History of the Americas

Testifying to the life-changing and joy-giving power of the sacraments, Catholic author Nancy Jo Sullivan shares how moments in her life and that of her late daughter Sarahwho had Down syndromeunexpectedly triggered a renewed faith and deeper relationship with God and others.

The Mexicans is a multifaceted portrait of the complex, increasingly turbulent neighbor to our south.

Since its opening in 1965, the Watergate complex has been one of Washington's chicest addresses, a home to power brokers from both political parties and the epicenter of a scandal that brought down a president.

Deepen your faith and enrich your life through this study of core Methodist beliefs.

Continually Working tells the stories of Black working women who resisted employment inequality in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, from the 1940s to the 1970s.

Kristen Block examines the entangled histories of Spain and England in the Caribbean during the long seventeenth century, focusing on colonialism's two main goals: the search for profit and the call to Christian dominance.

In Becoming the Tupamaros, Lindsey Churchill explores an alternative narrative of US-Latin American relations by challenging long-held assumptions about the nature of revolutionary movements like the Uruguayan Tupamaros group.

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.

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.

Joel Stepanek grew up believing that humility required shunning success, never accepting praise, and embracing a crummy life so that God would reward him in heaven.

In collaboration with The Associated Press, Serial Box presents our first nonfiction series, 1776: The World Turned Upside Down, a 12-part month-by-month immersive account of ordinary colonists during America?

Celebrated scholar Carla Kaplan’s cultural biography, Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance, focuses on white women, collectively called “Miss Anne,” who became Harlem Renaissance insiders.

A treasury of spiritual wisdom on how to prepare your mind, body, and heart for Mass from one of the twentieth centurys great theologians, Meditations before Mass is Romano Guardinis smart and beautiful guide to spiritual preparation for the source and summit of Christian worship.

Famous for its majestic ruins, Mexico has gone to great lengths to preserve and display the remains of its pre-Hispanic past.

In Alabama Getaway Allen Tullos explores the recent history of one of the nation's most conservative states to reveal its political imaginary-the public shape of power, popular imagery, and individual opportunity.

An award-winning historian reveals the harrowing, little-known story of an American effort to save the newly formed Soviet Union from disasterAfter decades of the Cold War and renewed tensions, in the wake of Russian meddling in the 2016 election, cooperation between the United States and Russia seems impossible to imagine-and yet, as Douglas Smith reveals, it has a forgotten but astonishing historical precedent.

The truth about parenting is that you dont have to get everything right and your family doesnt need to be perfect.

This history of relations between Ecuador and the United States is a revealing case study of how a small, determined country has exploited its marginal status when dealing with a global superpower.

Three minutes is all it takes to change your day for the better.

There must be a greater power than all of us.

The must-have companion to Bill O'Reilly's historic series Legends and Lies: The Real West, a fascinating, eye-opening look at the truth behind the western legends we all think we knowHow did Davy Crockett save President Jackson's life only to end up dying at the Alamo?

The middle Georgia area-including Baldwin, Hancock, Jasper, Johnson, Putnam, Washington, and Wilkinson Counties-is a vast living museum of classic southern architecture.

An on-the-ground history of American empireSay the word "e;Guantanamo"e; and orange jumpsuits, chain-link fences, torture, and indefinite detention come to mind.

Based on more than thirty years of ethnographic fieldwork in Highland Guatemala, this study of Maya diviners, shamans, ritual dancers, and religious brotherhoods describes the radical changes in traditional Maya religious practice wrought by economic globalization and political turmoil.

50 Ways To Die is a compendium of death and sometimes violent crimes occurring in the county, and the social trends that surround them.

This is a true story of discovery and discoverers in what was the northern frontier region of Mexico in the years before the Mexican War.

An insightful biography of Mary Ball Washington, the mother of our nation's fatherThe Widow Washington is the first life of Mary Ball Washington, George Washington's mother, based on archival sources.

In The Azusa Street Mission and Revival, Cecil M.

A Dickensian tale from America's heartland,New York Times columnist Dan Barry's The Boys in the Bunkhouse is a luminous work of social justice.

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This concise, accessible text provides students with a history of American constitutional development in the context of political, economic, and social change.

The events of July 19, 1878, marked the beginning of what became known as the Lincoln County War and catapulted Susan McSween and a young cowboy named Henry McCarty, alias Billy the Kid, into the history books.

While much has been written about national history and citizenship, anthropologist Trevor Stack focuses on the history and citizenship of towns and cities.

Sounds American provides new perspectives on the relationship between nationalism and cultural production by examining how Americans grappled with musical diversity in the early national and antebellum eras.

When Curacao came under Dutch control in 1634, the small island off South America's northern coast was isolated and sleepy.

Reflections of Emma is a book about a lifetime of thoughts of a woman known only to us as Emma.

There's Nothing in the Middle of the Road But Yellow Stripes and Dead Armadillos is a lucid, viciously funny, downright refreshing look at the mess we're in and how we got there.

Assigned to the District of Utah during the Civil War, physician John Vance Lauderdale spent the next twenty-five years on army posts in the American West, serving in California, Arizona, New Mexico, South Dakota, and Texas.

Examining refugees of Civil War-era North Carolina, Driven from Home reveals the complexity and diversity of the war's displaced populations and the inadequate responses of governmental and charitable organizations as refugees scrambled to secure the necessities of daily life.