A compelling, intimate portrait of John Hancock, going beyond the flamboyant signature to reveal the pivotal role that he had in the American RevolutionA contemporary of Samuel Adams, John Adams, George Washington, and the Marquis de Lafayette, Hancock...

This pathbreaking collection of essays recasts the prevailing conceptions of the historical roots and role of the U.S. Communist Party and its social setting. The contributors focus on the movement that formed around the party and the popular culture it...

A concise, engaging overview of American slavery from the beginning of the colonial era to emancipation and its aftermath. Kolchin takes a broad geographical perspective, putting American slavery in the context of a general trend toward use of forced...

Reviews the Vietnam War's debilitating effects on America's international role and proposes a strategy for the United States in the ideological conflict now underway

Examines America's role in the world community in the light of our political history and moral responsibilities

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning...

This edition is a reprint of the 1951 edition on the history of the south. It includes a critical essay on recent works by Charles B Dew. This is volume 9 in a series on the History of the South.

A brilliant study of the relationship between domestic politics & the shaping of foreign policy, showing how fascists, anti-Semites, & other right-wing extremists such as Father Coughlin the fascist radio priest, & Fritz Kuhn of the German-American Bund...

These essays in American working-class and social history, in the words of their author "all share a common theme -- a concern to explain the beliefs and behavior of American working people in the several decades that saw this nation transformed into a...

The Cold War ended with an exhilarating wave of events: the toppling of the Berlin Wall, the rise of the dissident poet Vaclav Havel, the revolution in Romania. Americans rejoiced at the dramatic conclusion of the long struggle. "But victories in...

A multifaceted history of Black resistance during the War of IndependenceThe American Revolution brought about violent and unpredictable social changes throughout the new nation, particularly in the South. Sylvia Frey reveals how slave resistance gave...

Winner, 2025 Pulitzer Prize for History Winner, 2025 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize Publishers Weekly Starred Review Library Journal Starred Review Booklist Top Ten History Books of 2024 The story of the Combahee River Raid, one of Harriet Tubman's most...

Perry Miller's classic one-volume anthology of Puritan writings recreates the world of seventeenth-century New England through a judicious selection of tracts, journals, sermons, and poetry by the major Puritan writers: William Bradford, Cotton Mather,...

William Appleman Williams was one of America’s greatest critics of US imperialism. The Contours of American History, first published in 1961, reached back to seventeenth-century British history to argue that the relationship between liberalism and empire...

Focusing on the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the author examines the factors and institutions that have shaped the American character and culture