Amerikas historia

“[One] of the great stories of the West, and written . . . in the spirit of the sages, with a scrupulous regard for truth and history.”-Atlantic MonthlyCrazy Horse, the legendary …

On September 5, 1886, the entire nation rejoiced as the news flashed from the Southwest that the Apache war leader Geronimo had surrendered to Brigadier General Nelson A. Miles. …

Some of the most savage war in world history was waged on the American Plains from 1865 to 1879. As settlers moved west following the Civil War, they found powerful Indian tribes …

For the past one hundred years, Americans have argued and worried about the quality of their schools. Some charged that students were not learning enough, while others complained …

El Popol Vuh tiene un indudable inter s literario, por su rica imaginer a y por ser una obra que contempla la cultura maya preexistente.El Popol Vuh que hoy conocemos fue escrito …

Oscar and Lilian Handlin show us how the new voyagers in the twentieth century--from Asia, Africa, Australia, and Latin America--record their experiences in the United States. The …

Both historically and in the present, the Supreme Court has largely been a failure   In this devastating book, Erwin Chemerinsky—“one of the shining lights of legal academia” (The …

"e;Joe Richardson's Christian Reconstruction is a solid addition to historical scholarship on the work of Yankee missionaries among the freedmen during the Civil War and …

With contributions by: Leonie Brialey, MJ Clarke, Roy T. Cook, Joseph J. Darowski, Ian Gordon, Gene Kannenberg Jr., Christopher P. Lehman, Anne C. McCarthy, Ben Owen, Lara …

Winner, Dan and Marilyn Laney Prize, Austin Civil War Round Table, 2005In an 1882 speech, former Confederate president Jefferson Davis made an exuberant claim: "That battle at …