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Virginia Folk Legends
Barden, Thomas E.What do devil dogs, witches, haunted houses, Daniel Boone, Railroad Bill, "Justice John" Crutchfield, and lost silver mines have in common? All are among the subjects included...
Saving Monticello
The Levy Family's Epic Quest to Rescue the House that Jefferson Built
Leepson, MarcHow a Jewish navy veteran and his descendants saved one of America's most recognizable architectural landmarks
The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers
The Human Rights Years, 1945-1948
Roosevelt, Eleanor, Black, Allida"Eleanor Roosevelt once asked, ‘Where do human rights begin? In small places, close to home, so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Such are...
George Washington's Barbados Diary, 1751-52
Washington, George, Anderson, Alicia K., Price, Lynn A.In the autumn of 1751, at the age of nineteen, George Washington sailed with his older half-brother Lawrence from Virginia to the Caribbean island of Barbados—the one and only...
The Papers of George Washington
Revolutionary War Series, vol. 7October 1776-January 1777
Washington, George, Twohig, DorothyVolume 7 documents the dramatic events of the New York campaign and the ensuing New Jersey campaign, a seemingly endless string of American reverses and retreats terminated by...
The Insurgent Delegate
Selected Letters and Other Writings of George Thatcher
diGiacomantonio, William C.George Thatcher served as a U.S. representative from Maine throughout the Federalist Era (1789-1801)—the most critical and formative period of American constitutional history....
The Nature of Rights at the American Founding and Beyond
Shain, Barry AlanAmericans have been claiming and defending rights since long before the nation achieved independence. But few Americans recognize how profoundly the nature of rights has...
Finding Justice
A History of Women Lawyers in Maryland since 1642
Battaglia, Lynne A.Although women were not officially permitted to practice law in Maryland until 1902, when they were first able to sit for the bar exam, the history of women acting as lawyers...
Colossal Ambitions
Confederate Planning for a Post–Civil War World
Brettle, AdrianLeading politicians, diplomats, clerics, planters, farmers, manufacturers, and merchants preached a transformative, world-historical role for the Confederacy, persuading many...
To Herland and Beyond
The Life and Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Lane, Ann J.To "Herland" and Beyond is Ann J. Lane's perceptive biography of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, one of America's most important fin-de-siecle feminists. Drawing from an abundance of...
The Enemy Within
Fears of Corruption in the Civil War North
Smith, Michael ThomasStoked by a series of major scandals, popular fears of corruption in the Civil War North provide a unique window into Northern culture in the Civil War era. In The Enemy...
Legacies of the 1964 Civil Rights Act
Grofman, BernardThe 1964 Civil Rights Act, in conjunction with the Voting Rights Act of the following year, totally transformed the shape of American race relations. Supporters of the Civil...
Possession, Ecstasy, and Law in Ewe Voodoo
Rosenthal, JudyAs a new resident of Togo in 1985, Judy Rosenthal witnessed her first Gorovodu trance ritual. Over the next eleven years, she studied this voodoo in West Africa's Ewe...
Sovereign States in an Age of Uncertainty
Hoffman, Ronald, Albert, Peter J.[Book description not available]
Counting on the Latino Vote
Latinos as a New Electorate
DeSipio, LouisLatinos, along with other new immigrants, are not being incorporated into U.S. politics as rapidly as their predecessors, raising concerns about political fragmentation along...
Lincoln's Tragic Admiral
The Life of Samuel Francis Du Pont
Weddle, Kevin J.Once revered as one of the finest officers in the U.S. Navy, Rear Admiral Samuel Francis Du Pont is now, when remembered at all, criticized for resisting technological...
The Tyranny of Printers
Newspaper Politics in the Early American Republic
Pasley, Jeffrey L.Although frequently attacked for their partisanship and undue political influence, the American media of today are objective and relatively ineffectual compared to their...
Industrious in Their Stations
Young People at Work in Urban America, 1720-1810
Sundue, Sharon BraslawIndustrious in Their Stations is the first comparative study of child labor in eighteenth-century America. Focusing on Philadelphia, Boston, and Charleston, Sundue...
The Correspondence of John Cotton Jr.
McIntyre, Sheila, Travers, LenJohn Cotton Jr. (1639–1699) was the second son of one of the most famous clergymen of New England’s founding generation. At the age of twenty-two, already the pastor of the...
Entrepreneurs
The Boston Business Community, 1700–1850
Wright, Conrad Edick, Viens, Katheryn P.This volume broadens the scope of Boston business history by including essays on subjects such as 18th-century women shopkeepers and African American businessmen in the...
Judicial Independence in the Age of Democracy
Critical Perspectives from around the World
Russell, Peter H., O'Brien, David M.This collection of essays by leading scholars of constitutional law looks at a critical component of constitutional democracy--judicial independence--from an international...
Inventing American Modernism
Joseph Hudnut, Walter Gropius, and the Bauhaus Legacy at Harvard
Pearlman, JillFrom the late 1930s to the early 1950s, the Harvard Graduate School of Design played a crucial role in shaping a new modern architecture and the modern city. Architects,...
Jefferson and the Rights of Man
Malone, DumasDumas Malone’s classic six-volume biography Jefferson and His Time was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in history and became the standard work on Jefferson’s life. ...
The Papers of George Washington
Confederation Series, vol. 4April 1786-January 1787
Washington, George, Abbot, W. W., Twohig, DorothyVolume Four spans the critical period between April 1786 and January 1787. Washington spent all of this period at home at Mount Vernon, managing and improving his estate. Yet...
