History of the Americas

James T. Scott's 1923 lynching in the college town of Columbia, Missouri, was precipitated by a case of mistaken identity. Falsely accused of ra...

Nation-building efforts by the United States and the international community have led to both success and failure, overwhelming support and debi...

This book, continuing the narrative begun by the author in two preceding volumes, provides a clear description of military combat occurring in L...

In the 1950s, ninety-five percent of patients with Hodgkin's disease, a cancer of lymph tissue which afflicts young adults, died. Today most are cu...

This anthology contains seventeen essays covering eighteenth-century agrarian unrest, the Revolutionary War, politics in the Jackson era, feminism ...

Emory Upton (18391881) was thrust into the Civil War immediately upon graduation from the United States Military Academy at West Point in May of 18...

This volume presents more than five hundred original documents, many newly discovered, from Andrew Jacksons third presidential year. They include J...

Emory Upton (18391881) was thrust into the Civil War immediately upon graduation from the United States Military Academy at West Point in May of 18...

John Brown was fiercely committed to the militant abolitionist cause, a crusade that culminated in Brown's raid on the Federal armory at Harpers Fe...

Born in 1928 in the small coastal town of Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, Genevieve Sister Peterkin grew up with World War II bombing practice in h...

Based on secret transcripts of top-level diplomacy undertaken by the number-two Soviet leader, Anastas Mikoyan, to settle the Cuban Missile Crisis ...

Fought on July 28, 1864, the Battle of Ezra Church was a dramatic engagement during the Civil War's Atlanta Campaign. Confederate forces under John...