American History

Ties That Bound

Founding First Ladies and Slaves

Marie Jenkins Schwartz

“Fascinating. . . . A thought-provoking explication of the thorny personal relationships between slaveholding and enslaved women.” —Virginia Magazine “Ties That Bound’s most important contribution is refocusing our attention on First Ladies as slaveholders and revealing how slaveholding influenced their roles.” —Journal of Southern History

2017 416 p. 6 x 9 12 halftones 37 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-14755-0 $35.00

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Abigail and John Adams

The Americanization of Sensibility

G. J. Barker-Benfield

“[Barker-Benfield’s] engagement with the inner strengths and utter humanity of Abigail and John is just the beginning of this ingenious and expansive study.”—Andrew Burstein, author of The Original Knickerbocker

“A convincing reconstruction of people whose lives were utterly different from our own.” —James Walvin, author of The Trader, the Owner, the Slave

2010 520 p. 6 x 9 38 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-03743-1 $32.50

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We Have Not a Government

The Articles of Confederation and the Road to the Constitution

George William Van Cleve

“Instead of asking how the Constitution came to be adopted, Van Cleve asks why the previous government, the Articles of Confederation, failed—and why it failed not only in our own modern eyes, but in the eyes of its contemporaries. Pairing an enormous amount of scrupulous research with the unique perspective of a legal scholar, Van Cleve bridges the divide between scholarship and the curious reader. He writes with smooth, powerful, unobtrusive beauty.”—Daniel Walker Howe, author of What Hath God Wrought

The Battle of Fort Dearborn and the Birth of Chicago

Ann Durkin Keating

“[An] informative, ambitious account. . . . Keating’s wellresearched book rights some misconceptions about the old conflicts, the strategies of the whites and Indians to keep their land, and how early Chicago came to exist.” —Publishers Weekly

2012 6 x 9 35 halftones, 14 maps 41 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-42896-3 $30.00

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American Indians

Fourth Edition

William T. Hagan and Daniel M. Cobb

Hagan’s classic American Indians has become standard reading in the field of Native American history. Spanning the arrival of white settlers in the Americas through the twentieth century, this concise account includes more than twenty new maps and illustrations, as well as a bibliographic essay that surveys the most recent research in Indianwhite relations.

2012 256 p. 6 x 9 20 halftones, 4 maps 42 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-31239-2 $26.00

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Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits

Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America’s Culture

Chip Colwell

“A lightly written, insider’s account of the battle over human remains and objects in museums. . . . As this book shows, the fight to reclaim Native America’s culture has been waged, in significant parts, by professionals such as Colwell. His is indeed an insider’s account—just not from the sidelines. He too has been on the battlefield.”—Spectator

2017 360 p. 6 x 9 10 halftones 43 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-29899-3 $30.00

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Facing Racial Revolution

Eyewitness Accounts of the Haitian Insurrection

Jeremy D. Popkin

“[Popkin] manages to tell a complete version of the Revolution almost entirely in the words of the people who experienced it.” —Madison Smartt Bell, author of All Soul’s Rising

“The book, with its fascinating collection of personal narratives, helps to demonstrate and to explain the complexity and ambiguity of the Haitian Revolution.” —H-France Review

2007 416 p. 6 x 9 11 halftones 44 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-67583-1 $19.00

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A Critical Edition

Alexander von Humboldt

“To read what Humboldt actually wrote, in this scrupulous, clear, and modern translation, is to embark on a truly encyclopedic adventure in history. . . . This primary and foundational work, a landmark of physical and cultural geography that includes one of the era’s most important denunciations of slavery, in one stroke reorients the study of the Americas and reinvents the making of knowledge.” —Laura Dassow Walls, University of South Carolina

2010 496 p. 6 x 9 115 tables 45 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-46567-8 $81.00

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The First Wall Street

Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, and the Birth of American Finance

Robert E. Wright

“An outstanding, accessible account of Philadelphia’s status as the nation’s first financial center. Wright has written a breezy, clear, and humorous history of the city’s central role as the American capital of banking and related industries.” —Pennsylvania Magazine of History

2005 218 p. 6 x 9 3 line drawings, 9 tables 46 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-91026-0 $25.00

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Necessary Evil

Settling Missouri with a Rope and a Gun

Joe Johnston

Necessary Evil is the first book to chronicle the implications of vigilantism in Missouri, ultimately showing that the state could never have been settled without a healthy dose of rebel justice. Packed with stories of popular gunslingers such as Wyatt Earp, Wild Bill Hickok, and Jesse James, this action-filled read will be of interest to crime enthusiasts and historians alike.

Distributed for Missouri Historical Society Press

2014 336 p. 6 x 9 69 halftones, 5 line drawings, 4 maps 47 Paper ISBN: 978-1-883982-81-2 $24.95

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The Culinarians

Lives and Careers from the First Age of American Fine Dining

David S. Shields

“The Culinarians is more than a collection of biographies. It is a celebration of lost voices—cooks, creators, and visionaries who paved the way for the food we eat today. With this book, Shields pulls back the curtain of modern cuisine in America to reveal a story we forgot existed.”—Dan Barber, author of The Third Plate

The Fight over the Thirteenth Amendment

Leonard L. Richards

“Richards has produced a very rich account—a veritable gold mine of information—that consists of many overlapping stories: stories of how the overall strategies of different kinds of slavery opponents developed; stories of how different individuals, groups, and key episodes played out as the violent struggle over slavery in America unfolded.”—The Weekly Standard

2015 320 p. 6 x 9 45 halftones 49 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-17820-2 $30.00

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Home Front

Daily Life in the Civil War North

Peter John Brownlee, et al.

“Framed by the era’s visual arts and burgeoning commercial visual culture, these essays offer an unusually imaginative and probing interdisciplinary exploration of . . . the ‘porous boundaries’ between the battle front and home front during the Civil War.”—Joshua Brown, author of Beyond the Lines

2013 216 p. 81/2 x 101/2 90 color plates 50 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-06185-6 $35.00

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Confederate Cities

The Urban South during the Civil War Era

Edited by Andrew L. Slap and Frank Towers

“For too long historians have gazed at the South from the veranda of the plantation, rarely looking beyond the fields of cotton and tobacco to see the urban South. . . . Editors Slap and Towers have assembled a cast of superb historians who show a multitude of perspectives on the urban South as it endured the revolutionary consequences of Confederate defeat.” —Peter S. Carmichael, Gettysburg College

2015 336 p. 6 x 9 1 line drawing 51 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-30020-7 $30.00

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Exile in Erin

A Confederate Chaplain’s Story

William Barnaby Faherty

John B. Bannon excelled in four distinct capacities: as a pastor of a thriving Catholic congregation in St. Louis; as a chaplain with the First Missouri Confederate Infantry; as a diplomat winning Irish support for the cause of the Confederacy; and as Ireland’s greatest preacher in the 1880s. Exile in Erin explores Bannon’s life story to shed light on new facets of both Civil War and Irish history.

Distributed for Missouri Historical Society Press

2002 256 p. 6 x 9 60 illus 52 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-883982-46-1 $29.95

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In 1867, Lieutenant Governor Thomas C. Reynolds began writing his account of the infamous raid that failed to bring Missouri into the Confederacy. Lost to history for many decades, the unfinished manuscript is available here. It is important not only for its appraisal of Sterling Price, but also for Reynolds’s views of the inner workings of the Confederate government.

Distributed for Missouri Historical Society Press

2009 336 p. 6 x 9 15 illustrations 53 Paper ISBN: 978-1-883982-68-3 $24.95

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Captain Joseph Boyce and the First Missouri Infantry, CSA

Joseph Boyce

“The publication of Capt. Joseph Boyce’s memoir is a welcome addition to the growing list of firstperson accounts of the Civil War. . . . In addition to extensive footnotes, Winter provides an introduction to the memoir, a biographical sketch of Boyce, and introductions to each chapter.”—Civil War History

Distributed for Missouri Historical Society Press

2011 272 p. 6 x 9 30 illustrations 54 Paper ISBN: 978-1-883982-70-6 $23.95

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Blood Runs Green

The Murder That Transfixed Gilded Age Chicago

Gillian O’Brien

“O’Brien’s meticulously researched book makes the case that one man’s brutal murder in 1889 Chicago (and the subsequent criminal investigation) had a ripple effect in both America and Britain on the contentious cause of Irish republicanism. . . . This is academic writing at its most accessible.”—New York Times

2015 320 p. 6 x 9 26 halftones 55 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-24895-0 $25.00

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56 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-37999-9 $17.00

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The Tolerant Populists, Second Edition

Kansas Populism and Nativism

Walter Nugent

“A classic work on American politics and reform. . . . Full of rich evidence and lively portraits of impassioned activists, Nugent’s book decisively refutes the notion that Populists were reactionary and backward-looking. Rather, Nugent places them where they belong: in the grand tradition of American grassroots struggles for economic and social justice.”—Rebecca Edwards, author of New Spirits

Tippecanoe and Tyler Too

Famous Slogans and Catchphrases in American History

Jan R. Van Meter

“Van Meter’s book is a delightful, richly informative, deeply researched, and fully contextualized work. It is also significant because so many of these slogans permeate American discourse and illuminate national values. Moreover, it’s also fascinating! Who knew that ‘duck and cover’ came from cold war security concerns?”—Michael Kammen, author of People of Paradox

2008 344 p. 6 x 9 58 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-84969-0 $16.00

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Inventing American Tradition

From the Mayflower to Cinco de Mayo

Jack David Eller

“American traditions like our flag, anthem, and holidays are often thought of as ingrained in our history, as if they sprung fully formed on the day of our nation’s birth. But every tradition has a human story behind it, often involving conflict and disagreement and spurred on by an unlikely creator, according to Eller.”—New York Post

Distributed for Reaktion Books

2018 352 p. 6 x 9 48 halftones 59 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78023-986-6 $40.00

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Buffalo Bill in Bologna

The Americanization of the World, 1869-1922

Robert W. Rydell and Rob Kroes

“This elegant synthesis of scholarship on US mass culture from the Civil War through the 1920s sheds new historical and interpretive light on the modern period.”—Choice

“Rydell and Kroes are interested in the worldwide triumph of mass American culture. . . . With its several triumphant European tours, Cody’s Wild West, as he called the show, was pivotal in this history.” —New York Review of Books

2005 224 p. 6 x 9 37 halftones 60 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-00712-0 $24.00

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Two Women in the Klondike

Mary Hitchcock

Two Women in the Klondike created a sensation when it was first published in 1899. The idea that two well-bred socialites could survive the dangers of the north thrilled nineteenth-century readers from San Francisco to New York. Invaluable for its detailed descriptions of manners, food, and personalities, this account of the Klondike Gold Rush is an outrageous adventure for general readers, armchair travelers, and anyone interested in the lives of American women in the late 1800s.

Distributed for University of Alaska Press

2005 232 p. 6 x 9 black and white illustrations 61 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-889963-68-6 $24.95

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The Work Ethic in Industrial America 1850-1920

Second Edition

Daniel T. Rodgers

“The Work Ethic in Industrial America is a brilliant and morally acute examination of the rhetoric of work in the United States. . . . Written just before intellectual and social history separated and diverged, this edition comes when these fields are reconvening. What a wonderful model it offers for future work!”—Thomas Bender, New York University

2014 336 p. 51/2 x 81/2 62 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-13623-3 $25.00

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Slaughterhouse

Chicago’s Union Stock Yard and the World It Made

Dominic A. Pacyga

“This is the thrilling story of Chicago’s rise to power on the national stage; not just the ‘hog butcher to the world,’ but an industrial giant that led in technological innovations.”—Journal of Illinois History

“[Pacyga’s] writing is as streamlined and efficient as the disassembly lines that inspired the book.” —Chicago Tribune

The Capture of Soviet Spies Morris and Lona Cohen

Barnes Carr

“The Cohens were the most effective Soviet spy couple in America, and vanished under the FBI’s nose, turning up as rare book dealers in London, where they continued their atomic spying. This is their story.”—The Intelligencer: Journal of US Intelligence Studies

Distributed for ForeEdge

2016 338 p. 61/4 x 91/4 65 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-61168-809-2 $22.95

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American Girls in Red Russia

Chasing the Soviet Dream

Julia L. Mickenberg

“In this enthralling account, Mickenberg reveals the magnetic attraction of the new Soviet Union to American women seeking to reinvent working and family lives in the twenties. But American Girls in Red Russia also exposes the painful paradox of imagining freedom in a repressive culture. This is an illuminating achievement whose lessons speak to the utopian aspirations of men and women everywhere.” —Alice Kessler-Harris, author of A Difficult Woman

2017 432 p. 6 x 9 27 halftones 66 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-25612-2 $35.00

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Nut Country

Right-Wing Dallas and the Birth of the Southern Strategy

Edward H. Miller

“Featuring a memorable cast of characters—H. L. Hunt and General Edwin Walker not the least among them—Miller’s book reveals how conservatives used racial politics in Dallas to change the fortunes, forever after, of the American Right and the Republican Party.” —David Farber, author of The Rise and Fall of Modern American Conservatism

2015 256 p. 6 x 9 24 halftones 67 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-20538-0 $25.00

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68 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-42121-6 $18.00

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Last Words of the Executed

Robert K. Elder

“By compiling the last words of people put to death by the state in America, juxtaposed against details of their crimes and victims, Elder has created an extraordinary book. No matter which side of the capital punishment divide you find yourself, Last Words of the Executed is a must-read. . . . This not a political book, but a human journey.” —Sean Chercover, author of Trigger City

America’s Car Obsession

Gary S. Cross

“The 1930s through the 1980s represented a ‘golden age of American teen car culture.’ . . . Machines of Youth recreates this fascinating but largely neglected slice of social history.”—Times Higher Education

“Cross has crafted an evocative, well researched, and engagingly written account of the relationship young people had with the automobile in the decades after World War II.”—David Farber, University of Kansas

2018 227 p. 6 x 9 28 halftones 70 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-55113-5 $32.50

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The Thousand-Year Flood

The Ohio-Mississippi Disaster of 1937

David Welky

“Welky has done a prodigious job of reminding us about the horror inflicted by the Ohio-Mississippi flood of 1937. At its heart, The Thousand-Year Flood is a Great Depression story not unlike the Dust Bowl tragedy. His scholarship is impeccable.”—Douglas Brinkley, author of The Great Deluge

2011 384 p. 6 x 9 18 halftones, 2 maps 71 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-88716-6 $27.50

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Arthur Vandenberg

The Man in the Middle of the American Century

Hendrik Meijer

“Meijer’s engaging biography traces Vandenberg’s evolution – from a young politician drawn toward isolationism, to a decisive proponent of the United Nations and an enduring American world role. Meijer has produced an affecting human portrait of a public servant who came to symbolize the bipartisan pursuit of the national interest and a more peaceful world.” —Henry A. Kissinger

2017 448 p. 6 x 9 20 halftones 72 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-43348-6 $35.00

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Boundaries of the State in US History

Edited by James T. Sparrow, William J. Novak, and Stephen W. Sawyer

“Cutting edge. . . . It explains how the United States managed to accomplish complex goals, such as distributing its western lands, without an elaborate bureaucratic apparatus. The contributors to this widely ranging book force us to rethink our fundamental notions of the American state, such as its weakness in comparison with European and other states.”—Edward Berkowitz, George Washington University