Hill And Wang imprint: 184 books
Wildfire and Americans
How to Save Lives, Property, and Your Tax Dollars
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2007
Three years after Roger Kennedy retired as director of the National Park Service, from his Santa Fe home he watched as the Cerro Grande Fire moved across the Pajarito Plateau and into Los Alamos. Two hundred and thirty-five homes were destroyed, more than 45,000 acres of forest were burned, and the...
Houdini, Tarzan, and the Perfect Man
The White Male Body and the Challenge of Modernity in America
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2002
A remarkable new work from one of our premier historians
In his exciting new book, John F. Kasson examines the signs of crisis in American life a century ago, signs that new forces of modernity were affecting men's sense of who and what they really were.
When the Prussian-born Eugene...
American Leviathan
Empire, Nation, and Revolutionary Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2007
The war that raged along America's frontier during the period of the American Revolution was longer, bloodier, and arguably more revolutionary than what transpired on the Atlantic coast.
Between 1763 and 1795 westerners not only participated in a War of Independence but engaged in a revolution...
by James Ciment
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
The first popular history of the former American slaves who founded, ruled, and lost Africa's first republic
In 1820, a group of about eighty African Americans reversed the course of history and sailed back to Africa, to a place they would name after liberty itself. They went under the banner...
Sarah Johnson's Mount Vernon
The Forgotten History of an American Shrine
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2009
New Stories from an Old American Shrine
The home of our first president has come to symbolize the ideals of our nation: freedom for all, national solidarity, and universal democracy. Mount Vernon is a place where the memories of George Washington and the era of America's birth are carefully...
Masters of Empire
Great Lakes Indians and the Making of America
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
A radical reinterpretation of early American history from a native point of view
In Masters of Empire, the historian Michael McDonnell reveals the pivotal role played by the native peoples of the Great Lakes in the history of North America. Though less well known than the Iroquois or Sioux,...
by Andrew C. Isenberg
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Finalist for the 2014 Weber-Clements Book Prize for the Best Non-fiction Book on Southwestern America
In popular culture, Wyatt Earp is the hero of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona, and a beacon of rough cowboy justice in the tumultuous American West. The subject of dozens...
Hoboes
Bindlestiffs, Fruit Tramps, and the Harvesting of the West
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
When the railroad stretched its steel rails across the American West in the 1870s, it opened up a vast expanse of territory with very few people but enormous agricultural potential: a second Western frontier, the garden West. Agriculture quickly followed the railroads, making way for Kansas wheat...
Pox Americana
The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2002
The astonishing, hitherto unknown truths about a disease that transformed the United States at its birth
A horrifying epidemic of smallpox was sweeping across the Americas when the American Revolution began, and yet we know almost nothing about it. Elizabeth A. Fenn is the first historian to...
Trickster Travels
A Sixteenth-Century Muslim Between Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2007
An engrossing study of Leo Africanus and his famous book, which introduced Africa to European readers
Al-Hasan al-Wazzan--born in Granada to a Muslim family that in 1492 went to Morocco, where he traveled extensively on behalf of the sultan of Fez--is known to historians as Leo Africanus, author...
A War of Frontier and Empire
The Philippine-American War, 1899-1902
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2008
It has been termed an insurgency, a revolution, a guerrilla war, and a conventional war. As David J. Silbey demonstrates in this taut, compelling history, the 1899 Philippine-American War was in fact all of these. Played out over three distinct conflicts—one fought between the Spanish and the allied...
For the Soul of Mankind
The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2008
To the amazement of the public, pundits, and even the policymakers themselves, the ideological and political conflict that had endangered the world for half a century came to an end in 1990. How did that happen? What caused the cold war in the first place, and why did it last as long as it did?
The...
From Bloody Shirt to Full Dinner Pail
The Transformation of Politics and Governance in the Gilded Age
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
A short, elegant overview of politics at the close of the nineteenth century
In the wake of civil war, American politics were racially charged and intensely sectionalist, with politicians waving the proverbial bloody shirt and encouraging their constituents, as Republicans did in 1868, to "vote...
All in the Family
The Realignment of American Democracy Since the 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
In the 1960s, Lyndon Johnson's Great Society and War on Poverty promised an array of federal programs to assist working-class families. In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan declared the GOP the party of "family values" and promised to keep government out of Americans' lives. Again and again, historians...