History of the Americas

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

The definitive reference guide to artifacts representing 14,000 years of cultural evolution Pennsylvania is geographically, ecologically, and cultu...

Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his powerful I Have a Dream speech on August 28, 1963. Sixty years later, the speech endures as a defining moment ...

For fans of Margot Lee Shetterley and Liza Mundy comes an inspiring feminist tale of a woman who dedicated her entire life to the New York Police D...

How nineteenth-century social reformers devised a new set of radical blueprints for society In the middle of the nineteenth century, a utopian impu...

How nineteenth-century social reformers devised a new set of radical blueprints for society In the middle of the nineteenth century, a utopian impu...

An essential piece of Disney history has been largely unreported for eighty years. Soon after the birth of Mickey Mouse, one animator raised the Di...

As one of America's most prominent nineteenth-century painters, Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902) is justly renowned for his majestic paintings of the w...

A look at how post-9/11 cinema captures the new face of war in the twenty-first century   While the war film has carved out a prominent space with...

A look at how post-9/11 cinema captures the new face of war in the twenty-first century   While the war film has carved out a prominent space with...

The American and Latin American independence movements emerged from distinctive settings and produced divergent results, but they were animated by ...

Offers a powerful revisioning of the genesis of American literary history, revealing that from its earliest moments, American literature owes its d...

All states are not created equal, at least not when it comes to their influence on American history. That assumption underlies Massachusetts and th...

No man living has revealed so many important facts about the Negro race as has Rogers, wrote W. E. B. DuBois. Indeed, as Henry Louis Gates Jr. cont...

The Lenape tribe, also known as the Delaware Nation, lived for centuries on the land that English colonists later called New Jersey. But once Ameri...

The Lenape tribe, also known as the Delaware Nation, lived for centuries on the land that English colonists later called New Jersey. But once Ameri...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

Known as a time of revolutions in science, the early modern era in Europe was characterized by the emergence of new disciplines and ways of thinkin...

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring For 30 years, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Linda Greenhouse chronicled the activities o...

On a September afternoon in 1853, three African American men from St. Philip's Church walked into the Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of New Yo...

The Instant New York Times Bestseller now available in paperback!A fast-paced, rollicking, behind-the-scenes account of how the GOP since the 1950s...