In this provocative reinterpretation of one of the best-known events in American history, Woody H...

Drawing on letters, illustrations, engravings, and neglected manuscripts, Christopher Iannini con...

The Road to Mobocracy is the first major study of public disorder in New York City from the Revol...

Susanah Shaw Romney locates the foundations of the early modern Dutch empire in interpersonal tra...

Michael Meranze uses Philadelphia as a case study to analyze the relationship between penal refor...

In An Anxious Pursuit, Joyce Chaplin examines the impact of the Enlightenment ideas of progress o...

Hall has made the first detailed investigation of Polly Baker. It leads through the exciting worl...

This interpretative essay and extensive bibliography surveying the chronology and major character...

In mid-sixteenth-century England, people were born into authority and responsibility based on the...

Combining Atlantic and imperial perspectives, Caribbean New Orleans offers a lively portrait of t...

In colonial North Carolina, German-speaking settlers from the Moravian Church founded a religious...

On the eve of the American Revolution, nearly three-quarters of all African Americans in mainland...