History of the Americas

The story of how the 11th Armored Cavalry overcame the perception that Vietnam was an infantry war, and demonstrated what armor could do in an insu...

An in-depth, timely examination of one towns nuclear power plant, the scandal that plagued it, and the reporter who was allowed inside.Nuclear powe...

One of our nations most prominent writers discovers the truth about how to live a long and happy life from the centenarian next door in this origin...

The relationship between early Mormons and the United States was marked by anxiety and hostility, heightened over the course of the nineteenth cent...

Between World War II and 1980, tens of thousands of Black people moved to Boston from the South as part of the Great Migration, one of the most con...

The long-awaited follow-up to the groundbreaking Massacre at Mountain Meadows Published in 2008, Massacre at Mountain Meadows was a bombshell of a...

Andean Meltdown examines how climate change and its consequences for Peru's glaciers are affecting the country's water supply and impacting Andean ...

For many, the story of the weeks of protests in the summer of 2020 began with the horrific nine minutes and twenty-nine seconds when Police Officer...

In a dim clearing off a county road in Kentucky sits a sagging outdoor stage buried in moss and dead leaves. It used to be the centrepiece of carn...

The saga of the Freedom Rides is an improbable, almost unbelievable story. In the course of six months in 1961, four hundred and fifty Freedom Ride...

During the 1890s, British women for the first time began to leave their family homes to seek work, accommodation, and financial and sexual freedom....

In 1906, J. P. Morgan commissioned Edward S. Curtis to produce a series of books depicting Native American life. Edward S. Curtis Portraits contain...

An invigorating history of the arguments and cooperation between America and Britain as they divided up the world and an illuminating exploration o...

The minutes, hours, and days after President John F. Kennedy was shot on November 22, 1963, provided no ready answers about what was going on, what...

Curtis Mayfield. The Chi-Lites. Chaka Khan. Chicago's place in the history of soul music is rock solid. But for Chicagoans, soul music in its heyda...