History of the Americas

Captain George N. Bliss of the First Rhode Island Cavalry survived some 27 actions during the Civil War. Midway through the war, he served nine ...

Passed by Congress in July 1787, the Northwest Ordinance laid out the basic form of government for all U.S. territory north of the Ohio River. T...

The presidential election of 1912 was the only one whose candidates included an incumbent president, a former president and a future president. ...

Winner of the Russell P. Strange Memorial Book Award This sweeping narrative presents an original and compelling explanation for the triumph of the...

In the voluminous literature on Thomas Jefferson, little has been written about his passionate interest in science. This new and original study of ...

America's global cultural impact is largely seen as one-sided, with critics claiming that it has undermined other countries' languages and traditio...

An unprecedented history of Brooklyn, told through its places, buildings, and the people who made them, from the early seventeenth century to today...

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

How nineteenth-century Protestant evangelicals used print and visual media to shape American cultureIn nineteenth-century America, apocalypse refer...

Full of original plans and historic photographs, this beautifully illustrated collection is the first comprehensive presentation of Olmsted's desig...

Empire of Defense is an extensive and multilayered critique of the past seventy years of American military engagement. Joseph Darda exposes how the...

First published in 1925, The City is a trailblazing text in the fields of urban history, urban sociology, and urban studies. Its innovative combina...

Beginning in the late 1950s and continuing through the 1970s, the United States experienced a vast expansion in national policy making. During this...

How beef conquered America and gave rise to the modern industrial food complexBy the late nineteenth century, Americans rich and poor had come to e...

In September 1823, three men met at Rainy Lake House, a Hudson''s Bay Company trading post near the Boundary Waters. Dr. John McLoughlin, the propr...

Alexander M. McCook, one of the youngest major generals in the Union army, was a member of a patriotic family from Ohio that became known as the...

In April 1861, brothers Daniel and Pressley Boyd left their farm in Abbeville County, South Carolina, to join the Confederate army. The Civil War s...

A Guardian Best Book of the YearA gripping study of white powerExplosive.New York TimesHelps explain how we got to todays alt-right.Terry Gross, Fr...

OUT OF THE BOWELS of the sleepy southern town of Tupelo, Mississippi, the birthplace of Elvis Presley, emerges a darkly-humorous true story of stag...

Serendipity placed David Johnston on Mount St. Helens when the volcano rumbled to life in March 1980. Throughout that ominous spring, Johnston was ...

The candidacy of John F. Kennedy provoked widespread discussion of issues relating to church and state and to the role of Catholics in American ...

Veteran journalist and author Sherry Robinson presents readers with the first full biography of New Mexico's first territorial governor, James Sila...

Emerald-green hiddenite, a gem so valuable that it is said a June bug can carry away $1,000 worth, is only found in one area of North America: Alex...

The death of a Chinese immigrant, Wong Chut King, in San Francisco in 1900 would have been unremarkable if a swollen black lymph nodea sign of bubo...

Detroit's Cold War locates the roots of American conservatism in a city that was a nexus of labor and industry in postwar America. Drawing on metic...

In 1889 an unknown but determined Jane Addams arrived in the immigrant-burdened, politically corrupt, and environmentally challenged Chicago with a...

Dear Brother, Jane Manning James wrote to Joseph F. Smith in 1903, I take this opportunity of writing to ask you if I can get my endowments and als...

This book, written by Charles Herman Senn (1864-1934) and originally published in 1915, brings the old recipes and techniques of cooking from durin...

A Killing on Ring Jaw Bluff recounts the rise and fall of Georgias rural population as told through the story of Charles Graves Rawlings. From mode...

After the end of the U.S.-Mexican War in 1848, the Southwest Borderlands remained hotly contested territory. Over following decades, the United Sta...

Ohio sent eight presidents to the White House--one Whig and seven Republicans--from 1841 to 1923: William Harrison, U.S. Grant, Rutherford Hayes...

Following the Battle of Nashville, Confederate General John Bell Hoods Army of Tennessee was in full retreat, from the battle lines south of Nashvi...

For almost two centuries, the last stand at the Alamo has been recognized as a defining moment in America's history. On February 23, 1836, a Mexica...

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

Philadelphias Chinatown, like many urban chinatowns, began in the late nineteenth century as a refuge for immigrant laborers and merchants in which...

They believed they would live forever. So begins Mira Ptacins haunting account of the women of Camp Etnaan otherworldly community in the woods of M...

In A Colony in a Nation, New York Times best-selling author and Emmy Awardwinning news anchor Chris Hayes upends the national conversation on polic...

America likes to tell itself that it inhabits a postracial world, yet nearly every empirical measurewealth, unemployment, incarceration, school seg...

At the end of World War II, General George Marshall took on what he thought was a final missionthis time not to win a war, but to stop one. In Chin...

In a revelatory work praised as excellent and timely (New York Times Book Review, front page), Adam Winkler, author of Gunfight, once again makes s...