History of the Americas

Capello investigates why weve been so blithe about giving up our privacy and all the opportunities weve had along the way to rein it in. Every day,...

Without the support of American women, victory in the Revolutionary War would not have been possible. They followed the Continental Army, handli...

In They Will Have Their Game, Kenneth Cohen explores how sports, drinking, gambling, and theater produced a sense of democracy while also reinforci...

The Needs of Others is set in the UN in 1994, where diplomats learn of violence in Rwanda. Representing UN ambassadors, human rights organisations,...

The American West has influenced important national developments throughout the twentieth century, not only in the cultural arena, but also in econ...

This ground-breaking book takes an insightful and close New Look at one of the most fascinating subjects of the Civil War--the long-overlooked batt...

In the early seventeenth century, in a backwater Dutch colony, there was a wide, muddy cow path that the settlers called the Brede Wegh. As the str...

From its origins as a project to rescue Chinese prostitutes and slave girls from a life of supposed depravity the Chinese Rescue Home became a feat...

Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court case synonymous with separate but equal, created remarkably little stir when the justices announced their nea...

On a cold, rainy dawn in late November 1872, Lieutenant Frazier Boutelle and a Modoc Indian nicknamed Scarface Charley leveled firearms at each oth...

The archive has assumed a new significance in the history of sex, and this book visits a series of such archives, including the Kinsey Institutes e...

Looming large in the popular imagination as a serious poet and lively drunk who died in penury, Edgar Allan Poe was also the most celebrated and no...

Sports in American History: From Colonization to Globalization, Second Edition, journeys from the early American past to the present to give studen...

Picture your downtown vacant, boarded up, while the malls surrounding your city are thriving. What would you do? In 1974 the politicians, merchants...

An eye-opening, meticulously researched new perspective on the influences that shaped the Founders as well as the nation's founding document From o...

Once an icon of American industry, railroads fell into a long decline beginning around the turn of the twentieth century. Overburdened with regulat...

The Journal of the American Revolution, Annual Volume 2018, presents the journals best historical research and writing over the past calendar year....

In modern society, we have professionalized our care for the dying and deceased in hospitals and hospices, churches and funeral homes, cemeteries a...

For years, the so-called better-war school of thought has argued that the United States built a legitimate and viable non-Communist state in South ...

Just in time for the one-hundredth anniversary of Miami Beach, It Happened in Miami, the Magic City: An Oral History features nearly seventy fabulo...