In Rebecca Lang's Pimento Cheese, the storied food writer and ninth-generation Southerner gives readers a taste of the famed spread's history and versatility. The... Læs mere
Deserter Declarations explores nearly two hundred letters from Confederate deserters to Governor Zebulon B. Vance from 1861 to 1865.
In the first half of the twentieth century, the United States attempted to build a colony in the Philippines in its own image—one fraught with racist notions of what it means to be civilized, developed, and worthy of self-rule.
In American Bacon, Mark A. Johnson asks (and answers) a seemingly simple question: How has bacon overcome centuries of religious prohibition, cultural contempt, and dietary advice to become a twenty-first-century culinary and cultural powerhouse?
Mercy in Disaster is the compilation of Abby Hopper Gibbons’s wartime letters and journals, which are a vivid window on the emerging role of women, medical care, the struggle for freedom by African Americans, and Gibbons’s fascinating place in it all.
Unlike many water management projects that wanted to tame rivers, Cincinnati elites sought to build a sustained... Læs mere
Their conversation shows that U.S. history is not just about what happened but who gets to tell the story and the political implications... Læs mere
Throughout the eastern United States, hundreds of colleges and universities own acres of forested lands.
In Pursuit of Freedom is a pioneering study of advertisements for fugitive slaves published in the early American South.
In Palms, Priest, Pirates: The Epic History of Amelia Island, Florida, Stephen Doster offers the first comprehensive examination of the rich and captivating history of this unique barrier island off the northeast coast of Florida.
In Finding Sarah and Mary, Jacqueline Jones Royster combines memoir, family lore, DNA data, local history, and national history to create an ancestral history narrative.
Teresa Benguela and Felipa Crioula Were Pregnant examines the experiences of motherhood for enslaved African women and their descendants who navigated the realities of reproduction in nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro.