History of the Americas

Millions of immigrants from eastern and southern Europe were by 1914 doing the dirtiest, most dangerous jobs in America's mines, mills and facto...

In 1945 a joint committee of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives was appointed to investigate and hear testimony from a variety of mili...

This collection of letters chronicles the personal lives of founding father John Jay and his wife, Sarah Livingston Jay, in the tumultuous times...

This book tells the story of the Scottish golf professionals who came to America in 1888 and struggled to earn a living and the respect of the w...

Thomas J. Wood, Kentuckian, graduated fifth in his West Point class in 1846 and joined the staff of General Zachary Taylor. The Mexican War wa...

Today, surveillance and regulation of employees are pervasive at all levels (except the highest) in a wide variety of American workplaces. Digit...

The Royal Canadian Navy crews that sailed the Atlantic during the early Cold War held a contemptuous view of their West Coast brethren, likening th...

It is commonly accepted that the South could never have won the Civil War. By chronicling perhaps the best of the South's limited opportunities ...

Condensed yet energetic and substantial history of Chicago. Spinney has a firm sense of historical narrative as well as a keen eye for entertaining...

In an original and striking study of migration management in operation, Disrupting Deportability highlights obstacles confronting temporary migrant...

A celebrated warrior who led his people to victory on the battlefield, Red Cloud was also a skilled diplomat who transitioned the Oglala Sioux to r...

Paulo De Medeiros concentrates on some aspects of the Book of Disquiet, in the hope of contributing to what he see as the fundamental task of relat...

Thomas Jefferson's writings on morality have largely been ignored. His thoughts on the subject, never developed in any formal work, are said to ...

Major League Baseball was in crisis in 1968. The commissioner was inept, professional football was challenging the sport's popularity and the ga...

The rotary jail was a very unusual architectural design. In response to a need for better control over prisoners, 18 of the revolving, escape-pr...