In 1964, Robert Penn Warren interviewed leaders, activists, and artists engaged in the U.S. Civil...

This is the first study to examine throughly the role of US, Soviet and Cuban Intelligence in the...

Tackling head-on the most controversial and debated 'what if' in U.S. foreign policy,...

While the British were able to accomplish abolition in the trans-Atlantic world by the end of the...

In 1850 seven South Carolina slaves were photographed at the request of the famous naturalist Lou...

This is the first study to examine throughly the role of US, Soviet and Cuban Intelligence in the...

No historical event has left as deep an imprint on America's collective memory as the Civil War. ...

As the major gateway into British North America for travelers on the Underground Railroad, the U....

The earliest known prison memoir by an African American writer—recently discovered and auth...

Winner of the Bancroft PrizeWinner of the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln PrizeWinner of the Merle Curti a...

An 1797 publication of Enlightenment era thought, read by virtually every American schoolboy in t...

This collection of eleven original essays interrogates the concept of freedom and recenters our u...