Concise history of the valiant service of New York’s African American soldiers.

A history of the reconstruction of Fort Stanwix, New York, by the National Park Service.

A compelling social history of a vibrant immigrant community, told through interviews and photographs.

The paradoxes of the American decadent movement in the 1890s and 1920s.

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.

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.