History of the Americas Books

Works of Art Belonging to the City of New York: Tentative List for the Borough of Manhattan offers a fascinating glimpse into the artistic treasures owned by New York City at the beginning of the 20th century. Compiled by the Art Commission of the City...

"Prison Discipline in America" (1848) offers a detailed look at the state of incarceration and penal reform in the United States during the mid-19th century. Authored by Francis Calley Gray, the work examines various models of prison management,...

Explore the rich history of American chess with "American Chess Magazine, Volume 1." This periodical offers a glimpse into the world of chess at the close of the 19th century, showcasing games, strategies, and insights from the era. A valuable resource...

"Transactions of the Canadian Institute, Volume 7" presents a detailed compilation of scientific and historical research conducted by the Canadian Institute. This volume offers insights into the scientific landscape of the era, documenting key findings...

Delve into the rich religious tapestry of early America with "History of the Episcopal Church, in Naragansett, Rhode-Island." This meticulously researched volume, originally published in 1847, offers a comprehensive account of the Episcopal Church's...

Chronologie Historique De L'amerique, Volume 7, by David Bailie Warden, presents a detailed historical chronology of the Americas. Written in French, this volume offers a rich account of significant events, figures, and developments across North and...

"America and the West Indies: Geographically Described" offers a detailed exploration of the geographical landscape and historical context of the Americas and the West Indies as observed in the 19th century. Written by George Richardson Porter, George...

Le Père Hecker, Fondateur Des "Paulistes" Américains, 1819-1888 explore la vie et l'œuvre du Père Isaac Thomas Hecker, fondateur de la congrégation des Paulistes aux États-Unis. Cette biographie, rédigée...

In "A Battling Life, Chiefly in the Civil Service," Thomas Baker recounts his experiences and observations during a pivotal era in American history. This autobiography offers a unique perspective on the inner workings of the Civil Service and the...

Memoirs of the American Folk-Lore Society, Volume 1 presents a fascinating collection of early folklore studies. This volume, published in 1894, captures the diverse range of interests of the American Folk-Lore Society during its formative years...

Explores twentieth-century Mexican counterculture through the lens of pleasure, body autonomy, and music and film undergrounds.Consuming Citizens offers a fresh conception of twentieth-century Mexican cultural production by critically tracing the...

The first study to document how the Civil War brought about a bitter cultural and political conflict between Great Britain and the United States, a conflict that ignited a global struggle for racial equality and human rights.This study tells for the...

Explores the line between free speech protected by the First Amendment and unprotected incitement to imminent lawless action.Free Speech and Incitement in the Twenty-First Century explores the line between free speech and incitement, which is a form of...

America's geographic and ideological frontier as lived by Buffalo's first physician, renegade militia officer, and founding citizen.Cyrenius Chapin tells the story of life in the young American republic through the experiences of a local physician, land...

Examines contemporary animation in Mexico-one of the most commercially successful and most understudied genres of the national cinema.Answering a call to view Mexican film through the lens of commercial cinema, Animation in Mexico, 2006 to 2022 is the...

The most comprehensive history of transgender medicine to date, as told by more than forty scholars, physicians, psychologists, and activists from trans, gender-diverse, and allied medical communities.Arriving at a critical moment in the struggle for...

A clear, critical, accessible, and ultimately hopeful discovery voyage through the seas of Du Bois's language and ideas.Offering a vision both hopeful and thoughtful, Reading Du Bois is an Afrocentric reexamination of the work of one of the most...

This collection of readings attests to the unique relationship the indigenous Snake River-Palouse and Umatilla peoples have long had with their traditional homelands in the Inland Pacific Northwest. These accounts by tribal elders and consultants reflect...

Public exasperation with Congress, the Presidency, and the Supreme Court has intensified, attributable in large part to the application of an 18th Century Constitution to a 21st Century society. The time has come to trade the United States...

Today, more than 50 million people living in the USA were born in another country. That is more people than the entire population of Canada, and all of them have faced or will face challenges as they adapt to their new home.Many will be nervous and...

Constance McMurray's family was one of the few that didn't join in the infamous "white flight" from Detroit - leading to a shift of the neighborhood before her eyes. Discover Constance's memoir of mourning losses and moving friendships.Detroit, 1967: The...

Lawmen and Lawlessness is a dramatic, narrative, account of the sheriff s of Berkeley County, South Carolina from 1882 to 1970. The first-person accounts of manhunts, shoot-outs, ruckus trials and ghastly public executions put the reader in the middle of...

Reimagining the California Missions is former Franciscan friar Mark Day's concise and fascinating memoir-history about his painful realization that the conventional settler-colonial depiction of California's mission era that he and other young...

In a bittersweet blend of science and yarn, Carter Niemeyer takes us back to 1996 on a heart-pounding, eye-witness adventure to add ten more wolves - the Sawtooth pups - to Yellowstone's newly reintroduced wolf packs. So much could go wrong. So much did...

Fourth in the Tales of the Old Wild West series by prolific western author Doyle Trent.In the tradition of the John Wayne classic western films and legendary television series of Gunsmoke and Bonanza.The Wild West. If the elements, rattlers, coyotes, and...

Sixth in the Tales of the Old Wild West series by prolific western author Doyle Trent.In the tradition of the John Wayne classic western films and legendary television series of Gunsmoke and Bonanza.The Wild West. If the elements, rattlers, coyotes, and...

Fifth in the Tales of the Old Wild West series by prolific western author Doyle Trent.In the tradition of the John Wayne classic western films and legendary television series of Gunsmoke and Bonanza.The Wild West. If the elements, rattlers, coyotes, and...

Eighth in the Tales of the Old Wild West series by prolific western author Doyle Trent.In the tradition of the John Wayne classic western films and legendary television series of Gunsmoke and Bonanza.The Wild West. If the elements, rattlers, coyotes, and...

Seventh in the Tales of the Old Wild West series by prolific western author Doyle Trent.In the tradition of the John Wayne classic western films and legendary television series of Gunsmoke and Bonanza.The Wild West. If the elements, rattlers, coyotes,...

This is the story of the oldest warship afloat in the world, the venerable frigate USS Constitution, the cornerstone of the nascent American navy created by act of Congress in 1794. To set the stage for the dominance of this remarkable vessel, military...

How much of what we know about the history of the Old West is true? In this new book, author Michael Rutter looks at the legend and lore behind such notorious figures as Billy the Kid and Calamity Jane and the stories of famous gun fights and battles,...

This classic is now reissued as an authorized Second Edition with more historic photos, full-color images, diagrams, and reflections from the author in a "Forty Years Later" section. Since first published by Seattle's Center for Wooden Boats in 1991,...