General History

At the outset, Los Arabes (Arabic-speaking individuals) were peddlers, carrying a variety of wares that often included exotic items from the Holy Land. These skilled cross-cultural traders expected to strike it rich in the United States and then return...

The Arab-Israeli conflict has unsettled the Middle East for over half a century. This conflict is primarily political, a clash between states and peoples over territory and history. But it is also a conflict that has affected and been affected by...

The battle of Isandlwana was the single most destructive incident in the 150-year history of the British colonization of South Africa. In one bloody daymore than800 British troops, 500 of their allies, and at least 2,000 Zulus were killed in a staggering...

Florida native Zora Neale Hurston's early twentieth-century ethnographic research and writing emphasizes the essentials of food in Florida through simple dishes and recipes.It considers foods prepared for everyday meals as well as spe

For fifteen tense and troubled years between the election of John F. Kennedy in 1960 and the resignation of Richard Nixon in 1974, the United States struggled to direct its domestic life and its role in a rapidly changing world. These fifteen years are...

At the close of the Civil War, Congress established the Freedmen's Bureau--formally, the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands--to deal with the question of the place in society of its new black citizens. General Oliver Otis Howard, known...

Clarifies the reasons why the first attempt to secure meaningful civil liberties occurred in the World War I era.

Tracing the complexity and contradictory nature of work throughout historySay the word "work," and most people think of some form of gainful employment. Yet this limited definition has never corresponded to the historical experience of most...

This book is a tour de force. -- Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of Give and Take A revolutionary new history of humankind through the prism of work by leading anthropologist James Suzman Work defines who we are. It determines our status,...

Over the past quarter-century, Robert William Fogel has blazed new trails in scholarship on the lives of the slaves in the American South. Now he presents the dramatic rise and fall of the peculiar institution, as the abolitionist movement rose into a...

Amid the social turmoil of the 1960s and '70s, Flores Forbes was drawn to the Black Panther Party's mission of organizing resistance to police brutality. Eagerly joining the revolution, he soon found himself immersed in a culture of Mao-inspired rigor -...

"Lively and delightful...zooms in on the faces in the crowd to help us understand both the depth and the diversity of the women's suffrage movement. Some women went to jail. Others climbed mountains. Visual artists, dancers, and journalists all played a...