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Rights Unveiled: A Journey Through America’s Freedoms takes readers on an illuminating exploration of the liberties enshrined in the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights. From the visionary ideals of …

Abraham Lincoln recognized that the US Civil War would be a ‘hard war’. Secession and slavery represented abiding beliefs central to Southern life. Overcoming them would require a war of attrition re …

Winner: Henry Adams Prize While much has been disclosed about the CIA’s cloak-and-dagger activities during the Cold War, relatively little is known about the origins of this secret organization. Davi …

Throughout his 52-year career, Rear Adm. John Lorimer Worden was always the right officer for the job. The epitome of an innovative commander who helped move the U.S. Navy out of the age of sail and …

The Howard University protests from the perspective and worldview of its participants We Are Worth Fighting For is the first history of the 1989 Howard University protest. The three-day occupation of …

This anthology by former members of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) captures the history and spirit of the revolutionary time just after Stonewall, when thousands came out of the closet to claim their …

How queerness and radical politics intersected—earlier than you thought. Well before Stonewall, a broad cross section of sexual dissidents took advantage of their space on the margins of American soc …

Mud, Blood & Cold Steel: The Retreat from Nashville, December 1864 takes a fresh look, for the first time with campaign and battle maps, at the unprecedented and brutal pursuit of the Army of Tenness …

In Contesting Commemoration: The 1876 Centennial, Independence Day, and the Reconstruction-Era South, Jack Noe examines identity and nationalism in the post–Civil War South through the lens of commem …

‘America First: Donald J. Trump’s Vision for a Stronger Nation’ offers an in-depth look at the political philosophy that shaped one of the most polarizing presidencies in modern American history. Thi …