History of the Americas

Leon Steins gripping narrative of the Triangle tragedy is one of the classics of American history. As the grandson of a onetime Triangle seamstress...

The Castorland Journal is a diary, a travel narrative about early New York, a work of autobiography, and a narrative of a dramatic and complex peri...

As rush hour came to a close on the evening of May 25, 1950, one of Chicago's new fast, colorful, streamlined streetcarsknown as a Green Hornetslam...

In Moving Up, Moving Out, Will Cooley discusses the damage racism and discrimination have exacted on black Chicagoans in the twentieth century, whi...

Full of colorful details and engrossing stories, Pursuing Respect in the Cannibal Isles shows that the aspirations of individual Americans to be re...

John A. McClernand was a career politician, and those ambitions and qualities continued during his Civil War service. A member of the Illinois G...

From 1910 to 1919, New Orleans suffered at the hands of a serial killer. The story has been the subject of short stories, novels, and the televisio...

Since colonial days, administration of the death penalty--whether by hanging, firing squad, electrocution, or lethal injection--has persisted as on...

American business has always had deep roots in community. For over a century, the country looked to philanthropic industrialists to finance hosp...

In the summer of 1874, Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer led an expedition of some 1000 troops and more than one hundred wagons into the...

The Revenger: The Life and Times of Wild Bill Hickok examines Wild Bills life in the context of 19th Century American history, from his birth, thro...

Drawing on fact and folklore, dueling authors Bill Markley and Kellen Cutsforth present opposing viewpoints pertaining to controversies surrounding...

In 1861, war between the United States and the Chiricahua seemed inevitable. The Apache band lived on a heavily traveled Emigrant and Overland Mail...

One of the most colorful parts of American History is the time of train robberies and the daring outlaws who undertook them in the period covering ...

A fond recollection of the Wests one-room school houses, this book celebrates an American institution with stories of heroism and perseverance. Ill...

A rich history of pioneers who shaped an ecological mission to restore tallgrass prairies, forests, and wetlands Internationally renowned for it...

For more than twenty years, Maria Paula Acuña has claimed to see the Virgin Mary, once a month, at a place called Our Lady of the Rock in the Mojav...