Our favorite titles of the year resurrect forgotten histories and examine how the United States ended up where it is today ...

“Susan-Mary Grant's vigorous new history of the United States is the ideal text for our troubled times. A fast-paced account of the martial roots of American national identity, it fairly bristles with ...

With the tremendous success of his book, A People's History of the United States, Howard Zinn radically changed the way Americans see themselves. His friend Noam Chomsky says that Zinn ...

The book discusses the place of law in regard to colonization ... and revolutionary politics. The Cambridge History of Law in America has been made possible by the generous support of the American Bar ...

America has long had a history of book banning, stretching back to at least the 1960s. Here is a look at some of the country's most surprisingly embargoed works through the years. 1961 ...

This book provides an incredibly informed legal history of contemporary Native America after the Second World War and the rise of Native American activism in the nineteen-sixties and seventies.

and the impact it had on the future of the United States. "This book was so thorough and educational, it offers the history of Juneteenth along with a visual timeline, a glossary of terms and ...

In the fall of 2023, C-SPAN partnered with the Library of Congress to produce the series, Books That Shaped America. The series explored key works from American history that have had a major ...