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During the run-up to the 1888 presidential election, Americans flocked to party rallies, marched in endless parades, and otherwise participated zealously in the political process. …
When the American Railway Union went on strike against the Pullman Palace Car Company in 1894, it set into motion a chain of events whose repercussions are still felt today. The …
In 1847, General Winfield Scott boldly led a small but undaunted army from the Mexican coast all the way to the Hall of Montezuma, routing Mexican forces at every turn while …
Winner: Merle Curti Intellectual History AwardIn this work of historically informed political theory, Kimberly Smith sets out to understand how nineteenth-century Americans …
The history of Afghanistan is largely military history. From the Persians and Greeks of antiquity to the British, Soviet, and American powers in modern times, outsiders have led …
Why does the Civil War still speak to us so powerfully? If we listen to the most thoughtful, forceful, and passionate voices of that day we find that many of the questions at the …
In this groundbreaking work, Cara Rogers Stevens examines the fascinating life of Thomas Jeffersons book, Notes on the State of Virginia, from its innocuous composition in the …
This volume reexamines the events and personalities in the 1894 strike when the American Railway Union took action against the Pullman Palace Car Company. It also looks at related …
Denver in the Gilded Age may have been an economic boomtown, but it was also a powder keg waiting to explode. When that inevitable eruption occurredin the Anti-Chinese Riot of …
In the Civil War, rough-and-tumble St. Louis played a key role as a strategic staging ground for the Union army. A citadel of free labor in a slave state, it also harbored deeply …