History: Specific Events & Topics

This book, first published in 1984, analyses the background to the revolution in Grenada and details the course of its progress, examining the reas...

During the twentieth century, Germans experienced a long series of major and often violent disruptions in their everyday lives. Such chronic inst...

Citizenship and Gender in Britain, 1688–1928 explores the history of citizenship in Britain during a period when admission to the political communi...

In Spies We Trust reveals the full story of the Anglo-American intelligence relationship - ranging from the deceits of World War I to the mendaciti...

John Brown was fiercely committed to the militant abolitionist cause, a crusade that culminated in Brown's raid on the Federal armory at Harpers Fe...

The first serious full-length biography of former Ugandan president Idi Amin, modern Africa’s most famous dictator"A nuanced and sophisticated exam...

A Commerce of Knowledge tells the story of three generations of Church of England chaplains who served the English Levant Company in Syria during t...

Every subject of the Russian Empire had an official, legal place in society marked by his or her social estate, or soslovie. These sosloviia (noble...

Transnational Patriotism in the Mediterranean investigates the long process of transition from a world of empires to a world of nation-states by na...

The Goths are truly a 'lost civilization'. Sweeping down from the north, ancient Gothic tribes sacked the imperial city of Rome and set in motion t...

In January of 1950, Mary Church Terrell, an 86-year-old charter member of the NAACP, headed into Thompson's Restaurant, just a few blocks from the ...

Brothers and sisters are so much a part of our lives that we can overlook their importance. Even scholars of the family tend to forget siblings, fo...

The story of Oxford University Press spans five centuries of printing and publishing. Beginning with the first presses set up in Oxford in the fift...

What happens when life, so to speak, strikes the President of the United States? How do presidents and their families cope with illness, personal l...

Bob Tennant presents a history of the missionary work, cultures, and rhetoric of the Church of England in 1760-1870, when it was the predominant or...

A Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2015 A Boston Globe Best Book of 2015 A brilliant, disturbing portrait of the dawn of the culture wars, when...

Leonard Friesen presents a study of the transformation of New Russia—the region north of the Black and Azov seas—from its conquest by the Russian E...

The Roman Empire was not only built by the strength of the legions but also by a navy that was the most powerful maritime force ever to have existe...

Since his birth in 1902 the teddy bear has captured the hearts of young and old alike. He has survived revolutions, flown in jet fighters and taken...

A daring and unapologetic examination of religion, pop culture and Black representation. Who would you rather pray to? Beyoncé or white Jesus? Ja...

The fascinating story of the evolution of the country house in Britain, from its Roman precursors to the present  “An eclectic scholarly account, t...

In the early years of the Industrial Revolution, canals formed the arteries of Britain. Most waterways were local concerns, carrying cargoes over s...

The Atlantic slave trade was the largest forced migration in history, and its toll in lives damaged or destroyed is incalculable. Most of those sto...

A not-for-the-squeamish journey back through the centuries to urban England, where the streets are crowded, noisy, filthy, and reeking of smoke and...

Being Brown: Sonia Sotomayor and the Latino Question tells the story of the country’s first Latina Supreme Court Associate Justice’s rise to the pi...

Tales from the Dallas Cowboys Sideline is a fascinating, fun look at the inner workings of one of the most beloved teams of all time. From what rea...

In 1910 Roald Amundsen set off from Oslo toward the North Pole but soon received word that two Americans—Frederick Cook and Robert Peary—each claim...

“Hammerin’” Hank Greenberg was coming off a stellar season where he’d hit 40 home runs and 184 RBIs, becoming only the thirteenth player to ever hi...

“We may go to Europe for our chefs, but Europe comes to us for our bartenders.” —W. C. WhitfieldIn the Gay Nineties, the American bartender was con...

“Michele Jordan knows her food and she knows how to write about it.” —San Francisco ExaminerWhat is extra virgin olive oil and how do you find the ...

Ranging from the simple to the sumptuous, here are over 200 recipes for modern Americans inspired by dishes and beverages the authors discovered in...

Letters to America was written to energize Americans at a time of economic stress and self-doubt. By reading of the sacrifices the previous America...

Women were leading actors in twentieth-century developments in Georgia, yet most histories minimize their contributions. The essays in the second v...