A new history of Brazil's eighteenth century that foregrounds debates about wealth, difference, and governance. Transformations in Portugal and Brazil followed the discovery of gold in Brazil's hinterland and the hinterland's subsequent settlement....

By emphasizing Latin American reformers' decades-long struggle to defeat authoritarianism, this transnational history challenges the timeworn Cold War paradigm and recasts the region's political evolution. Scholars persist in framing the Cold War a...

A concise and lively history of California, the most multicultural state in the nation. California is the most multicultural state in the nation. As John Mack Faragher argues in this concise and lively history, that is nothing new. California's nat...

The untold history of slavery and resistance in California, from the Spanish missions, indentured Native American ranch hands, Indian boarding schools, Black miners, kidnapped Chinese prostitutes, and convict laborers to victims of modern trafficking...

The first telling of the unknown story of America's two-hundred-year history as a slave-trading nation. A total of 305,000 enslaved Africans arrived in the New World aboard American vessels over a span of two hundred years as American merchants and...

A pathbreaking look at Native women of the early South who defined power and defied authority. Historian Alejandra Dubcovsky tells a story of war, slavery, loss, remembrance, and the women whose resilience and resistance transformed the colonial So...

The rediscovery of a pivotal figure in Black history and his importance and influence in the struggle against slavery and discrimination. Born on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, Samuel Ringgold Ward (1817 - c. 1869) escaped enslavement and would bec...

A sweeping and overdue retelling of U.S. history that recognizes that Native Americans are essential to understanding the evolution of modern America. The most enduring feature of U.S. history is the presence of Native Americans, yet most histories...

Based on massive new research, a compelling and surprising account of the twentieth century's closest election. The 1960 presidential election between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon is one of the most frequently described political events of the...

Challenges the myth of the United States as a nation of immigrants by bringing together two groups rarely read together: Native Americans and Eastern European immigrants. In this cultural history of Americanization during the Progressive Era, Cristi...