History of the Americas

In 2011, Michael Falco set out to document the American Civil War's 150th anniversary by photographing reenactments of more than 20 major battlesfr...

When a decades-long court battle resulted in her familys freedom in 1855, seven-year-old Mary Mildred Williams unexpectedly became the face of Amer...

Freeing Charles recounts the life and epic rescue of captured fugitive slave Charles Nalle of Culpeper, Virginia, who was forcibly liberated by Har...

A startling and eye-opening look into Americas First Family, Never Caught is the powerful story about a daring woman of extraordinary grit (The Phi...

In this vitriolic polemic, Christopher Hitchens takes on the myth surrounding the most divisive political figures in American political history: Bi...

Ten Hills Farm tells the powerful saga of five generations of slave owners in colonial New England. Settled in 1630 by John Winthrop--who would lat...

The book describes my first seven months in Viet Nam, as a platoon leader in Bravo Company of the Third Battalion, 187th Infantry. I wanted to make...

A rare and evocative memoir of a respected constitutional scholar, dedicated public servant, political reformer, and facilitator of peace in the la...

Strangely beautiful, utterly unique, Specimens of Hair presents the obsessive work of a 19th-century amateur naturalist who collected hundreds upon...

At the centre of this extraordinary historical narrative are two linked themes: the grinding down of the aborigines during the long rivalries of th...

1960 aims to take us deeper into the campaign than Theodore White's famous The Making of the President, 1960. And it does. Chicago Sun-Times Award-...

Loyalty and Liberty offers the first comprehensive account of the politics of countersubversion in the United States prior to the McCarthy era. Beg...

The son of a Lithuanian blacksmith, Sidney R. Yates rose to the pinnacle of Washington power and influence. As chair of a House Appropriations Subc...

Founded in 2012, the Journal of the American Revolution has provided educational, peer-reviewed articles by more than 75 historians and experts on ...

When Charles Lindbergh landed at LeBourget Airfield on May 21, 1927, his transatlantic flight symbolized the new era-not only in aviation but also ...