History of the Americas

How could nearly five hundred people die in a matter of minutes inside a popular, crowded nightclub without the building ever actually burning to the ground?

In the summer of 1787, while delegates in Philadelphia debated the architecture of a new republic, a quieter act of nation-building unfolded in the halls of a dying Congress.

Long before American settlers carved farms from the Ohio Valley's forests, the land had already absorbed centuries of movement, alliance, and survival.

A powerful memoir from 'the Democrats most talented political newcomer since Barack Obama' (Time)'Spectacular .

On October 24, 1929, the ticker tape couldn't keep up.

The Progressive Era and the Rise of American Power explores a transformative period when the United States confronted the challenges of industrialization, political corruption, social inequality, and global ambition.

This examination of the relationship of the economy to political process in the United States from 1877 to 1916 shows how the railroad industry encouraged and relied on national politics to solve its economic problems, and created a precedent for government regulation of the economy in the twentieth century.

Reconstruction explores one of the most transformative and contested eras in American history: the years after the Civil War, when the United States attempted to rebuild the defeated South, define freedom after slavery, and decide whether democracy could truly include formerly enslaved people.

The Gilded Age explores one of the most transformative and contradictory eras in American history.

The conquistadors didn't conquer the Americas.

Miss Koch probes the essential meaning of Madison's political philosophy to locate his distinctive angle of vision.

In May 1869, Major John Wesley Powell, geologist, enthnologist, and geographer set out from Green River, Wyoming, with nine men and four boats to explore the forbidding canyons of the Green and Colorado Rivers in Wyoming, Utah, and Arizona, which had blocked all central travel routes to the West Coast.

This study considers the subtle and frequently confused relationship of armed force and political control in the British Empire before the American Revolution.

The American West explores one of the most dramatic and contested periods in United States history: the transformation of the West during the nineteenth century.

This handsomely illustrated picture book provides a remarkable glimpse of the Paris Jefferson knew-Paris on the eve of the French Revolution.

The United States in World War II tells the dramatic story of America's transformation from a cautious, divided nation into a decisive global superpower.

The Greenback Era is not a financial history; rather, it is an attempt to locate the source of political power in the crucial Reconstruction years through a socio-economic study of American financial conflict during the years 1865 to 1879.

This full account is of Polk's important pre-presidential career.

This book critiques President Trump and his policies with historical quotes and studies using comparative history.

This work, examines the transformation of American hospitals from a series of community- based charitable institutions into the large, bureaucratic system that existed by the end of the Progressive era.

Jacksonian Democracy has become almost a commonplace in American history.

Setting out to describe the full spectrum of everyday life in early Maryland, this work integrates a range of economic, demographic, and anthropological approaches to the study of a colony in which tobacco was the staple crop.

The author brings to life more clearly than ever before the moment of triumph and the intricate web of negotiations preceding the Potsdam Conference in that period between victory and cold war.

In 1664, when the English conquered New Amsterdam, the present State of New Jersey had been for some years a part of New Netherland.

This book examines the events that led up to the day--March 31, 1968--when Lyndon Johnson dramatically renounced any attempt to be reelected president of the United States.

Professor Rammelkamp examines the St.

A persuasive reassessment of the nature of the institution that was in the forefront of the American revolutionary struggle with Great Britain--the Continental Congress.

"e;Easily the most comprehensive and useful work on American socialism, including its history, theories, and impact on life, culture, and economic and political parties in the United States.

There is a man who wakes up one morning as the only person left on Earth who can speak his own native language.

The fourth volume of Mr.

When Commodore Perry opened Japan to the West, the U.

Offering the six historical essays from the out-of-print Bicentennial volume originally published by the U.

This collection of original essays provides a rare in-depth look at peasant life in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century European Russia.

An examination of long-term trends in capital formation and financing in the U.

A richly illustrated hook by an experienced historian, tracing in 476 pictures and text the story of Princeton life from the beginning to the present.

Little has been written about the New Deal's effect at the state level.

Woodrow Wilson was swept into the White House on the basis of a program characterized by the words "e;The New Freedom.

Events from the beginning of the presidential campaign of 1916 to the entry of the United States into the First World War are covered in this fifth volume of Professor Link's authoritative biography of Woodrow Wilson.

The generally accepted historical viewpoint that the abolitionists were "e;meddlesome fanatics"e; is challenged here by a group of contemporary historians.

In this, his last work, J.

Originally published fifty years ago, Princeton, 1746-1896 has taken its place as one of the best institutional histories in America.

In this book Robert V.

Famed conservationist and twice governor of Pennsylvania, Gifford Pinchot knew every United States President from Grant to Truman.

A comprehensive study of refrigeration from its beginnings in America up to 1950, which shows its relation to our national development, records the main trends in technological progress, describes the use of refrigeration, and gives some indication of its social effects.

To determine how and why Pulitzer turned the unsuccessful New York World into the most widely read and probably the most prosperous newspaper in the country, Professor Juergens isolates and analyzes the special qualities of Pulitzer's new style of journalism.

"e;One could almost use the word momentous, or the word epoch-making though epoch-ending might be more to the point .

For the newspaper profession the problems confronted in reporting the Civil War were as catalytic as the war itself was for American society.

On the basis of both civil and criminal suits, some private and some brought by the government, Professor Tachau demonstrates that the federal courts in Kentucky were immediately accessible, visible, and deeply involved in the lives of the people.

This first volume of a biography that covers the years 1902-1912, which include Wilson's presidency of Princeton, his governorship of New Jersey, and his election to the Presidency.

This book inquires into what Americans mean when they call the United States a middle-class nation and why the vast majority of Americans identify themselves as middle class.