Overview :One hundred and fifty years after the first shots were fired on Fort Sumter, the Civil War still captures the American imagination, and its ... Read More
Overview :1776, 1861, 1929. Any high-school student should know what these years meant to American history. But wars and economic disasters are not ou... Read More
Overview :The third edition of The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, with Related Documents continues to encourage students to think about the work'... Read More
Overview :A suspenseful account of the glorious days a century ago when our national madness beganA post-season series of games to establish supremacy... Read More
Overview :In The Sum of Our Dreams, Louis P. Masur offers a sweeping yet compact history of America from its beginnings to the current moment. For gen... Read More
Overview :Bruce Springsteen often prefers to let his music do the talking. His onstage stories and shaggy dog tales have long entertained his fans, bu... Read More
Overview :What did Abraham Lincoln envision when he talked about ""reconstruction?"" Assassinated in 1865, the president did not have a chance to begi... Read More
Overview :More than one hundred and fifty years after the first shots were fired on Fort Sumter, the Civil War still captures the American imagination... Read More
Overview :A storied friendship between two of America's founders--one that endured for fifty years--and the roadtrip that forged it. Between May 21 a... Read More
Overview :Between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, Western societies abandoned public executions in favor of private punishments, primarily c... Read More
Overview :"The time has come now," Abraham Lincoln told his cabinet as he presented the preliminary draft of a "Proclamation of Emancipation." Lincoln... Read More
Overview :Now available as a paperback: the history of a disturbing image, now iconic, that expressed the turmoil of the 1970s and race relations in t... Read More
Overview :"These thousands, and tens and twenties of thousands of American young men, badly wounded, all sorts of wounds, operated on, pallid with dia... Read More