History of the Americas

For more than three decades, the same children's historical novels have been taught across the United States.

A contemporary of Columbus noted "e;those crazy Spaniards have more regard for a bit of honor than for a thousand lives.

First published in 1974, Architecture of Middle Tennessee quickly became a record of some of the regions most important and most endangered buildings.

Through a compelling story about the conflict over a notorious Mexican-period land grant in northern New Mexico, David Correia examines how law and property are constituted through violence and social struggle.

North Carolina has had more than its share of accomplished, influential women-women who have expanded their sphere of influence or broken through barriers that had long defined and circumscribed their lives, women such as Elizabeth Maxwell Steele, the widow and tavern owner who supported the American Revolution; Harriet Jacobs, runaway slave, abolitionist, and author of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl; and Edith Vanderbilt and Katharine Smith Reynolds, elite women who promoted women's equality.

In 1912 boxing was as popular a spectator sport in the United States as baseball, if not more so.

"e;LaPlante's touching biography of Samuel Sewall upends popular stereotypes about Puritans .

"e;Posters for Change is the kind of project that the world needs right now.

The New York Times bestseller long regarded as a classic in the literature of the unexplained-the basis of the 2002 film starring Richard Gere.

Pharsalia, a plantation located in piedmont Virginia at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains, is one of the best-documented sites of its kind.

In the first book written specifically for the 11 million divorced Catholics in the United States, Lisa DuffyCatholicMatch.

For years the legendary John Seigenthaler hosted A Word on Words on Nashville's public television station, WNPT.

Historical recollections of life in upstate New York from Edmund Wilson, one of America's preeminent literary critics of the twentieth century.

The Vietnam War was a tragic and dismal failureat least that is what the mainstream media and history books would have you believe.

Why has the work of writers in eighteenth-century Latin America been forgotten?

For nearly forty years, Frye Gaillard has covered the American South as a journalist, historian and writer of memoir.

An Amazon Best History Book of 2019"e;A splendid and beautifully written illustration of the tremendous importance public policy has for the daily lives of ordinary people.

In 1844, Lydia Sigourney asserted, "e;Man's warfare on the trees is terrible.

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.

Fire blazes from heaven, and a stone altar erupts in flame.

Paraguay's Chaco frontier, one of the least known areas in one of the least known countries in South America, became the unexpected scene of the bloodiest international war in the Americas, the Chaco War between Paraguay and Bolivia (1932-35).

A Journey in Brazil: Henry Washington Hilliard and the Brazilian Anti-Slavery Society is an investigative account of the vital career of Henry Washington Hilliard, who had a long and complicated relationship with slavery.

In the decades between the Berlin Conference that partitioned Africa and the opening of the African Hall at the American Museum of Natural History, Americans in several fields and from many backgrounds argued that Africa had something to teach them.

Mary is a very proud wife, mother, retired educator, community activist, and now an aspiring writer.

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

The earliest European accounts of Brazil's indigenous inhabitants focused on the natives' startling appearance and conduct-especially their nakedness and cannibalistic rituals-and on the process of converting them to clothed, docile Christian vassals.

Rarely visited by outsiders, the ranchers of the Sierra de la Giganta in Baja California Sur live much as their ancestors have for the past two centuries.

Honorable Mention, Premio al Mejor Libro en Humanidades, Latin American Studies AssociationMexico Section, 2024 Mexican independence was, in a sense, an economic event.

A New York Times-bestselling behind-the-scenes look at the US Army unit stationed at Arlington National Cemetery.

In April 1998, legendary southern jam band Widespread Panic held a free open-air record release show in downtown Athens, Georgia, its homebase.

In The Other Presidency, Patrick Spero resurrects an overlooked but essential part of Thomas Jefferson's life.

An unprecedented account of one of the bloodiest and most significant racial clashes in American historyIn May 1866, just a year after the Civil War ended, Memphis erupted in a three-day spasm of racial violence that saw whites rampage through the city's black neighborhoods.

Privateers of the Americas examines raids on Spanish shipping conducted from the United States during the early 1800s.

Since the Constitutions ratification, members of Congress, following Article V, have proposed approximately twelve thousand amendments, and states have filed several hundred petitions with Congress for the convening of a constitutional convention.

The political conflict during Mexicos Reform era in the mid-nineteenth century was a visceral battle between ideologies and people from every economic and social class.