History of the Americas

The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir of U.S. Navy Seal Chris Kyle, and the source for Clint Eastwood's blockbuster movie which was nominated fo...

The surprising and counterintuitive origins of America's racial crisis Why did the Founding Fathers fail to include blacks and Indians in their ch...

The radical black left that played a crucial role in twentieth-century struggles for equality and justice has largely disappeared. Michael Dawson i...

The largest rebellion in the history of Spain's American empirea conflict greater in territory and costlier in lives than the contemporaneous Ameri...

The advent of the Atomic Age challenged purveyors of popular culture to explain to the general public the complex scientific and social issues of a...

Of the almost 11 million Africans who came to the Americas between 1500 and 1870, two-thirds came to Spanish America and Brazil. Over four centurie...

No body of water was more vital to the Confederacy's efforts in the Civil War than the Mississippi River and its tributaries. Though the Confede...

The highland forests of southwestern Virginia were a sacred land to Native Americans and one they relied upon for sustenance. After European contac...

Press, Platform, Pulpit examines how early black feminism goes public by sheding new light on some of the major figures of early black feminism as ...

With an empire stretching across central Mexico, unmatched in military and cultural might, the Aztecs seemed poised on the brink of a golden age in...

In the expansive canon of Civil War memoirs, relatively few accounts from women exist. Among the most engaging and informative of these rare female...

In this thought-provoking study, Jonathan M. Atkins provides a fresh look at the partisan ideological battles that marked the political culture of ...

A one-of-a-kind reference book, Tennessee Tragedies examines a wide variety of disasters that have occurred in the Volunteer State over the past se...

Utah Curiosities brings to the reader with humor and affectionand a healthy dose of attitudethe oddest, quirkiest, and most outlandish places, pers...

New York Times Bestseller (Expeditions)Thrilling. A captivating history of two men who dramatically changed their contemporaries view of the past....

In his most recent book, The Maya and Catholicism: An Encounter of Worldviews, John Early examined the relationship between the Maya and the Cathol...

Indian wars in early Ohio as seen through the eyes of a future presidentThe American Revolution gave birth to a nation, forever changed the course ...

This is the first complete military study of the campaign directed by Brigadier General John Forbes in 1758 to drive the French out of the forks...

Looking beyond the familiar Little Italys and stereotypes fostered by The Godfather and The Sopranos, Maria Laurino reveals surprising, fascinating...

Captain James A. Baker, Houston lawyer, banker, and businessman, received an alarming telegram on September 23, 1900: his elderly millionaire clien...

Born in South Dakota in 1831, Sitting Bull was given his father''s name after killing his first buffalo as a teenager. Sitting Bull witnessed the d...

A comprehensive overview of Cuba''s people, geography, history, government, economy, and culture.

Inhabited by the Taino Indians since the seventh century, the Dominican Republic became the site of the first European settlement in the Americas w...

When Harry Truman was rescued from political obscurity to become Franklin Roosevelts running mate, black Americans were deeply troubled. Many belie...

This history of the 11th North Carolina Infantry in the Civil War-- civilian soldiers and their families--follows the regiment from their 1861 m...

For centuries, the Marshall Islands have been drawn into international politics, primarily because of their central location in Oceania. After W...

A handsome, richly illustrated guide to the A. S. Williams III Americana Collection at the University of Alabama, From a Love of History introduces...

In this engaging book we see how an 18-year-old miner shoveling ore from deep in the ground in Utah suddenly found himself, only two years later, 3...

When it comes to American Indian treaties, the American polity too often forgets the realities of history. Prevailing perceptions are often not onl...

The half century between statehood in 1896 and the end of World War II in 1945 was a period of transformation and transition for Utah. This book in...

As 1862 dawned, the Civil War, the conflict that had started the year before and that most Americans thought would last only a few months, showed n...

In the midst of the Great Depression, a furious storm struck the Florida Keys with devastating force. With winds estimated at over 225 miles per ho...

Kentucky Countryside in Transition charts the rise of the American middle class at the turn of the twentieth century by examining migration from th...

A unique and fascinating collection of letters from a soldier, planter, and journalist The Union states of what is now the Midwest have received fa...

The increasingly popular genre of alternative histories has captivated audiences by asking questions like what if the South had won the Civil War? ...

David Rodriguez, or Padre David as he is known throughout El Salvador, is a diocesan priest who followed the Second Vatican Councils doctrinal mand...

In his presidential Farewell Address of 1796, George Washington presented a series of maxims to guide the construction of a wise foreign policy. He...