History of the Americas

With the American revolutionaries in discord following victory at Yorktown and the Paris Peace Treaty of 1783, the proposed federal Constitution...

Responding to President Lincoln's initial call for troops, the 18th New York Infantry emerged as one of the Excelsior State's first regiments an...

England's ill-fated first attempt to colonize America at Roanoke Island in 1587, more than 30 years before the Pilgrims set sail, has been the f...

Elkanah Watson (1758-1842) travelled everywhere and associated with everyone--soldiers, politicians, diplomats, Indians, artists, scientists, sl...

The B-26 Marauder was a formidable weapon in the campaign to defeat Hitler's armies, and, in the words of his first copilot, Louis Rehr was the ...

Since the construction of the first fully enclosed shopping center in 1952, the shopping mall has evolved into the heart of many suburban areas ...

The First World War did not bypass Latin America, but immediately cast its shadow over every port from Tijuana to Punta Arenas, and every capitol f...

This book contains the transcribed journals and reports of a war correspondent for the Boston Journal covering the campaign that captured New Or...

As mid-19th century America erupted in violence with the invasion of Mexico and the outbreak of the Civil War, Irish immigrants enthusiastically jo...

In May 1865, the final month of the Civil War, the U.S. Army arrested and prosecuted a sitting congressman in a military trial in the border sta...

Richmond in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was home to a lively underworld of tricksters, swindlers, confidence men and thieves. The for...

Developed by progressive social scientists in the early 20th century, the juvenile justice system in the U.S. consisted of courts and correction...

Featured in this book are the Civil War Union army colonels who commanded regiments from Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin. This is the sixth...

Marsden Hartley (1877-1943) was a well-traveled American modernist painter, poet, and essayist, but it is his life-long artistic engagement with hi...

Ciudad Juárez lies just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. A once-thriving border town, it now resembles a failed state. Infamously known a...

In this compelling and informative volume, Jimmie R. Hawkins walks the reader through the many forms of Black protest in American history, from pre...

An accessible biography of one of the most influential figures of recent times based on new, original research.Che Guevara is something of a symbol...

The twentieth century has been called 'the American Century'. Not since the days of the Roman emperors has there been such a succession of rulers h...

Volume 38 opens on 1 July 1802, when Jefferson is in Washington, and closes on 12 November, when he is again there. For the last week of July and a...

A major new look at the work of one of Americas foremost self-taught artistsBill Traylor (ca. 18531949) came to art-making on his own and found his...

The 19th Battalion was an infantry unit that fought in many of the deadliest battles of the First World War. Hailing from Hamilton, Toronto, and ot...

Fully revised, updated, and extended, the fifth edition of Hollywoods America provides an important compilation of interpretive essays and primary ...

The fully updated third edition of Farewell, My Nation considers the complex and often tragic relationships between American Indians, white America...

At 4:30 a.m. on Friday, April 12, 1861, Confederate batteries opened fire. Thirty-four hours later, with their supplies running low but their honor...

This book, designed to give a survey history of American labor from colonial times to the present, is uniquely well suited to speak to the concerns...

Regardless of where you live or work, Silicon Valley undoubtedly touches your life; indeed, the tech industrys ubiquitous gadgets promise us more e...

This local and regional study fills the gap in documenting Youngstowns role in the Underground Railroad in New York State. It also offers further p...

Since the days of conquistador Hernán Cortés, rumours have circulated about a lost city of immense wealth hidden deep in the Honduran interior. Ind...

In the twentieth century, African Americans not only helped make popular music the soundtrack of the American experience, they advanced American mu...

The history of aluminum: metallurgy, engineering, global business and politics--and the advance of civilization itself. The earth's most abundan...

Well known in his time though now forgotten, Joseph Brown is a quintessential representative of mid-19th Century Midwestern economic and political ...

At the beginning of the twentieth century, swamps hosting immense timber resources covered much of Missouri's Bootheel. Once investors built a netw...

The region along Deep River in central North Carolina once boasted a small but significant coal mining industry that for nearly two centuries provi...

As friends began going back to the land at the same time that a health issue emerged, Kathleen Alcalá set out to reexamine her relationship with fo...