U.S. border agents stop Mexican immigrants crossing into United States, 1948 Neil Foley has written what I believe to be the first comprehensive history of Mexicans in U.S. history. It.
We are living in a renaissance of historical writing. There's always been a good market for popularly written histories, but that market consisted of books on presidents and wars written.
When teaching about postwar America, I always tell my students that just about anything that happened in this nation during the Cold War has its roots in Cold War politics.
Robert La Follette I tend to choose books for review here rather randomly, often picking something off the new book shelf at my university's library. So when I saw Michael.
Cheyenne women with mattresses they made, Federal Emergency Relief Administration project, 1940 I was a bit skeptical about reviewing Jason Scott Smith's new overview of the New Deal because it.
Ellen Spears' new environmental history of the chemical industry in Anniston, Alabama is a worthy addition to the literature on environmental justice. She tells the story of Anniston, a city.
Victor Paz Thomas Field's new book on the Alliance for Progress in Bolivia demonstrates just how comfortable America's Cold War foreign policy establishment was with dictatorship as its preferred method.
Eric Thomas Chester’s new book on the rise and fall of the Industrial Workers of the World before and during World War I provides several key new insights about this.
