In 1979 Robert Penn Warren returned to his native Todd Country, Kentucky, to attend ceremonies in honor of another native son, Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, whose United States citizenship had just been restored, ninety years after his death, by a special act of Congress.
Frank Mathias was a teenager in a small town when the draft swept him into the army and then halfway around the world to the jungles of the South Pacific.
Every American war has brought conflict over the extent to which national security will permit protesters to exercise their constitutional guarantee of freedom of expression.
During the 1940s and 1950s, one name, John Bartlow Martin, dominated the pages of the "e;big slicks,"e; the Saturday Evening Post, LIFE, Harper's, Look, and Collier's.
In this biography of Algie Martin Simons, a major figure in the Socialist party of America, Kent and Gretchen Kreuter show the widely ranging social activities that brought Simons into touch with many of the movements and personalities of his time.
In volume 5 of The Papers of Henry Clay, the second of the series to cover Clay's role as Secretary of State, problems arising from domestic political pressures become significant in the conduct of national affairs both at home and abroad.
When the private papers of Millard Fillmore, thought to have been destroyed in 1889, were discovered they proved to include a large number of letters to Fillmore from Dorothea Dix, the renowned crusader for the humane treatment of the insane.
La voluntad invicta es una memoria politica escrita por Jesus Zambrano Grijalva, en la que narra su transformacion ideologica: de joven guerrillero integrante de la Liga Comunista 23 de Septiembre a dirigente del PRD y actor clave en la transicion democratica mexicana.
George Smitherman tells all about his successes and failures as a politician - in Ontario's legislature and in Toronto's city hall - and shares the joys and sorrows of his personal life.
For most Americans, George Washington is more of a legend than a man-a face on our currency or an austere figure standing in a rowboat crossing the icy Delaware River.
The first general survey of relations between Protestants and Catholics in America during the past half century will be welcomed not only by social historians but by clergymen and laymen interested in the development of constructive interfaith relations.
George Smitherman tells all about his successes and failures as a politician - in Ontario's legislature and in Toronto's city hall - and shares the joys and sorrows of his personal life.
Known as the "e;only living Father of Confederation"e; in his lifetime, Joey Smallwood was an entertaining, crafty, and controversial politician in Canada for decades.
Henry Kissinger conducted American foreign policy with a distinctive assurance and panache that gave dramatic force to his tenure as secretary of state.
Returning to Kentucky in the spring of 1829 after four years as secretary of state in the administration of John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay quickly regained the political dominance at home that would carry him to the U.
