Traces the route, history, and geography of US 20, America’s longest road.

Documents how energy resource acquisition has been the driving motivator for European and American international relations.

The first comprehensive history of principals in the United States.

Documents the rich history of Italian American working women in Connecticut, including the crucial role they played in union organizing.

Explores how indigenous nationhood has emerged and been maintained in the face of aggressive efforts to assimilate Native peoples.

Essays on the civil rights movement outside the South and since the 1960s.

A groundbreaking study of ten difficult years in the life of America's most important newspaper.

Engaging and accessible account of the war that helped forge the American nation.

An American success story about the life of William Almon Wheeler, a poor boy from northern New York who became the nineteenth vice president of the United States.

Uses previously unstudied Coast Guard records for New York City and environs to examine the development of Rum Row and smuggling in New York City during Prohibition.

Offers nearly forty years of interdisciplinary scholarship on the Hudson River Valley’s role in the American Revolution.

Reveals how African Americans used cable television as a means of empowerment.

Combining aesthetic and political history, explores the influence of Chinese people and objects on American visual culture.

Explores the influence of Dutch law and jurisprudence in colonial America.

Explores how Southampton College went from “the jewel in the university crown” to an “albatross around the university neck. ”

A folksy look at farm life in rugged Putnam Valley just as it was being transformed by industrialization and mechanization.

Reveals how state felony disenfranchisement laws are undermining American democracy.

Reexamines the writings of early indigenous authors in the northeastern United States.

The definitive history of the Tuscaroras and their return to western New York.

An inspiring narrative of a young Civil War soldier, as told though his letters from the battlefield.

Collection of letters written to the first openly gay magazine in the United States.

A haunting record of the destruction and rebirth of the neighborhood surrounding Ground Zero.

The life of a prominent Dutch-American patriot.

Comprehensive treatment of the challenges faced by America’s public research universities, and of what those challenges may mean for the nation.

Provocative essays on the distinct history and culture of Buffalo and the Canadian border region.