United States

The two most treasured documents of American freedom together on one audiobook.We hold th...

"...with the dead body of his son for company on the last half of the trip and himself de...

April 16th. The year is 1963. Birmingham, Alabama has had a spring of non-violent protest...

C. F. McGlashan was the newspaper editor and publisher of the local daily in Truckee, Cal...

"I am a man torn in two. And the gospel I inherited is divided." Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrov...

In a work described as “the ethos of our democratic Republic through the consolidat...

The Battle of Bull Run describes the Civil War's first important battle, moment by moment...

In this "penetrating new analysis" (New York Times Book Review) Ira Katznelson fundamenta...

As 1862 dawned, the American republic was at death’s door. The federal government a...

James M. McPherson, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom, an...

Explore the captivating life of George Patton.General George S. Patton remains a househol...

t all began on Memorial Day, May 31, 1921. Around or after 4:00 p.m. that day, a clerk at...

 “Issue the orders Sir, and I will storm Hell.” – Mad Anthony Way...

Overall, Tulsa in 1921 was considered a modern, vibrant city. What had fueled this remark...

The Fall of New Orleans was a desperate brawl in the river, with hideous and relentless a...

Explore the captivating contradictions of one of U.S. history’s most divisive figur...

Abraham Lincoln was undeniably one of the most influential politicians in American histor...

In 1804, President Jefferson asked two Virginians-Meriwether Lewis and William Clark-to l...

Christmas 1941 came little more than two weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor. The shoc...

The companion volume to the PBS documentary film about the first—and perhaps most a...

No single figure in 20th century American history inspires such opposing opinions as J. E...

Explore the captivating history of the Culper Ring!Spying and warfare have always gone ha...

During the Civil War, over 180,000 black men fought in volunteer units as part of the Uni...

After losing her husband, Elinore Pruitt washed clothes in Denver to support herself and ...

With this address, US President James Monroe set a precedent for the nation’s forei...

The Battle of Gettysburg is a vivid firsthand account of the most famous battle of the Ci...

The Bell Witch: Robertson County, Tennessee, 1817-1828. The Bell family are terrorized by...

“Little by little, the bird makes its nest.” – Old Haitian Creole Prove...

In February of 1675 Narragansett Indians lay siege to Mary Rowlandson's village. Most wer...

Shortly after taking office in 1933 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivered the fir...

If you want to discover the captivating life of Fred Rogers, then pay attention... M...

Explore the captivating history of the Titanic.When thinking about the worst known mariti...

An expert on American authoritarianism offers a searing rebuke of the exceptional narrati...

On July 2, 1822, Denmark Vesey, a formerly enslaved man, was hanged in Charleston, South ...

Recent scholarship has explored the lives of enslaved people beyond the watchful eye of t...

The westward movement of Americans in the 19th century was one of the largest and most c...

Throughout the history of warfare, the practice of placing blame on innocent parties in ...

A recording made on November 18, 1978, at the People's Temple compound in Jonestown, Guya...

20th century Chicago was an ideal breeding ground for organized crime. A buzzing circuit...

On paper, the extraordinarily unorthodox ideology spouted by Heaven's Gate ranks near th...

While the period from 1945-1955 was the longest and most extensive period of time in Amer...

The Civil War conjures images of bloodsoaked battlefields in the United States. Few are a...

Fatal Forecast chronicles a dramatic fight for survival aboard two small fishing boats t...

After four years of unspeakable horror and sacrifice on both sides, the Civil War was abo...

Today we see little public outrage about Bill Clinton's misconduct. With enormous skill, ...

Theodore Roosevelt began this 1899 speech with his thesis: “I wish to preach, not t...

Although half of the population, women were treated as second class citizens in the Unite...

“As the spring and summer of 1848 advanced, the reports came faster and faster fro...

“[W]e observed the Enemy marching down towards us in three Columns, at 10 they form...

“Since man cannot live without miracles, he will provide himself with miracles of ...