• A New Republic Best Book of the Year • The Globalist Top Books of the Year • Winner of the Maine Literary Award for Non-fiction • Particularly relevant in understanding who voted for who in this presidential election year, this is ...
A textbook tracing the political, social, and economic history of the United States from the discovery of America to the present day.
The American Nation
In the late nineteenth century, New York's Tammany Hall was controlled by “Honest John” Kelly, Richard Croker, and Charles F. Murphy, while Chicago was run by equally colorful characters—“Hinky Dink” Kenna and “Bathhouse” John ...
Divisiveness is the hallmark of American politics today. In the Emergence of One American Nation, Donald J. Fraser explores the difficulties that the founding generation confronted in molding the United States into one nation.
This book tells the story of America's relationship with Shakespeare. The story of how and why Shakespeare became a hero within American popular culture.
This is the standard history of the Lumbee Indian people of southwestern North Carolina, the largest Indian community in population east of the Mississippi. Dial and Eliades trace the history of this group through 1974.
The Primary Source Edition of The American Nation shows how the political history of the United States is intimately tied to the social, economic and cultural development of the nation.
The American Nation
Monroe was fired by the cause for which he fought and aware that distinction in battle could bring him the notice that he needed to move up in the world . He had been born into Virginia's gentry class , but at the modest end of it .