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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…
Understanding the imaginary war
Benjamin Ziemann offers a fresh interpretation of the Cold War as an imaginary war, a conflict that had…
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…
A Nation Among Nations: America’s Place in World History
Thomas Bender, NYU.
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…
The history of American school reform
The history of American school reform helps us see what has made reform so ineffective. Reformers have continually…
The Ideological Origins of the Dirty War
Federico Finchelstein, The New School for Social Research, New York The Ideological Origins of the Dirty War
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…
Bush’s Wars
Terry Anderson, a Vietnam veteran, locates both wars in a deep historical context. Terry Anderson is Professor of…
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…