Topical Courses

Unscripted America: Indigenous Languages and the Origins of a Literary Nation

Sarah Rivett

9780190492564
Hardcover
November 2017

Global America: The United States in the Twentieth Century

Robert C. McGreevey, Christopher T. Fisher, and Alan Dawley

9780190279905
Paperback
October 2017

Tells the story of how Americans were swept up in the swift-moving currents of twentieth-century world history

Everyman in Vietnam: A Soldier's Journey into the Quagmire

Michael Adas and Joseph J. Gilch

9780190455873
Paperback
June 2017

Provides a gripping and multi-dimensional way to understand the nature and enduring significance of the Vietnam conflict based on an exceptional collection of letters written by an American soldier during his tour of duty

American Legal History: Cases and Materials

Fifth Edition

Kermit L. Hall, Paul Finkelman, and James W. Ely

9780190253264
Paperback
April 2017

The most complete discussion of American constitutional history currently available

A Social History of American Technology

Second Edition

Ruth Schwartz Cowan and Matthew H. Hersch

9780195387261
Paperback
March 2017

The number one survey of American technology, from the tools used by the earliest native inhabitants to today's technological systems

Gone to Texas: A History of the Lone Star State

Third Edition

Randolph B. Campbell

9780190642396
Paperback
March 2017

An engaging account of the Lone Star State from the arrival of humans in the Panhandle to the opening of the twenty-first century

Original Intents: Hamilton, Jefferson, Madison, and the American Founding

Andrew Shankman

9780199370139
Paperback
March 2017

Explains the political, economic, and constitutional ideas of Hamilton, Jefferson, and Madison as their thinking developed from the American Revolution through the early 1790s

Crucible of Struggle: A History of Mexican Americans from Colonial Times to the Present Era

Second Edition

Zaragosa Vargas

9780190200787
Paperback
November 2016

The only narrative history of Mexican Americans from 1600 to the present--written by a leading scholar in the field

Doom Towns: The People and Landscapes of Atomic Testing, A Graphic History

Andrew G. Kirk and Kristian Purcell

9780199375905
Paperback
September 2016

Graphic History Series

Exploring the history of global atmospheric nuclear testing through graphic history, oral history, and rare archival materials

Religion and the American Constitutional Experiment

Fourth Edition

John Witte, Jr. and Joel A. Nichols

9780190459420
Paperback
April 2016

A comprehensive, interdisciplinary overview of the history, theology, and law of American religious liberty, updated through the Supreme Court's 2015 term

Southern Crucible: The Making of an American Region, Combined Volume

William A. Link

9780199763603
Paperback
November 2015

Offers a balanced and comprehensive examination of the American South, emphasizing the role of racial hierarchy in shaping the region's history

Southern Crucible: The Making of an American Region, Volume I: To 1877

William A. Link

9780199763627
Paperback
November 2015

Offers a balanced and comprehensive examination of the American South, emphasizing the role of racial hierarchy in shaping the region's history

Southern Crucible: The Making of an American Region, Volume II: Since 1877

William A. Link

9780199763634
Paperback
November 2015

Offers a balanced and comprehensive examination of the American South, emphasizing the role of racial hierarchy in shaping the region's history

The American Intellectual Tradition: Volume I: 1630 to 1865

Seventh Edition

David A. Hollinger and Charles Capper

9780190262327
Paperback
November 2015

Traces the evolution of American intellectual writing and thinking from its origins in Puritan beliefs to the most recent essays on diversity and postmodernity

The American Intellectual Tradition: Volume II: 1865 to the Present

Seventh Edition

David A. Hollinger and Charles Capper

9780190262334
Paperback
November 2015

Traces the evolution of American intellectual writing and thinking from its origins in Puritan beliefs to the most recent essays on diversity and postmodernity

Peacemakers: The Iroquois, the United States, and the Treaty of Canandaigua, 1794

Michael Leroy Oberg

9780199913800
Paperback
July 2015

The Critical Historical Encounters series focuses on major critical encounters in the American experience

Women's Rights in the United States: A History in Documents

Anne M. Boylan

9780195338294
Paperback
July 2015

The first history of women's rights to cover the topic from the earliest days of European colonization through the beginning of the 21st century

The United States and China: Into the Twenty-First Century

Fourth Edition

Michael Schaller

9780190200060
Paperback
July 2015

Examines more than a century of Chinese-American turmoil from a dual perspective

The Killing Zone: The United States Wages Cold War in Latin America

Second Edition

Stephen G. Rabe

9780190216252
Paperback
April 2015

A sweeping, no-holds-barred rebuke of U.S. Cold War triumphalism in Latin America

Liberty's Tears: Soviet Portraits of the "American Way of Life" During the Cold War

Alan Ball

9780195375312
Paperback
February 2015

A collection of Soviet articles, organized by topic, offering commentary on various aspects of American society, politics, economy, and foreign policy