Sobering Up

Reforming the World offers a sophisticated account of how and why, in the late nineteenth and ear...

Frances Willard founded the Woman's Christian Temperance Union in 1884 to carry the message of wo...

From the use of metals by prehistoric man to the alchemical experiments of medieval and renaissan...

?Tyrrell, an Australian historian of the antebellum US, addresses the postwar crisis of American ...

A half century after its founding in London in 1844, the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA)...

'In the beginning, there was the river -- before the beach, before the drain, before the dredging...

''American exceptionalism' has been a surprisingly resilient and divisive concept. In this magist...

Spreading Protestant Modernity

A powerful dissection of a core American myth.  The idea that the United States is unlike every o...

The development of nationalism, movement of peoples, imperialism, industrialization, environmenta...