History of the Americas

The return of a bestselling classic with new material.

Clearly, something went wrong in Elmira.

The Klondike bar is America's favorite ice cream novelty.

First book to cover all aspects of sexuality during the Civil War.

The epic battle that turned the tide of the Civil War is vividly recounted in the words of soldiers and civilians who experienced it.

This is the first in a monumental two-volume set on the pivotal 1777 campaign of the American Revolution.

Cemeteries, abandoned buildings, and roads to nowhere are all that remain of several once-thriving towns in Pennsylvania.

Back by popular demand, a supernatural detective story revealing the true account of a house haunted by ghosts lingering after a nineteenth century murder.

Folklore, archaeological data, and first-person narratives contrast the wanton destruction of the eastern buffalo with the spirit and heroism of the early frontier.

The pivotal speech that changed the course of Lincoln's career and America's history.

For almost 100 years, analysis of the Gettysburg Campaign has centered around an oversimplified view of Confederate general Robert E.

From a National Book Award finalist, an "e;entertaining and inspiring"e; biography of the heroic Gettysburg commander, college president, and governor of Maine (Senator George J.

This anthology tells the fascinating story of how medicine was practiced in military hospitals and in the field during the Civil War.

From the Pennsylvania Dutch Country in Southeastern and Central Pennsylvania has spread the fun holiday celebration of Groundhog Day.

This is the first work to highlight the contributions of regiments of the Pennsylvania Dutch and the post-1820 immigrant Germans at the Battle of Gettysburg.

Thoughtful investigative report about a central issue of the 2008 presidential race that examines the border in human terms through a cast of colorful characters.

Directed by the U.

Concise introductions to popular subjects.

Covers raids from J.

The major facts of the Gettysburg campaign and battle are well known, but controversies about its outcome abound even today.

In the postwar era, the lure of controversy sold movie tickets as much as the promise of entertainment did.

The second half of the two-volume history of the Union's and Confederacy's opening moves of the American Civil War's Gettysburg Campaign.

What can God's creation teach us about ourselves, our communities, and modern Christianity?

A look at the lives of nine Jewish Holocaust survivors after their liberation from Nazi concentration camps, when they settled in rural Kentucky.

From the beginnings of colonial settlement in Illinois Country, the region was characterized by self-determination and collaboration that did not always align with imperial plans.

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"e;Marshals irrefutable evidence to succinctly demolish the mythic version of the crisis .

Marigold presents the first rigorously documented, in-depth story of one of the Vietnam War's last great mysteries: the secret peace initiative, codenamed "e;Marigold,"e; that sought to end the war in 1966.

Henry Ford is remembered in American lore as the ultimate entrepreneur-the man who invented assembly-line manufacturing and made automobiles affordable.

Making the Chinese Mexican is the first book to examine the Chinese diaspora in the U.

This short book brings to life a unique and spectacular set of events in Latin American history.

"e;This fascinating, well-written book explores how tequila has come to symbolize what it means to be Mexican .

Despite Porfirio Diaz's authoritarian rule (1877-1911) and the fifteen years of violent conflict typifying much of Mexican politics after 1917, law and judicial decision-making were important for the country's political and economic organization.

Numerous studies have documented the transnational experiences and local activities of Chinese immigrants in California and New York in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

This book tracks New Spain's mendicant orders past their so-called golden age of missions into the ensuing centuries and demonstrates that they had equally crucial roles in what Melvin terms the "e;spiritual consolidation"e; of cities.

Too frequently, the media and politicians cast Mexican immigrants as a threat to American society.

Measuring Up traces the high levels of poverty and inequality that Mexico faced in the mid-twentieth century.

After the conquest of Mexico, colonial authorities attempted to enforce Christian beliefs among indigenous peoples-a project they envisioned as spiritual warfare.

Essential essays from "e;one of the most prolific, provocative, and pre-eminent historians working in the field of Mexican and Latin-American history today"e; (Susan Deans-Smith, author of Bureaucrats, Planters, and Workers).

Indigenous Citizens challenges the commonly held assumption that early nineteenth-century Mexican state-building was a failure of liberalism.

The last six years have witnessed a virtually unending debate over U.

Brazil's Steel City presents a social history of the National Steel Company (CSN), Brazil's foremost state-owned company and largest industrial enterprise in the mid-twentieth century.

From 1980 to 1992, Maoist Shining Path rebels, Peruvian state forces, and Andean peasants waged a bitter civil war that left some 69,000 people dead.

A "e;compelling-and wonderfully told"e; biography of the American physician who pioneered a treatment for a cancer of lymph tissue (Wall Street Journal).

When confronted with a persistent foreign policy problem that threatens U.

Contentious Spirits explores the role of religion in Korean American history during the first half of the twentieth century in Hawai'i and California.

This book explores the origins, process, and consequences of forty years of nearly continual political violence in southeastern Mexico.

Confronting the Bomb tells the dramatic, inspiring story of how citizen activism helped curb the nuclear arms race and prevent nuclear war.

The first edition of this book, published in 1999, was well-received, but interest in it has surged in recent years.

This book discusses the role of the U.