History of the Americas

Based on secret transcripts of top-level diplomacy undertaken by the number-two Soviet leader, Anastas Mikoyan, to settle the Cuban Missile Crisis ...

Fought on July 28, 1864, the Battle of Ezra Church was a dramatic engagement during the Civil War's Atlanta Campaign. Confederate forces under John...

This Atom Bomb in Me traces what it felt like to grow up suffused with American nuclear culture in and around the atomic city of Oak Ridge, Tenness...

A groundbreaking history of early America that shows how Boston built and sustained an independent city-state in New England before being folded in...

This original study tells the story of the Illinois Country, a collection of French villages that straddled the Mississippi River for nearly a cent...

The golden era in American surgery, described by a young doctor practicing under innovator Owen Wangensteen at the University of Minnesota In 1960,...

On the Las Vegas Strip, blockbuster casinos burst out of the desert, billboards promise hot babes, actual hot babes proffer complimentary drinks, a...

The first ever Temple University adult coloring book, Color Me...Cherry & White contains more than twenty iconic Temple University landmarks. F...

After Abraham Lincoln's assassination in 1865, William H. Herndon began work on a brief, subjective biography of his former law partner, but his re...

Today, Bernie Sanders is a household name, a wildly popular presidential candidate and an icon for progressive Democrats in the United States. But ...

A rare and evocative memoir of a respected constitutional scholar, dedicated public servant, political reformer, and facilitator of peace in the la...

Long before people were going green and toting reusable bags, the Progressive generation of the early 1900s was calling for the conservation of res...

Roger Sales Seattle, Past to Present has become a beloved reflection of Seattles history and its possible futures as imagined in 1976, when the boo...

Over the past half-century, think tanks have become fixtures of American politics, supplying advice to presidents and policy makers, expert testimo...

 Opinionated talk show host and columnist Michael Smerconish has been chronicling local, state, and national events for the Philadelphia Daily News...

Frederick and May Rindge, the unlikely couple whose love story propelled Malibus transformation from an untamed ranch in the middle of nowhere to a...

Frederick and May Rindge, the unlikely couple whose love story propelled Malibus transformation from an untamed ranch in the middle of nowhere to a...

Separate is a myth-shattering narrative of one of the most consequential Supreme Court cases of the nineteenth century, Plessy v. Ferguson. The 189...

Prohibition has long been portrayed as a noble experiment that failed, a newsreel story of glamorous gangsters, flappers and speakeasies. Now Lisa ...

A history that extends from the 1750s to the present, In Pursuit of Privilege recounts upper-class New Yorkers'' struggle to create a distinct worl...

In the middle of the 1970s, America entered a new era of doubt and division. Major political, economic and social crisesWatergate, Vietnam, the rig...

Overlooking the significance of Americas Hispanic past, the United States is typically perceived as an offshoot of Britain, with its history unfold...

The United States is still typically conceived of as an offshoot of England, with our history unfolding east to west beginning with the first Engli...

Lincolns Selected Writings includes letters, speeches, eulogies, proposals, debate transcriptions, addresses and more, accompanied by annotations, ...

There are few moments in American history in which the course of events tipped so suddenly and so dramatically as at the Battle of Midway. At dawn ...

The era known as Reconstruction is one of the unhappiest times in American history. It succeeded in reuniting the nation politically after the Civi...

At once an in-depth history of this pivotal war and a guide to the historical sites where the ambushes, raids, and battles took place, King Philip'...

In this magnificent compendium (New Republic), best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin presents the definitive history of American lighthouses, and in s...

Never make more free with your inferiors than you are willing they should make with you; it learns them to be saucy. Such sage words of advice come...

This book shows how the American wilderness shaped Scottish experience, imagination and identity. How is the Scottish imagination shaped by its emi...

The War of 1812 between the United States and Great Britain was fought throughout nearly all of the country, from the waters of the Atlantic Ocean ...

Nearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, todays world leaders are abandoning disarmament treaties, building up their nuclear arsenals, an...

A stunning and ambitious origins story.Ibram X. Kendi, National Book Awardwinning and #1 New York Timesbestselling authorThe remarkable history of ...

Over 400,000 people moved their families in search of a better life in the American West during the Westward Expansion. The pioneers made room f...