In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, French colonists and their Native allies participated in a slave trade that spanned half of North America ...

According to Simon Wiesenthal, nearly half of the crimes associated with the Holocaust were committed by Austrians, who comprised just 8.5 percent of the ...

English colonial expansion in the Caribbean was more than a matter of migration and trade. It was also a source of social and cultural change within England. ...

Exploring the mental worlds of the major groups interacting in a borderland setting, Cynthia Cumfer offers a broad, multiracial intellectual and cultural ...

Native American reservations on the Northern Plains were designed like islands, intended to prevent contact or communication between various Native peoples. ...

The abolition of Russian serfdom in 1861 and American slavery in 1865 transformed both nations as Russian peasants and African Americans gained new rights ...

By the 1920s, the sectional reconciliation that had seemed achievable after Reconstruction was foundering, and the South was increasingly perceived and ...

In an innovative fusion of labor and environmental history, Making a Living examines work as a central part of Americans' evolving relationship with ...

Using newly available material from both sides of the Iron Curtain, William Glenn Gray explores West Germany's efforts to prevent international acceptance ...

Reinterpreting the Haitian Revolution as both an islandwide and a circum-Caribbean phenomenon, Graham Nessler examines the intertwined histories of Saint-Domingue ...