History of the Americas

Extraordinary national acclaim accompanied the publication of award-winning historian Linda Gordons disturbing and markedly timely history of the r...

At a time of much despair over the future of liberal democracy, Jill Lepore makes a stirring case for the nation in This America, a follow-up to he...

Liberty Fund is pleased to present this single-volume collection of Gouverneur Morris's writings. This edition will be a welcome addition to schola...

Most scholarship on nineteenth-century America's transformation into a market society has focused on consumption, romanticized visions of workers, ...

In 2005, more than two million Americans--six out of every 1,000 people--filed for bankruptcy. Though personal bankruptcy rates have since stabiliz...

In August 1812, under threat from the Potawatomi, Captain Nathan Heald began the evacuation of ninety-four people from the isolated outpost of Fort...

Inderjeet Parmar reveals the complex interrelations, shared mindsets, and collaborative efforts of influential public and private organizations in ...

At the turn of the twentieth century, many observers considered suicide to be a worldwide social problem that had reached epidemic proportions. In ...

Volume two of The Texas Biography Series reveals Edmund J. Davis, the heroic man who stood in strong opposition to his peers and better reflected t...

Delving beneath Southern California's popular image as a sunny frontier of leisure and ease, this book tells the dynamic story of the life and labo...

Hours after the USSR collapsed in 1991, Congress began making plans to establish the official memory of the Cold War. Conservatives dominated the p...

The tragic and mysterious circumstances surrounding the deaths of Elizabeth Short, or the Black Dahlia, and Marilyn Monroe ripped open Hollywood's ...

The tragic and mysterious circumstances surrounding the deaths of Elizabeth Short, or the Black Dahlia, and Marilyn Monroe ripped open Hollywood's ...

In 1968, Mexico prepared to host the Olympic games amid growing civil unrest. The spectacular sports facilities and urban redevelopment projects bu...

This innovative study presents a new, integrated view of the Civil War and Reconstruction and the history of the western United States. Award-winni...

A good organizer is a social arsonist who goes around setting people on fire.Fred Ross Raised by conservative parents who hoped he would stay with ...

This innovative study presents a new, integrated view of the Civil War and Reconstruction and the history of the western United States. Award-winni...

Commentators frequently call the United States an empire: occasionally a benign empire, sometimes an empire in denial, and often a destructive empi...

Slavery existed in North America long before the first Africans arrived at Jamestown in 1619. For centuries, from the pre-Columbian era through the...

Winner of the SHEAR Book PrizeHonorable Mention, Avery O. Craven AwardFew books have captured the lived experience of slavery as powerfully.Ari Kel...

Overshadowed by both his brilliant father and the brash and bold Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams has long been dismissed as an aloof intellectual...

In the early nineteenth century, the United States turned its idealistic gaze southward, imagining a legacy of revolution and republicanism it hope...

Midcentury America was a wonderland of department stores, suburban cul-de-sacs, and Tupperware parties. At Christmastime, postwar Americas dreams a...

In January 1868, a Union veteran named Gilbert Bates set out from his Wisconsin farm for Vicksburg, Mississippi, to prove a point and win a bet: th...

From the Breskens Pocket and operations to open the port of Antwerp, through the Rhineland campaign and the battles to liberate the Netherlands in ...

A work that deeply reconceptualizes the New Deal and raises countless provocative questions (David Kennedy), Fear Itself changes the ground rules f...

From 1960 to 1982 Barry L. Strayer was instrumental in the design of The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the patriation of Canada's Con...

Ontario in Transition is a unique contemporary look at Ontario from a distinguished Quebecers perspective. Scholarly, erudite, sensitive to the nua...

Master story teller Marc Mappen applies a generational perspective to the gangsters of the Prohibition eramen born in the quarter century span from...

This is the first biography of the legendary officer Cipriano Baca, scion of a prestigious Spanish lineage tracing their heritage to the first s...

When anti-colonial revolts broke out in Spain's American colonies in the early 1800's, the United States were divided as to what position to take. ...

Dramatically and authentically, using eyewitness accounts where possible, this book recounts the final 13 months of the Civil War, a year in whi...

The Athapaskan departure from the Canadian Subarctic centuries ago and their subsequent arrival in the American Southwest has remained the subject ...

From the commanding call of the bugle at reveille to the reassuring songs from around the campfire at night, music was an integral part of the Civi...

This book offers a rare insight into the history of the Civil War in the western theatre through the eyes of a regimental surgeon. The newly gra...

Heaven's Soldiers chronicles the history of a community of free people of African descent who lived and thrived, while resisting the constraints of...

Named for Massachusetts governor John Albion Andrew--who prevented these two companies from joining the nationalized Berdan's sharp-shooters so ...

From inception to the final roll call, this regimental history traces the 11th Regiment of Alabama Volunteers from its 1861 creation to the Conf...

Near the center of Arizona, in the foothills of the Bradshaw Mountains, lies the small, unincorporated town of Mayer. With a population of less ...

Why the cabdriver is the real victim of the false promises of Uber and the gig economy.2007 Noteworthy Book in Industrial Relations and Labor Econo...

Valium. Paxil. Prozac. Prescribed by the millions each year, these medications have been hailed as wonder drugs and vilified as numbing and addicti...