History of the Americas

This volume presents a complete collection of correspondence between John Randolph of Roanoke, Virginia, and his close friend Dr. John Brockenbroug...

The United States, the only country to have dropped the bomb, and Japan, the only one to have suffered its devastation, understandably portray t...

Founded in eastern Arkansas during the Great Depression, the Southern Tenant Farmers Union (STFU) has long fascinated historians, who have emphasiz...

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Indiana State Police Captain Matt Leach led the hunt for John Dillinger during the violent early 1930s. Pushing a media campaign aimed at smokin...

Dr. Benjamin Church, Jr. (1734 - 1778) was a respected medical man and civic leader in colonial Boston who was accused of being an agent for the Br...

Between its founding in 1966 and its formal end in 1980, the Black Panther Party blazed a distinctive trail in American political culture. The Blac...

Born in Roanoke County, Virginia, on the eve of the Emancipation Proclamation, Richard L. Davis was an early mine labor organizer in Rendville, ...

Overlooked in today's bloody headlines is Mexico's fundamental transformation. In over three short decades it has gone from a poor to a middle clas...

Eric Hobsbawm (1917-2012) wrote that Latin America was the only region of the world outside Europe which he felt he knew well and where he felt ent...

This book uses hundreds of hours of newly opened interviews and other sources to illuminate the life and times of the nation's forty-second preside...

In 1812, eight American missionaries, under the direction of the recently formed American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, sailed from ...