Craft: An American History
A groundbreaking and endlessly surprising history of how artisans created America, from the nation’s origins to the present day.At the center of the United States’ … Read more
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The Chinese Lady: Afong Moy in Early America
In 1834, a young Chinese woman named Afong Moy arrived in America, her bound feet stepping ashore in New York City. She was both a … Read more
Enduring Freedom, Enduring Voices: US Operations in Afghanistan
“Michael Walling has honored the American men and women who served in Operation Enduring Freedom by helping them tell their own stories. This is the … Read more
Hardhats, Hippies, and Hawks: The Vietnam Antiwar Movement as Myth and Memory
In the popular imagination, opposition to the Vietnam War was driven largely by college students and elite intellectuals, while supposedly reactionary blue-collar workers largely supported … Read more
The Crooked Path to Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution
None The long and turning path to the abolition of American slavery has often been attributed to the equivocations and inconsistencies of antislavery leaders, including … Read more
The Colfax Massacre: The Untold Story of Black Power, White Terror, and the Death of Reconstruction
On Easter Sunday, 1873, in the tiny hamlet of Colfax, Louisiana, more than 150 members of an all-black Republican militia, defending the town’s courthouse, were … Read more
Reading and Disorder in Antebellum America
Historians of workingmen in the antebellum United States have long been preoccupied with labor politics and with the racism, nativism, and misogyny of their public … Read more
Alaska: An American Colony
Alaska has not evolved in a vacuum. It has been part of larger stories: the movement of Native peoples and their contact and accommodation to … Read more
Japan in Transition : From Tokugawa to Meiji
None In this book social scientists scrutinize the middle decades of the nineteenth century in Japan. That scrutiny is important and overdue, for the period … Read more
Gamer Nation: Video Games and American Culture
In 1975, design engineer Dave Nutting completed work on a new arcade machine. A version of Taito’s Western Gun, a recent Japanese arcade machine, Nutting’s … Read more