History of the Americas

The Spaniards typically portrayed the conquest and fall of Mexico Tenochtitlan as Armageddon, while native peoples in colonial Mesoamerica continue...

In October 1962, when the Soviet Union deployed nuclear missiles in Cuba, the most dangerous confrontation of the Cold War ensued, bringing the wor...

In Fighting Stock, Richard B. McCaslin illuminates numerous facets of Ford''s life typically overshadowed by emphasis on his identity as Ranger and...

An extraordinary achievement in natural history and science. But its so artfully written you forget its a scientific treatise and find yourself rea...

Thomas Jefferson is still presented today as an enigmatic figure, despite being written about more than any other Founding Father. Lauded as the mo...

In 1975, Dr. Richard Charles Haefner had it all--a Ph.D. from Penn State University, a prestigious job offer with UCLA and a thriving family bus...

Captain George N. Bliss of the First Rhode Island Cavalry survived some 27 actions during the Civil War. Midway through the war, he served nine ...

Passed by Congress in July 1787, the Northwest Ordinance laid out the basic form of government for all U.S. territory north of the Ohio River. T...

The presidential election of 1912 was the only one whose candidates included an incumbent president, a former president and a future president. ...

Winner of the Russell P. Strange Memorial Book Award This sweeping narrative presents an original and compelling explanation for the triumph of the...

In the voluminous literature on Thomas Jefferson, little has been written about his passionate interest in science. This new and original study of ...

America's global cultural impact is largely seen as one-sided, with critics claiming that it has undermined other countries' languages and traditio...

An unprecedented history of Brooklyn, told through its places, buildings, and the people who made them, from the early seventeenth century to today...

A stunning and ambitious origins story.Ibram X. Kendi, National Book Awardwinning and #1 New York Timesbestselling authorThe remarkable history of ...

How nineteenth-century Protestant evangelicals used print and visual media to shape American cultureIn nineteenth-century America, apocalypse refer...

Full of original plans and historic photographs, this beautifully illustrated collection is the first comprehensive presentation of Olmsted's desig...

Empire of Defense is an extensive and multilayered critique of the past seventy years of American military engagement. Joseph Darda exposes how the...

First published in 1925, The City is a trailblazing text in the fields of urban history, urban sociology, and urban studies. Its innovative combina...

Beginning in the late 1950s and continuing through the 1970s, the United States experienced a vast expansion in national policy making. During this...

How beef conquered America and gave rise to the modern industrial food complexBy the late nineteenth century, Americans rich and poor had come to e...

In September 1823, three men met at Rainy Lake House, a Hudson''s Bay Company trading post near the Boundary Waters. Dr. John McLoughlin, the propr...

Alexander M. McCook, one of the youngest major generals in the Union army, was a member of a patriotic family from Ohio that became known as the...

In April 1861, brothers Daniel and Pressley Boyd left their farm in Abbeville County, South Carolina, to join the Confederate army. The Civil War s...

A Guardian Best Book of the YearA gripping study of white powerExplosive.New York TimesHelps explain how we got to todays alt-right.Terry Gross, Fr...

OUT OF THE BOWELS of the sleepy southern town of Tupelo, Mississippi, the birthplace of Elvis Presley, emerges a darkly-humorous true story of stag...

Serendipity placed David Johnston on Mount St. Helens when the volcano rumbled to life in March 1980. Throughout that ominous spring, Johnston was ...

The candidacy of John F. Kennedy provoked widespread discussion of issues relating to church and state and to the role of Catholics in American ...

Veteran journalist and author Sherry Robinson presents readers with the first full biography of New Mexico's first territorial governor, James Sila...

Emerald-green hiddenite, a gem so valuable that it is said a June bug can carry away $1,000 worth, is only found in one area of North America: Alex...