History of the Americas

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

More than ever, Americans are realizing that if we want to keep this country great, we must be citizen patriots.

En juillet 1917, voyant l’hécatombe se prolonger en ­Europe et sous la pression de l’Empire britannique, le premier ministre Borden vote la conscription.

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

Sheppard explores Mexico's profound political, social, and economic changes through the lens of the persistent political power of Mexican revolutionary nationalism.

Decade of Betrayal focuses on the experiences of individuals illegally shipped from the U.

Reading about the lives of our chief executives is one thing, seeing where they lived in their youth and as adults is entirely different and enlightening.

Transforming Saints explores the transformation and function of the images of holy women within wider religious, social, and political contexts of Old Spain and New Spain from the Spanish conquest to Mexican independence.

The Revolutionary War historian provides “a comprehensive and accessible guide” to the vital influence France had on America’s path to independence (Publishers Weekly).

"e;The ordinary tortilla was an extraordinary bond between the human and divine.

Louisiana Women: Their Lives and Times, volume 2, highlights the significant historical contributions of some of Louisiana's most noteworthy and also overlooked women from the eighteenth century to the present.

In this entertaining history, Gregory McNamee explores the many ethnic and cultural traditions that have contributed to the food of the Southwest.

Broadly speaking, the traditionally conceptualized mid-twentieth-century Civil Rights Movement and the newer #BlackLivesMatter Movement possess some similar qualities.

In the years leading up to the Civil War, southern evangelical denominations moved from the fringes to the mainstream of the American South.

« Jongleurs, artisans d’ombres, fabricants de fausses clefs pour les verrous du paradis, arrière, laissez l’homme libre afin qu’il grandisse ; et si vous ne pouvez le suivre, ne cherchez pas du moins à le retenir », écrit Arthur Buies dans La Lanterne.

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.

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Following the dissolution of the Soviet bloc, Cuba found itself struggling to find its place in a new geopolitical context, while dealing with an unprecedented agricultural and food crisis that experts feel foreshadows the future of many countries across the globe.

Latin America and the Transports of Opera studies a series of episodes in the historical and textual convergence of a hallowed art form and a part of the world often regarded as peripheral.

Examining the legacy of racial mixing in Indian Territory through the land and lives of two families, one of Cherokee Freedman descent and one of Muscogee Creek heritage, Darnella Davis's memoir writes a new chapter in the history of racial mixing on the frontier.

New England is renowned for its quaint towns, beautiful landscapes, and busy ports.

From June 12, 2020, until the passage of the state law making the occupation a felony two months later, peaceful protesters set up camp at Nashvilles Legislative Plaza and renamed it for Ida B.

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Benevolent Orders, the Sons of Ham, Prince Hall Freemasonsthese and other African American lodges created a social safety net for members across Tennessee.

Here is the first comprehensive history of the Colfax County area of northeastern New Mexico.

Women have been the mainstay of the grueling, seasonal canning industry for over a century.

During his five years in the army, Private Edward L.

Jose Marts Liberative Political Theology argues that Marts religious views, which at first glance might appear outdated and irrelevant, are actually critical to understanding his social vision.

John Henry Holliday steps off the train at Atlanta's Union Station, fresh out of the Pennsylvania Dental College, and into Mattie's arms.

Why did it take so long to end slavery in the United States, and what did it mean that the nation existed eighty-eight years as a "e;house divided against itself,"e; as Abraham Lincoln put it?

The second volume of Tennessee Women: Their Lives and Times contains sixteen essays on Tennessee women in the forefront of the political, economic, and cultural history of the state and assesses the national and sometimes international scope of their influence.

During the five years in which he represented Brazil in the United States (under both the Cardoso and Lula presidencies), Ambassador Barbosa witnessed presidential elections that brought opposition parties to power in both the United States and Brazil, the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the outbreak of war in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the election of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

For more than one hundred years, the Conquest of the Desert (1878-1885) has marked Argentina's historical passage between eras, standing at the gateway to the nation's "e;Golden Age"e; of progress, modernity, and-most contentiously-national whiteness and the "e;invisibilization"e; of Indigenous peoples.

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What does it mean to be a Nashvillian?

Standing outside elite or even middling circles, outsiders who were marginalized by limitations on their freedom and their need to labor for a living had a unique grasp on the profoundly social nature of print and its power to influence public opinion.

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.

The second volume, Wallace's work seeks to shine light on the cover up of the murder conspiracy of Generals Sheridan and Sherman to kill G.

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.