Contains thirty-two full-text primary source documents that helped to shape American society from 1763 to 1823.
This narrative spans the full scope of American history from the first Native American societies to the struggles of contemporary times.
This Very Short Introduction offers an illuminating account of social, cultural, and scientific developments that shaped our country.
Entries from previous editions have been updated and revised, and more than 800 new entries cover recent events and new topics.
Give Me Liberty! delivers an authoritative, concise, and integrated American history with new coverage of issues of inclusion and exclusion,
Covering Christopher Columbus’s arrival through President Clinton’s first term, Zinn features analysis of important events in our history.
This collection of essays offers a pointed reminder that visions of national greatness were a cornerstone of the new country when it was founded.
Covering a spectrum of the American past, from revolutionary times to the present day, this book dispels myths and misinformation.
This illustrated encyclopedia examines the unique influence and contributions of women in every era of American history.
The individuals presented in these narrative biographies impacted contemporary American life in a wide range of areas.
This account of Native struggles against environmental and cultural degradation features chapters on a variety of Native American communities.
A comprehensive and chilling history of an American genocide featuring the rise of a state-sanctioned killing machine and the broad support for genocide.
Details the investigation into the murders of prominent Osage people that occurred during the 1920s in Osage, Oklahoma.
Nichols offers a fresh and boundary-crossing history of the Lakes peoples over nearly three centuries of rapid change.
Documents the transformation of reproductive practices and politics on Indian reservations.
Contributions from leading ethnohistorians of the American South in a state-of-the-field volume of Native American history.
Dunbar-Ortiz offers a history of the United States told from the perspective of Indigenous peoples.
Explores the Lakotas' roots as marginal hunter‑gatherers and reveals how they reinvented themselves twice.
The story of the indigenous peoples who ruled the western interior of North America.
Oberg focuses on twelve native communities whose histories encapsulate the principal themes and developments in Native American history.
The "1619 Project" reframes our understanding of US history by placing slavery and its continuing legacy at the center of its narrative.
Discusses the willing acceptance of violent coercion by those in power, bringing to light the deep historical roots of police violence against African Americans.
Wilkerson chronicles the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities.
A critical survey of black women's complicated legacy in America.
Presents cutting-edge scholarship on key issues that define African American politics, life, and culture.
Provides the first national study of this intense and challenging struggle which disrupted and refashioned institutions in almost every state.
Illuminates the central place of African-Americans in U.S. history by telling the story of what it has meant to be black in America.
The arrest of 34 students during a sit-in protest in Richmond, Virginia, heralded the upending of a long-established way of life.
In civil-rights-era Chicago, a dedicated group of black activists, educators, and organizations employed black public history as more than cultural activism.
This book is peppered with unforgettable characters, a history of deep racial division but also one of hope, resilience, and interracial cooperation.
This study reveals the reasons for, stages, and results of the conflicts between the British Empire and the 13 colonies.
Richter reinterprets the struggle between Native peoples and Europeans in terms of how each understood the material basis of power.
Converging Worlds provides a survey of colonial American history both regionally broad and "Atlantic" in coverage.
This book shows how colonial attitudes toward taxation offer a unique window into the causes of the revolution.
Hsueh contests the idea that early-modern colonial constitutions were part of a uniform process of modernization, conquest, and assimilation.
This volume recounts the early history of America, using a diverse selection of the era's personal and historic documents.
Bonomi argues that religion was as instrumental as either politics or the economy in shaping early American life and values.
Norton offers a bold genealogy that shows how gender came to determine the right of access to the Anglo-American public sphere.
Brewer explores how the changing legal status of children illuminates the struggle over consent and status in England and America.
Heimert and Delbanco recapture the change of Puritan thought from its incipient Americanism to its dominance in New England.
The book presents nearly 150 of the most significant battles and historic sites, and draws on essays from scholars in the field
A transatlantic history of American independence revealing that 1776 was about far more than taxation without representation.
Ferling transports readers to the grim realities of that war, capturing an eight-year conflict filled with heroism and fierce dedication.
This book offers a compelling framework for explaining the complex processes at work during the age of revolutions.
Parkinson argues that to unify the patriot side, leaders linked British tyranny to fears about insurrectionary slaves and violent Indians.
Allison provides a cohesive synthesis of the military, diplomatic, political, social, and intellectual aspects of the Revolution.
This history book tells the largely untold story of the men who built America from the ground up and changed US history.
McCullough details the actions and decisions that led Great Britain to undertake a war against the colonies.
Staten Island provides rich terrain for Papas's illuminating case study of the local dimensions of the Revolutionary War.
Ratification is the story of the founding drama of our nation, revealing the convictions and aspirations on which our country was built.
A comprehensive collection of articles on roughly 900 individuals from the Civil War era.
McPherson considers why the Civil War remains so deeply embedded in our national psyche and identity.
The book addresses the origins of the Civil War the struggle over slavery in the United States.
Doyle explains that the Civil War was viewed abroad as part of a much larger struggle for democracy.
Lause documents the efforts of radical followers of John Brown to construct a triracial portion of the Federal Army of the Frontier.
Smith considers how all five senses shaped the experience of the Civil War, exploring its full sensory impact.
Raising the White Flag presents the first comprehensive examination of why surrender featured so prominently in the Civil War.
A concise reference for students of American history, a valuable introduction for those who are new to Grant's writings.
Examines the geographical difficulties of conducting campaigns in a vast land, as well as the toll irregular warfare took on soldiers and civilians.
Foner gives us the definitive history of Lincoln and the end of slavery in America.
This book details the falling-out between advocates of woman suffrage and black suffrage in the midst of the Reconstruction era.
An account of American presidential actions from 1901 to 2001.
Details the greatest environmental disaster in US history, a powerful cautionary tale about the dangers of trifling with nature.
Discusses the drive to check the growth of large corporations and the effort to redefine the social class structure.
Ortiz details the rise of organized veterans as a powerful interest group in modern American politics.
Informed by the latest historical literature, the third edition of Home Front U.S.A. continues to ponder the question of "the good war."
Encourages readers to form a new perspective on a highly debated period of American history.
This introduction to the Civil Rights Movement describes its history, explaining its origins, development and results.
A portrait of the United States during the turbulent political and economic upheavals of the 1970s.
Offers analysis of forty-four documents related to the lead up and aftermath of one of the most devastating attacks on U.S. soil.
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