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History of North America and the United States
Re-creation, Fragmentation, and Resilience
Re-Creation, Fragmentation, and Resilience tells the story of post Second World War Canada by exploring ten themes key…
University of Toronto
Understanding the imaginary war
Benjamin Ziemann offers a fresh interpretation of the Cold War as an imaginary war, a conflict that had…
University of Sheffield
Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America
Richard White is a Pulitzer-Prize nominated historian and Margaret Byrne Professor of American History at Stanford University, a…
Stanford University
Murder and the Death Penalty in Massachusetts
For more than 300 years Massachusetts executed men and women convicted of murder, but with a sharp eye…
Boston College
The history of American school reform
The history of American school reform helps us see what has made reform so ineffective. Reformers have continually…
Stanford University
The Ideological Origins of the Dirty War
Federico Finchelstein, The New School for Social Research, New York The Ideological Origins of the Dirty War
The New School for Social Research
A short history of the American revolutionary war
The American war against British imperial rule (1775-1783) was the world s first great popular revolution. Ideologically defined…
University College London
Bush’s Wars
Terry Anderson, a Vietnam veteran, locates both wars in a deep historical context. Terry Anderson is Professor of…
Texas A&M University
Old World, New World: The Story of Britain and America
Kathleen Burk sets out to tell the story of Britain and America across four hundred years, from colonisation…
University College London