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The Oxford Companion to United States History illuminates America's political, diplomatic, and military history, and also social, cultural, and intellectual trends; science, technology, and medicine; the arts; and religion.
Author Hämäläinen contends that the very notion of "colonial America" is misleading, and that we should speak instead of an "Indigenous America" that was only slowly and unevenly becoming colonial.
Contains primary source documents with critical analysis. Articles include historical context, description of the author's life and circumstances, and a document analysis. Native American and African slave narratives are included.
Addresses all the great issues of the American Civil War.
The pioneering work in the study of the role of Black Americans during Reconstruction by the most influential Black intellectual of his time.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 925-928) and indexes.
Martin Luther King's classic exploration of the events and forces behind the Civil Rights Movement--including his Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963.
Historian David F. Schmitz analyzes what is arguably the most important event in the history of the Vietnam conflict, the Tet Offensive.
Overview of the nineties and pop culture, including music, film, sports, TV, politics, and the changes regarding race, class, and sexuality.