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Black Confederates and Afro-Yankees in Civil War Virginia
Jordan, Ervin L., Jr.On the eve of the Civil War, more Afircan-Americans lived in Virginia than in any other state- 490,000 slaves and 59,000 free blacks- and they were active participants in the...
The Selected Papers of John Jay
1780–1782
Jay, John, Nuxoll, Elizabeth M.The second volume of The Selected Papers of John Jay opens in January 1780 with Jay’s arrival in Spain on his first diplomatic mission abroad. It ends in June 1782 with...
Immigration
Struggling over Borders
Milkis, Sidney M., Leblang, DavidIn an increasingly polarized political environment, the first year of the new president’s term will be especially challenging. With a fresh mandate, however, the first year...
The Papers of Francis Bernard
Governor of Colonial Massachusetts, 1760–1769
Bernard, Francis, Nicolson, ColinThe second volume of The Papers of Francis Bernard records the reaction of the royal governor of colonial Massachusetts to the tumultuous events surrounding the passage...
Re-Imagining Ireland
How a storied island is transforming its politics, economics, religious life, and culture for the 21st century
Wyndham, Andrew HigginsOver the past decade the historically strife-ridden and impoverished nation of Ireland has emerged as one of the economic and social miracles of Europe. A booming software-...
Elusive Equality
Desegregation and Resegregation in Norfolk's Public Schools
Littlejohn, Jeffrey L., Ford, Charles H.In Elusive Equality, Jeffrey L. Littlejohn and Charles H. Ford place Norfolk, Virginia, at the center of the South's school desegregation debates, tracing the crucial...
Hot Potato
How Washington and New York Gave Birth to Black Basketball and Changed America's Game Forever
Kuska, Bob"The players today are much better than we were.... But there is one thing that we could do better. We could pass the ball better than they can now. Man, we used to pass that...
America on the Eve of the Civil War
Ayers, Edward L., Martin, Carolyn R."This remarkable publication provides a captivating and brilliantly executed series of conversations among seventeen most impressive historians. These participants in a daylong...
The Three Ages of the Italian Renaissance
Lopez, Robert S.Mr. Lopez reinterprets the civilization of the High Renaissance in Italy as a dramatic succession of three ages: Youth, 1454-1494; Maturity, 1494-1527; Decline, 1527-1559. In...
Opportunity Time
Holton, LinwoodWhen newly elected Virginia governor Linwood Holton escorted his children into an integrated Richmond public school in 1970, he delivered the coup-de-grace to the Byrd machine...
Guidebooks to Sin
The Blue Books of Storyville, New Orleans
Arceneaux, Pamela D.[Book description not available]
Citizens of Convenience
The Imperial Origins of American Nationhood on the U.S.-Canadian Border
Hatter, Lawrence B. A.Like merchant ships flying flags of convenience to navigate foreign waters, traders in the northern borderlands of the early American republic exploited loopholes in the Jay...
A Passion for the Past
The Odyssey of a Transatlantic Archaeologist
Noël Hume, IvorIvor Noël Hume has devoted his life to uncovering countless lives that came before him. In A Passion for the Past the world-renowned archaeologist turns to his own life...
Newest Born of Nations
European Nationalist Movements and the Making of the Confederacy
Tucker, Ann L.From the earliest stirrings of southern nationalism to the defeat of the Confederacy, analysis of European nationalist movements played a critical role in how southerners...
Showdown in Virginia
The 1861 Convention and the Fate of the Union
Freehling, William W., Simpson, Craig M.In the spring of 1861, Virginians confronted destiny—their own and their nation’s. Pivotal decisions awaited about secession, the consequences of which would unfold for a...
Chasing Shadows
The Nixon Tapes, the Chennault Affair, and the Origins of Watergate
Hughes, KenThe break-in at Watergate and the cover-up that followed brought about the resignation of Richard Nixon, creating a political shockwave that reverberates to this day. But as...
The Presidency
Facing Constitutional Crossroads
Following the election of Donald Trump, the office of the U.S. president has come under scrutiny like never before. Featuring penetrating insights from high-profile...
Making the World Over
Confronting Racism, Misogyny, and Xenophobia in U.S. History
Griffith, R. MariePolitical polarization and unrest are not exclusive to our era, but in the twenty-first century, we are living with seemingly unresolvable disagreements that threaten to tear...
The Correspondence of Thomas Hutchinson
January-October, 1770
Hutchinson, Thomas, Tyler, John W., Hogan, Margaret A.The Boston Massacre occasioned a flurry of letter writing for Thomas Hutchinson, the royal governor of Massachusetts. So frequent was the correspondence to and from Hutchinson...
The Diaries of George Washington
January 1790-December 1799
Washington, GeorgeWashington was rarely isolated from the world during his eventful life. His diary for 1751-52 relates a voyage to Barbados when he was nineteen. The next two accounts concern...
Tigers in Africa
Stalking the Past at the Cape of Good Hope
Schrire, CarmelA characteristically unconventional and engaging work, Carmel Schrire’s Tigers in Africa: Stalking the Past at the Cape of Good Hope interweaves such diverse themes as colonial...
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...
Earnestly Contending
Religious Freedom and Pluralism in Antebellum America
Bruce, Dickson D., Jr.In Earnestly Contending, Dickson Bruce examines the ways in which religious denominations and movements in antebellum America coped with the ideals of freedom and...