History of the Americas

Despite its image as an epicenter of progressive social policy, New York City continues to have one of the nation's most segregated school systems.

Often defined as a mostly southern phenomenon, racist violence existed everywhere.

An excellent case study of a little-studied and poorly known community experiencing the processes of identity formation and culture change.

In 1846, James Boyd Hawkins, his wife Ariella, and their young children left North Carolina to establish a sugar plantation in Matagorda County, in the Texas coastal bend.

In the early 20th century, postcards were one of the most important and popular expressions of holiday sentiment in American culture.

In 1807, a small rural New York press published the first edition of P.

Methodism, originally founded in the eighteenth century, has grown into a large and influential Protestant denomination.

Winner of a 2020 Catholic Press Association book award (first place, best new religious book series).

Texas was the South's frontier in the antebellum period.

The first volume in a valuable oral history of the struggle for civil and human rights in South Carolina, as told by those who experienced it.

The US in the 1950s and 1960s wanted to prevent a new communist regime in the Western hemisphere at any cost.

New Perspectives on the Nation of Islam contributes to the ongoing dialogue about the nature and influence of the Nation of Islam (NOI), bringing fresh insights to areas that have previously been overlooked in the scholarship of Elijah Muhammad's NOI, the Imam W.

William Jefferson Clinton's legacy remains a matter of significant contention among historians, political scientists, and pundits even after a decade of time to reflect.

This compelling volume focuses on the story of AndrewPessin, a tenured philosophy professor at Connecticut College, who was accusedby students and faculty of having directly condoned the extermination of apeople based on a deliberate misreading of his 2015 Facebook post on the Israeli-Palestiniancon?

Since the early days of George Washington's presidency, physicians have played a significant role in the health and well-being of American presidents.

This volume examines how the field of Chicana/o studies has developed to become an area of interest to scholars far beyond the United States and Spain.

It seems counterintuitive: conflict can be a blessing.

Here is one of the most important surviving works of pre-Columbian civilization, Rabinal Achi, a Mayan drama set a century before the arrival of the Spanish, produced by the translator of the best selling Popol Vuh.

The matter-of-fact descriptive title of this interesting little volume on railroading in the pre-Civil War South does not do justice to Alvarez's coverage of the subject.

This book celebrates the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 by gathering together a century of interpretation and commentary on that piece of legislation.

Originally published in 1967 this book tells the full story of the breach between the United States and Great Britain and the pivotal role played by Benjamin Franklin in both the declaration of independence and the American Treaty.

The British and French in the Atlantic 1650-1800 provides a comprehensive history of this complex period and explores the contrasting worlds of the British and the French Empires as they strove to develop new societies in the Americas.

Approximately three fifths of the emigration from the United Kingdom to America arrived in the 19th century.

This book examines the concept of piracy as an instrument for the advancement of legal, economic, and political agendas associated with early modern imperial conflicts in the Caribbean.

The Pacific War changed abruptly in November 1943 when Admiral Chester Nimitz unleashed a relentless 18-month, 4,000-mile offensive across the Central Pacific, spearheaded by fast carrier task forces and U.

When your faith no longer works, and the catch phrases and Christianese that got you to where you are cannot take you past your current crisis, what do you do?

Without an appropriate spiritual care model, it can be difficult to discuss existential questions about death and dying with people who are confronted with life-threatening or incurable diseases.

El libro reúne colaboraciones de autoras y críticos que investigan, a partir de producciones literarias y culturales, los procesos de negociación y reflexión de las identidades judeo-latinoamericanas en los siglos XX y XXI, sobre todo en el Cono Sur.

The Second Ku Klux Klan's success in the 1920s remains one of the order's most enduring mysteries.

This book looks at the lives of the women from Hove and Portslade, ranging from artists, musicians, writers, performers, reformers, pioneering doctors and business-women to those employed in factories, shops, laundries and as domestic servants, not forgetting, of course, women's contribution to war-work in both of the world wars.

';I feel silly trying to make up prayers myself.

In this pioneering study of the long and arduous struggle for civil rights in South Carolina, longtime journalist Claudia Smith Brinson details the lynchings, beatings, bombings, cross burnings, death threats, arson, and venomous hatred that black South Carolinians endured-as well as the astonishing courage, devotion, dignity, and compassion of those who risked their lives for equality.

Going far beyond basic historical information, this two-volume work examines the deep roots of Mexican culture and their meaning to modern Mexico.

A look inside New York’s icon of luxury: “Reading [The Hotel] is at least as enjoyable—and certainly less expensive—than staying at the Plaza” (Publishers Weekly).

In Adios Nino: The Gangs of Guatemala City and the Politics of Death, Deborah T.

Rooted in the printed sources of the period, this book reconstructs the attitudes of a pioneer generation of young women to the conflicts brought about by their new experience of employment outside their homes, and to changes in work and family relationships.

The Limits of Optimism works to dispel persistent notions about Jefferson's allegedly paradoxical and sphinx-like quality.

Coals central role in Americas history and its ongoing threats in the climate crisis.

This compelling new biography introduces the reader to the constant battles for equality faced by African Americans through a study of the career of Thurgood Marshall, who believed in the power of the law to change a society.

Staging Violence explores gender violence in Spanish early modern short theater.

Becoming the Arsenal discusses one of the three signal events that transformed the relationship of government and the private sector in directing the American economy.

In seinem neuesten Buch entlarvt Marcus drei »gewöhnliche« amerikanische Songs als grundlegende Dokumente amerikanischer Identität: Bascom Lamar Lunsfords »I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground« (1928), Geeshie Wileys »Last Kind Words Blues« (1930) und Bob Dylans »Ballad of Hollis Brown« (1964).

Through this book's roughly 50 reference entries, readers will gain a better appreciation of what life during the Industrial Revolution was like and see how the United States and Europe rapidly changed as societies transitioned from an agrarian economy to one based on machines and mass production.

This book presents empirical and anecdotal evidence on the persistence of the variety of Majorcan Catalan that has been spoken since the 1850s in San Pedro, Argentina.

Buffalo Bill Cody was bigger than life.

Through the prism of litigation practice and tactics, Purcell explores the dynamic relationship between legal and social change.

Originally published in 2002, this volume focuses on the growth of derivatives, the savings and loan crisis, the merger mania of the 1980s, the accompanying insider trading scandals, and the battle with inflation.

As our 27th president from 1909 to 1913, and then as chief justice of the Supreme Court from 1921 to 1930, William Howard Taft was the only man ever to lead two of America's three governing branches.