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

Let our citizens organize and drill, urged the editor of the Pittsburgh Gazette in September 1862 as rumors of a Confederate attack on the North gr...

While Vicksburg and Gettysburg tend to receive the most attention among Civil War battles, it is Port Hudson that holds the record for the longest-...

In this timely collection, teacher-scholars of the long eighteenth century, a Eurocentric time frame from about 1680 to 1832, consider what teachin...

In this timely collection, teacher-scholars of the long eighteenth century, a Eurocentric time frame from about 1680 to 1832, consider what teachin...

The Napoleonic wars did not end with Waterloo. That famous battle was just the beginning of a long, complex transition to peace. After a massive in...

The communities along the coastline of Ghana boast a long and vibrant maritime culture. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the region...

In January 1861, Virginia possessed the largest population of enslaved people within the United States. The institution of slavery permeated the st...

Entitlement and Complaint explores the early history of the right to retirement and the shaping of the modern life course, applying cutting-edge in...

This open access book explores the transnational and transoceanic dimensions of the debate on gender and women's cultural agency and mediation in t...

In the bustling cities of the mid-nineteenth-century Northeast, young male clerks working in commercial offices and stores were on the make, persis...

This volume surveys the burst of political imagination that created multiple Enlightenment cultures in an era widely understood as an age of democr...

What happens to the US Army after the battles are over, the citizen soldiers depart, and all that remains is the Regular Army? In this pathbreaking...

'In overthrowing me, you have done no more than cut down the trunk of the tree of liberty - it will spring back from the roots, for they are numero...

Reveals how the European travels of John and Abigail Adams helped define what it meant to be an American From 1778 to 1788, the Founding Father and...