History of the Americas

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

For sixty years the journal Civil War History has presented the best original scholarship in the study of Americas greatest struggle. Civil War His...

In the mid-1960s, the charismatic César Chávez led members of California's La Causa movement in boycotting the grape harvest, and melon pickers in ...

No One Avoided Danger is a detailed combat narrative of the 7 December 1941 Japanese attacks on NAS Kaneohe Bay, one of two naval air stations on t...

In this ethnography of Catholic religious practice in Fresno, California, David P. Sandell unveils ritualized storytelling that Mexican and Mexican...

On April 23, 1943, the seventy-man crew of the USS Grenadier scrambled to save themselves and their submarine after a Japanese aerial torpedo sent...

North Carolina sent more than 125,000 men and boys to fight the Civil War. It is estimated that about 40,000 lost their lives on the battlefield...

The hard-fighting 11th Michigan Volunteer Infantry was recruited from sparsely settled southwest Michigan shortly after the Civil War broke out....

From the time he left office in 1853, President Millard Fillmore has become increasingly shrouded in mystery and stereotyped by anecdotes with s...

The Reconstruction was to be a time of rebuilding and healing for the South following the Civil War, but was marked by the continued strong hatr...

In the early 20th century, postcards were one of the most important and popular expressions of holiday sentiment in American culture. Millions o...

President John F. Kennedy remains a subject of fascination for both historians and citizens. Consistently ranked among the most popular U.S. presid...

Do historians write their biographies with the subjects they choose to address in their research? In this collection, editors Alan M. Kraut and Dav...

Did you knowthat a New Jerseyan was the first president of the United States?that New Jersey was the site of the first organized college football g...

In his day he dominated the political landscape like no one in Ohios long, proud history ever hador likely ever will. James A. Rhodes (19092001) pl...

Despite Canadas economic success over the past thirty years, the countrys ranking in productivity has continued to decline when compared to other i...

For sixty years the journal Civil War History has presented the best original scholarship in the study of Americas greatest struggle. The Kent Stat...

During the summer of 1864 a Union column, commanded by Maj. Gen. Andrew Jackson Smith, set out from Tennessee with a goal that had proven impossibl...

In this second volume of the Interpreting American History series, experts on the 1930s address the changing historical interpretations of a critic...

Never-before- published, first-hand accounts of undersea action presented with a summary of torpedo tactics illustrate how a submarine's crew can h...

At the start of the Civil War, volunteers from six counties in southeastern Alabama formed the 15th Alabama Infantry Regiment. As part of Robert...

John T. Farnham, a sharpshooter in the Union Army, wrote a substantial diary entry nearly every day during his three-year enlistment, sent over 50 ...

In May 1725, during a three-year conflict between English colonists and the Eastern Abenaki Nation, a thirty-four-man expedition led by Captain Joh...

In a critical Cold War moment, Dwight D. Eisenhowers presidency suddenly changed when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the worlds first satellite...

How veterans of two wars constructed contrasting meanings for one sacred landscape On September 19 and 20, 1863, the Union Army of the Cumberland a...

This book continues the narrative begun by the author in Wars of Latin America, 1899-1941. It provides a clear and readable description of milit...

This is a consensus-challenging history of the Alger Hiss-Whittaker Chambers controversy of 1948 to 1950, a criminal case in which Hiss was conv...

We are provincials no longer, said Woodrow Wilson on 5 March 1917, at his second inaugural. He spoke on the eve of Americas entrance into the First...

The son of a North Carolina governor, Theophilus Hunter Holmes graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1829 and served on the front...

The Roaring Twenties, jazz music, Hollywood glamour: the end of the First World War ushered in a golden age for America, with a booming stock marke...