, one of the youngest major generals in the Union army, was a member of a patriotic family from Ohio that became known as the...

In April 1861, brothers Daniel and Pressley Boyd left their farm in Abbeville County, South Carolina, to join the Confederate army. The Civil War s...

A Guardian Best Book of the YearA gripping study of white powerExplosive.New York TimesHelps explain how we got to todays alt-right.Terry Gross, Fr...

OUT OF THE BOWELS of the sleepy southern town of Tupelo, Mississippi, the birthplace of Elvis Presley, emerges a darkly-humorous true story of stag...

Serendipity placed David Johnston on Mount St. Helens when the volcano rumbled to life in March 1980. Throughout that ominous spring, Johnston was ...

The candidacy of John F. Kennedy provoked widespread discussion of issues relating to church and state and to the role of Catholics in American ...

Veteran journalist and author Sherry Robinson presents readers with the first full biography of New Mexico's first territorial governor, James Sila...

Emerald-green hiddenite, a gem so valuable that it is said a June bug can carry away $1,000 worth, is only found in one area of North America: Alex...

The death of a Chinese immigrant, Wong Chut King, in San Francisco in 1900 would have been unremarkable if a swollen black lymph nodea sign of bubo...

Detroit's Cold War locates the roots of American conservatism in a city that was a nexus of labor and industry in postwar America. Drawing on metic...

In 1889 an unknown but determined Jane Addams arrived in the immigrant-burdened, politically corrupt, and environmentally challenged Chicago with a...

Dear Brother, Jane Manning James wrote to Joseph F. Smith in 1903, I take this opportunity of writing to ask you if I can get my endowments and als...

This book, written by Charles Herman Senn (1864-1934) and originally published in 1915, brings the old recipes and techniques of cooking from durin...

A Killing on Ring Jaw Bluff recounts the rise and fall of Georgias rural population as told through the story of Charles Graves Rawlings. From mode...

After the end of the U.S.-Mexican War in 1848, the Southwest Borderlands remained hotly contested territory. Over following decades, the United Sta...

Ohio sent eight presidents to the White House--one Whig and seven Republicans--from 1841 to 1923: William Harrison, U.S. Grant, Rutherford Hayes...

Following the Battle of Nashville, Confederate General John Bell Hoods Army of Tennessee was in full retreat, from the battle lines south of Nashvi...