Our favorite titles of the year resurrect forgotten histories and examine how the United States ended up where it is today ...
Yet we’ve barely noticed the link. Almost any Advanced Placement (AP) U.S. history textbook has more influence on American politics than 90 percent of the books reviewed in our leading ...
The Cambridge History of Latin American Literature is by far the most comprehensive work of its kind ever written. Its three volumes cover the whole sweep of Latin American literature (including ...
The book is also a healthy reminder of the contemporary stakes of Native American history. This is not a subject that is distant from our world. Like several of these other books, “Our History ...
The Cambridge History of American Poetry offers a comprehensive exploration of the development of American poetic traditions from their beginnings until the end of the twentieth century. Bringing ...
"Textbooks which explained American imperialism as an aberrant episode in American history implicitly accept that the United ...