History of the Americas

Protesters called it an act of war when the U.S. Coast Guard sank a Canadian-flagged vessel in the Gulf of Mexico in 1929. It took a cool-headed...

Out of Oakland offers a wonderful case study in the possibilities and limitations of transnational organizing.  Diplomatic History In Out of Oaklan...

In 1955, Ngo Dinh Diem organized an election to depose chief-of-state Bao Dai, after which he proclaimed himself the first president of the newly c...

Examining the connection between baseball and our society as a whole, How Baseball Explains America is a fascinating, one-of-a-kind journey through...

This book looks at the movement of urban American blacks into the Midwest through the experience of Iowa City, a town desperately trying to rede...

2.20am on 15th April 1912, the Titanic is plunging 12,000 feet to the ocean floor.Machinery, coal, crystal goblets, pianos and jewellery all tumble...

Drawing on six years of research, this book covers the military service and postwar lives of notable Confederate veterans who moved into Norther...

The amazing story that William Law has documented with his historical interviews helps us to understanding our true history. This compelling inform...

A critical look at the Chavez regime from a leftist Venezuelan perspective, this account debunks claims made by Venezuelan and U.S. rightists that ...

Delving into the complex and intertwined world of the CIA, Lee Harvey Oswald, and the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, this book takes o...

Venezuelan Anarchism: The History of a Movement covers Venezuelan anarchism and its partisans from the first appearance of anarchist ideas in the p...

Charleston, South Carolina, was the largest city in the American South in the colonial era. From 1700 to 1775 its growth rate was exceeded in the N...

The life of Benedict Arnold, the American Revolutionary War general who attempted to surrender West Point to the British in 1780, didn't end aft...

In an era of spectacular thoroughbreds, Spectacular Bid was perhaps the most exalted racehorse of them all. In 1979 he won the Kentucky Derby and t...

A birder strolling in Central Park. A college student lounging on a university quad. Two men sitting in a coffee shop. Perfectly ordinary actions i...

The waterfront was the key to New York City''s growth and prosperity.For hundreds of years, the shorefront of Manhattan Island served as the countr...

From the hiding of the bones of Kamehameha the Great, to the half-mile-long funeral procession of King Kamehameha III, to the somber return of the ...

The African American presence in St. Louis began in 1763 with the arrival of several free men of color who accompanied Pierre Laclede from New O...

The U.S. government's Indian Policy evolved during the 19th century, culminating in the expulsion of the American Indians from their ancestral h...

Capturing for posterity the vanishing world of uranium mining, this candid memoir recounts the author's adventures and misadventures working und...