History of the Americas

A detailed account of the pivotal decision made by a young army commander to march to Decatur, and the consequential combat that ensued.

During the summer of 1792, a man wearing the rough garb of a vaquero stepped out of the night shadows of Merida, Yucatan, and murdered the province's top royal official, don Lucas de Glvez.

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

Lindale, Lint, and Leather is Randall McCord's third published work.

A Powerful, Profound Assessment of Conservatism and AmericaAn impressive burst of creativity gave rise to a vigorous conservative intellectual movement in the United States after the Second World War.

The biographical essays in this volume provide new insights into the various ways that South Carolina women asserted themselves in their state and illuminate the tension between tradition and change that defined the South from the Civil War through the Progressive Era.

From "e;the finest historian of the American Revolution"e;(Douglas Brinkley) comes Richard M.

Let Us Be What We Are: The Joys and Challenges of Living the Little Way offers a glimpse into the life of a Christian disciple facing his own mortality and reflecting on holiness, family, and the saints.

Dancehall: its simultaneously a source of raucous energy in the streets of Kingston, Jamaica; a way of life for a group of professional artists and music professionals; and a force of stability and tension within the community.

Georgians, like all Americans, experienced the Civil War in a variety of ways.

In History and Modern Media, John Mraz largely focuses on Mexican photography and his innovative methodology that examines historical photographs by employing the concepts of genre and function.

As a result of deteriorating relations with the Soviet Union, foreign policy makers in Washington became willing to enter a series of controversial agreements with fascist Spain in return for strategic military bases.

In the aftermath of the Civil War, the Lost Cause gave white southerners a new collective identity anchored in the stories, symbols, and rituals of the defeated Confederacy.

In 1906 a white lawyer named Dabney Marshall argued a case before the Mississippi Supreme Court demanding the racial integration of juries.

This thoughtful examination of a century of travel writing about the American West overturns a variety of popular and academic stereotypes.

As if in direct response to The New Yorkers question of The Power of the Pen: Does Literature Change Anything?

A fully illustrated narrative of the Atlanta campaign complete with maps, illustrations, and diagrams.

Best Nineteenth-Century Book Award Winner, 2018, Latin American Studies Association Nineteenth-Century Section Moral electricitya term coined by American transcendentalists in the 1850s to describe the force of nature that was literacy and education in shaping a greater society.

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2011When incidents of extreme violence flare in America, all too often they are framed as isolated aberrations.

Before the Civil War, the American people did not have to worry about a federal tax collector coming to their door.

Coulter is a pundit extraordinaire.

Do you get told what the good life is, or do you figure it out for yourself?

"e;Through the voices of ordinary Native Americans .

Anyone who has even a casual acquaintance with the history of New Mexico in the nineteenth century has heard of the Santa Fe Ring-seekers of power and wealth in the post-Civil War period famous for public corruption and for dispossessing land holders.

Deviant and Useful Citizens explores the conditions of women and perceptions of the female body in the eighteenth century throughout the Viceroyalty of Peru, which until 1776 comprised modern-day Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay.

Derived from first-hand accounts and oral histories collected and stored at Vanderbilt University as well as newspapers and other local history sources, this collection is an invaluable look at the ';Gay Nineties' in Nashvillians' own words.

This biography of Britain’s spy chief during the Revolutionary War sheds new light on his conspiracy with Benedict Arnold—and his mysterious capture.

USS Intrepid's Fighting Squadron 18 (VF-18) was one of the U.

The follow-up to the critically acclaimed collection Southern Manhood: Perspectives on Masculinity in the Old South (Georgia, 2004), Southern Masculinity explores the contours of southern male identity from Reconstruction to the present.

A unique insiders' account of what CIA intelligence analysts do and why it mattersThe common perception of a CIA officer is someone who collects secret intelligence abroad-a spy.

Coney Island: the name still resonates with a sense of racy Brooklyn excitement, the echo of beach-front popular entertainment before World War I.

"e;Do not forget that 'skill and integrity' are the keys to success.

First published in 2001, Choosing to Be Catholic has sold nearly 25,000 copies and maintains its status as a Catholic parish favorite.

Using El lazarillo de ciegos caminantes (the Guide for Blind Rovers by Alonso Carrio de Lavandera, the best known work of the era) as a jumping off point for a sprawling discussion of 18th-century Spanish America, Ruth Hill argues for a richer, more nuanced understanding of the relationship between Spain and its western colonies.

“Crawford captures the energy, humor, and wide-eyed hope of America’s first ‘angel investor’ with wit and verve .

Charlie Siringo (1855-1928) lived the quintessential life of adventure on the American frontier as a cowboy, Pinkerton detective, writer, and later as a consultant for early western films.

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

Building Beloved Communities traces the life of Rev.