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From the 1920s to the eve of the Pacific War in 1941, more than 50, 000 young second-generation Japanese Americans (Nisei) embarked on transpacific journeys to the Japanese Empire, putting an ocean b …

Winner, 2023 Shapiro Best Book Award, Association for Israel Studies From Frank Sinatra’s early pro-Zionist rallying to Steven Spielberg’s present-day peacemaking, Hollywood has long enjoyed a “speci …

Prior to the Civil War, it was not allowed to have African Americans in the military, but some were accepted into the Navy. It was thought that they had neither the courage or the discipline to make …

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 …

This concise and revealing history reconsiders the Civil War era by centering one Native American tribe’s encounter with citizenship. In 1837, eleven years before Wisconsin’s admission as a state, re …

In the early twenty-first century, comparisons between the modern civil rights movement and the movement for marriage equality reached a fever pitch. These comparisons, however, have a longer history …

A Heartbreaking Odyssey through America’s Darkest Hours: The Tragedy of Maggie Unveiled In the annals of American history, there exists a chapter so harrowing it reverberates through time – the era o …

The Skull That Yawns is a historical fiction about the civil war and the leaders’ decisions that would lead to an unforeseen outcome of America’s biggest legends like Lincoln, Geronimo, and Confedera …

This study tells for the first time the story of a bitter cultural and political conflict that arose between the leading writers and intellectuals of Great Britain and the United States during the Ci …

On the eve of the Civil War and after, Illinois was one of the most significant states in the Union. Its history is, in many respects, the history of the Union writ large: its political leaders figur …