Mostly historians, but also a sociologist, mostly from the US, but also Ireland and Canada, approach US history as a moral enterprise: an undertaking to understand the circumstances that allow evil to
"New England was founded consciously, and in no fit of absence of mind," observed historian Samuel Eliot Morison on the establishment of the Bay Colony in 1630. Since then, Boston has been shaped and
For Johnny Cash, as for many famous artist, renown was the product of both hard work and luck. Often a visionary and always a tireless performer, he forged his career within a whirlwind of social, eco
The influenza epidemic of 1918 was one of the worst medical disasters in human history, taking close to thirty million lives worldwide in less than a year, including more than 500,000 in the United St
This distinctive collection introduces a new type of mythmaking, daring in its marriage of fairy tale tropes with American mundanities. Conspiratorial, Goodbye, Flicker describes the interior life of
The rapid expansion of the field of public history since the 1970s has led many to believe that it is a relatively new profession. In this book, Denise D. Meringolo shows that the roots of public hist
On February 2, 1848, representatives of the United States and Mexico signed the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo officially ending hostilities between the two countries and ceding over one-half million squ
This book tells the story of the Reverend Jacob Bailey, a missionary preacher for the Church of England in the frontier town of Pownalborough (now Dresden), Maine, who refused to renounce allegiance t
During much of the twentieth century, people labeled feeble-minded, mentally deficient, and mentally retarded were often confined in large, publicly funded, residential institutions located on the edg
Originally published in 1970, Raymond Mungos picaresque account of his adventures with Liberation News Service in the wild years of 1967 and 1968 has been variously described as youthful, passionate,
A native of Boston and a physician by training, Samuel G. Howe (1801–1876)led a remarkable life. He was a veteran of the Greek War of Independence,a fervent abolitionist, and the founder of both the P
Robert Kennedy's abbreviated run for the presidency in 1968 has assumed almost mythical proportions in American memory. His campaign has been romanticized because of its tragic end, but also because o
Parrish (English, Florida State U.) responds to criticisms of Ralph Ellison as a one-hit wonder and out of touch with the realities of black America in his time. He shows, instead, a revolutionary fig
Today well over two hundred museums focusing on African American history and culture can be found throughout the United States and Canada. Many of these institutions trace their roots to the 1960s and
As a result of a series of court cases, by the mid-1960s the U.S. post office could no longer interdict books that contained homosexuality. Gay writers were eager to take advantage of this new freedom
In 1955 the Supreme Court ruled that veterans of the U.S. armed forces could not be court-martialed for overseas crimes that were not detected until after they had left military service. Territorial l
