History of the Americas

How the French have used American culture to define a unique modern identityThere are over 1,000 McDonald's on French soil.

How the FDA became the world's most powerful regulatory agencyThe U.

What today's political thinkers can learn from the radical democratic movements of twentieth-century AmericaThis is a major work of history and political theory that traces radical democratic thought in America across the twentieth century, seeking to recover ideas that could reenergize democratic activism today.

Faith in the Fight tells a story of religion, soldiering, suffering, and death in the Great War.

Heavenly Merchandize offers a critical reexamination of religion's role in the creation of a market economy in early America.

In 1901, the Tuskegee Institute, founded by Booker T.

Why major changes to America's social safety net have always required bold presidential leadershipAmericans like to think that they look after their own, especially in times of hardship.

In the 1930s, fewer than one in one hundred U.

In 1854, American Presbyterian missionaries arrived in Egypt as part of a larger Anglo-American Protestant movement aiming for worldwide evangelization.

The New Deal placed security at the center of American political and economic life by establishing an explicit partnership between the state, economy, and citizens.

This is the most comprehensive and up-to-date book on the increasingly important and controversial subject of race relations in Brazil.

During World War II some 120,000 Japanese Americans were forcibly removed from their homes and detained in concentration camps in several states.

A comprehensive and authoritative collection of Thoreau quotations on more than 150 subjects, from beauty to wisdomFew writers are more quotable than Henry David Thoreau.

The story of modern conservatism through the lives of six leading figuresThe Rise and Fall of Modern American Conservatism tells the gripping story of perhaps the most significant political force of our time through the lives and careers of six leading figures at the heart of the movement.

The men who spoke of liberty to shape an American empireHow could the United States, a nation founded on the principles of liberty and equality, have produced Abu Ghraib, torture memos, Plamegate, and warrantless wiretaps?

Soon to be an Apple TV SeriesJames Swanson has written a terrific narrative of the hunt for Lincolns killers that will mesmerize the reader from start to finish just as the actual manhunt mesmerized the entire nation.

How one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in the United States continues to haunt the nation's racial psycheIn 1931, nine black youths were charged with raping two white women in Scottsboro, Alabama.

In the immediate aftermath of World War II, more than a quarter million Jewish survivors of the Holocaust lived among their defeated persecutors in the chaotic society of Allied-occupied Germany.

In the 1960s, Mississippi was the heart of white southern resistance to the civil-rights movement.

Historians have long recognized that the classical heritage of ancient Rome contributed to the development of a vibrant society in Spanish South America, but was the impact a one-way street?

The site of North America's greatest battle is a national icon, a byword for the Civil War, and an American cliche.

What turns rich nations into great powers?

Unlike the 1930s, when the United States tragically failed to open its doors to Europeans fleeing Nazism, the country admitted over three million refugees during the Cold War.

Uncivil Disobedience examines the roles violence and terrorism have played in the exercise of democratic ideals in America.

When the Soviets launched Sputnik in 1957, thousands of ordinary people across the globe seized the opportunity to participate in the start of the Space Age.

Taxation in Colonial America examines life in the thirteen original American colonies through the revealing lens of the taxes levied on and by the colonists.

The sign outside the conservative, white church in the small southern U.

Progressive-era "e;poverty warriors"e; cast poverty in America as a problem of unemployment, low wages, labor exploitation, and political disfranchisement.

The Qualities of a Citizen traces the application of U.

Has America, in its quest for goodness, sacrificed its sense of greatness?

On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants stormed the United States Embassy in Tehran and took sixty-six Americans captive.

This book considers in unprecedented detail one of the most confounding questions in American racial practice: when to speak about people in racial terms.

During the past quarter century, free-market capitalism was recognized not merely as a successful system of wealth creation, but as the key determinant of the health of political and cultural democracy.

In a series of fascinating essays that explore topics in American politics from the nation's founding to the present day , The Democratic Experiment opens up exciting new avenues for historical research while offering bold claims about the tensions that have animated American public life.

This book examines the causes and consequences of a major transformation in both domestic and international politics: the shift from dynastically legitimated monarchical sovereignty to popularly legitimated national sovereignty.

Making Heretics is a major new narrative of the famous Massachusetts disputes of the late 1630s misleadingly labeled the "e;antinomian controversy"e; by later historians.

What did the founders of America think about religion?

How we die reveals much about how we live.

In The Twilight of the Middle Class, Andrew Hoberek challenges the commonly held notion that post-World War II American fiction eschewed the economic for the psychological or the spiritual.

Stories from a Place That Feels Like HomeMaster storyteller Philip Gulley envelops readers in an almost forgotten world of plainspoken and honest small-town values, evoking a simpler time when people knew each other by name, folks looked out for their neighbors, and people were willing to do what was rightno matter the cost.

America was built on stories: tales of grateful immigrants arriving at Ellis Island, Horatio Alger-style transformations, self-made men, and the Protestant work ethic.

Was there ever really a black-Jewish alliance in twentieth-century America?

Knocking on the Door is the first book-length work to analyze federal involvement in residential segregation from Reconstruction to the present.

Prisoners of Myth is the first comprehensive history of the Tennessee Valley Authority from its creation to the present day.

Stories of oppression and survival, of heritage denied and reclaimed -- twenty-two American writers recall childhood in their native land.

A concise history covering the causes and the battles of the world's first global conflict, "e;the war to end all wars.

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Every place has its history.

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