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In the first full biography of Lieutenant General John Mc Allister Schofield (1831-1906), Donald B. Connelly examines the career of one of the leading commanders in the western theater during the Civ …

From nineteenth-century public baths to today’s private backyard havens, swimming pools have long been a provocative symbol of American life. In this social and cultural history of swimming pools in …

After World War II, an atomic hierarchy emerged in the noncommunist world. Washington was at the top, followed over time by its NATO allies and then Israel, with the postcolonial world completely shu …

The battle of Gettysburg was the largest engagement of the Civil War, and–with more than 51, 000 casualties–also the deadliest. The highest regimental casualty rate at Gettysburg, an estimated 85 p …

Virginians Lewis A. Armistead and Richard B. Garnett, two Confederate officers killed during Pickett’s Charge at Gettysburg, lived remarkably parallel lives. In this Civil War Short, Robert K. Krick …

Minnesota Book Award Winner! The smoke had just cleared from the last volley of musketry at Gettysburg. Nearly 70 percent of the First Minnesota regiment lay dead or dying on the field—one of the gre …

Shares the story of the revolutionary Marxist and Catholic Grace Holmes Carlson and her life-long dedication to challenging social and economic inequality On December 8, 1941, Grace Holmes Carlson, t …

A provocative history that reveals how guns—not abortion, race, or religion—are at the heart of America’s cultural divide. Gunfight is a timely work examining America’s four-centuries-long political …

WINNER • 2021 PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY Winner • 2022 James Beard Foundation Book Award [Writing] The “stunning” (David W. Blight) untold history of how fast food became one of the greatest generator …

In the fall of 1863, William Clarke Quantrill, the Missouri bushwhacker, took about three hundred of his followers across Indian Territory to Sherman, Texas. In the Lone Star State, the bushwhackers …