History of the Americas

With Washington on the Brazos: Cradle of the Texas Republic, noted historian Richard B.

This book offers a unique account of Christopher Columbus's first voyage, the most consequential voyage in world history.

Though some believe that the Indian treaties of the 1870s achieved a unity of purpose between the Canadian government and First Nations, in From Treaties to Reserves D.

Wars are not fought by politicians and generals--they are fought by soldiers.

In 1966, American historic preservation was transformed by the passage of the National Historic Preservation Act, which created a National Register of Historic Places.

Published just days before America's entry into World War II, Ozark Country is Otto Ernest Rayburn's love letter to his adopted region.

Historian Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) was one of the leading American intellectuals of the mid-twentieth century.

Lisa Lindquist Dorr tells the story of the vast smuggling network that brought high-end distilled spirits and, eventually, other cargoes (including undocumented immigrants) from Great Britain and Europe through Cuba to the United States between 1920 and the end of Prohibition.

The Battle of Batoche is the best-known confrontation between Metis and British soldiers in the Northwest Resistance of 1885.

Examines the controversial establishment of the first Anglican Church in Boston in 1686, and how later, political leaders John Adams, Samuel Adams, and John Wilkes exploited the disputes as political dynamite together with taxation, trade, and the quartering of troops: topics which John Adams later recalled as causes of the American Revolution.

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This book is a love letter to the artists, scenes, and sounds defining North Carolina's extraordinary contributions to American popular music.

Medieval America analyzes literary, legal, and historical archives that help tell a new story about the formation of American culture.

From 1895 to 1898, Cuban insurgents fought to free their homeland from Spanish rule.

The Christian faith is difficult--intellectually, morally, and spiritually.

Examines how and why the US government went from regulating illicit drug traffic and consumption to declaring war on both.

One of the most important and controversial books in modern American politics, The Emerging Republican Majority (1969) explained how Richard Nixon won the White House in 1968-and why the Republicans would go on to dominate presidential politics for the next quarter century.

This is the first study to systematically explore similarities, differences, and connections between the histories of American planters and Irish landlords.

In this lively and engaging work, Carolyn Lewis explores how medical practitioners, especially family physicians, situated themselves as the guardians of Americans' sexual well-being during the early years of the Cold War.

Winner of the Seaborg Award A History Book Club SelectionOn October 8, 1862, Union and Confederate forces clashed near Perryville, Kentucky, in what would be the largest battle ever fought on Kentucky soil.

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Drawing on powerful personal testimonies of the hazards of mountaintop removal in southern West Virginia, Combating Mountaintop Removal critically examines the fierce conflicts over this violent and increasingly prevalent form of strip mining.

This, the first of two volumes of Liberty and Union, is a comprehensive constitutional history of the United States from the Anglo-American origins of the Constitution through the colonial and antebellum periods, to the Civil War and the consequent restructuring of the nation.

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At the start of the twentieth century the United States led the world in advances in aviation, with the first successful engine-powered flights at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, and Dayton, Ohio, beginning in 1903.

Creating an American Identity examines the relationship between regionalism and nationalism in New England.

Egypt figured prominently in United States policy in the Middle East after World War II because of its strategic, political, and economic importance.

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In 1863, San Francisco's Board of Supervisors passed a law that criminalized appearing in public in "e;a dress not belonging to his or her sex.

A bold new interpretation of Nat Turner and the slave rebellion that stunned the American SouthIn 1831 Virginia, Nat Turner led a band of Southampton County slaves in a rebellion that killed fifty-five whites, mostly women and children.

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How to persuade citizens to enlist?

In 1904 William Garrott Brown traveled the American South, investigating the region's political, economic, and social conditions.

Before Chappaquiddick captures Mary Jo Kopechne’s intelligence, idealism, and beauty.

For half a century, the United States and the Soviet Union were in conflict.

*WINNER OF THE WOMEN WRITING THE WEST 2023 WILLA LITERARY AWARD*Brave Hearted is not just history, it is an incredibly intense page-turning experience.

“An important contribution to Civil War scholarship, offering an engrossing portrait of these important campaigns .

White women who inhabited the West Indies in the eighteenth century fascinated metropolitan observers.

The debate over women's roles in the Southern Baptist Convention's conservative ascendance is often seen as secondary to theological and biblical concerns.

2017 Freedley Award Finalist, Theatre Library Association2016 Best Circus Book of the Year, Stuart Thayer Prize, Circus Historical SocietyThe 1960s American hippie-clown boom fostered many creative impulses, including neo-vaudeville and Ringling's Clown College.

Crowning a decade of innovative efforts in the historical study of law and legal phenomena in the region, Crime and Punishment in Latin America offers a collection of essays that deal with the multiple aspects of the relationship between ordinary people and the law.

Frances Willard founded the Woman's Christian Temperance Union in 1884 to carry the message of women's emancipation throughout the world.

A dramatic account of Ulysses S Grant's epic victory on the Mississippi, featuring maps and illustrations throughout.

From the late nineteenth century until World War I, a group of Columbia University students gathered under the mentorship of the renowned historian William Archibald Dunning (1857--1922).

In 1904, political operator and gambling boss Robert T.

Patriots, Loyalists, and Revolution in New York City, 1775-1776 draws students into the chaos of a revolutionary New York City, where Patriot and Loyalist forces fight for advantage among a divided populace.

This book explores the representation of music in early modern Spanish literature and reveals how music was understood within the framework of the Harmony of the Spheres, emanating from cosmic harmony as directed by the creator.

This work is a detailed study of how Americans in the 1920s and 1930s interpreted and remembered the First World War.