History of the Americas

Scandinavian immigrants encountered a strange paradox in 1890s Chicago. Though undoubtedly foreign, these newcomers were seen as Nordics--the race ...

By turns entertaining and tragic, this beautifully crafted history reveals the origins of a great university in the dilemmas of Virginia slavery. T...

In 1974, Judge George Boldt issued a ruling that affirmed the fishing rights and tribal sovereignty of Native nations in Washington State. The Bold...

An examination of the career of Texas Ranger and immigration official William Hanson illustrating the intersections of corruption, state-building, ...

On September 18, 1928, Myles Yutaka Fukunaga kidnapped and brutally murdered ten-year-old George Gill Jamieson in Waikîkî. Fukunaga, a nineteen-yea...

The story of Texass impact on American sports culture during the civil rights and second-wave feminist movements, this book offers a new understand...

Longstanding Mexican and Puerto Rican populations have helped make people of mixed nationalitiesMexiGuatamalans, CubanRicans, and othersan importan...

In a beautifully crafted narrative of soaring ideals and sordid politics, of civil war and foreign invasion, Alan Taylor presents a pivotal twenty-...

Finalist, 2021 Writers League of Texas Book Award For John Nance Cactus Jack Garner, there was one simple rule in politics: Youve got to bloody you...

Over the last few decades, as the United States has become embroiled in foreign war after foreign war, some of the most vocal activists for peace h...

We forget that racist violence permeated the lower Midwest from the pre-Civil War period until the 1930s. From Kansas to Ohio, whites orchestrated ...

Flags are an important part of the military history of colonial America. Not only are they essential artifacts that help reconstruct battles and wa...

A pioneer of architecture education in the United States, N. Clifford Ricker notably taught with an emphasis on construction and shop practice in h...

During his seven-decade career in public life, George Sewall Boutwell sought to redeem Americas promise of racial equality, economic equity, and th...

This book reappraises the origins of the European Union through the lens of the private experts who advised Western governments on war and peace th...

Why is cows milk, which few nonwhite people can digest, promoted as a science-backed dietary necessity in countries where the majority of the popul...

A definitive scholarly edition of the correspondence and papers of Thomas JeffersonJefferson sends his annual message to Congress. He submits the p...

Now in its third edition, Ways of War is a comprehensive guide to United States military history and its wider relationship to American society, fr...

Now in its third edition, Ways of War is a comprehensive guide to United States military history and its wider relationship to American society, fr...

I believe Im going to die doing the things I was born to do. I believe Im going to die high off the people. I believe Im going to die a revolutiona...

A landmark edition of an American masterpiece: the incomparable self-portrait of John Quincy Adams and his times from the Revolution to the coming ...

For the 250th anniversary of John Quincy Adams's birth, a landmark new selected edition of an American masterpiece: the incomparable self-portrait ...