History of the Americas

The president of the United States is a highly visible public figure, a bearer of immense responsibility, and the subject of intense scrutiny. He i...

Completely updated through the inauguration in January 2009, First Ladies, Third Edition covers all the women who have held this esteemed office ...

An intimate, compulsively readable account of the dynamics that have shapedand sometimes destroyedrelations at the top of the American political hi...

Mid-20th century America envisioned a wondrous future of comfort, convenience and technological advancement. Popular culture--including World's ...

Even in the midst of the Civil War, its battlefields were being dedicated as hallowed ground. Today, those sites are among the most visited places ...

In the personal and frank Confessions of a Free Speech Lawyer, Rodney A. Smolla offers an insider's view on the violent confrontations in Charlotte...

America's favorite president sure got around. Before Abraham Lincoln's sojourned to the Oval Office, he grew up in Kentucky and began his career as...

Homesteading the Plains offers a bold new look at the history of homesteading, overturning what for decades has been the orthodox scholarly view. T...

Unforgettable people. Beloved places. Enduring memories. From its beginning in 1869 as a land-grant institution on the edge of the prairie, the Uni...

In the first half of the twentieth century, Jack Trice, Ozzie Simmons, and Johnny Bright played college football for three Iowa institutions: Iowa ...

This volume, edited by Antonio Aimi and Antonio Guarnotta, offers a new, up-to-date study of the most important cultures of Mesoamerica and of the ...

This title includes essays on the Northern home front by a preeminent Civil War historian. Northerners at War brings together noted historian J. Ma...

New York City native Mary Esther Lee (1837-1914) first married in 1864 the Prince von Noer, brother of the Queen of Denmark, and was created a p...

Untold thousands of black North Carolinians suffered or died during the Jim Crow era because they were denied admittance to white-only hospitals. W...

Get ready for the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympics both held in Brazil with the story of Latin Americas most popular sport. Fútbol!...

Let us hope that this book, poorly written and disjointed, but sincere, will help to clear up our relationship with our dear, dead friend Lee. Thus...

Why do democracies keep lurching from success to failure? The current financial crisis is just the latest example of how things continue to go wron...

The roots of coincidence and conspiracy in American politics, crime, and culture are investigated in this examination of the connections between re...

A nation at war wants nothing less than complete information of her enemy. It is hard for the mind to conceive exactly what complete information me...

This book covers a period of a little more than three-quarters of a century. It begins with the first attempt at English colonization in America, i...

The correspondence between the old Congress and the American agents, commissioners, and ministers in foreign countries was secret and confidential ...

In the decade before the onset of the Civil War, groups of Americans engaged in a series of longshotand illegalforays into Mexico, Cuba, and other ...

How is Barack Obama represented in popular culture? More than the United States' 44th president, he is also a lens through which we can examine ...

The Battle of Carthage, Missouri, was the first full-scale land battle of the Civil War. Governor Claiborne Jackson's rebel Missouri State Guard...

In 1853, Solomon Nunes Carvalho, proud descendant of a Sephardic Jewish family, accepted the invitation of Col. John Charles Fremont to accompany h...

Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater was a staunch conservative more interested in advancing the conservative cause than running for president. A Draft ...

The 112th New York Infantry Regiment served 1,017 days during the Civil War, from 1862 to 1865. They campaigned in four states, fought in 16 bat...