History of the Americas

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

Commentators frequently call the United States an empire: occasionally a benign empire, sometimes an empire in denial, and often a destructive empi...

Slavery existed in North America long before the first Africans arrived at Jamestown in 1619. For centuries, from the pre-Columbian era through the...

Winner of the SHEAR Book PrizeHonorable Mention, Avery O. Craven AwardFew books have captured the lived experience of slavery as powerfully.Ari Kel...

Overshadowed by both his brilliant father and the brash and bold Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams has long been dismissed as an aloof intellectual...

In the early nineteenth century, the United States turned its idealistic gaze southward, imagining a legacy of revolution and republicanism it hope...

Midcentury America was a wonderland of department stores, suburban cul-de-sacs, and Tupperware parties. At Christmastime, postwar Americas dreams a...

In January 1868, a Union veteran named Gilbert Bates set out from his Wisconsin farm for Vicksburg, Mississippi, to prove a point and win a bet: th...

From the Breskens Pocket and operations to open the port of Antwerp, through the Rhineland campaign and the battles to liberate the Netherlands in ...

A work that deeply reconceptualizes the New Deal and raises countless provocative questions (David Kennedy), Fear Itself changes the ground rules f...

From 1960 to 1982 Barry L. Strayer was instrumental in the design of The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the patriation of Canada's Con...

Ontario in Transition is a unique contemporary look at Ontario from a distinguished Quebecers perspective. Scholarly, erudite, sensitive to the nua...

Master story teller Marc Mappen applies a generational perspective to the gangsters of the Prohibition eramen born in the quarter century span from...

This is the first biography of the legendary officer Cipriano Baca, scion of a prestigious Spanish lineage tracing their heritage to the first s...

When anti-colonial revolts broke out in Spain's American colonies in the early 1800's, the United States were divided as to what position to take. ...

Dramatically and authentically, using eyewitness accounts where possible, this book recounts the final 13 months of the Civil War, a year in whi...

The Athapaskan departure from the Canadian Subarctic centuries ago and their subsequent arrival in the American Southwest has remained the subject ...

From the commanding call of the bugle at reveille to the reassuring songs from around the campfire at night, music was an integral part of the Civi...

This book offers a rare insight into the history of the Civil War in the western theatre through the eyes of a regimental surgeon. The newly gra...

Heaven's Soldiers chronicles the history of a community of free people of African descent who lived and thrived, while resisting the constraints of...

Named for Massachusetts governor John Albion Andrew--who prevented these two companies from joining the nationalized Berdan's sharp-shooters so ...

From inception to the final roll call, this regimental history traces the 11th Regiment of Alabama Volunteers from its 1861 creation to the Conf...

Near the center of Arizona, in the foothills of the Bradshaw Mountains, lies the small, unincorporated town of Mayer. With a population of less ...

Why the cabdriver is the real victim of the false promises of Uber and the gig economy.2007 Noteworthy Book in Industrial Relations and Labor Econo...

Valium. Paxil. Prozac. Prescribed by the millions each year, these medications have been hailed as wonder drugs and vilified as numbing and addicti...

In 1994, when the National Air and Space Museum announced plans to display the Enola Gay, the B-29 sent to destroy Hiroshima with an atomic bomb, ...

The surprising story of cork and its critical role in US security and the war effort.Winner of the IPPY Book Award History (World), Silver of the I...

In Urban Lowlands, Steven T. Moga looks closely at the Harlem Flats in New York City; Black Bottom in Nashville; Swede Hollow in St. Paul; and the ...

Since 2006, Venezuela has had the highest homicide rate in South America and one of the highest levels of gun violence in the world. Former preside...