History of the Americas

Kansas Myths and Legends explores unusual events, unsolved crimes, and legends in Kansass history. Each episode included in the book is a story unt...

As late as the 1960s, tacos were virtually unknown outside Mexico and the American Southwest. Within fifty years the United States had shipped taco...

The United States and the Nazi Holocaust is an invaluable synthesis of United States policies and attitudes towards the Nazi persecution of Europea...

This thought-provoking study by historian Monique Laney focuses on the U.S. governmentassisted integration of German rocket specialists and their f...

Using Hamilton's local history to tell the wider story of the North American working-class, Lunch-Bucket Lives investigates how workers dealt with ...

In colonial times few Americans bathed regularly; by the mid-1800s, a cleanliness revolution had begun. Why this change, and what did it signify?It...

Exploring the Bounds of Liberty presents a rich and extensive selection of the political literature produced in and about colonial British America ...

Between 1869 and 1877 the government of Canada negotiated Treaties One through Seven with the Indigenous peoples of the Great Plains. Many historia...

Based on a wide range of original sources, including folktales, anthropological studies, court statements, poetry and speeches, this book sheds new...

A wide-ranging exploration of early Americans use of the Old Testament for political purposes The Bible has always been an integral part of America...

Discover Manhattan's historic landmarks through beautiful photographs by Alfred Stieglitz, Berenice Abbott, Alfred Eisenstaedt and more; quirky quo...

Pentecostalism is one of the most rapidly expanding religious-cultural forms in the world. Its rise in popularity is often attributed to its succes...