History of the Americas

Best Nineteenth-Century Book Award Winner, 2018, Latin American Studies Association Nineteenth-Century Section Moral electricitya term coined by American transcendentalists in the 1850s to describe the force of nature that was literacy and education in shaping a greater society.

Amada Cardenas, a Mexican American woman from the borderlands of South Texas, played a pivotal role in the little-known history of the peyote trade.

From the "e;taming of the West"e; to the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, the portrayal of the past has become a battleground at the heart of American politics.

His face has appeared on T-shirts, postage stamps, jigsaw puzzles, posters, and an Andy Warhol print.

John Bachman (1790-1874) was an internationally renowned naturalist and a prominent Lutheran minister.

Today's Goat, the West Point cadet finishing at the bottom of his class, is temporary celebrity among his classmates.

This long-awaited book is the most detailed and up-to-date account of the complex history of Pueblo Indian land in New Mexico, beginning in the late seventeenth century and continuing to the present day.

Gamboa's World examines the changing legal landscape of eighteenth-century Mexico through the lens of the jurist Francisco Xavier de Gamboa (1717-1794).

First released in 1978 and still the best account of territorial law enforcement, this book presents a thoroughly researched, well-documented, and entertaining history of United States marshals in New Mexico and Arizona during the tumultuous territorial years.

A fascinating history of the rise and fall of influential Gilded Age magazine McClure’s and the two unlikely outsiders at its helm—as well as a timely, full-throated defense of investigative journalism in AmericaThe president of the United States made headlines around the world when he publicly attacked the press, denouncing reporters who threatened his reputation as “muckrakers” and “forces for evil.

Struggles over land and water have determined much of New Mexico's long history.

Texas Women: Their Histories, Their Lives engages current scholarship on women in Texas, the South, and the United States.

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In this forthright account of a remarkable fraud inFerdinand Waldo Demara, Robert Crichton presents the man, his reasons, and his methods.

Railroads were the first big business enterprises in America, and they made possible many other industries.

Nacion Genizara examines the history, cultural evolution, and survival of the Genizaro people.

The Age of Dissent argues that the defining feature of the Age of Revolutions in Latin America was the emergence of dissent as an inescapable component of political life.

In 1998, roughly 2 million visitors came to see what there was to see in Nashville.

During the 1960s and 1970s, when writers such as Julio Cortazar, Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Mario Vargas Llosa entered the international literary mainstream, Cold War cultural politics played an active role in disseminating their work in the United States.

A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceWinner of the 2022 Colorado Book Award for General NonfictionWinner of the 2022 High Plains Book Award for Creative Nonfiction Now the basis for an investigative documentary of the same name, award-winning journalist Julian Rubinstein's The Holly presents a dramatic account of a shooting that shook a community to its core, with important implications for the future.

Finalist for the 2014 Weber-Clements Book Prize for the Best Non-fiction Book on Southwestern AmericaIn popular culture, Wyatt Earp is the hero of the Gunfight at the O.

Winner of the Tennessee History Book Award (Tennessee Historical Society and Tennessee Historical Commission), 2021 Was Nashville once home to a giant race of humans?

The political conflict during Mexico's Reform era in the mid-nineteenth century was a visceral battle between ideologies and people from every economic and social class.

Apparel manufacturing in the American South, by virtue of its size, its reliance upon female labor, and its broad geographic scope, is an important but often overlooked industry that connects the disparate concerns of women's history, southern cultural history, and labor history.

The Shoulders We Stand On traces the complex history of bilingual education in New Mexico, covering Spanish, Dine, and Pueblo languages.

Cavernous, often cold, always dark, with the lingering smell of popcorn in the air: the experience of movie-going is universal.

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If it is true that the pen is mightier than the sword and that one picture is worth a thousand words, Thomas Nast must certainly rank as one of the most influential personalities in nineteenth-century American history.

The first woman to serve in both houses of the New Mexico legislature, Pauline Eisenstadt has witnessed many exciting moments in the state's political history and made much of that history herself.

Herbert Eugene Bolton's classic of southwestern history, first published in 1949, delivers the epic account of Francisco Vasquez de Coronado's sixteenth-century entrada to the North American frontier of the Spanish Empire.

Cedars Cemetery in Camden, South Carolina, dates back to plantation days.

From postcolonial, interdisciplinary, and transnational perspectives, this collection of original essays looks at the experience of Spains empire in the Atlantic and the Pacific and its cultural production.

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In Gabriel Garcia Marquez's novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, a character articulates the fascination goods, technology, and modernity held for many Latin Americans in the early twentieth century when he declares that ';incredible things are happening in this world.

Making a living in the Caribbean requires resourcefulness and even a willingness to circumvent the law.

Over the last thirty years, the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies has grown from a small group of disaffected conservative law students into an organization with extraordinary influence over American law and politics.

In the mid-1990s, Patricia Foxen traveled back and forth between the Guatemalan highlands and Providence, Rhode Island, to understand the migration paths of Kiche Mayan Indians who had fled the Guatemalan civil war to work in the factories and fisheries of New England.

At the dawn of the 1700s the Natchez viewed the first Francophones in the Lower Mississippi Valley as potential inductees to their chiefdom.

Presenting more than seventy documents from Spanish archives that provide a rare glimpse into Benjamin Franklin's connection to Spain.