History of the Americas

An "e;excellent biography"e; of General Washington's aide-de-camp, a daring soldier who advocated freeing slaves who served in the Continental Army (Journal of Military History).

For decades roughly 80 percent of commercial Broadway productions have failed to recoup their original investments.

“Anyone who is interested in Civil War logistics, wartime railroads, and the Cumberland Valley of Pennsylvania needs to read this study.

The Washington Century chronicles the hundred-year rise of the nation's capital as it grew to become the most powerful city in the world -- a story made vivid through the history of three very different families, each representing an essential aspect of Washington: the Cafritzes, headed by a real estate mogul and his consummate hostess wife; the Boggs family, a political force in the ultimate political town; and the Hobsons, lead by a prominent black activist and civic leader in the first black-majority American city.

This in-depth Civil War study examines two early Union victories that were instrumental in deciding the conflict's ultimate outcome.

An investigation into who burned South Carolina's capital in 1865Who burned South Carolina's capital city on February 17, 1865?

For decades roughly 80 percent of commercial Broadway productions have failed to recoup their original investments.

Unassuming but formidable, American maritime insurers used their position at the pinnacle of global trade to shape the new nation.

Seventy-five years after the end of the Second World War the details of Soviet ships, their activities and fates remain an enigma to the West.

An investigation into who burned South Carolina's capital in 1865Who burned South Carolina's capital city on February 17, 1865?

A complex look at California Nativeecological practicesas a modelfor environmental sustainabilityand conservation.

This biography attempts to set the record straight for a misunderstood military figure from the American Revolution.

Written for the Houghton Mifflin Riverside Biographical Series by William Garrott Brown, Andrew Jackson is an admiring retelling of the life of the 7th President of the United States.

After the Second World War, progressives and traditionalists waged a quieter battle over schools.

The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S.

The first comprehensive study of one of America's most gifted civil rights activists and political mavericksWhen civil rights leader Hosea Lorenzo Williams died in 2000, U.

"e;The definitive account of Union Maj.

Up to 500,000 Union soldiers, or one fourth of the Union army, had been born in Europe.

This social history of post-Revolutionary South Carolina examines the successful reconciliation of Patriots and Loyalists.

In the two centuries before the Quiet Revolution, the people of Quebec exercised a higher degree of independence from the Catholic Church than is often presumed.

From The Louisiana PurchaseLike many other major events in world history, the Louisiana Purchase is a fascinating mix of destiny and individual energy and creativity.

This work is a thought-provoking look at the original 13 colonies, presenting the facts and engaging the reader by using alternate history-what if key events had turned out differently?

The Conquest of Mexico is a brilliant account of the Spanish conquest of Mexico, written from a new and unfamiliar angle.

A collection of Civil War and Reconstruction era journalism by one of the most popular and acclaimed authors of the antebellum South.

A splendid piece of work.

How did we go from John F.

North and South Carolina are steeped in history-some of it supernatural.

The eminent political activist examines the principles and strategies of imperial violence and propaganda from American colonization to the modern day.

How did a bedraggled band of nomads manage to evolve into a Mesoamerican superpower in such a brief time?

A comprehensive, illustrated history of North Carolina spanning from the colonial period to the twenty-first century.

Creole Composition is a collection featuring essays by scholars and teachers-researchers working with students in/from the Anglophone Caribbean.

Huell Howser, the exuberant, hugely popular host of California Gold and other California public-television shows, was always exclaiming to the camera, "e;Louie, take a look at this!

The smoke was thick, the music was loud, and the beer was flowing.

With growing concerns about the security, cost, and ecological consequences of energy use, people around the world are becoming more conscious of the systems that meet their daily needs for food, heat, cooling, light, transportation, communication, waste disposal, medicine, and goods.

A fascinating look at the private lives of prosperous landowners in antebellum South CarolinaOffering a richly textured picture of early national South Carolina, Richardson-Sinkler Connections includes more than 150 letters and documents left by the prominent Richardson and Sinkler families, who lived in the Santee region between Charleston and Columbia.

"e;Reconstruct[s] Civil War cold cases and crimes through the people who lived to tell about them .

The first people of African descent to live in what is now South Carolina, enslaved people living in the sixteenth century Spanish settlements of San Miguel de Gualdape and Santa Elena, arrived even before the first permanent English settlement was established in 1670.

North and South Carolina are steeped in history-some of it supernatural.

In these thirteen tales, Layne Livingston Anderson takes the reader on a guided tour of historical sites in Arkansas, focusing on legends passed down through the oral tradition.

Critical Praise for Gene Smith On Until the Last Trumpet Sounds"e;The best recent compact study of the commander of the American Expeditionary Force of World War I.

Finding Francis, finding family, freeing historyFrancis is found.

The first scholarly edition of Maria Graham's Journal of a Voyage to Brazil (1824).

The Civil War historian recounts a significant yet smaller battle in the Shenandoah Valley-showing how it changed the war and the lives of those present.

This book revises the picture of the glittering Chicago of impressive mansions and museums; it exposes the city's corrupt underbelly and the realities of life in an age which is often assumed to have been simpler and more moral than ours.