Between 1819 and 1845, as veterans of the Revolutionary War were filing applications to receive pensions for their service, the government was surprised ...

In 1899 the United States, having announced its arrival as a world power during the Spanish-Cuban-American War, inaugurated a brutal war of imperial conquest ...

Henry A. Wallace (1888-1965) remains one of the most puzzling figures of twentieth-century American politics. Serving as secretary of agriculture during ...

The civil rights movement was arguably the most successful social movement in American history. In a provocative new assessment of its success, David Chappell ...

The leaders of anticolonial wars of resistance--Metacom, Pontiac, Tecumseh, and Cuauhtemoc--spread fear across the frontiers of North America. Yet once ...

Jean-Francois Reynier, a French Swiss Huguenot, and his wife, Maria Barbara Knoll, a Lutheran from the German territories, crossed the Atlantic several ...

This book tells the fascinating story of the war between England and China that delivered Hong Kong to the English, forced the imperial Chinese government ...

This collection of original essays documents technology's centrality to the history of early America. Unlike much previous scholarship, this volume emphasizes ...

Installed at Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1921 to commemorate the tercentenary of the landing of the Pilgrims, Cyrus Dallin's statue Massasoit was intended ...

Stone portrays the members of this great court of law as strategically situated individuals who worked to advance their own corporate pretentions while ...