20st Century up to 1945

In the 1840s, Philadelphia was poised to join the ranks of the world’s great cities, as its population grew, its manufacturing prospered, and its railroads reached outward to the West. Yet epidemics …

Having won a considerable victory at Fredericksburg only months earlier, Gen. Robert E. Lee would again be tested by Gen. Joseph Hooker and the Federal Army at Chancellorsville. Hooker and the bulk o …

Born in early 1812 in Crawfordville, Georgia, Alexander Stephens grew up in an antebellum South that would one day inform the themes of his famous Cornerstone Speech. While Stephens made many speeche …

In The Battles at Patterson and Fort Benton, readers are taken deep into Missouri’s Civil War experience-a fierce struggle within the broader conflict. Known for having one of the highest numbers of …

How anti-colonial movements in Angola, Mozambique, and Guinea-Bissau reshaped US activist engagement with the Global South from the 1960s through the 1970s Dream the Size of Freedom explores how anti …

‘Memoirs of General William T. Sherman’ is a seminal autobiographical work written by the American Civil War general himself, William Tecumseh Sherman. Published in 1875, this memoir provides a capti …

Originally published in 1994, Portrait of a Racist is an astonishing biography of Byron De La Beckwith (1920–2001), who murdered Black civil rights leader Medgar Evers in June 1963. Written by Beckwi …

Fourteen-year-old George Maguire was eager to serve the Union when his home state, Maryland, began raising regiments for the coming conflict. Too young to join, he became a “mascot” for the Fifth Mar …

On the fiftieth anniversary of the Edmund Fitzgerald’s sinking, the bestselling author of The Great Halifax Explosion tells the definitive story of the “Mighty Fitz.” For three decades following Worl …

A president defying Congress. Disrespect for the law. Attacks on the press. Evasion in the courts. The privatization of war. Quid pro quos with foreign nations. The mounting dangers to American democ …