Regional & national History

This singular collection of articles, essays, poems, criticism and personal recollections by a Vietnam veteran documents the author's reflection...

In May 1865, the final month of the Civil War, the U.S. Army arrested and prosecuted a sitting congressman in a military trial in the border sta...

Richmond in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was home to a lively underworld of tricksters, swindlers, confidence men and thieves. The for...

Developed by progressive social scientists in the early 20th century, the juvenile justice system in the U.S. consisted of courts and correction...

Featured in this book are the Civil War Union army colonels who commanded regiments from Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin. This is the sixth...

The SS was one of the most important institutions of Third Reich Germany, yet it is also among the least well understood. From the end of 1935, the...

During the Middle Ages, castles and other fortified buildings were a common feature of the European landscape. As central powers rose and fell, ...

Marsden Hartley (1877-1943) was a well-traveled American modernist painter, poet, and essayist, but it is his life-long artistic engagement with hi...

Ciudad Juárez lies just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. A once-thriving border town, it now resembles a failed state. Infamously known a...

In this compelling and informative volume, Jimmie R. Hawkins walks the reader through the many forms of Black protest in American history, from pre...

Selected as a Book of the Year by The Times and The EconomistChina's history is an epic tapestry of courtly philosophies, warring factions and impe...

Drawing on more than a half-century of research and teaching, Dennis Showalter presents a fresh perspective on the German Army during World War I. ...

'A thrilling blow-by-blow account' The Times'A first-rate popular history of a fascinating and neglected battle... a veritable page-turner' BBC His...

  A SPECIAL ANNIVERSARY EDITION TO COMMEMORATE 80 YEARS SINCE THE EXTRAORDINARY EVENTS OF 1943 Sophie Scholl and the White Rose tells the grippin...

Despite being relatively brief, this very readable history covers environmental, political, social, economic, cultural and artistic elements, and i...