History of the Americas

Without the support of American women, victory in the Revolutionary War would not have been possible. They followed the Continental Army, handli...

In They Will Have Their Game, Kenneth Cohen explores how sports, drinking, gambling, and theater produced a sense of democracy while also reinforci...

The Needs of Others is set in the UN in 1994, where diplomats learn of violence in Rwanda. Representing UN ambassadors, human rights organisations,...

The American West has influenced important national developments throughout the twentieth century, not only in the cultural arena, but also in econ...

This ground-breaking book takes an insightful and close New Look at one of the most fascinating subjects of the Civil War--the long-overlooked batt...

In the early seventeenth century, in a backwater Dutch colony, there was a wide, muddy cow path that the settlers called the Brede Wegh. As the str...

From its origins as a project to rescue Chinese prostitutes and slave girls from a life of supposed depravity the Chinese Rescue Home became a feat...

Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court case synonymous with separate but equal, created remarkably little stir when the justices announced their nea...

On a cold, rainy dawn in late November 1872, Lieutenant Frazier Boutelle and a Modoc Indian nicknamed Scarface Charley leveled firearms at each oth...