Tom Anderson

Plastic Capitalism

Banks, Credit Cards, and the End of Financial Control

How bankers created the modern consumer credit economy and destroyed financial stability in the process American households are awash in expensive cre...

Ruin & Recovery

Michigan's Rise as a Conservation Leader

A history of Michigan's conservation efforts...

Southern White Ministers and the Civil Rights Movement

In 1963, the Sunday after four black girls were killed by a bomb in a Birmingham church, George William Floyd, a Church of Christ minister, preached a...

The 1995 Genealogy Annual

A Bibliography of Published Sources

The Genealogy Annual is a comprehensive bibliography of the year's genealogies, handbooks, and source materials. It is divided into three main section...

The 1996 Genealogy Annual

A Bibliography of Published Sources

The Genealogy Annual is a comprehensive bibliography of the year's genealogies, handbooks, and source materials. It is divided into three main section...

Managing Environmental Change

A Legal and Behavioral Perspective

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The Salvador Option

The United States in El Salvador, 1977–1992

El Salvador's civil war between the Salvadoran government and Marxist guerrillas erupted into full force in early 1981 and endured for eleven bloody y...

Film Criticism in the Digital Age

Over the past decade, as digital media has expanded and print outlets have declined, pundits have bemoaned a “crisis of criticism” and mourned the...

Books in Print Supplement

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Crazy Horse

A Lakota Life

Crazy Horse was as much feared by tribal foes as he was honored by allies. His war record was unmatched by any of his peers, and his rout of Custer at...

The Seventh Star of the Confederacy

Texas During the Civil War

On February 1, 1861, delegates at the Texas Secession Convention elected to leave the Union. The people of Texas supported the actions of the conventi...

A Conspiracy So Immense

The World of Joe McCarthy

Few politicians in our history have had the emotional impact of Joe McCarthy and acclaimed historian David Oshinsky’s chronicling of his life has be...

Remembering Emmett Till

Take a drive through the Mississippi Delta today and you’ll find a landscape dotted with memorials to major figures and events from the civil rights...

The Quakers in America

The Quakers in America is a multifaceted history of the Religious Society of Friends and a fascinating study of its culture and controversies today. L...

Torreya

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By Water Beneath the Walls

The Rise of the Navy SEALs

A gripping history chronicling the fits and starts of American special operations and the ultimate rise of the Navy SEALs from unarmed frogmen to elit...

Missouri Historical Review

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Big Government and Affirmative Action

The Scandalous History of the Small Business Administration

David Stockman, Ronald Reagan's budget director, proclaimed the Small Business Administration a "billion-dollar waste—a rathole," and set out to abo...

Lincoln's Veteran Volunteers Win the War

The Hudson Valley's Ross Brothers and the Union's Fight for Emancipation

Chronicles the Civil War experiences of four brothers from New York’s Hudson Valley....

Labor Under Fire

A History of the AFL-CIO since 1979

From the Reagan years to the present, the labor movement has faced a profoundly hostile climate. As America's largest labor federation, the AFL-CIO wa...

The Ballad of Roy Benavidez

The Life and Times of America's Most Famous Hispanic War Hero

The dramatic life of Vietnam War hero Roy Benavidez, revealing how Hispanic Americans have long shaped US history, from "a major new voice [with] lyri...

Alaska

A History

The largest by far of the fifty states, Alaska is also the state of greatest mystery and diversity. And, as Claus-M. Naske and Herman E. Slotnick show...

The American Census Handbook

Offers a guide to census indexes, including federal, state, county, and town records, available in print and online; arranged by year, geographically,...

Rebellion in Black and White

Southern Student Activism in the 1960s

SynnottJeffrey A. TurnerErica WhittingtonJoy Ann Williamson-Lott...

The Black Officer Corps

A History of Black Military Advancement from Integration through Vietnam

The U.S. Armed Forces started integrating its services in 1948, and with that push, more African Americans started rising through the ranks to become ...

In Struggle Against Jim Crow

Lulu B. White and the NAACP, 1900-1957

"Most accounts of the civil rights movement focus on male leaders and the organizations they led, leaving a dearth of information about the countless ...

With Their Own Blood

A Saga of Southwestern Pioneers

His wife dead, Elisa Green Pennington gathered up his brood of twelve young children in 1857 and left Texas for California, the promised land. The Pen...

Thelonious Monk

The Life and Times of an American Original

The first full biography of Thelonious Monk, written by a brilliant historian, with full access to the family's archives and with dozens of interviews...

Flying with the Fifteenth Air Force

A B-24 Pilot's Missions from Italy during World War II

In 1944 and 1945, Tom Faulkner was a B-24 pilot flying out of San Giovanni airfield in Italy as a member of the 15th Air Force of the U.S. Army Air Fo...

One Homogeneous People

Narratives of White Southern Identity, 1890–1920

Southerners have a reputation as storytellers, as a people fond of telling about family, community, and the southern way of life. A compelling book ab...

Catalog of Copyright Entries

Third series

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Innovation and the Development of Flight

Perhaps no technological development in the century has more fundamentally transformed human life than the airplane and its support apparatus. The nat...

Ghosts and Shadows of Andersonville

Essays on the Secret Social Histories of America's Deadliest Prison

"The name Andersonville has come to be synonymous with "American death camp." Its horrors have been portrayed in histories, art, television, and movie...

Integrative Medicine - E-Book

Stay on the cutting edge of today’s most promising trends in complementary and alternative medical treatments with Dr. David Rakel’s Integrative M...

River of Hope

Black Politics and the Memphis Freedom Movement, 1865–1954

One of the largest southern cities and a hub for the cotton industry, Memphis, Tennessee, was at the forefront of black political empowerment during t...

The 1997 Genealogy Annual

A Bibliography of Published Sources

The Genealogy Annual is a comprehensive bibliography of the year's genealogies, handbooks, and source materials. It is divided into three main section...

Union Power

The United Electrical Workers in Erie, Pennsylvania

An empowering history told from below, showing that the collective efforts of the many can challenge the supremacy of the few. Erie's two UE locals co...

A Peculiar Imbalance

The Fall and Rise of Racial Equality in Early Minnesota

Unearths previously untold stories of African Americans in early Minnesota....

Ubuntu

George M. Houser and the Struggle for Peace and Freedom on Two Continents

This remarkable biography features a white American pacifist minister whose tireless work for justice and human rights helped reshape Black civil righ...

Confederate Odyssey

The George W. Wray Jr. Civil War Collection at the Atlanta History Center

Throughout his life, Atlanta resident George W. Wray Jr. (1936–2004) built a collection of more than six hundred of the rarest Confederate artifacts...