\nThe American working class didn\'t disappear with the manufacturing economy. It transformed. Instead of unionized…

Paul and Marie Pireaud, a young peasant couple from southwest France, were newlyweds when World War I erupted. Drawing upon…

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\nGenerations of Russians have pursued wealth and power in the East, colonizing Pacific regions and spreading political…

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\nAttilio Teruzzi, Mussolini\'s commander of the Black Shirts, exemplified fascism\'s obsession with male strength. Through…

\nWritings on Body and Soul includes a selection of the theological, historical, and devotional works of Aelred, the…

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\nIn 1932 Sigmund Freud and diplomat William Bullitt completed a well-informed psychobiography of Woodrow Wilson, inspired…

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In 1806 thousands descended on Lenox, Massachusetts, for the hanging of Ephraim Wheeler, condemned for the rape of his…

In the first complete history of the War of 1812 written from a British perspective, Latimer offers an authoritative account…

Pentecostalism came to the South following the post-Civil War holiness revival, a northern-born crusade that emphasized…

A history of German resistance to Hitler in high places, this book offers a glimpse into one of the most intractable…

By examining the history of menopause over the course of the twentieth century, Houck shows how the experience and…

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Today, many believe the Civil War was fought over slavery. This view satisfies our contemporary sense of justice, but as…

In a lively study of the people who covered Congress in the 19th and early 20th centuries, Donald Ritchie profiles many…

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\nIn antebellum New Orleans, whites and Blacks died in droves from yellow fever. But the fortunes of survivors were less…

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\nProceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 39 includes the 2019 J. V. Kelleher lecture by Maire Ni Mhaonaigh which…

Since the Civil War whites and blacks have struggled over the meanings and uses of the Southern past. The Southern Past…

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In 1808 Napoleon invaded Spain and deposed the king. Overnight, Hispanics were forced to confront modernity and look beyond…

The Marine Corps has always considered itself a breed apart. Since 1775 America's smallest armed service has been suspicious…

Prohibition was aggressively promoted-and spectacularly unsuccessful-in New York City. In the first major work on the…

During World War II, Japan was vilified by America as our hated enemy. As the Cold War heated up, however, the U.S.…

These original essays explore the relationship between culture and the military in Chinese society from early China to the…

The Civil War thrust millions of men and women-rich and poor, soldiers and civilians, enslaved and free-onto the roads of…

How did slave-owning Southerners make sense of the transformation of their world in the Civil War era? Guterl shows that…

\nThe threat of cyberwar can feel very Hollywood: nuclear codes hacked, power plants melting down, cities burning. In…

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\nRandy Barnett and Evan Bernick return to the primary sources on the origin, drafting and adoption of the Fourteenth…

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\nOn the centennial of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party, Tony Saich offers the definitive history of the CCP\'s…

\nRenowned historian Anthony Grafton invites us to see the scholars of early modern Europe as laborers. Bookish but hardly…

The Histories of Sallust (86-35 BC), while fragmentary, provide invaluable information about a crucial period of history…

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In his history, Polybius (ca. 200-118 BC) is centrally concerned with how and why Roman power spread. The main part of the…

Euripides (ca. 485-406 BC) has been prized in every age for his emotional and intellectual drama. Eighteen of his ninety or…

The Iliad and the Odyssey of Homer (eighth century BC) are the two oldest European epic poems. The former tells of Achilles'…

Cato's second century BC De agricultura is our earliest complete Latin prose text, recommends farming for its security and…

Dio Cassius (Cassius Dio), c. 150 235 CE, was born in Bithynia. Little of his Roman History survives, but missing portions…

Dio Cassius (Cassius Dio), c. 150 235 CE, was born in Bithynia. Little of his Roman History survives, but missing portions…

Civil War provides a vigorous, direct, clear, third-personal, impassioned account of Caesar's campaigns during the civil war…