American History

Author: Martin D. Bradford Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 Ronald Reagan looms large in most accounts of the period, encouraging Americans to renounce the activist and liberal politics of...

Author: David Farber Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 In this book, David Farber grounds our understanding of the extraordinary history of the 1960s by linking the events of that...

Author: Langbourne M Williams Michael F Holt (University of Virginia) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 How partisan politics lead to the Civil War What brought about the Civil War?...

Author: Richard White Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 The Hill and Wang Critical Issues Series: concise, affordable works on pivotal topics in American history, society, and politics. In this...

Author: Professor of History Andrew C Isenberg (Temple University) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 254 An environmental History of California during the Gold Rush Between 1849 and 1874 almost $1...

Author: Thomas Bender Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 A provocative new book that shows us why we must put American history firmly in a global context--from 1492 to today...

Author: Emily Rosenberg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 269 In examining the economic and cultural trs that expressed America's expansionist impulse during the first half of the twentieth century, Emily...

Author: Lizabeth Cohen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 592 Winner of the Bancroft Prize In twenty-first-century America, some cities are flourishing and others are struggling, but they all must contend...

Author: University Louis P Masur (City College of the City University of NY) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 1776, 1861, 1929. Any high-school student should know what these years...

Author: Mark Honigsbaum Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 When Mark Honigsbaum discovers an ancient Spanish treasure guide buried in his research notebooks, he cannot help but be drawn into...

Author: Adam Rome Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Rome's genial new book . . . brings to life another era. --Nicholas Lemann, The New Yorker The first Earth Day...

Author: Charles Postel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 The Civil War unleashed a torrent of claims for equality-in the chaotic years following the war, former slaves, women's rights activists,...

Author: Hector Tobar Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Deep Down Dark is the novel that inspired the film The 33 starring Lou Diamond Phillips, Cote de Pablo and Antonio...

Author: Catherine Clinton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 260 A lively, comprehensive account of the struggle for women's rights at a vital time in our national history. The American women...

Author: Matt S Meier Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 In the years since the first edition of this important study was published, the changes in the Mexican American community...

Author: Martha Saxton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 An insightful biography of Mary Ball Washington, the mother of our nation's father The Widow Washington is the first life of...

Author: Jon T Coleman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 The true story behind The Revenant. In the summer of 1823, a grizzly bear mauled mountain man Hugh Glass in...

Author: Eric Hobsbawm Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 In his autobiography Interesting Times: A Twentieth Century Life, published in 2002 when he was eighty-five years old, the historian Eric...

Author: Emily Bingham Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 346 An Intimate Portrait of a Jewish American Family in America's First Century Mordecai is a brilliant multigenerational history at the forefront...