History of the Americas

How did we get into this mess? Every morning, many Americans ask this as, with a cringe, they pick up their phones and look to see what terrible th...

The idea that a Senator--Republican or Democrat--would put the greater good of the country ahead of party seems nearly impossible to imagine in our...

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...

When Juliette Kinzie first visited Chicago in 1831, it was anything but a city. An outpost in the shadow of Fort Dearborn, it had no streets, no si...

Banks and bankers are hardly the most beloved people and institutions in this country. With its corruptive influence on politics and stranglehold o...

The Good War in American Memory dispels the long-held myth that Americans forged an agreement on why they had to fight in World War II. John Bodnar...

Few 19th-century Americans were as adventurous as Henry Baxter. Best known for his Civil War exploits--from leading the 7th Michigan Volunteer I...

In the early 1920s, with the nation still recovering from World War I, President Warren G. Harding founded a huge new organization to treat disable...

How silver influenced two hundred years of world history, and why it matters todayThis is the story of silvers transformation from soft money durin...

The changing face of the liberal creed from the ancient world to todayThe Lost History of Liberalism challenges our most basic assumptions about a ...

Silas Deane was the victim of one of the most vicious character assassination conspiracies ever carried out in the Revolutionary War era. Even a...

This second book in the Yale University Publications in Anthropology series dedicated to the Machu Picchu collections recovered early in the twenti...

An estimated one-third of all American adults eats something from at a fast-food restaurant every day. Millions start their mornings with paper-wra...

Art of the United States is a landmark volume that presents three centuries of US art through a broad array of historical texts, including writings...

When John Brown led twenty-one men in an attack on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry on October 16, 1859, he envisioned a biblical uprising of m...

The New York loft jazz scene of the 1970s was a pivotal period for uncompromising, artist-produced work. Faced with a flagging jazz economy, a grou...

America's Favorite Holidays explores how five of America's culturally important holidays - Christmas, Valentine's Day, Easter, Halloween, and Thank...

Taking into account the key events of the French and Indian War, this book shows the American Revolutions progress in glorious contemporary maps an...

In Republic of Spin, David Greenberg recounts the rise of the White House spin machine from Teddy Roosevelt to Barack Obama. His sweeping narrative...

Training her eye on traits that other biographers have neglected and mining newly released diaries and letters, Barbara Perry captures Rose Kennedy...

In the late 1840s, Representative Abraham Lincoln resided at Mrs. Spriggs boardinghouse on Capitol Hill. Known as Abolition House, Mrs. Spriggs hos...

A riveting narrative of a New England slave boy caught up in the American Revolution A boy named Peter, born to a slave in Massachusetts in 1763, w...

C. Wright Mills (1916-1962) was a pathbreaking intellectual who transformed the independent American Left in the 1940s and 1950s. Often challenging...

Latin America is a concept firmly entrenched in its philosophical, moral, and historical meanings. And yet, Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo argues in this...

In this era of tweets and blogs, it is easy to assume that the self-obsessive recording of daily minutiae is a recent phenomenon. But Americans hav...

In this era of tweets and blogs, it is easy to assume that the self-obsessive recording of daily minutiae is a recent phenomenon. But Americans hav...

No one working on Douglass should leave home without a copy of this book.from the foreword by David W. Blight, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Fre...

How the insane asylum came to exert such a powerful hold on the American imagination.Madhouse, funny farm, psychiatric hospital, loony bin, nuthous...

From the bestselling author of Hiroshima, a searing account of police brutality, white racism, and black rage in 1960s Detroit.On the evening of Ju...

William D. Lopez details the incredible strain that immigration raids place on Latino communitiesand the families and friends who must recover from...

An Owl in a Hawks World: Top diplomat Llewellyn E Thompson was everywhere the Cold War was.Winner of the New Mexico/Arizona Book Award for Best Bio...

The Promise of American Life is part of the bedrock of American liberalism, a classic that had a spectacular impact on national politics when it wa...

Learning to Forget analyzes the evolution of US counterinsurgency (COIN) doctrine over the last five decades. Beginning with an extensive section o...

The idea that the United States is unlike every other country in world history is a surprisingly resilient one. Throughout his distinguished career...

Seven decades after World War II, we now know that the margin between Allied victory and defeat was often narrower than many realized. The decis...