History of the Americas

During the first fifteen months of the Civil War, the policies and attitudes of Union officers toward emancipation in the western theater were, at ...

As the United States grew into an empire in the late nineteenth century, notions like sea power derived not only from fleets, bases, and decisive b...

This title was first published in 2002. The Imperial Republic addresses the enduring relationship that the American constitution has with the conce...

The largest and most destructive military conflict between the Napoleonic Wars and the First World War, the American Civil War has inspired some of...

By the late 1810s, a global revolution in cotton had remade the U.S.-Mexico border, bringing wealth and waves of Americans to the Gulf Coast while ...

Racism and discrimination have choked economic opportunity for African Americans at nearly every turn. At several historic moments, the trajectory ...

In Take the Journey: Teaching American History Through Place-Based Learning, author, historian, and educator James Percoco invites you and your stu...

In the late twentieth century, nothing united union members, progressive students, Black and Chicano activists, Native Americans, feminists, and me...

The story of Fort McHenry's defense during the War of 1812 is well known, but Lion in the Bay is an intimate look at the events leading up to the b...

Freedom fighters. Guerilla warriors. Soldiers of fortune. The many civil wars and rebellions against communist governments drew heavily from this c...

In this affecting and innovative global historystarting with the European children who fled the perils of World War II and ending with the Central ...

In this study of sex, gender, sexual violence, and power along the border, Bernadine Hernandez brings to light under-heard stories of women who liv...

The U.S.-Mexico border has earned an enduring reputation as a site of violence. During the past twenty years in particular, the drug wars--fueled b...

To many, asylums are a relic of a bygone era. State governments took steps between 1950 and 1990 to minimize the involuntary confinement of people ...

Mexico today is one of the most dangerous places in the world to report the news, and Mexicans have taken to the street to defend freedom of expres...

Featuring breathtaking panoramas and revelatory, unforgettable images, Battle Lines is an utterly original graphic history of the Civil War. A coll...

Indigenous Prosperity and American Conquest recovers the agrarian village world Indian women created in the lush lands of the Ohio Valley. Algonqui...

The twin acts of singing and fighting for freedom have been inseparable in African American history. May We Forever Stand tells an essential part o...

This book examines illustrations created to accompany fictions written by several of the most popular authors published in Britain and America betw...

When we think about the origins of Cuban immigration to the United States, we often imagine the anti-Communist exiles who fled the regime of Fidel ...

Explores how heritage discourses and local publics interact at Catholic mission sites in the southwestern United States, northern Mexico, and the S...

A testament to the resilience and determination of Black North Carolinians to achieve educational equality This book examines the educational exper...