History of the Americas

The death of a Chinese immigrant, Wong Chut King, in San Francisco in 1900 would have been unremarkable if a swollen black lymph nodea sign of bubo...

Detroit's Cold War locates the roots of American conservatism in a city that was a nexus of labor and industry in postwar America. Drawing on metic...

In 1889 an unknown but determined Jane Addams arrived in the immigrant-burdened, politically corrupt, and environmentally challenged Chicago with a...

Dear Brother, Jane Manning James wrote to Joseph F. Smith in 1903, I take this opportunity of writing to ask you if I can get my endowments and als...

This book, written by Charles Herman Senn (1864-1934) and originally published in 1915, brings the old recipes and techniques of cooking from durin...

A Killing on Ring Jaw Bluff recounts the rise and fall of Georgias rural population as told through the story of Charles Graves Rawlings. From mode...

After the end of the U.S.-Mexican War in 1848, the Southwest Borderlands remained hotly contested territory. Over following decades, the United Sta...

Ohio sent eight presidents to the White House--one Whig and seven Republicans--from 1841 to 1923: William Harrison, U.S. Grant, Rutherford Hayes...

Following the Battle of Nashville, Confederate General John Bell Hoods Army of Tennessee was in full retreat, from the battle lines south of Nashvi...

For almost two centuries, the last stand at the Alamo has been recognized as a defining moment in America's history. On February 23, 1836, a Mexica...

 Opinionated talk show host and columnist Michael Smerconish has been chronicling local, state, and national events for the Philadelphia Daily News...

Philadelphias Chinatown, like many urban chinatowns, began in the late nineteenth century as a refuge for immigrant laborers and merchants in which...

They believed they would live forever. So begins Mira Ptacins haunting account of the women of Camp Etnaan otherworldly community in the woods of M...

In A Colony in a Nation, New York Times best-selling author and Emmy Awardwinning news anchor Chris Hayes upends the national conversation on polic...

America likes to tell itself that it inhabits a postracial world, yet nearly every empirical measurewealth, unemployment, incarceration, school seg...

At the end of World War II, General George Marshall took on what he thought was a final missionthis time not to win a war, but to stop one. In Chin...

In a revelatory work praised as excellent and timely (New York Times Book Review, front page), Adam Winkler, author of Gunfight, once again makes s...

Extraordinary national acclaim accompanied the publication of award-winning historian Linda Gordons disturbing and markedly timely history of the r...

At a time of much despair over the future of liberal democracy, Jill Lepore makes a stirring case for the nation in This America, a follow-up to he...

Liberty Fund is pleased to present this single-volume collection of Gouverneur Morris's writings. This edition will be a welcome addition to schola...

Most scholarship on nineteenth-century America's transformation into a market society has focused on consumption, romanticized visions of workers, ...

In 2005, more than two million Americans--six out of every 1,000 people--filed for bankruptcy. Though personal bankruptcy rates have since stabiliz...

In August 1812, under threat from the Potawatomi, Captain Nathan Heald began the evacuation of ninety-four people from the isolated outpost of Fort...

Inderjeet Parmar reveals the complex interrelations, shared mindsets, and collaborative efforts of influential public and private organizations in ...

At the turn of the twentieth century, many observers considered suicide to be a worldwide social problem that had reached epidemic proportions. In ...

Volume two of The Texas Biography Series reveals Edmund J. Davis, the heroic man who stood in strong opposition to his peers and better reflected t...

Delving beneath Southern California's popular image as a sunny frontier of leisure and ease, this book tells the dynamic story of the life and labo...

Hours after the USSR collapsed in 1991, Congress began making plans to establish the official memory of the Cold War. Conservatives dominated the p...

The tragic and mysterious circumstances surrounding the deaths of Elizabeth Short, or the Black Dahlia, and Marilyn Monroe ripped open Hollywood's ...

The tragic and mysterious circumstances surrounding the deaths of Elizabeth Short, or the Black Dahlia, and Marilyn Monroe ripped open Hollywood's ...

In 1968, Mexico prepared to host the Olympic games amid growing civil unrest. The spectacular sports facilities and urban redevelopment projects bu...

This innovative study presents a new, integrated view of the Civil War and Reconstruction and the history of the western United States. Award-winni...

A good organizer is a social arsonist who goes around setting people on fire.Fred Ross Raised by conservative parents who hoped he would stay with ...