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Bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands narrates the fierce debate over America's role in the world in the runup to World War II through its two most important figures:...

If you’ve traveled the nation’s highways, flown into New York’s LaGuardia Airport, strolled San Antonio’s River Walk, or seen the Pacific Ocean from the Beach Chalet in San Francisco, you have...

“I never had to leave the country to taste the world’s flavors. Wherever you live, come along with me.”This book is a love letter to the people who create and evolve American cuisine every day. It is...

Gertrude Stein's monumental novel, back in print a century after its first publication. In The Making of Americans, Gertrude Stein sets out to tell "a history of a family's progress," radically...

Dispelling myths, answering questions, and stimulating thoughtful avenues for further inquiry, this highly absorbing reference provides a wealth of specific information about over 200 North American...

In this landmark work, award-winning Princeton historian Leigh Schmidt teams up with eminent American religious history scholar Edwin Gaustad to produce a fully revised, updated, and expanded version...

A beautiful commemorative edition of Dr. Martin Luther King's speech "The American Dream," part of Dr. King's archives published exclusively by HarperCollins. At Lincoln University on June 6, 1961,...

The third and updated edition of the classic account of America in the latter half of the nineteenth centuryWhen the first edition of America in the Gilded Age was published in 1984, it soon acquired...

A dual portrait of America's first great architect, Henry Hobson Richardson, and her finest landscape designer, Frederick Law Olmsted--and their immense impact on America As the nation recovered from...

A comprehensive, fully illustrated guide to every dragonfly species found in North AmericaDragonflies are large and beautiful insects, diverse in color and pattern. This premier field guide provides...

A new history of the United States that turns American exceptionalism on its headAmerican Empire is a panoramic work of scholarship that presents a bold new global perspective on the history of the...

In this collection of recent and unpublished essays, leading analytic philosopher Scott Soames traces milestones in his field from its beginnings in Britain and Germany in the late nineteenth and...

A reflection of American art's most iconic portraits that feature eyeglasses, and their significance to the artists--from Grant Wood to Alex Katz--through the lens of renowned art historian John...

A deeply relevant look at what fascism means to Americans. From the time Mussolini took power in Italy in 1922, Americans have been obsessed with and brooded over the meaning of fascism and how it...

A revealing look at the Jewish American encounter with BuddhismToday, many Jewish Americans are embracing a dual religious identity, practicing Buddhism while also staying connected to their Jewish...

This book provides a general history of Latin America in the period between the European conquest and the gaining of independence by the Spanish American countries and Brazil (approximately...

Max Weber, widely considered a founder of sociology and the modern social sciences, visited the United States in 1904 with his wife Marianne. The trip was a turning point in Weber's life and it...

America's Mission argues that the global strength and prestige of democracy today are due in large part to America's impact on international affairs. Tony Smith documents the extraordinary history of...