History of the Americas

This is the first scholarly history of the only regular army cavalry regiment raised during the Civil War. Unlike volunteer regiments raised by ind...

The Improbable Conquest offers translations of a series of little-known letters from the chaotic Spanish conquest of the Río de la Plata region, un...

Chas W. Freeman Jr. is one of America's most brilliant and experienced diplomats and an outspoken advocate of diplomacy and other measures short of...

A firsthand account of how public officials and other well-connected individuals have been compromised or blackmailed by their sexual improprieties...

An important investigation of the sociocultural fallout of America's work on the atomic bombIn The Nuclear Borderlands, Joseph Masco offers an in-d...

William Monroe Trotter (1872 1934), though still virtually unknown to the wider public, was an unlikely American hero. With the stylistic verve of ...

Women Will Vote celebrates the 2017 centenary of womens right to full suffrage in New York State. Susan Goodier and Karen Pastorello highlight the ...

In Who Should Rule at Home? Joyce D. Goodfriend argues that the high-ranking gentlemen who figure so prominently in most accounts of New York City'...

As the ubiquitous Jamaican musician Bob Marley once famously sang, half the story has never been told. This rings particularly true for the litt...

From the American Revolution in the 18th century to the Iraq War in the 21st century, wars have had a profound impact on U.S. history. Each of the ...

Often called America's original sin, slavery is arguably the greatest stain on the nation's history. From their introduction in 17th-century Virgin...

When Melissa Clark purchased a box of old scrapbooks online, she knew only that she had bought something relating to the University of Utah and Zio...

When U.S. Cavalry troops rode onto the Ute Indian Reservation in northwestern Colorado on September 29, 1879, they triggered a chain of events that...

Weekly Standard editor Daniel Halper provides a meticulously researched account of the brilliant calculations, secret deals, and occasionally treac...

Three Wasatch canyons - Mill Creek, Big Cottonwood, and Little Cottonwood - tantalise with what they suggest about the history of settlement in the...

Natural History A Natural History of the Intermountain West was written to inform people about the wild world around us, with the idea that we all ...

Coal, silver, gold. There is something about the allure of hidden treasure that puts a glint in peoples eyes. By gathering such familiar storie...

Before the nation came to know them as the President and First Lady, Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham were close friends of Webb Hubbells. Now Hubbe...

Ronald Reagan's Cold War strategy, well established in his first year in office, did not change:  to make absolutely sure in the minds of the Sovie...