Finalist for the 2024 George Washington Prize The Spurgin family of North Carolina experienced the cataclysm of the American Revolution in the most dramatic waysand from different sides.
Finalist for the 2024 George Washington Prize The Spurgin family of North Carolina experienced the cataclysm of the American Revolution in the most dramatic waysand from different sides.
A Quaker Colonel, His Fiancee, and Their Connections: Selected Civil War Correspondence offers a Northern counterpart to the great collection of Southern family letters published in The Children of Pride.
The first scholarly collection devoted to Shirley Graham Du Bois and her legacy as an artist and activistShirley Graham Du Bois centers her cultural, intellectual, and political significance as a Black radical woman during the twentieth century.
Elliot Rosen's Hoover, Roosevelt, and the Brains Trust focused on the transition from the Hoover administration to that of Roosevelt and the formulation of the early New Deal program.
Punishing the Black Body examines the punitive and disciplinary technologies and ideologies embraced by ruling white elites in nineteenth-century Barbados and Jamaica.
A chronicle of the year that changed Soviet Russia and molded the future path of one of America's pre-eminent diplomatic correspondents1956 was an extraordinary year in modern Russian history.
In 1799, at the behest of President George Washington, Patrick Henry came out of retirement to defend the Constitution that he had once opposed and to thwart Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, whom Washington accused of putting party over country and threatening the fragile union.
In 1799, at the behest of President George Washington, Patrick Henry came out of retirement to defend the Constitution that he had once opposed and to thwart Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, whom Washington accused of putting party over country and threatening the fragile union.
In the early 1960s America was in a confident mood and embarked on a series of efforts to solve the problems of poverty, racial discrimination, unemployment, and inequality of educational opportunity.
There is clear overlap in interests and influences for the fields of Atlantic, environmental, and southern history, but scholarship in them has often advanced on parallel tracks.
Shot and Left for Dead: Robert Adrain, The Irish Revolutionary Who Invented Modern StatisticsRobert Adrain arrived in America in 1798 as a wounded fugitive, shot by one of his own men at the Battle of Antrim, hunted by a former employer, fleeing a failed rebellion with his wife and infant daughter.
In 1848, in a small cabin in Hydesville, New York, two young sisters named Maggie and Kate Fox claimed they could communicate with the spirit of a murdered peddler.
In the rugged wilderness between New Hampshire and Quebec, a cartographical error after the American Revolution left a small pocket of land entirely unaccounted for.
En la decada de 1570, en el Nuevo Reino de Granada (el territorio que a grandes rasgos corresponde a la actual Colombia), varios hombres pertenecientes a una generacion de mestizos surgida recientemente buscaron ocupar posiciones de poder en Santafe y Tunja, las dos poblaciones mas importantes de esa jurisdiccion administrativa.
In 1835, the states of Ohio and Michigan mobilized heavily armed militias, marched them to their shared border, and prepared to engage in a bloody civil war.
En nuestros dias resulta comun referirse a las raices geograficas, economicas o politicas como aquellos vinculos que permiten a un amplio grupo de personas sentirse parte de una sociedad.
In 1838, the geopolitical landscape of the Americas was permanently altered, not by a dispute over vast territories or profound ideological differences, but by the alleged looting of a French pastry shop in Mexico City.
