History of the Americas

The Elections of 2020 is a timely, comprehensive, scholarly, and engagingly written account of the 2020 elections.

In December 1967, Chuck Robb was catapulted onto the national scene when he married Lynda Bird Johnson, the daughter of President Lyndon B.

Between 1737 and 1746, James Knight-a merchant, planter, and sometime Crown official and legislator in Jamaica-wrote a massive two-volume history of the island.

For some in our society, diversity is a threat.

Leading politicians, diplomats, clerics, planters, farmers, manufacturers, and merchants preached a transformative, world-historical role for the Confederacy, persuading many of their compatriots to fight not merely to retain what they had but to gain their future empire.

CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, American Library Association (2021)From the earliest stirrings of southern nationalism to the defeat of the Confederacy, analysis of European nationalist movements played a critical role in how southerners thought about their new southern nation.

A transatlantic phenomenon of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the "e;New Woman"e; broke away from many of the constraints of the Victorian era to enjoy a greater freedom of movement in the social, physical, and intellectual realms.

On the first anniversary of Donald Trump's presidency, Michael Nelson, one of our finest and most objective presidential scholars, published Trump's First Year, a nonpartisan assessment that was widely hailed as the best account of one of the most unusual years in presidential history.

In Intimate Reconstructions, Catherine Jones considers how children shaped, and were shaped by, Virginia's Reconstruction.

The Civil War forced America finally to confront the contradiction between its founding values and human slavery.

Christa Dierksheide argues that "e;enlightened"e; slaveowners in the British Caribbean and the American South, neither backward reactionaries nor freedom-loving hypocrites, thought of themselves as modern, cosmopolitan men with a powerful alternative vision of progress in the Atlantic world.

A philosopher, architect, astronomer, and polymath, Thomas Jefferson lived at a time when geography was considered the "e;mother of all sciences.

In Era of Experimentation, Daniel Peart challenges the pervasive assumption that the present-day political system, organized around two competing parties, represents the logical fulfillment of participatory democracy.

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.

Collegiate Republic offers a compellingly different view of the first generation of college communities founded after the American Revolution.

Over the past three decades, American evangelical Christians have undergone unexpected, progressive shifts in the area of race relations, culminating in a national movement that advocates racial integration and equality in evangelical communities.

The significance of the Virginia Statute for Establishing Religious Freedom goes far beyond the borders of the Old Dominion.

In this culminating work of a long and distinguished career, historian Bertram Wyatt-Brown looks at the theme of honor-a subject on which he was the acknowledged expert-and places it in a broader historical and cultural context than ever before.

To celebrate its fiftieth anniversary, the University of Virginia Press reissues its first-ever publication.

Historians have often speculated on the alternative paths the United Stages might have taken during the Great Depression: What if Franklin D.

Most Americans think of the Civil War as a series of dramatic clashes between massive armies led by romantic-seeming leaders.

Although scholars have adequately covered Thomas Jefferson's general ideas about human nature and race, this is the first book to examine what Maurizio Valsania terms Jefferson's "e;philosophical anthropology"e;-philosophical in the sense that he concerned himself not with describing how humans are, culturally or otherwise, but with the kind of human being Jefferson thought he was, wanted to become, and wished for citizens to be for the future of the United States.

Pointing the way to a new history of the transformation of British subjects into American citizens, State and Citizen challenges the presumption that the early American state was weak by exploring the changing legal and political meaning of citizenship.

Some cities, through hardship or glory or a combination of both, produce extraordinary women.

The Civil War transformed American life.

RICHMOND WAS NOT only the capital of Virginia and of the Confederacy; it was also one of the most industrialized cities south of the Mason-Dixon Line.

This collection of essays on seventeenth-century Virginia, the first such collection on the Chesapeake in nearly twenty-five years, highlights emerging directions in scholarship and helps set a new agenda for research in the next decade and beyond.

In one of Common Sense's most ringing phrases, Thomas Paine declared it "e;absurd"e; for "e;a continent to be perpetually governed by an island.

Thousands of British American mainland colonists rejected the War for American Independence.

This collection of essays, organized around the theme of the struggle for equality in the United States during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, also serves to honor the renowned Civil War historian James McPherson.

Although the friendship between George Washington and James Madison was eclipsed in the early 1790s by the alliances of Madison with Jefferson and Washington with Hamilton, their collaboration remains central to the constitutional revolution that launched the American experiment in republican government.

HarperCollins is proud to present Willa Cather's masterpiece about nineteenth-century Nebraskan pioneers in our range of timeless literary classics.

Although women have been teaching and performing music for centuries, their stories are often missing from traditional accounts of the history of music education.

Most Americans give little thought to their county's size, population, when it was created, or how its name came about.

While Native Americans are perhaps the most studied people in our society, they too often remain the least understood and visible.

In World War I and the Origins of U.

How have Americans sought peaceful, rather than destructive, solutions to domestic and world conflict?

In Fifteenth Air Force against the Axis: Combat Missions over Europe during World War II, Kevin A.

The Concise Encyclopedia of the Great Recession 2007-2012 brings to the present the necessary information for understanding the first major recession of the 21st century and one of the deepest since the Great Depression itself.

Women of the Constitution follows in the footsteps of the 1912 work The Wives of the Signers, which was devoted to biographical sketches of the spouses of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.

The Beat Movement was one of the most radical and innovative literary and arts movements of the 20th century, and the history of the Beat Movement is still being written in the early years of the 21st century.

With 110 million members worldwide, Baptists are surpassed only by Roman Catholic and Orthodox groups as the largest segment of Christians.

Born poor in Beverly, Massachusetts, in 1755, the young Israel Thorndike was a fisherman and ship owner who made a small fortune as a Revolutionary War privateer.

For almost four thousand years, men and women with power have exploited vulnerable populations for cheap or free labor.

Once on the margins of European empires, notably those of France, England and Spain, then a focus of international rivalries and wars during the 18th century, Canada is now a nation that is front and center in the world's affairs.

In the history of the United States, few periods could more justly be regarded as the best and worst of times than the Kennedy-Johnson era.

The Civil War forced America finally to confront the contradiction between its founding values and human slavery.

From prehistoric Scotland to the Brexit referendum, this little book covers all of the main events in Scottish history.

On the first anniversary of Donald Trump's presidency, Michael Nelson, one of our finest and most objective presidential scholars, published Trump's First Year, a nonpartisan assessment that was widely hailed as the best account of one of the most unusual years in presidential history.

The Civil War transformed American life.