History of the Americas

In 2005, more than two million Americans--six out of every 1,000 people--filed for bankruptcy. Though personal bankruptcy rates have since stabiliz...

In August 1812, under threat from the Potawatomi, Captain Nathan Heald began the evacuation of ninety-four people from the isolated outpost of Fort...

Inderjeet Parmar reveals the complex interrelations, shared mindsets, and collaborative efforts of influential public and private organizations in ...

At the turn of the twentieth century, many observers considered suicide to be a worldwide social problem that had reached epidemic proportions. In ...

Volume two of The Texas Biography Series reveals Edmund J. Davis, the heroic man who stood in strong opposition to his peers and better reflected t...

Delving beneath Southern California's popular image as a sunny frontier of leisure and ease, this book tells the dynamic story of the life and labo...

Hours after the USSR collapsed in 1991, Congress began making plans to establish the official memory of the Cold War. Conservatives dominated the p...

The tragic and mysterious circumstances surrounding the deaths of Elizabeth Short, or the Black Dahlia, and Marilyn Monroe ripped open Hollywood's ...

The tragic and mysterious circumstances surrounding the deaths of Elizabeth Short, or the Black Dahlia, and Marilyn Monroe ripped open Hollywood's ...

In 1968, Mexico prepared to host the Olympic games amid growing civil unrest. The spectacular sports facilities and urban redevelopment projects bu...

This innovative study presents a new, integrated view of the Civil War and Reconstruction and the history of the western United States. Award-winni...

A good organizer is a social arsonist who goes around setting people on fire.Fred Ross Raised by conservative parents who hoped he would stay with ...

This innovative study presents a new, integrated view of the Civil War and Reconstruction and the history of the western United States. Award-winni...

Commentators frequently call the United States an empire: occasionally a benign empire, sometimes an empire in denial, and often a destructive empi...

Slavery existed in North America long before the first Africans arrived at Jamestown in 1619. For centuries, from the pre-Columbian era through the...

Winner of the SHEAR Book PrizeHonorable Mention, Avery O. Craven AwardFew books have captured the lived experience of slavery as powerfully.Ari Kel...

Overshadowed by both his brilliant father and the brash and bold Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams has long been dismissed as an aloof intellectual...

In the early nineteenth century, the United States turned its idealistic gaze southward, imagining a legacy of revolution and republicanism it hope...

Midcentury America was a wonderland of department stores, suburban cul-de-sacs, and Tupperware parties. At Christmastime, postwar Americas dreams a...

In January 1868, a Union veteran named Gilbert Bates set out from his Wisconsin farm for Vicksburg, Mississippi, to prove a point and win a bet: th...

From the Breskens Pocket and operations to open the port of Antwerp, through the Rhineland campaign and the battles to liberate the Netherlands in ...