Modern History to 20th Century: c 1700 to c 1900

*Winner of the Colonial Dames of America Book Award* Varina Anne Winnie Davis was born into a war-torn South in June of 1864, the youngest daughter...

This is the first book exclusively devoted to the Civil War writings of Walt Whitman and Herman Melville, arguably the most important poets of the ...

This book is the first substantial study in any language of one of revolutionary Russia's most distinguished and controversial engineers - Iurii Vl...

From the end of the nineteenth century until the onset of the Great Depression, Wall Street embarked on a stunning, unprecedented, and often bloody...

Nationalism and Revolution in Europe, 1763-1848 addresses enduring historiographical problems concerning the appearance of the first national movem...

Part of a series of guides on key figures and themes, this book follows the life of Charles Edward Stuart, the young pretender. The author sets out...

The distinguished historian R. R. Palmer compares the ideas of Alexis de Tocqueville and his father. Count Herve de Tocqueville. on the causes of t...

The distinguished historian R. R. Palmer compares the ideas of Alexis de Tocqueville and his father. Count Herve de Tocqueville. on the causes of t...

Explores the divergence in popular Evangelicalism between Highlands and Lowlands in late nineteenth-century Scotland Follows an accessible chronol...

In Dreams of El Dorado, H. W. Brands tells the thrilling, panoramic story of the settling of the American West, from Lewis and Clark's expedition i...

A study of the contribution made by Christian missionaries to the formation of Northern Rhodesia based on firsthand information and study by the au...

Winner of the Russell P. Strange Book of the Year Award from the Illinois State Historical Society Baseballs spread across Illinois paralleled the ...

Winner of the 2023 Arline Custer Memorial Award presented by the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives ConferenceAs America's first professional female ar...

The Battle of Petersburg was the culmination of the Virginia Overland campaign, which pitted the Army of the Potomac, led by Ulysses S. Grant and G...

The Emergence of a Hero is dedicated to the history of Russian emotional culture of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries - the epoch ...

When North and South met among the desolate mountains of northwestern Georgia in 1863, they began one of the bloodiest and most decisive campaigns ...

Although there have been many biographies of Benjamin Disraeli, none has dealt at length with his early years. Mr. Jerman has had first access to t...

Some Southern generals, like Lee and Jackson, have stood the test of time, celebrated in their place in history. And then there are generals like J...

One hundred and fifty years after Kansas was admitted to the Union, we still find ourselves fascinated by the specter of Bleeding Kansas and the vi...

This book presents for the first time the complete text of the earliest known Ladino-language memoir, transliterated from the original script, tran...