History of the Americas

A new history of Brazils eighteenth century that foregrounds debates about wealth, difference, and governance   Transformations in Portugal and Bra...

** #4 New York Times bestseller **In Democracy Awakening, American historian Heather Cox Richardson examines how, over the decades, an elite minori...

Shape Shifters presents a wide-ranging array of essays that examine peoples of mixed racial identity, from the Roman and Chinese borderlands of cla...

2021 Choice Outstanding Academic Title A city of modest size, Providence, Rhode Island, had the third-largest Native American population in the Uni...

Using examples from Indigenous community oral history projects throughout Canada and the United States, this new edition is informed by best practi...

General Shermans 1864 burning of Atlanta solidified his legacy as a ruthless leader. Yet Sherman proved far more complex than his legendary militar...

The American war in Vietnam was one of the most morally contentious events of the twentieth century, and it produced an extraordinary outpouring of...

The Whaling People live along the west coast of Vancouver Island and Cape Flattery in Washington. They comprise more than 20 First Nations, includi...

On the final day of its 2008 term, a sharply divided U.S. Supreme Court issued a 5-to-4 decision striking down the District of Columbia's stringent...

University, Court, and Slave reveals long-forgotten connections between pre-Civil War southern universities and slavery. Universities and their fac...

The idea of a national park was an American invention of historic consequences marking the beginning of a worldwide movement, the U.S. National Par...

'A history of resilience ... sweeping, comprehensive ... it's a story that has been waiting to be told' Guardian'An account sorely needed ... a ka...

In 1912, a young girls murder rocked the rural community of Forsyth County, Georgia and led a mob of whites to lynch a black man on the town square...

Yellowstone has undergone a number of transitions in the 140 years since its national park designation in 1872. The period from the late 1930s to t...

First published in 1857, the Texas Almanac has a long history of chronicling the Lone Star State and its residents. The Almanac's 66th edition is p...

Praise for the previous edition: ...suitable for high school, public, and academic libraries.--American Reference Books Annual

A brilliant history of black politics and white resistance in post-civil rights era Mississippi. Danielson''s work helps to fill the yawning gap in...

The World According to Questlove Mo' Meta Blues is a punch-drunk memoir in which Everyone's Favorite Questlove tells his own story while tackling ...

In The Urban Scene, Carmenita Higginbotham offers a significant and innovative reassessment of the ways in which race is deployed and read in inter...