20世纪到1945

Gordon Rhea’s gripping fourth volume on the spring 1864 campaign-which pitted Ulysses S. Grant against Robert E. Lee for the first time in the Civil War-vividly re-creates the battles and maneuvers f …

Borderline Citizens explores the intersection of U.S. colonial power and Puerto Rican migration. Robert C. Mc Greevey examines a series of confrontations in the early decades of the twentieth century …

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 …

Material objects lie at the crux of understanding individual and social relationships in history, and the Civil War era is no exception. Before, during, and after the war, Americans from all walks of …

It was the most brutal murder in the history of Coffey County, Kansas.On May 30, 1925, Florence Knoblock, a farmer’s wife and the mother of a young boy, was found slaughtered on her kitchen floor. Se …

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 …

This remarkable group of essays describes the ‘culture wars’ that consolidated a new, secular ethos in mid-twentieth-century American academia and generated the fresh energies needed for a wide range …

When Woodrow Wilson called on the American people to mobilize for war in April 1917, it was hardly surprising that historians should respond to their one-time colleague. Mobilization produced three o …