History of the Americas

Civil War histories typically center on the deeds of generals and sweeping depictions of battle. This unique study of one Southern county's war ...

Indigenous sign-systems, such as pictographs, petroglyphs, hieroglyphs, and khipu, are usually understood as relics from an inaccessible past. That...

One hundred and fifty years after the first shots were fired on Fort Sumter, the Civil War still captivates the American imagination, and its rever...

Monuments honoring leaders and victorious armies have been raised throughout history. Following the American Civil War, however, this tradition ...

The historical and literary antecedents of the President's campaign rhetoric can be traced to the utopian traditions of the Western world. The r...

Honduras occupies a strategic geographic position in Central America. Having served as ambassador to Honduras during both the Carter and Reagan ...

A dramatic response to American racism occurred in Los Angeles during 1855 when eighteen-year-old Francisco P. Ramírez published a Spanish-language...

America's second oldest higher education institution experienced the full violence of the Civil War, with a wartime destiny of destruction compound...

Offering a rare pan-Caribbean perspective on a region that has moved from the very center of the western world to its periphery, The Caribbean: The...

This is the history of a legendary battalion. The product of more than a decade's toil, Going Back the Way They Came is a thoroughly researched, co...

In what may have been the single largest outbreak of vigilante violence in American history, forty suspected Unionists were hanged at Gainesville,...

In Bronx Faces and Voices, sixteen men and women tell their personal, uncensored stories of the New York City boroughbefore, during, and after the ...

John F. Kennedy in Quotations is a compilation of more than 2,000 quotations selected from the speeches and other public addresses that Kennedy del...

On a late November morning in 1864, Col. Kit Carson and his U.S. troops, under orders from the commander of the New Mexico Military Department, att...

This is a book that evokes a time and place that no longer exists, but is central to the American experience. A past that is handed down to be reme...

Sweeping biographies abound-authorised and non-authorised regarding Ted Kennedy. These biographies generally either applaud him for his ideals or h...

This book is a thorough study of all known guerrilla operations in Civil War Missouri between September 1864 and June 1865. It explores different...

A controversial figure for his views on manumission and his unorthodox marital arrangements, Zephaniah Kingsley Jr. (1765-1843) is mostly known tod...

Homer Maxey was a war hero, multimillionaire and pillar of the Lubbock, Texas, community. During the post-World War II boom, he filled the West Tex...

This book posits that the American Revolution - waged to form a more perfect union - still raged long after the guns went silent. Eight major fugit...

This book is a thorough study of all known guerrilla operations in Civil War Missouri from January through August 1864. It explores the various ...

Republican, First, Last, and Always: A Biography of B. Carroll Reece examines the political culture that created an intense fervor of anti-communis...

This book situates its contemplation of the nineteenth-century Trinidadian landscape in the context of an emerging sub-field of Caribbean postcolon...

Be inspired by Barack Obama and learn how to think big with this unique insight into the mind of one of the worlds great influencers. Born to a bla...