Nyu Press: 1737 books
The Many Faces of Alexander Hamilton
The Life and Legacy of America's Most Elusive Founding Father
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
Revolutionary War officer, co-author of the Federalist Papers, our first Treasury Secretary, Thomas Jefferson’s nemesis, and victim of a fatal duel with Aaron Burr: Alexander Hamilton has been the focus of debate from his day to ours. On the one hand, Hamilton was the quintessential Founding Father,...
Liberty Tree
Ordinary People and the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2006
With the publication of Liberty Tree, acclaimed historian Alfred F. Young presents a selection of his seminal writing as well as two provocative, never-before-published essays. Together, they take the reader on a journey through the American Revolution, exploring the role played by ordinary women...
Gilded Suffragists
The New York Socialites who Fought for Women's Right to Vote
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
New York City’s elite women who turned a feminist cause into
a fashionable revolution
In the early twentieth century over two hundred of New York's most glamorous socialites joined the suffrage movement. Their names—Astor, Belmont, Rockefeller, Tiffany, Vanderbilt, Whitney and the like—carried...
Dance Hall Days
Intimacy and Leisure Among Working-Class Immigrants in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2000
The rise of commercialized leisure coincided with the arrival of millions of immigrants to America's cities. Conflict was inevitable as older generations attempted to preserve their traditions, values, and ethnic identities, while the young sought out the cheap amusements and sexual freedom which...
Dancing in Chains
The Youth of William Dean Howells
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1991
"Dancing in Chains is far more than a sensitive biography (though it is surely that); it is also a model of psychologically informed social and cultural history. Olsen recognizes that psychic conflicts often play themselves out on a higher plane, that psychic and intellectual history are intertwined....
Officers in Flight Suits
The Story of American Air Force Fighter Pilots in the Korean War
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1998
The United States Air Force fought as a truly independent service for the first time during the Korean War. Ruling the skies in many celebrated aerial battles, even against the advanced Soviet MiG-15, American fighter pilots reigned supreme. Yet they also destroyed virtually every major town and city...
American Founding Son
John Bingham and the Invention of the Fourteenth Amendment
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013
John Bingham was the architect of the rebirth of the United States following the Civil War. A leading antislavery lawyer and congressman from Ohio, Bingham wrote the most important part of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which guarantees fundamental rights and equality to all Americans....
Horace Greeley
Champion of American Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
From his arrival in New York City in 1831 as a young printer from New Hampshire to his death in 1872 after losing the presidential election to General Ulysses S. Grant, Horace Greeley (b. 1811) was a quintessential New Yorker. He thrived on the city’s ceaseless energy, with his New York Tribune...
Past Imperfect
French Intellectuals, 1944-1956
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
“Past Imperfect is a forthright and uncommonly damning study of those intellectually volatile years [1944-1956]. Mr. Judt…does more than simply describe the ideological acrobats of his subjects; he is a sharp, even a vindictive moralist who indicts these intellectuals for their inhumanity...
The Civil War Soldier
A Historical Reader
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002
In 1943, Bell Wiley's groundbreaking book Johnny Reb launched a new area of study: the history of the common soldier in the U.S. Civil War. This anthology brings together landmark scholarship on the subject, from a 19th century account of life as a soldier to contemporary work on women who, disguised...
by Daniel Dreisbach
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002
No phrase in American letters has had a more profound influence on church-state law, policy, and discourse than Thomas Jefferson’s “wall of separation between church and state,” and few metaphors have provoked more passionate debate. Introduced in an 1802 letter to the Danbury, Connecticut Baptist...
Impossible Witnesses
Truth, Abolitionism, and Slave Testimony
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2002
Even the most cursory review of black literary production during the nineteenth century indicates that its primary concerns were the issues of slavery, racial subjugation, abolitionist politics and liberation. How did the writers of these narratives "bear witness" to the experiences they...
In the Shadow of the Greatest Generation
The Americans Who Fought the Korean War
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2012
Largely overshadowed by World War II’s “greatest generation” and the more vocal veterans of the Vietnam era, Korean War veterans remain relatively invisible in the narratives of both war and its aftermath. Yet, just as the beaches of Normandy and the jungles of Vietnam worked profound changes...
Government by Dissent
Protest, Resistance, and Radical Democratic Thought in the Early American Republic
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
"The most thorough examination we have of how early Americans wrestled with what types of political dissent should be permitted, even promoted, in the new republic they were forming. Martin shows the modern relevance of their debates in ways that all will find valuable—even those who dissent...