History of the Americas

On a hot and dusty December day in 1980, the bodies of four American women- three of them Catholic nuns- were pulled from a hastily dug grave in a ...

Industrial Violence and the Legal Origins of Child Labor challenges existing understandings of child labor by tracing how law altered the meanings ...

The Lost Soldier offers a perspective on World War II we dont always get from histories and memoirs. Based on the letters home of Pete Lynn, the di...

From the author of the definitive history of bourbon (Sacramento Bee) comes the epic true tale of how beer conquered America, from B.C. to Budweise...

On the seventy-fifth anniversary, the authors of Pulitzer Prize finalist The Eleventh Day unravel the mysteries of Pearl Harbor to expose the scape...

This ground-breaking series is a comprehensive history that traces the Presidential line of the Washingtons. Volume one begins with the immigrant J...

In 1962 Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago became independent countries; Barbados followed in 1966. In the years leading up to these events, the hist...

Post Roads & Iron Horses is the first book to look in detail at the turnpikes, steamboats, canals, railroads, and trolleys (street railroads) t...

Returning Vietnam veterans had every reason to expect that the government would take care of their readjustment needs in the same way it had done f...

After an initial honeymoon with historians, in recent years John F. Kennedy has been more carefully scrutinized, resulting in a wide variety of ass...