Siglo XX (hasta 1945)

William S. Newton (1823–1882) served the Union primarily as an assistant surgeon with the 91st Ohio Volunteer Infantry, but also spent a few months as acting surgeon with the 2nd Virginia Cavalry (US …

How Reconstruction-era political battles reflected global struggles over the era’s core ideals Exporting Reconstruction examines Ulysses S. Grant’s Reconstruction-era policy, both foreign and domesti …

As weavers, garment workers, and peddlers, Syrian immigrants in the Americas fed the early twentieth-century transnational textile trade. These migrants and the commodities they produced—silk, linen, …

Being released on the 161st observance of the Gettysburg Dedication Day , this new book is being published to follow up the solemnity and caring characterizing how Lincoln eulogized these honored dea …

America-Lite (where we all live) is just like America, only turned into an amusement park or a video game or a supersized Pinkberry, where the past and future are blank and there is only a big NOW. H …

Detailing the events of the Progressive Era and World War I (1901-20), America in the Age of the Titans is the only interdisciplinary history covering this period currently available. The book contai …

At Cedar Mountain on August 9, 1862, Stonewall Jackson exercised independent command of a campaign for the last time. Robert Krick untangles the myriad original accounts by participants on both sides …

Oglala Chief Red Cloud is quoted as saying, ‘The white man made many promises to us, but he kept only one; he promised to take our land and he took it.’ Initially the method of taking Indian land was …

‘One reason Koncewicz’s narrative is so compelling is that it’s also a redemption story.’—The Washington Post ‘Excruciatingly timely.’—Kirkus Reviews In more than three thousand recorded convers …

The Civil War placed the U.S. Constitution under unprecedented — and, to this day, still unmatched — strain. In Lincoln and the Triumph of the Nation, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Mark Neely exam …