History of the Americas

The disintegration of former colonial empires in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East after World War II profoundly affected the international balance...

A vital account of everyday Nisei life and identity formation in an early twentieth-century communityTacomas vibrant Nihonmachi of the 1920s and '3...

200 Iconic Landscapes That Define North America Frederick Law Olmsted is the father of American landscape architecture. His firm, and the successo...

In 1782, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur wrote, What then, is the American, this new man? He is an American, who, leaving behind him all his ancie...

From the sixteenth to early-nineteenth century, four times more Africans than Europeans crossed the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas. While this forc...

New Deal photographs reveal the inexorable pull of the city even as they lament the demise of rural America

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Incredibly evocative and compelling. The Washington PostA hugely powerful new book. Dan SnowThe most moving and chill...

The three decades after the end of World War II saw the rise and fall of a particular version of liberalism in which the state committed itself to ...

Amidst the ruins of postwar Europe, and just as the Cold War dawned, many new memorials were dedicated to those Americans who had fought and fallen...

American Scientist Recommended Read Historical narratives often concentrate on wars and politics while omitting the central role and influence of t...

This book examines the involvement of African American artists in the New Deal art programs of the 1930s. Emphasizing broader issues informed by th...

Offers a series of fresh perspectives on America's encounter with Catholicism in the nineteenth-century. While religious and immigration historians...

In this one-of-a-kind memoir, Jack Clemons?a former lead engineer in support of NASA?takes readers behind the scenes and into the inner workings of...

Many treatments of the twentieth-century Latin American left assume a movement populated mainly by affluent urban youth whose naïve dreams of revol...

How do groups of people fashion shared identities in the modern world? Following two communities of German-speaking Mennonites, one composed of vol...

An Archaeology of the British Atlantic World, 16001700 is the first book to apply the methods of modern-world archaeology to the study of the seven...

The creation of Lima's red light district in 1928 marked the culminating achievement of the promoters of regulation who sought to control the sprea...

Placing babies' lives at the center of her narrative, historian Janet Golden analyzes the dramatic transformations in the lives of American babies ...