20st Century up to 1945

The Twilight Zone is remembered as a science fiction television series that reflected the uneasiness of Cold War America. Its creator, Rod Serling, was a secular Jew who fought in World War II and re …

Housewives, hard hats, and an Ohio town’s restoration of the radioactive wasteland in its backyard In 1984, a uranium leak at Ohio’s outdated Fernald Feed Materials Production Center highlighted the …

Thirty years after the headlines, Love Canal remains synonymous with toxic waste. When this neighborhood of Niagara Falls, New York, burst upon the nation’s consciousness, the media focused on a work …

Available in a new digital edition with reflowable text suitable for e-readers This rare epistolary collection from the Civil War era preserves, amidst a recounting of the martial actions of the Iris …

Doomsday prepping has gone mainstream. Survivalists star in reality TV shows; celebrities hawk emergency gear; and ordinary people stockpile essentials in the hope that they can outlast a slew of thr …

A comprehensive analysis of American foreign policy and Mussolini’s Italy. Schmitz argues that the U.S. desire for order, interest in Open Door trade, and concern about left-wing revolution led Ameri …

Dodge, a military historian who fought in the Civil War as a young man and lost a leg at Gettysburg, gives an overview of the war in this 1883 work. A superb one-volume introduction to the war, he pr …

When President Barack Hussein Obama was first elected president, he promised he would use the presidency as a bully pulpit to fundamentally change America. In the first four years, he has brought the …

Shedding important new light on the history of the Cold War, Philip Nash tells the story of what the United States gave up to help end the Cuban missile crisis of 1962. By drawing on documents only r …

This collection of primary source material chronicles the Civil War experiences of North Carolinians from the secession crisis to the Confederate surrender at Bennett Place. In contrast to other work …