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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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).