Siglo XX (hasta 1945)

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 …

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 …

When TV celebrity Dinah Shore sang “See the USA in your Chevrolet, ” 1950s America took her to heart. Every summer, parents piled the kids in the back seat, threw the luggage in the trunk, and took t …

First published in 1991, The Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt has won acclaim as a lucid and thorough narrative of Roosevelt’s two terms in the White House. Reviewers praised the depth of Lewis L. Go …

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 …

Moon Landing Hoax: The Claim that the Apollo Moon Landings Were Faked by NASA dives into one of the most enduring and debated conspiracy theories in modern history-the claim that the Apollo moon land …

Emory Upton (1839–1881) was “the epitome of a professional soldier, ” according to Stephen E. Ambrose. Indeed, his entire adult life was devoted to the single-minded pursuit of a military career. Upt …

Tracing the intersecting lives of a Confederate plantation owner and a free black Union soldier, Barbara L. Bellows’ Two Charlestonians at War offers a poignant allegory of the fraught, interdependen …

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading.   In the great constellation of Confederate heroes, no star shone brighter than General Thomas Jonathan ‘St …

Abraham Lincoln: His Essential Wisdom gathers hundreds of quotations from Lincoln’s letters, speeches, and other writings. The selections are arranged in categories that reflect the stages of Lincoln …