History of the Americas

Merging archaeology, material culture, and social history, historian Susan Kern reveals the fascinating story of Shadwell, the birthplace of Thomas Jefferson and home to his parents, Jane and Peter Jefferson, their eight children, and over sixty slaves.

An exploration of the book, the movie, and the author of one of the most captivating stories ever toldHow and why has the saga of Scarlett O'Hara kept such a tenacious hold on our national imagination for almost three-quarters of a century?

This comprehensive history of the native and maritime fur trade in Alaska during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is without precedent.

In the early 1830s, after decades of relative peace, northern Mexicans and the Indians whom they called “the barbarians” descended into a terrifying cycle of violence.

Wall Street: no other place on earth is so singularly identified with money and the power of money.

The Secret World of American Communism (1995), filled with revelations about Communist party covert operations in the United States, created an international sensation.

"e;A marvelous exploration of how the Bible has shaped African American religion and culture,"e; from the early days of slavery to the present (Daniel J.

During the course of his short but extraordinary life, John Ledyard (1751–1789) came in contact with some of the most remarkable figures of his era: the British explorer Captain James Cook, American financier Robert Morris, Revolutionary naval commander John Paul Jones, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and others.

In the history, the very personality, of New York City, few events loom larger than the wave of immigration at the turn of the last century.

"e;This thoughtful, engaging examination of the Reconstruction Era .

The statistics are startling.

A remarkable collection of charming and eloquent letters that contain the seeds of Tocqueville’s later masterful account of American democracy Young Alexis de Tocqueville arrived in the United States for the first time in May 1831, commissioned by the French government to study the American prison system.

In the European Enlightenments it was often argued that moral conduct rather than adherence to certain theological doctrines was the true measure of religious belief.

The Boston Tea Party, the Order of Red Men, Camp Fire Girls, Boy Scouts, Grateful Dead concerts: just a few examples of white Americans' tendency to appropriate Indian dress and act out Indian roles"e;A valuable contribution to Native American studies.

This highly original work explores a previously unknown financial conspiracy at the start of the American Civil War.

How did neighborhood groceries, parish halls, factories, and even saloons contribute more to urban vitality than did the fiscal might of postwar urban renewal?

This epic history compares the empires built by Spain and Britain in the Americas, from Columbus's arrival in the New World to the end of Spanish colonial rule in the early nineteenth century.

This book is the first to focus a bright light on the life and early career of George S.

Rhetoric during and after the Cold War years has painted starkly contrasting portraits of Cuba’s Fidel Castro: an unblemished idealist on the one hand, a ruthless dictator on the other.

There is a hunger for conspiracy news in America.

In this absorbing book, George McKenna ranges across the entire panorama of American history to track the development of American patriotism.

In this long-awaited successor to his landmark work A History of American Law, Lawrence M.

This year’s winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition is Loren Goodman’s Famous Americans.

This book offers a comprehensive look at musical representations of native America from the pre colonial past through the American West and up to the present.

In 1803 the United States purchased Louisiana from France.

The United States is in transit from an industrial to a postindustrial society, from a modern to postmodern culture, and from a national to a global economy.

In this book, Lee Shai Weissbach offers the first comprehensive portrait of small-town Jewish life in America.

A plainspoken, racy patrician who distrusted democracy but opposed slavery and championed freedom for all minorities, an important player in the American Revolution, later an astute critic of the French Revolution, Gouverneur Morris remains an enigma among the founding generation.

'Marvellously engaging' The Times'Brisk, informative and eye-opening' Daily TelegraphIn the 1600s, vast numbers of people left England for the Americas.

A history and analysis of the tragic 1955 American pharmaceutical disaster involving one company's polio vaccine.

Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) is a towering figure in American history.

Flowing through a valley of sublime scenery, the Hudson River uniquely connects America's past with its present and future.

The Constitution of Empire offers a constitutional and historical survey of American territorial expansion from the founding era to the present day.

A key figure in the administrations of Franklin D.

A brilliant appraisal of the Civil War and its long-term consequences, by an acclaimed historian.

Prize-winning historian Lawrence Freedman takes an exceptionally clear-eyed look at America's strategic predicament in the Middle East, over the past 30 years.

Bauer tells California history strictly through Native perspectives.

This compelling study of a previously overlooked vice industry explores the larger structural forces that led to the growth of prostitution in Japan, the Pacific region, and the North American West at the turn of the twentieth century.

Walking Washingtons History: Ten Cities, a follow-up to Judy Bentleys bestselling Hiking Washingtons History, showcases the states engaging urban history through guided walks in ten major cities.

Native Students at Work tells the stories of Native people from around the American Southwest who participated in labor programs at Sherman Institute, a federal Indian boarding school in Riverside, California.

Boxing was popular in the American West long before Las Vegas became its epicenter.

Providing the most comprehensive examination to date of Asians in the Centennial State, William Wei addresses a wide range of experiences, from anti-Chinese riots in late nineteenth-century Denver to the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans at the Amache concentration camp to the more recent influx of Southeast Asian refugees and South Asian tech professionals.

Please dont cry, wrote Iwao Matsushita to his wife Hanaye, telling her he was to be interned for the duration of the war.

It can be said that all of human history is environmental history, for all human action happens in an environmentin a place.

Margaret Elley Felts autobiographical Gyppo Logger, originally published in 1963, tells a story almost universally overlooked in the history of the logging industry: the emergence of family-based, independent contract or "e;gyppo"e; loggers in the post-World War II timber economy, and the crucial role of women within that economy.

Please dont cry, wrote Iwao Matsushita to his wife Hanaye, telling her he was to be interned for the duration of the war.

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In his prize-winning memoir, Reconciliation Road, John Marshall recounts a road trip around America in search of the truth about his famous grandfather General S.

On April 18, 1906, a 7.