Examines both the legal and illegal uses of the death penalty in American history.

Examines Carnegie’s book Triumphant Democracy and his efforts to promote closer ties between America and Britain.

Overview of cast iron hitching posts designed and manufactured in the nineteenth century.

Grondahl’s classic biography of Albany’s “mayor for life,” now available in paperback.

Draws attention to how American presidents have creatively interpreted the Constitution to expand the power of the executive branch.

Explores moral progress in the American military.

Chronicles the evolution of the armory as a specific building type in American architectural and military history, and the role these buildings played in the history of America’s volunteer militia.

A comprehensive account of JFK’s and LBJ’s leadership of the Democratic Party in the 1960s.

Essays exploring rural New York during the American Revolution.

Details the reactions of men and women serving aboard a hospital transport ship during the American Civil War.

The history of FDR's Office of Government Reports.

Examines the politics behind the funding of NASA.

Examines how public opinion has influenced health care policy.

Interdisciplinary essays on the White House and the lives of first families.

Explores how a pivotal event in U.S. history—the killing of nearly 300 Shoshoni men, women, and children in 1863—has been contested, forgotten, and remembered.

Comprehensive study of two towns on either side of the U. S.-Canadian border.

Paints a detailed picture of everyday life in an early American community.

Presents the life of Captain John S. Kidder during the Civil War, as told through letters to his wife, Harriet, at home in rural New York.

The first sustained examination of the process by which justices elect to leave the United States Supreme Court.

Explores how the agrarian setting of Jefferson County, New York, influenced the revival methods of Charles Grandison Finney, with implications for the study of revivalism more generally.

Explores modern African-American Islamic thought within the context of Islamic history, giving special attention to questions of universality versus particularity.

Argues that the political party remains an institution whose primary purpose is to allow elites to coordinate their activities in the political area.

Presents an original and provocative argument about poverty policy in the United States.

This intriguing investigation of an historically embedded cultural struggle over the possession of America's "collective memory" has significant implications for how we interpret cultural conflict in past, present, and future America.

Milton Cummings, Everett Ladd, David Mayhew, Gerald Pomper, and Harvey Schantz analyze presidential elections over the sweep of American history and examine their impact on political parties, public policy, and society.

This book is an account of the political economy of labor relations in the U. S. automobile industry from the end of World War II to the 1970s. Zetka develops a sophisticated paradigm of hegemonic and ...

This book addresses one of the most important theories to arise in recent American literary scholarship. Developed over the past two decades, Sacvan Bercovitch's ideas about the relationship of American ...

This book examines American public culture and the means by which communities in the U.S. reconstruct the past and reinterpret the present in the development of tourism. Norkunas shows how public culture ...

Much has been written about the housing policies of the Depression and the Postwar period. Much less has been written of the houses built as a result of these policies, or the lives of the families who ...

Examines the works of seven Adirondack writers.

Using one of the largest quantitative data bases ever compiled on a single representative community, Stern explains and substantiates the reasons for the decline of the fertility rate during the nineteenth ...

This work introduces readers to the basics of demographic history, touching on issues of interest to anyone concerned with understanding how we have come to live as we do and what the future may bring. ...

What forces transformed a community in which industrial workers and other citizens exercised a real measure of power over their lives into a metropolis whose inhabitants were utterly dependent on Big ...

Few of the men and women who came to California after the discovery of gold had the opportunity or the inclination to record their thoughts about family life. Their family experience, like that of most nineteenth-century Americans, is obscured by time and an absence of sources.

Lynn, Massachusetts, once the leading shoe manufacturing city of the United States, was in many ways a model of the industrial city that much of America was to become. This study of the early industrial ...

In 1903, Henry Ford founded the Ford Motor Company in a small Detroit workshop. Five years later, he introduced the Model T and met with extraordinary commercial success. Between 1910 and 1914, he developed ...