History of the Americas

Before the nation came to know them as the President and First Lady, Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham were close friends of Webb Hubbells. Now Hubbe...

Ronald Reagan's Cold War strategy, well established in his first year in office, did not change:  to make absolutely sure in the minds of the Sovie...

The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir of U.S. Navy Seal Chris Kyle, and the source for Clint Eastwood's blockbuster movie which was nominated fo...

The surprising and counterintuitive origins of America's racial crisis Why did the Founding Fathers fail to include blacks and Indians in their ch...

The radical black left that played a crucial role in twentieth-century struggles for equality and justice has largely disappeared. Michael Dawson i...

The largest rebellion in the history of Spain's American empirea conflict greater in territory and costlier in lives than the contemporaneous Ameri...

The advent of the Atomic Age challenged purveyors of popular culture to explain to the general public the complex scientific and social issues of a...

Of the almost 11 million Africans who came to the Americas between 1500 and 1870, two-thirds came to Spanish America and Brazil. Over four centurie...

No body of water was more vital to the Confederacy's efforts in the Civil War than the Mississippi River and its tributaries. Though the Confede...

The highland forests of southwestern Virginia were a sacred land to Native Americans and one they relied upon for sustenance. After European contac...

Press, Platform, Pulpit examines how early black feminism goes public by sheding new light on some of the major figures of early black feminism as ...