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Hospital City, Health Care Nation recasts the story of the U.S. health care system by emphasizing its economic, social, and medical importance in American communities. Focusing on urban hospitals and …

The characters, scandals, and secrets that shaped America’s most controversial residence.  Emerging from family tragedy and newfound chances, the story of Mar-a-Lago starts when heiress Marjorie …

In Bringing Home the White House, Melissa Estes Blair introduces us to five fascinating yet largely unheralded women who were at the heart of campaigns to elect and reelect some of our most beloved p …

In the annals of American history, few years have been as transformative and tumultuous as 1861. It was a year that saw the nation split at its seams, brother set against brother, and the beginning o …

The remarkable story of the man behind the book that helped spark the Civil War, in a stunning historical detective story “I love this research.” —Henry Louis Gates Jr., at a Hutchins Center presenta …

Voices of Emancipation seeks to recover the lives and words of former slaves in vivid detail, mining the case files of the U.S. Pension Bureau, which administered a huge pension system for Union vete …

In the lead-up to the Civil War, Virginia, like other southern states, amassed a large public debt while striving to improve transportation infrastructure and stimulate economic development. A Saga o …

Prussian-born cartographer Oscar Hinrichs was a key member of Stonewall Jackson’s staff, collaborated on maps with Jedediah Hotchkiss, and worked alongside such prominent Confederate leaders as Joe J …

A maverick, unionist district in the heart of the Old South? A notorious county that seceded from the Confederacy? This is how Jones County, Mississippi, is known in myth and legend.Since 1864 the le …

Professing a policy of cultural and social integration, the American settlement house movement made early progress in helping immigrants adjust to life in American cities. However, when African Ameri …