Henry Carter Hull

Profiles more than two hundred state parks in the United States, arranged by region, presenting color maps and photographs and providing information on camping, lodging, and things to see and do.

A group of students puts on a play that examines the challenges, conflicts, and compromises which occurred during the writing of the United States Constitution.

A compendious, entertaining look at our nation's leaders through words and turns of phrase. -- Kirkus Reviews From George Washington's "New Yorker" and Thomas Jefferson's "pedicure" to Theodore Roosevelt's "lunatic fringe," Richard Nixon's "silent majority," and Donald Trump's "covfefe," this entertaining and eminently readable volume compiles words and phrases that were coined or popularized by American presidents. Discover the origins of "bloviate"...

"Winner of the 2017 Joseph J. Spengler Best Book Prize, History of Economics Society" "Finalist for the 2017 Hayek Prize, The Manhattan Institute" "One of Bloomberg View's Great History Books of 2016" Thomas C. Leonard is research scholar in the Council of the Humanities at Princeton University, where he is also lecturer in the Department of Economics. The pivotal and troubling role of progressive-era economics in the shaping of modern American...

Interweaves the personal lives of Lucy Stone, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Frances Willard, and other suffragists to explore the struggle for women's rights in America.

"A collection of essays taking aim at the legitimacy of the modern feminist movement, arguing that it has chronically failed to address the needs of all but a few women"--

Reveals historical details from the perspective of a Union soldier at Gettysburg, a civilian during the siege of Vicksburg, and a Confederate soldier at Chancellorsville.

Based on extensive research in both American and British archives, 1776 is the story of Americans in the ranks, men of every shape, size, and color, farmers, schoolteachers, shoemakers, no-accounts, and mere boys turned soldiers. And it is the story of the British commander, William Howe, and his highly disciplined redcoats who looked on their rebel foes with contempt and fought with a valor too little known. But it is the American commander-in-chief...

James Madison led one of the most influential and prolific lives in American history, and his story, although all too often overshadowed by his more celebrated contemporaries, is integral to that of the nation. Madison helped to shape our country as perhaps no other Founder: collaborating on the Federalist Papers and the Bill of Rights, resisting government overreach by assembling one of the nation's first political parties (the Republicans, who became...