History of the Americas

Concerns about Haiti suffused the early American print public sphere from the outbreak of the revolution in 1791 until well after its conclusion in...

On a scorching July afternoon in 1878, at the dawn of the Gilded Age, the moons shadow descended on the American West, darkening skies from Montana...

This book provides a fresh account of the major cultural and intellectual trends of the United State in the 1910s, a decade characterised by war, t...

Frederick Douglass recalled that slaves living along Chesapeake Bay longingly viewed sailing ships as freedoms swift-winged angels. In 1813 those a...

This monograph reports on large-scale excavations at Paso de la Amada, an archaeological site in the Soconusco region of the Pacific coast of Mexic...