History

Viewing contemporary history from the perspective of the AIDS crisis, Jennifer Brier provides rich, new understandings of the United States' complex social and political trends in the post-1960s era.

Fewer Americans were captured or missing during the Vietnam War than in any previous major military conflict in U.

The idea that sugar, plantations, slavery, and capitalism were all present at the birth of the Atlantic world has long dominated scholarly thinking.

Americans have always shown a fascination with the people, customs, and legends of the East witness the popularity of the stories of the Arabian Nights, the performances of Arab belly dancers and acrobats, the feats of turban-wearing vaudeville magicians, and even the antics of fez-topped Shriners.

Offering a comprehensive overview of Puerto Ricos history and evolution since the installation of U.

In 2002 a burial box of skeletal remains purchased anonymously from the black market was identified as the ossuary of James, the brother of Jesus.

Dont Ask, Dont Tell was the directive of President Clintons 1993 military policy regarding gay and lesbian soldiers.

Since the 1950s, anthropologist Sidney W.

The federally recognized Round Valley Indian Tribes are a small, confederated people whose members today come from twelve indigenous California tribes.

By the end of World War I, the skyrocketing divorce rate in the United States had generated a deep-seated anxiety about marriage.

In 1934 the republic of Haiti celebrated its 130th anniversary as an independent nation.

In 1925 Leonard Rhinelander, the youngest son of a wealthy New York society family, sued to end his marriage to Alice Jones, a former domestic servant and the daughter of a colored cabman.

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Grounded in the rich history of Chicago politics, For the Freedom of Her Race tells a wide-ranging story about black womens involvement in southern, midwestern, and national politics.

American Catholic women rarely surface as protagonists in histories of the United States.

For cooks who want to experience a link to culinary history, Hearthside Cooking is a treasure trove of early American delights.

Focusing on one of the most dramatic and controversial periods in modern Greek history and in the history of the Cold War, James Edward Miller provides the first study to employ a wide range of international archives American, Greek, English, and French together with foreign language publications to shed light on the role the United States played in Greece between the termination of its civil war in 1949 and Turkeys 1974 invasion of Cyprus.

At a time when North Carolinas population is exploding and its economy is shifting profoundly, one of the states leading economists applies the tools of his trade to chronicle these changes and to inform North Carolinians in easy-to-understand terms what to expect in the future.

While the Civil War is famous for epic battles involving massive armies engaged in conventional warfare, A Savage Conflict is the first work to treat guerrilla warfare as critical to understanding the course and outcome of the Civil War.

The state of Yucatn is commonly considered to have been a hotbed of radical feminism during the Mexican Revolution.

Historians have often glorified eighteenth-century Virginia planters' philosophical debates about the meaning of American liberty.

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Born in Trinidad, Eric Williams (191181) founded the Republic of Trinidad and Tobagos first modern political party in 1956, led the country to independence from the British culminating in 1962, and became the nations first prime minister.

Between the Civil War and World War I the United States underwent the most rapid economic expansion in history.

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In 1890, more than 100,000 Welsh-born immigrants resided in the United States.

For more than two hundred years, Americans have imagined and described Cuba and its relationship to the United States by conjuring up a variety of striking images Cuba as a woman, a neighbor, a ripe fruit, a child learning to ride a bicycle.

Scarletts Sisters explores the meaning of nineteenth-century southern womanhood from the vantage point of the celebrated fictional characters flesh-and-blood counterparts: young, elite, white women.

In the first comprehensive study of the experience of Virginia soldiers and their families in the Civil War, Aaron Sheehan-Dean captures the inner world of the rank-and-file.

For the People offers a new interpretation of populist political movements from the Revolution to the eve of the Civil War and roots them in the disconnect between the theory of rule by the people and the reality of rule by elected representatives.

This stimulating collection of essays in an autobiographical framework spans the period from 1963 to the present.

As early-twentieth-century Chicago swelled with an influx of at least 250,000 new black urban migrants, the city became a center of consumer capitalism, flourishing with professional sports, beauty shops, film production companies, recording studios, and other black cultural and communal institutions.

Illuminating a hidden and fascinating chapter in the history of globalization, Paul Gootenberg chronicles the rise of one of the most spectacular and now illegal Latin American exports: cocaine.

Today it is widely recognized that gay men played a prominent role in defining the culture of mid-twentieth-century America, with such icons as Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber, Montgomery Clift, and Rock Hudson defining much of what seemed distinctly American on the stage and screen.

Many Americans remember Senator Sam Ervin (18961985) as the affable, Bible-quoting, old country lawyer who chaired the Senate Watergate hearings in 1973.

Since its original publication in 1987, Like a Family has become a classic in the study of American labor history.

The Montgomery bus boycott was a formative moment in twentieth-century history: a harbinger of the African American freedom movement, a springboard for the leadership of Martin Luther King Jr.

Informed by Erik Eriksons concept of the formation of ego identity, this book, which first appreared in 1961, is an analysis of the experiences of fifteen Chinese citizens and twenty-five Westerners who underwent brainwashing by the Communist Chinese government.

In Japan, hibakusha means the people affected by the explosion specifically, the explosion of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima in 1945.

Focusing on globalization in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Jessica Teisch examines the processes by which American water and mining engineers who rose to prominence during and after the California Gold Rush of 1849 exported the United States' growing technical and environmental knowledge and associated social and political institutions.

Giving voice to a population too rarely acknowledged, Sweet Tea collects more than sixty life stories from black gay men who were born, raised, and continue to live in the South.

The first vice president to become president on the death of the incumbent, John Tyler (17901862) was derided by critics as His Accidency.

In a provocative assessment of American poverty and policy from 1950 to the present, Frank Stricker examines an era that has seen serious discussion about the causes of poverty and unemployment.

In this study of Birmingham's iron and steel workers, Henry McKiven unravels the complex connections between race relations and class struggle that shaped the city's social and economic order.

Lynch mobs in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America exacted horrifying public torture and mutilation on their victims.

In a detailed study of life and politics in Philadelphia between the 1930s and the 1950s, James Wolfinger demonstrates how racial tensions in working-class neighborhoods and job sites shaped the contours of mid-twentieth-century liberal and conservative politics.

Havana in the 1550s was a small coastal village with a very limited population that was vulnerable to attack.

Between 1730 and 1750, powerful healer and vodun priest Domingos lvares traversed the colonial Atlantic world like few Africans of his time from Africa to South America to Europe addressing the profound alienation of warfare, capitalism, and the African slave trade through the language of health and healing.

The North Carolina barrier islands, a 325-mile-long string of narrow sand islands that forms the coast of North Carolina, are one of the most beloved areas to live and visit in the United States.