History of the Americas

In the American imagination, no figure is more central to national identity and the nation's origin story than the cowboy.

Established in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson, the University of Virginia was known as "e;The University"e; throughout the South for most of the nineteenth century, and today it stands as one of the premier universities in the world.

First published in 1999, this volume follows the work of five influential figures in twentieth-century transatlantic intellectual history.

In the years following World War I, women activists in the United States and Europe saw themselves as leaders of a globalizing movement to promote women's rights and international peace.

Have newcomers to American cities been responsible for a disproportionate amount of violent crime?

In American Heroes, New York Times best-selling author Oliver North offers an inspiring, first-hand account of the extraordinary young American volunteers defending us against radical Islamic terror.

The first full account of British policy towards China, Japan and Korea from the final stages of the Second World War to the outbreak of the Korean War, set against the backdrop of the Anglo-American relationship, broader Far Eastern developments, the beginnings of the Cold War, and Britain's relationship with the Commonwealth.

A detailed look at the expansion and renewal taking place on the three U of I campuses The University of Illinois System's universities have undergone a dramatic transformation.

All but forgotten except as a part of nostalgic lore, American canals during the first half of the nineteenth century provided a transportation network that was vital to the development of the new nation.

Out of a slave rebellion, Haiti was forged as an independent nation.

Every Supreme Court transition presents an opportunity for a shift in the balance of the third branch of American government, but the replacement of Thurgood Marshall with Clarence Thomas in 1991 proved particularly momentous.

It started on a summer afternoon in 1795 when a young man named Daniel McGinnis found what appeared to be an old site on an island off the Acadian coast, a coastline fabled for the skullduggery of pirates.

Sally Townsend of Oyster Bay was a petite, vivacious, intelligent and remarkably beautiful young lady with beguiling eyes.

The work of considering, imagining, and theorizing the U.

Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

When newly-liberated African American slaves attempted to enter the marketplace and exercise their rights as citizens of the United States in 1865, few, if any, Americans expected that, a century and a half later, the class divide between black and white Americans would be as wide as it is today.

Beyond Civilization and Barbarism examines how various cultural forms promoted competing political projects in Argentina during the decades following independence from Spain.

This unusual, richly illustrated guidebook details Florida's historic pioneer and cracker villages, describing the homes, work-ways and folk-ways of the states early settlers, through preserved and tangible objects and structures.

Avenues of Faith documents how religion flourished in southern cities after the turn of the century and how a cadre of clergy and laity created a notably progressive religious culture in Richmond, Virginia.

This "e;courageous and thought-provoking book"e; examines how the Holocaust came to hold its unique place in American memory (Foreign Affairs).

If you drive into any American city with the car stereo blasting, you'll undoubtedly find radio stations representing R&B/hip-hop, country, Top 40, adult contemporary, rock, and Latin, each playing hit after hit within that musical format.

From distinguished author John R.

In the first decades of the 20th century, almost half of the Chinese Americans born in the United States moved to Chinaa relocation they assumed would be permanent.

Next only to Continental army commander General George Washington, Nathanael Greene was the most important American general of the War for Independence.

A stunning memoir by California Book Award winner Mary Jo McConahay, from her years reporting for national magazines from Central America.

This important original work with stylish illustrations by the author/artist F.

This book deepens our understanding of race and the implications of racial mixture by examining the history of caste in colonial Mexico.

And They Were Wonderful Teachers: Florida's Purge of Gay and Lesbian Teachers is a history of state oppression of gay and lesbian citizens during the Cold War and the dynamic set of responses it ignited.

This book integrates the study of presidential politics and foreign policy-making from the Vietnam aftermath to the events following September 11 and the Iraqi War.

This book introduces readers to the astonishing civilisation of the Incas.

Centers Indigenous people and voices in the history of the vast expansion of Virginia colonialism into Appalachia Flocks of Birds is an inclusive and interconnected history of the Virginia colony, one that demonstrates the centrality of Native history to America's colonial history.

This impressive collection joins the recent outpouring of exciting new work on American politics and political actors in the mid-nineteenth century.

Near the end of the Civil War, Army Chief of Staff Henry W.

This one-volume reference work examines a broad range of topics related to the establishment, maintenance, and eventual dismantling of the discriminatory system known as Jim Crow.

A thanksgiving and lament for life on the South Carolina coast"e;Columbus knew no greater thrill than I, a ten-year-old discovering new creeks and branches and islands and mainland hideaways.

Madness is a sin.

Virgil Richardson blazed his own unique trail through the twentieth century: a co-founder of Harlem's American Negro Theater, 1930s radio personality, World War II pilot, and expatriate for most of his life.

A composer and lyricist of enormous innovation and influence, Marc Blitzstein remains one of the most versatile and fascinating figures in the history of American music, his creative output running the gamut from films scores and Broadway operas to art songs and chamber pieces.

A political biography, probing the labyrinth of Alabama politics in an effort to discover what forces, other than his own, shaped Hugo Black and set him upon the road to the Court Almost any Alabamian, white or black, unsophisticated or meagerly educated, can name one man who was a justice of the United States Supreme Court.

A collection of 20 essays, by a distinguished panel of specialists in British and American history, that explores the complex political, economic, intellectual, religious, and social environment in which William Penn lived and worked.

The mid-nineteenth century was a tumultuous yet formative time for the Mesilla Valley, home to present-day Las Cruces, New Mexico.

Throughout the twentieth century, even the harshest prison systems in the United States were rather porous.