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Incidental Architect
While the majority of scholarship on early Washington focuses on its political and physical development, in Incidental Architect Gordon S. Brown describes the intellectual and …
Civil Rights in the United States
Thirty years ago, in his "Letter from a Birmingham Jail," Martin Luther King, Jr., appealed to the American people to support a "constructive nonviolent" struggle to create a …
A People's History of the United States
An abridged classroom edition of Howard Zinn's bestselling history of the United States, with teaching materials to accompany each chapter. Like Volume I, each chapter in Volume II …
African American Fraternal Associations and the History of Civil Society in the United States
The role of African American fraternal organizations in black civic engagement has been largely overlooked by scholars of African American history. While scholars have …
A Constitutional History of the United States
The History of the Organ in the United States
The organ has unique characteristics that bind it more closely than any other instrument to its location, to social and economic changes, and to fluctuations in musical taste. In …
Cultural History of Film in the United States
Art and Empire
The subject matter and iconography of much of the art in the U.S. Capitol forms a remarkably coherent program of the early course of North American empire, from discovery and …
The United States Capitol
The United States Capitol is a national cultural icon, and among the most visually recognized seats of government in the world. The past quarter century has witnessed an explosion …
Montgomery C. Meigs and the Building of the Nation’s Capital
At the age of thirty-six, in 1852, Lt. Montgomery Cunningham Meigs of the Army Corps of Engineers reported to Washington, D.C., for duty as a special assistant to the chief army …