Combining Atlantic and imperial perspectives, Caribbean New Orleans offers a lively portrait of t...

In this richly illustrated study, the first book-length exploration of illusionistic art in the e...

The War of 1812 was one of a cluster of events that left unsettled what is often referred to as t...

In mid-sixteenth-century England, people were born into authority and responsibility based on the...

This illustrated story of America's first architect is based on material from a number of contemp...

Women before the Bar is the first study to investigate changing patterns of women's participation...

Susanah Shaw Romney locates the foundations of the early modern Dutch empire in interpersonal tra...

Reinterpreting the first century of American history, Brendan McConville argues that colonial soc...

At the outset of the eighteenth century, many British Americans accepted the notion that virtuous...

James Wilson, signer of the federal constitution and one of the most influential leaders in the f...

This summary essay and the heavily annotated bibliography covering the period from the first colo...

These eight original essays by a group of America's most distinguished scholars include the follo...