History of the Americas

Exploring the meanings in the intricate symbolism of a rare Precolumbian manuscriptThis book explores the rich symbolism of the Codex Borgia, a masterpiece of Precolumbian art dating to the fifteenth century, one of the few surviving books from before the Spanish conquest of Mexico.

Known as the Father of the American Revolution, English-American author Thomas Paine became famous for two pamphlets that inspired the colonists to fight for their independence.

Discover the essential people, works, movements, and themes in American Indian literature.

North American Society for Oceanic History John R.

From the early colonial period to the close of World War II, life in North America was predominantly agrarian and rural.

From Winchester to Tidewater and Danville to Fairfax, the black teams of Virginia played their form of Negro league baseball for five decades in pastures, parks, and--for a fortunate few--minor league stadiums.

Discover the essential people, works, movements, and themes in American Indian literature.

The participation of the Iroquois of Akwasasne, Kanesetake (Oka), Kahnawake and Oswegatchie in the Seven Years' War is a long neglected topic.

For more than two hundred years, thousands of giant sailing ships traversed the Great Lakes carrying cargo and passengers.

Inside the Museums views Toronto's heritage museums for the first time as a single community - linked by events, personalities, and function.

The history you don't know is the most fascinating of all.

For nearly seven decades, Jane Blaffer Owen was the driving force behind the restoration and revitalization of the town of New Harmony, Indiana.

Inside the Museums views Toronto's heritage museums for the first time as a single community - linked by events, personalities, and function.

Leonard Budgell saw the Canadian North like nobody else.

King's Men is the story of the Loyalist regiments who became the soldier founders of the Province of Ontario, the Loyal Colonials who joined the Provincial Corps of the British Army, Canadian Command, during the American revolution.

Inside the Museums views Toronto's heritage museums for the first time as a single community - linked by events, personalities, and function.

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The story of African Canadians who fled slavery in the United States but returned to enlist in the Union forces during the American Civil War.

The remarkable history of a pocket of the remote Arctic, and the oral testimony from the last Inuit elders to live there.

2017 Robbie Robertson Dartmouth Book Award - ShortlistedPaul Chiasson reveals the possibility that early Chinese settlers landed in Cape Breton long before Europeans.

Inside the Museums views Toronto's heritage museums for the first time as a single community - linked by events, personalities, and function.

More Battlefields of Canada is a sequel to Mary Beacock Fryers bestselling Battlefields of Canada.

Canadians are very polite - but they also commit murder.

In 1839 fifty-eight men left Montreal for the penal colony of New South Wales.

In The Golden Age of Brazil, 1695-1750, historian C.

Pioneer Black Robes on the West Coast is the second volume in a series chronicling the Jesuits' remarkable efforts in Spanish North America between their arrival in 1572 and their expulsion nearly 200 years later.

Poste Restante: A Lawrence Travel Calendar by Harry T.

Pioneer Black Robes on the West Coast is the second volume in a series chronicling the Jesuits' remarkable efforts in Spanish North America between their arrival in 1572 and their expulsion nearly 200 years later.

Poste Restante: A Lawrence Travel Calendar by Harry T.

In The Golden Age of Brazil, 1695-1750, historian C.

To Try Men's Souls: Loyalty Tests in American History offers the first comprehensive narrative of how governments in the United States have used oaths and other tests to define, demand, and police allegiance.

The Hudson's Bay Company as an Imperial Factor: 1821-1869 explores the rise, consolidation, and eventual decline of the Hudson's Bay Company's fur trade monopoly in British North America.

The Hudson's Bay Company as an Imperial Factor: 1821-1869 explores the rise, consolidation, and eventual decline of the Hudson's Bay Company's fur trade monopoly in British North America.

This title was originally published in 1976.

Among the oldest buildings in the United States, the churches of Spanish New Mexico--made of earth, of stone, of wood--are the surprisingly fragile reminders of a unique amalgam of Spanish architectural ideas and native American Pueblo culture.

Although historians frequently use memoirs as source material, too often they confine such usage to the anecdotal, and there is little methodological literature regarding the genre's possibilities and limitations.

Sixteenth Century North America: The Land and the People as Seen by the Europeans offers a detailed reconstruction of the continent's geography, environment, and cultures as first encountered by European explorers and chroniclers.

To Try Men's Souls: Loyalty Tests in American History offers the first comprehensive narrative of how governments in the United States have used oaths and other tests to define, demand, and police allegiance.

In its natural condition the Sacramento Valley was a flood-ravaged region where an inland sea a hundred miles long regularly formed during the rainy season, to drain slowly away by the summer months.

Sixteenth Century North America: The Land and the People as Seen by the Europeans offers a detailed reconstruction of the continent's geography, environment, and cultures as first encountered by European explorers and chroniclers.

This title was originally published in 1976.

A Venture in History: The Production, Publication, and Sale of the Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft by Harry Clark offers a revealing account of how one of the nineteenth century's most ambitious historical enterprises came into being.

This study details how the development and maturation of New Negro politics and thought were shaped not only by New York-based intellectuals and revolutionary transformations in Europe, but also by people, ideas, and organizations rooted in the South.