History of the Americas

Benjamin Hoffmanns Posthumous America examines the literary idealization of a lost American past in the works of French writers of the eighteenth a...

In 1803 in the colonial South American city of La Plata, Doña Martina Vilvado y Balverde presented herself to church and crown officials to denounc...

This comparative historical study explores the broad sociocultural factors at play in the relationships among U.S. obscenity laws and literary mode...

Seattle was recently named the best bike city in the United States by Bicycling magazine. How did this notoriously hilly and rainy city become so i...

From its looming above-ground cemeteries to the ghosts believed to haunt its stately homes, New Orleans is a city deeply entwined with death, the u...

Controversy over the role of human activity in causing climate change is pervasive in contemporary society. But, as Anya Zilberstein shows in this ...

First published in French in 1792, Letters Written from the Banks of the Ohio tells the fascinating story of French aristocrat Claude-François de L...

In Supernatural Entertainments, Simone Natale vividly depicts spiritualisms rise as a religious and cultural phenomenon and explores its strong con...

Dating back to 1785, the Moravian Instructions for the Choir Helpers contain detailed advice for the spiritual counselors of the men, women, and ch...

Benjamin Hoffmanns Posthumous America examines the literary idealization of a lost American past in the works of French writers of the eighteenth a...

Emilie Davis was a free African American woman who lived in Philadelphia during the Civil War. She worked as a seamstress, attended the Institute f...

Emilie Davis was a free African American woman who lived in Philadelphia during the Civil War. She worked as a seamstress, attended the Institute f...

The 1932 election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt seemed to hold the promise of Democratic domination for years to come. However, leading up to the 19...

The first of two volumes chronicling the history and role of music in the African American experience, Nothing but Love in Gods Water explores how ...

Dating back to 1785, the Moravian Instructions for the Choir Helpers contain detailed advice for the spiritual counselors of the men, women, and ch...

Changes to the landscape of higher education in the United States over the past decades have urged scholars grappling with issues of privilege, ine...

In The Americas Revealed, distinguished art historian and curator Edward J. Sullivan brings together a vibrant group of essays that explore the for...

By 1893, the Supreme Court had officially declared women to be citizens, but most did not have the legal right to vote. In Practicing Citizenship, ...

With book, music, and lyrics by Tony Award®-winner Lin-Manuel Miranda, direction by Thomas Kail, choreography by Andy Blankenbuehler, and musical d...

This is the story of 150 of the most adventurous scouts, gold prospectors, gunslingers, buffalo hunters, and Civil War veterans of both sidesthey m...

At the beginning of the third decade of the 21st century, the Latino minority, the biggest and fastest growing in the United States, is at a crossr...