History of the Americas

A multilayered group biography of the Civil War commanders who led the Army of the Potomac: "e;a staggering work .

George W.

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST | WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZE.

The Cold War was as much a battle of ideas as a series of military and diplomatic confrontations, and movies were a prime battleground for this cultural combat.

Through the shadowy persona of Deep Throat, FBI official Mark Felt became as famous as the Watergate scandal his leaks helped uncover.

The award-winning volume of cocktail recipes and stories from the legendary bar-and the two friends from Belfast who made mixology history.

"e;The best all-around study of the American cowboy ever written.

In the New York Times bestseller The Immortal Irishman, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Timothy Egan illuminates the dawn of the great Irish American story, with all its twists and triumphs, through the life of one heroic man.

Choice Outstanding TitleWhen on May 15, 1918 a French lieutenant warned Henry Johnson of the 369th to move back because of a possible enemy raid, Johnson reportedly replied: Im an American, and I never retreat.

In 1295, a house fell from the evening sky onto an Italian coastal road by the Adriatic Sea.

This sweeping history of New York's millions of immigrants, both famous and forgotten, is "e;told brilliantly [and] unforgettably"e; (The Boston Globe).

Among the last CIA agents airlifted from Saigon in the waning moments of the Vietnam War, Frank Snepp returned to headquarters determined to secure help for the Vietnamese left behind by an Agency eager to cut its losses.

On July 23, 1967, the eyes of the world fixed on Detroit, as thousands took to the streets to vent their frustrations with white racism, police brutality, and vanishing job prospects in the place that gave rise to the American Dream.

The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement (BDS) has expanded rapidly though controversially in the United States in the last five years.

Big Sur embodies much of what has defined California since the mid-twentieth century.

In 1980, the celebrated new wave band Blondie headed to Los Angeles to record a new album and along with it, the cover song ';The Tide Is High,' originally written by Jamaican legend John Holt.

Forgotten Peace examines Colombian society's attempt to move beyond the Western Hemisphere's worst mid-century conflict and shows how that effort molded notions of belonging and understandings of the past.

With a uniquely balanced combination of salty, sweet, sour, and spicy flavors, Thai food burst onto Los Angeles's and America's culinary scene in the 1980s.

In this extraordinary new book, Andrew Konove traces the history of illicit commerce in Mexico City from the seventeenth century to the twentieth, showing how it became central to the economic and political life of the city.

California is at a crossroads.

In her exciting new book, Marisol LeBron traces the rise of punitive governance in Puerto Rico over the course of the twentieth century and up to the present.

An eloquent and essential correction to contemporary discussions of the American working class.

This is a necessary and urgent read for anyone concerned about the United States endless wars.

One reason Koncewicz's narrative is so compelling is that it's also a redemption story.

The Other California is the story of working-class communities and how they constituted the racially and ethnically diverse landscape of Baja California.

Over the past five hundred years, North Americans have increasingly relied on mining to produce much of their material and cultural life.

Point Reyes National Seashore has a long history as a working landscape, with dairy and beef ranching, fishing, and oyster farming; yet, since 1962 it has also been managed as a National Seashore.

ABC Sports shaped how the world consumes sport.

In the last decade, public discussions of transgender issues have increased exponentially.

A History of Infamy explores the broken nexus between crime, justice, and truth in mid-twentieth-century Mexico.

Latin America is home to emerging global powers such as Brazil and Mexico and has important links to other titans including China, India, and Africa.

Between 1944 and 1996, Guatemala experienced a revolution, counterrevolution, and civil war.

Mainstreaming Black Powerupends the narrative that the Black Power movement allowed for a catharsis of black rage but achieved little institutional transformation or black uplift.

Shaped by the Westis a two-volume primary source reader that rewrites the history of the United States through a western lens.

When Alex Haley's book Roots was published by Doubleday in 1976 it became an immediate bestseller.

Many of American journalism's best-known and most cherished stories are exaggerated, dubious, or apocryphal.

The contents of your pint glass have a much richer history than you could have imagined.

American environmentalism historically has been associated with the interests of white elites.

In 1968, Mexico prepared to host the Olympic games amid growing civil unrest.

Enclosure marshals bold new arguments about the nature of the conflict in Israel/Palestine.

In her authoritative new book, Maite Conde introduces readers to the crucial early years of Brazilian cinema.

American Studies has long been a home for adventurous students seeking to understand the culture and politics of the United States.

In this first comprehensive authorized biography of David Brower, a dynamic leader in the environmental movement over the last half of the twentieth century, Tom Turner explores Brower's impact on the movement from its beginnings until his death in 2000.

Food consumption is a significant and complex social activity-and what a society chooses to feed its children reveals much about its tastes and ideas regarding health.

Beginning in the late 1950s political leaders in Venezuela built what they celebrated as Latin America's most stable democracy.

This history of US-led international drug control provides new perspectives on the economic, ideological, and political foundations of a Cold War American empire.

There are moments when we forget how fortunate we are to have the California coast.

Amidst war, economic meltdown, and ecological crisis, a "e;new spirit of radicalism is blooming"e; from New York to Cairo, according to Chris Dixon.

Structured to meet employers' needs for low-wage farm workers, the well-known Bracero Program recruited thousands of Mexicans to perform physical labor in the United States between 1942 and 1964 in exchange for remittances sent back to Mexico.

Hollywood Vault is the story of how the business of film libraries emerged and evolved, spanning the silent era to the sale of feature libraries to television.