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Ranging from the earliest Native American settlers to the presidency of Barack Obama, this Very Shor…

Diplomatic history explores the management of relations between nation-states by the process of nego…

The iconic images of Uncle Sam and Marilyn Monroe, or the "fireside chats" of Franklin D. Roosevelt …

Though the U.S. Constitution was ratified in 1788, its impact on our lives is as recent as today's n…

For better or worse-be it militarily, politically, economically, technologically, or culturally-Amer…

With lively writing and illuminating examples, David Caplan argues that two characteristics mark the…

The American South is a distinctive place with a dramatic history, and has significance beyond its r…

What does it mean to be an American? The story of the African American past demonstrates the difficu…

For thirty years, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Linda Greenhouse chronicled the activities of th…

The era known as Reconstruction is one of the unhappiest times in American history. It succeeded in …

In the traditional narrative of American colonial history, early European settlements, as well as na…

Long before the United States was a nation, it was a set of ideas, projected onto the New World by E…

By the early twentieth century, it became common to describe the United States as a "business civili…

Beneath the surface of the apparently untutored and deceptively frank Abraham Lincoln ran private tu…

We live in the suburban era. Well over half of all Americans and two-thirds of Canadians live in sub…

The Cold War dominated international life from the end of World War II to the fall of the Berlin Wal…

From subtle discrimination in everyday life and scandals in politics, to incidents like lynchings in…

Law has played a central role in American history. From colonial times to the present, law has not j…

Ryken's Worldly Saints offers a fine introduction to seventeenth-century Puritanism in its English a…

No political concept is more used, and misused, than that of democracy. Nearly every regime today cl…

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The New Deal shaped our nation's politics for decades, and was seen by many as tantamount to the "Am…

Americans have always been a hard-drinking people, but from 1920 to 1933 the country went dry. After…

To many in the West, Orthodoxy remains shrouded in mystery, an exotic and foreign religion that surv…