History of the Americas

In the early 1800s, John William Ware and Joseph Lindley each enter the Texas frontier with the dream of acquiring free land through grants provided by Mexico.

Assembled from hundreds of original documents, including intimate shipboard journals kept by Shenandoah officers, Sea of Gray is a masterful narrative of men at seaThe sleek, 222-foot, black auxiliary steamer Sea King left London on October 8, 1864, ostensibly bound for Bombay.

The Spanish introduced European livestock to the New World-not only cattle and horses but also mules, donkeys, sheep, goats, pigs, and poultry.

These days, hot chicken is a ';must-try' Southern food.

A Union soldier recounts his capture and daring escape from a Texas POW camp in this rollicking Civil War memoir.

During the early 1890s, a series of shocking lynchings brought unprecedented international attention to American mob violence.

The only comprehensive history of Andean South America from initial settlement to the present, this useful book focuses on Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia, the four countries where the Andes have played a major role in shaping history.

The end of the Pinochet regime in Chile saw the emergence of an organized feminist movement that influenced legal and social responses to gender-based violence, and with it new laws and avenues for reporting violence that never before existed.

"e;Chick does a good job of portraying [General Beauregard] as the first real hero of the Confederacy, who at times proved his own worst enemy.

In Traveling the Beaten Trail: Charles Tait's Charges to Federal Grand Juries 1822-1825, a concise and essential addition to the Occasional Publications of the Bounds Law Library, authors Paul M.

Three generations of women in one family are the characters in this intimate historical study of what it meant to be a widow in sixteenth-century Mexico City.

A radical reinterpretation of early American history from a native point of viewIn Masters of Empire, the historian Michael McDonnell reveals the pivotal role played by the native peoples of the Great Lakes in the history of North America.

In this first collection of interviews since the bestselling 9-11, our foremost intellectual activist examines crucial new questions of U.

Today the United States is fighting a "e;war"e; against terrorism, a military action whose definition will be a matter of controversy, particularly, if history is any guide, between Congress and the president.

When Jerry Elmer turned eighteen at the height of the Vietnam War, he publicly refused to register for the draft, a felony then and now.

The iconic American banana man of the early twentieth century-the white "e;banana cowboy"e; pushing the edges of a tropical frontier-was the product of the corporate colonialism embodied by the United Fruit Company.

For centuries the Huichol (Wixarika) Indian women of Jalisco, Mexico, have been weaving textiles on backstrap looms.

The most thorough account ever written of southwestern life in the early seventeenth century, this engaging book was first published in 1630 as an official report to the king of Spain by Fray Alonso de Benavides, a Portuguese Franciscan who was the third head of the mission churches of New Mexico.

A timely history of the profound impact of Earl Warren's Supreme Court on many areas of modern American government and societyFrom 1953 to 1969, Earl Warren served as chief justice of the US Supreme Court.

Hill and Wang first published Troubled Journey: From Pearl Harbor to Ronald Reagan in 1984.

Violence has only increased in Mexico since 2000: 23,000 murders were recorded in 2016, and 29,168 in 2017.

A leading Supreme Court expert recounts the personal and philosophical rivalries that forged our nation's highest court and continue to shape our daily livesThe Supreme Court is the most mysterious branch of government, and yet the Court is at root a human institution, made up of very bright people with very strong egos, for whom political and judicial conflicts often become personal.

A major reconsideration of the role of the American West in the causes, military conduct, and consequences of the Civil War.

Coup is the behind-the-scenes story of an abrupt political transition, unprecedented in US history.

New York Times Best Seller2015 RFK Book Awards Special Recognition2015 Lillian Smith Book Award2015 AAUP Books Committee "Outstanding" Title When Strong Inside was first published ten years ago, no one could have predicted the impact the book would have on Vanderbilt University, Nashville, and communities across the nation.

This study of sexuality in seventeenth-century Latin America takes the reader beneath the surface of daily life in a colonial city.

Morning of Fire by Scott Ridley is the thrilling story of 18th century American explorer and expeditioner John Kedrick as he journeyed  for land and trade in the Pacific.

Despite over four hundred years of slavery and intimidation, the Black man continues to be dehumanized, delegitimized, degraded, and destroyed.

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries northwestern Mexico was the scene of ongoing conflict among three distinct social groupsIndians, religious orders of priests, and settlers.

In A Late Encounter with the Civil War, Michael Kreyling confronts the changing nature of our relationship to the anniversary of the war that nearly split the United States.

The latter third of the twentieth century was a time of fundamental political transition across the South as increasing numbers of voters began to choose Republican candidates over Democrats.

In the mid-nineteenth century prophetic visions attributed to a woman named Madre Matiana roiled Mexican society.

LAJSA Book Award Winner, 2017, Latin American Jewish Studies Association As Cuba industrialized in the nineteenth century, an epochal realignment of the social order occurred.

On Slavery's Border is a bottom-up examination of how slavery and slaveholding were influenced by both the geography and the scale of the slaveholding enterprise.

In this concise, lively look at the past, present, and future of voting, a journalist examines the long and continuing fight for voting equality, why so few Americans today vote, and innovative ways to educate and motivate them; included are checklists of what to do before election day to prepare to vote and encourage others.

This is the fascinating, detailed account of the rise and fall of the largest banking house ever before established in the South, whose financial misfeasance during the prosperous twenties led to its eventual collapse and brought ruin to numerous innocent investors.

Over a two-year period, author Sana Loue and her research team followed the lives of fifty-three Puerto Rican women living with severe mental illness as they coped with daily challenges in the areas of family, romantic relationships, employment, social services, substance use, and health care.

Alaska in the 1960's was truly the Last Frontier.