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In the 1850s, as Minnesota Territory was reaching toward statehood, settlers from the eastern United States moved in, carrying rigid perceptions of race and culture into a community built by people o …

The AIDS crisis of the 1980s looms large in recent histories of sexuality, medicine, and politics, and justly so—an unknown virus without a cure ravages an already persecuted minority, medical profes …

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading.   Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest is perhaps the most compelling and complicated individual that t …

Author Wade Hall has taken Abraham Lincoln’s actual words from speeches, articles, and letters and assembled them in the form of answers to questions posed in an imagined interview with a fictional y …

The meanings and practices of American citizenship were as contested during the Civil War era as they are today. By examining a variety of perspectives—from prominent lawmakers in Washington, D.C., t …

Arguably, no event since the American Revolution has had a greater impact on US history than the Civil War. This devastating and formative conflict occupies a permanent place in the nation’s psyche a …

During the first fifteen months of the Civil War, the policies and attitudes of Union officers toward emancipation in the western theater were, at best, inconsistent and fraught with internal strains …

Stephanie has eloquently captured the intense experiences of a battle-tested marine on Guadalcanal. Learn how World War II made a youth a marine. Col. James A. Blakely Jr., USMC ret., friend of Angel …

Among the fiercest opponents of the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II was journalist James ‘Jimmie’ Matsumoto Omura. In his sharp-penned columns, Omura fearlessly called ou …

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 …