History of the Americas

King's Men is the story of the Loyalist regiments who became the soldier founders of the Province of Ontario, the Loyal Colonials who joined the Provincial Corps of the British Army, Canadian Command, during the American revolution.

Inside the Museums views Toronto's heritage museums for the first time as a single community - linked by events, personalities, and function.

David Wendel Yandell was the most distinguished physician of a family noted for its contributions to the medical profession over a period of generations.

Few mementoes remain of what Ohio was like before white people transformed it.

Special numbered leatherbound edition, signed by Dr.

Moritz Busch, a German journalist, theologian, and participant in the Revolution of 1848, proved himself both an accurate observer and a sensitive interpreter of American life in the mid-nineteenth century.

This supplement to The Papers of Henry Clay contains documents discovered too late to be included in the proper chronological sequence in earlier volumes.

Godey's Lady's Book, perhaps the most popular magazine for women in nineteenth-century America, had a national circulation of 150,000 during the 1860s.

This is a study of Kentucky political parties: how they are organized and how they nominate and elect candidates.

In an exciting reinterpretation of the early nineteenth century, Leo Hirrel demonstrates the importance of religious ideas by exploring the relationship between religion and reform efforts during a crucial period in American history.

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Winner of the Army Historical Foundation Book AwardDuring the War of 1812, state militias were intended to be the primary fighting force.

From the 1780s, when Louisville and Lexington were tiny clusters of houses in the wilderness, to the 1980s, when more than half of all Kentuckians live in urban areas, the growth of cities has affected nearly all aspects of life in the Commonwealth.

This book explores the role of geography's five themes: location, place, human-environmental interaction, movement, and region, in Christopher Colombus's second voyage.

"e;Those who appreciate the impact of history will be impressed with the selection of articles.

The story of African Canadians who fled slavery in the United States but returned to enlist in the Union forces during the American Civil War.

The remarkable history of a pocket of the remote Arctic, and the oral testimony from the last Inuit elders to live there.

In the grim decades after the Civil War, Southerners dreamed of industrial growth and agricultural diversification.

2017 Robbie Robertson Dartmouth Book Award - ShortlistedPaul Chiasson reveals the possibility that early Chinese settlers landed in Cape Breton long before Europeans.

The crisis facing the United States in 1850 was a dramatic prologue to the conflict that came a decade later.

Inside the Museums views Toronto's heritage museums for the first time as a single community - linked by events, personalities, and function.

In July 1863 New York City experienced widespread rioting unparalleled in the history of the nation.

Most Americans know Appalachia through stereotyped images: moonshine and handicrafts, poverty and illiteracy, rugged terrain and isolated mountaineers.

The great, pre-Civil War attempt of Protestant missionaries to Christianize Native Americans is found by Robert F.

More Battlefields of Canada is a sequel to Mary Beacock Fryers bestselling Battlefields of Canada.

Despite their centuries-old history and traditions, witchcraft and magic are still very much a part of modern Anglo-American culture.

Canadians are very polite - but they also commit murder.

In 1839 fifty-eight men left Montreal for the penal colony of New South Wales.

This powerful and inspiring prayer book from the Apostleship of Prayer';the popes worldwide prayer network'engages readers with the Churchs daily scripture readings and introduces Catholics and other Christians to the traditional spiritual devotion known as lectio divina, or ';sacred reading,' in a new way.

In The Golden Age of Brazil, 1695-1750, historian C.

Pioneer Black Robes on the West Coast is the second volume in a series chronicling the Jesuits' remarkable efforts in Spanish North America between their arrival in 1572 and their expulsion nearly 200 years later.

Poste Restante: A Lawrence Travel Calendar by Harry T.

Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, teachers, administrators, and policymakers fashioned a system of industrial education that attempted to transform Black and Indigenous peoples and land.

Pioneer Black Robes on the West Coast is the second volume in a series chronicling the Jesuits' remarkable efforts in Spanish North America between their arrival in 1572 and their expulsion nearly 200 years later.

Poste Restante: A Lawrence Travel Calendar by Harry T.

In The Golden Age of Brazil, 1695-1750, historian C.

Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, teachers, administrators, and policymakers fashioned a system of industrial education that attempted to transform Black and Indigenous peoples and land.

To Try Men's Souls: Loyalty Tests in American History offers the first comprehensive narrative of how governments in the United States have used oaths and other tests to define, demand, and police allegiance.

The Hudson's Bay Company as an Imperial Factor: 1821-1869 explores the rise, consolidation, and eventual decline of the Hudson's Bay Company's fur trade monopoly in British North America.

The Hudson's Bay Company as an Imperial Factor: 1821-1869 explores the rise, consolidation, and eventual decline of the Hudson's Bay Company's fur trade monopoly in British North America.

This title was originally published in 1976.

Among the oldest buildings in the United States, the churches of Spanish New Mexico--made of earth, of stone, of wood--are the surprisingly fragile reminders of a unique amalgam of Spanish architectural ideas and native American Pueblo culture.

Although historians frequently use memoirs as source material, too often they confine such usage to the anecdotal, and there is little methodological literature regarding the genre's possibilities and limitations.

Sixteenth Century North America: The Land and the People as Seen by the Europeansoffers a detailed reconstruction of the continent's geography, environment, and cultures as first encountered by European explorers and chroniclers.

To Try Men's Souls: Loyalty Tests in American History offers the first comprehensive narrative of how governments in the United States have used oaths and other tests to define, demand, and police allegiance.

In its natural condition the Sacramento Valley was a flood-ravaged region where an inland sea a hundred miles long regularly formed during the rainy season, to drain slowly away by the summer months.