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

In the spring of 1861, John Caldwell Calhoun Sanders, a 21-year-old cadet at the University of Alabama, helped organize a company of the 11th Alaba...

Probably no American statesman displayed more constructive imagination than did Alexander Hamilton. Prodigal of ideas, bursting with plans for dive...

Little attention has been paid to the settlement of Germans in Kansas, and Roberta Reb Allens Once We Were Strangers helps to fill that void. It is...

The essays in this pathbreaking collection consider the significance of varied early American fragmentary genres and practicesfrom diaries and poe...

The essays in this pathbreaking collection consider the significance of varied early American fragmentary genres and practicesfrom diaries and poe...

A small French settlement thrived for half a century on the west bank of the Mississippi River before the Louisiana Purchase made it part of the Un...

Atop broad stone stairs flanked by statues of ancient lawgivers, the U.S. Supreme Court building stands as a shining temple to the American idea of...

On the night of July 3, 1870, Elizabeth Tilton confessed to her husband that shed had an affair with their pastor, Henry Ward Beecher. This secret ...

Originally published in 1976, this book honours the centenary of The Royal Military College of Canada, 1876-1976. It comprises nine essays written ...

Student-Centered Oral History explores the overlaps of culturally relevant teaching, student-centered teaching, and oral history to demonstrate how...