History of the Americas

Unlike most books on slavery in the Americas, this social history of Africans and their enslaved descendants in colonial Costa Rica recounts the journey of specific people from West Africa to the New World.

In a bracing work of history, a leading international finance expert reveals how our national security depends on our financial securityMore than two centuries ago, America's first secretary of the treasury, Alexander Hamilton, identified the Revolutionary War debt as a threat to the nation's creditworthiness and its very existence.

This richly detailed biography of Andrew Jackson Donelson (1799-1871) sheds new light on the political and personal life of this nephew and namesake of Andrew Jackson.

A Selection of the History Book ClubNamed One of "e;Six Books for Insight on a Trump Presidency"e; by the Washington PostAs far as members of the hugely controversial John Birch Society were concerned, the Cold War revealed in stark clarity the loyalties and disloyalties of numerous important Americans, including Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy, and Earl Warren.

Juanita was seventeen years old and pregnant with her first child when she began an activity that would "e;open"e; her mind.

Between 1905 and 1930, more than one hundred thousand Jews left Central and Eastern Europe to settle permanently in Argentina.

Michele Reid-Vazquez reveals the untold story of the strategies of negotia-tion used by free blacks in the aftermath of the "e;Year of the Lash"e;-a wave of repression in Cuba that had great implications for the Atlantic World in the next two decades.

A corrupt old Democrat.

"e;When I went to work for Lockheed-Georgia Company in September of 1952 I had no idea that this would end up being my life's work.

La correspondance entre Jean-Marc Piotte et Pierre Vadeboncoeur couvre une décennie, celle des années 1960, sans doute la plus effervescente du Québec contemporain.

An acclaimed ghost hunter and author of Real Hauntings shares real-life stories of hauntings from across America.

When a devastating earthquake struck near Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on January 12, 2010, the world reacted with a collective, yet distant, horror.

Jacques-Timothe Boucher Sieur de Montbrun (anglicized to Demonbreun), born 1747 in Quebec, set the bar for country musics stories of cheating, gambling, drinking, and being the boss more than two centuries before anybody thought of supporting the storyline with a 1-4-5-4 chord progression and a fiddle.

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.

The dominant tradition in writing about U.

What does one contested account of an enslaved woman tell us about our difficult racial past?

Francisco de Paula Brito is a biography of a merchant, printer, bookseller, and publisher who lived in Rio de Janeiro from his birth in 1809 until his death in 1861.

One in every six United States couples experiences infertility but Catholic couples face additional confusion, worry, and frustration as they explore the medical options available to them.

The birth of the world's great megacities is the surest and starkest harbinger of the ';urban age' inaugurated in the twentieth century.

Many Vietnam memoirs have appeared in recent years, but not a single one has the humor, pathos, poignancy, and often sheer hilarity of John J.

During the five years that 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.

Carmen Miranda got knocked down and kept going.

Twenty-five real-life tales of hauntings and ghostly encounters across America, by the author of Houses of Horror and Ghost Hunter’s Strangest Cases.

Winner of a Catholic Press Association Award: Family Life Books (First Place).

Aztec CultureIt was a culture like no other in North America.

Edward Longacre provides a balanced portrait of the Civil War's famed cavalryman, J.

A brief history of secret British and American World War II organizations, their training, tools, successes, and their legacy.

The Civil War was primarily a land conflict, but it was not only that.

In the summer of 1969, a federal district court in Denver, Colorado, heard arguments in one of the nation's first explicitly environmental cases, in which the Defenders of Florissant, Inc.

Most Catholics can recite the Hail Mary but haven't actually reflected on the meaning of the prayer.

Marvin Griffin was Georgias seventy-second governor.

Tyrannicide uses a captivating narrative to unpack the experiences of slavery and slave law in South Carolina and Massachusetts during the Revolutionary Era.

Rediscover the Gems of Antiquity in The Artificial RiverWoven from a rich tapestry of research, The Artificial River is more than just a historical account of the Erie Canal-it encapsulates a pivotal era in United States history, especially the monumental strides in engineering, commerce, and socio-cultural shifts between the War of 1812 and the Civil War.

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.

An environmental History of California during the Gold Rush Between 1849 and 1874 almost $1 billion in gold was mined in California.

One of the most influential and fastest-growing movements in the Church today is centered on St.

Stenciled on many of the deactivated facilities at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, the evocative phrase "e;abandoned in place"e; indicates the structures that have been deserted.

Over twenty-five years ago, David Stuart began writing award-winning newspaper articles on regional archaeology that appealed to general readers.

Dans la foulée des enlèvements de James Richard Cross et de Pierre Laporte par le Front de libération du Québec, le gouvernement du Canada décrète le 16 octobre 1970 la Loi des mesures de guerre.

More than just a civil war, the Mexican Revolution in 1910 triggered hostilities along the border between Mexico and the United States.

Texas has its barbecue tradition, and a library of books to go with it.