History of the Americas

The first sweeping, legacy-defining history of the entire Obama presidency.Finalist of the PROSE Award for Best Book in Biography & Autobiograp...

Born into a Sephardic Jewish immigrant family, Dr. Issachar Zacharie was the preeminent foot doctor for the American political elite before and ...

British Columbia is often overlooked in the national story of women''s struggle for political equality. This book rights that wrong. A Great Revolu...

The 2016 election of Donald J. Trump invoked a time for reflection about the state of American politics and its deep ideological, cultural, racial,...

An incisive look at the intellectual and cultural history of free enterprise and its influence on American politics   Throughout the twentieth cent...

'Sensitive, moving and finely textured' Guardian'Fantastic' Dan SnowFor the great majority of his long life, Benjamin Franklin was a loyal British ...

Cartoonist James Mellor casts his eye over the events of the past year. From Brexit, Article 50 and a snap general election to events in space, int...

For researchers seeking detailed information about the black diaspora in North America, this authoritative reference provides more than 300 years o...

This book brings together the work of archaeologists investigating prehistoric hunter-gatherers (foragers) and early farmers in both the Southwest ...

Appreciate famous stories and speeches from The Great Communicator, Ronald Reagan. There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he ...

The Life Within provides a social and cultural history of the indigenous people of a region of central Mexico in the later colonial periodas told t...

Emma Goldman could not have known that the years from 1910 to 1916 would be her most prolific, perhaps the most celebrated period in her entire lif...

Now in its fifth edition, A History of the Canadian Peoples covers our nation's history from pre-contact to present day in one concise volume. Poli...

The Great War''s bitter outcome left the experience largely overlooked and forgotten in American history. This timely book is a reexamination of Am...

Rachael Hanels name was inscribed on a gravestone when she was eleven years old. Yet this wasnt at all unusual in her world: her father was a grave...

Too close to the wiles and calculations of consumption, stores and shopping centers are generally relegated to secondary, pedestrian status in the ...

Judith Sargent Murray (1751-1820), poet, essayist, playwright, and one of the most thoroughgoing advocates of women's rights in early America, was ...

The Trade and Intercourse Acts passed by Congress between 1796 and 1834 set up a system for individuals to receive monetary compensation from the f...

A National Bestseller!A new collection of the best Canadian trivia in honour of Canadas 150th birthday.Just in time for Canadas 150th birthday come...

The saga of Jonestown didnt end on the day in November 1978 when more than nine hundred Americans died in a mass murder-suicide in the Guyanese jun...

Leonard Moore has been teaching Black history for twenty-five years, mostly to white people. Drawing on decades of experience in the classroom and ...

The Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller.From President-Elect Joe Biden, winner of the 2020 United States presidential election, Promise Me Dad is ...

Silicon Valley gets all the credit for digital creativity, but this account of the pre-PC world, when computing meant more than using mature consum...

Robert Dallek's masterful John F. Kennedy: An Unfinished Life was a number one national bestseller, and it remains the most widely read one-volume ...