History of the Americas

The American Revolution is seen as a colossal defeat of the powerful British Empire by colonial rebels. Yet the British emerged from the conflic...

Franklin Roosevelt was the first great hero of American Jews. FDR's promise of economic and social justice was consonant with the mainstays of Jewi...

From meatball po'boys to Creole red gravy, the influence of Sicilian foodways permeates New Orleans, one of America's greatest food cities. Nana's ...

A book of brief essays, illustrative art, and photography from often obscure historical and ethnological studies of Apache history, life, and cultu...

Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy, said F. Scott Fitzgerald. Perhaps no event in American history better illustrates this view than the...

How Slavery in the Americas Matters explores how slavery thrived at the heart of the entire Western world for more than three centuries. Arguing th...

Powder papers, booty balls, and sugar tits Lotions, Potions, and Deadly Elixirs has a cure for whatever ails! These quaint names were given to popu...

A World Transformed explores how slavery thrived at the heart of the entire Western world for more than three centuries. Arguing that slavery can o...

With exhaustive research and a storytellers flair, historian Sandra E. Bonura offers a sweeping narrative of one of the nations most important and ...

A valuable resource for students, teachers, and citizens looking to better understand US Constitutional history With Liberty and Justice for All?:...

Zbigniew Brzezinski's multifaceted career dealing with U.S. security and foreign policy has led him from the halls of academia to multiple terms in...

Two of the worlds leading scholars of the Aztec language and culture have translated Sahagúns monumental and encyclopedic study of native life in M...

Two of the worlds leading scholars of the Aztec language and culture have translated Sahagúns monumental and encyclopedic study of native life in M...

Two of the worlds leading scholars of the Aztec language and culture have translated Sahagúns monumental and encyclopedic study of native life in M...

Two of the worlds leading scholars of the Aztec language and culture have translated Sahagúns monumental and encyclopedic study of native life in M...

We can no longer see ourselves as minor spectators or weary watchers of history a­fter finishing this astonishing work of nonfiction. Kiese Laymon,...

Two of the worlds leading scholars of the Aztec language and culture have translated Sahagúns monumental and encyclopedic study of native life in M...

From 1860 to 1900, many towns in Nevada sprang up to serve the mining camps in the area. These towns provided the breeding ground for a unique c...

The New York Police Department is an iconic symbol of one of the worlds most famous cities. The blue uniforms of the men and women who serve on the...

South Florida in the 1970s was one of the nation's most dangerous locations. Behind the image of sun and surf, young women were the victims of a...

The path of Grand Prix racing in America wound through raceways at Sebring, Riverside, Watkins Glen, Long Beach, and finally Caesars Palace in L...

Andrew Jackson was the seventh president of the United States. Known as Old Hickory, he was the first President who championed the rights of the 'c...

Lincoln Mediated provides new information about a historical figure everyone thinks they know. It describes how Abraham Lincoln worked with the pre...

A newly updated, expanded edition of the most comprehensive one-volume reference work on New York City ever compiled Covering an exhaustive range o...

Californias Channel Islands are a chain of eight islands that extend along the states southern coastline from Santa Barbaras Point Conception to th...

Two of the worlds leading scholars of the Aztec language and culture have translated Sahagúns monumental and encyclopedic study of native life in M...

The dramatic battlefield deaths of brother Union Army commanders Robert L. McCook and Daniel McCook, Jr.--members of a prominent Ohio family kno...

World War I was a global cataclysm that toppled centuries-old dynasties and launched the American century. Yet at the outset few Americans saw a...

By the eve of the 20th century, Middle Georgia was a rural region transitioning from the aftermath of the Reconstruction Era into the modern age...

This local and regional study fills the gap in documenting Youngstowns role in the Underground Railroad in New York State. It also offers further p...

In the mid-17th century, the Iroquois Confederacy launched a war for control of the burgeoning fur trade industry. These conflicts, known as the...

The Capitol Page Program allowed teenagers to serve as nonpartisan federal employees performing a number of duties within the House, Senate and ...

Western movies are full of images of swaggering outlaws brought to justice by valiant lawmen shooting them down in daring gunfights before ridin...

Freedom of speech was restricted during the Revolutionary War. In the great struggle for independence, those who remained loyal to the British c...