History of the Americas

Thousands of nuclear antiaircraft arms were designed, tested and deployed in the United States during Dwight D. Eisenhower's presidency. These Army...

This book tells the story of Shelburne Farms, once a magnificent Gilded Age country estate conceived by America s leading aristocrats of the day, L...

From the author of the New York Times bestsellers First Women and The Residence, an intimate, news-making look at the men who are next in line to t...

This book discusses responses to the challenges faced by two different Iberian imperial systems in their struggle to sustain territorial integrity ...

The Observer Book of the YearThe war hero, senator, secretary of state and presidential candidate has plenty to write about and to be right aboutT...

For decades, Woodrow Wilson has been remembered as either a paternalistic liberal or reactionary conservative at home and as a na ve idealist or cy...

Traversing more than a century of American history, this book advances a new theory of congressional organization to explain why and how party diss...

Mob violence in the United States is usually associated with the southern lynch mobs who terrorized African Americans during the Jim Crow era. In F...