Acclaimed historian and award-winning author Simon Schama offers an essential historical perspective on the crucial 2008 presidential election and its importance for reclaiming...
Southern Plans to Free and Arm Slaves during the Civil War
Bruce Levine
In early 1864, as the Confederate Army of Tennessee licked its wounds after being routed at the Battle of Chattanooga, Major-General Patrick Cleburne (the "Stonewall of the West") proposed that "the...
Preface to the Third EditionPreface to the Second EditionPreface to the First EditionTopographical Map of Cuba1. Geography and Pre-Columbian Peoples2. Colony and Society3. Out from the Shadows4....
As children, they formed a special bond, growing up in the small town of Ames, Iowa. As young women, they moved to eight different states, yet they managed to maintain an extraordinary friendship...
In the early twenty-first century, the world has been seized by one of the most intense periods of anti-Americanism in history. Reviled as an imperialist power, an exporter of destructive...
Birth Control, Abortion, and the Federal Government in Modern America
Donald T. Critchlow
After World War II, U.S. policy experts--convinced that unchecked population growth threatened global disaster--successfully lobbied bipartisan policy-makers in Washington to initiate...
An extraordinary exploration of Latinas in the United States from the 1800s to the present, this collection of narrative biographies documents the lives of fifteen remarkable individuals who...
Introduction: The Past Really is Another CountryPart I: Falling From Grace 1. Joseph Glanvill: Scientific Witch-Finder2. The Man Who Made Underpants for Frogs3. Pettenkofer's Poisoned ChalicePart...
Children's Literature, the Cold War, and Radical Politics in the United States
Julia L. Mickenberg
At the height of the Cold War, dozens of radical and progressive writers, illustrators, editors, librarians, booksellers, and teachers cooperated to create and disseminate children's books that...
