Amerikas historia

Harold L. Poor's biography of the iconic German Jewish author, journalist, satirist, playwright, and poet is the most important and thorough work on Kurt Tucholsky in the …

The Atlantic represented a world of opportunity in the eighteenth century, but it represented division also, separating families across its coasts. Whether due to economic shifts, …

Black college football began during the nadir of African American life after the Civil War. The first game occurred in 1892, a little less than four years before the Supreme Court …

Prohibition came early to Washington State--in 1916--and kicked off an unforgettable era of nightlife. Prohibition went national in 1920 and a network of roadside inns, taverns …

די דעקלאַראציע פון אומאפהענגיקייט איז איינע פון די וויכטיקסטע דאקומענטן אין דער היסטאריע פון די פארייניקטע שטאטן. דאָס איז געווען אַ באַאַמטער אַקט גענומען דורך אַלע 13 אמעריקאנער …

Considered the best book ever written about Haiti, now updated with a New Introduction, "After the Earthquake," features first hand-reporting from Haiti weeks after the 2010 …

Roland D. Sawyer was a Western Massachusetts state legislator who, over a half-century in politics, tackled some of the state's thorniest issues. The Political Life of Reverend …

Winner of the 2023 McCormick Prize from the New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance Separate Paths: Lenapes and Colonists in West New Jersey is the first cross-cultural study of …

IN THIS SWEEPING, monumental work of American history,journalist Michael J. Ybarra tells the story of Senator PatMcCarran's extraordinary career for the first time, and he …

James Carville famously reminded Bill Clinton throughout 1992 that "e;it's the economy, stupid."e; Yet, for the last forty years, historians of modern America have ignored …