As the site of the first permanent English settlement in North America, the birthplace of a presi...

An American officer offers an explosive memoir from inside coalition headquarters in Baghdad. Wit...

A political memoir of a life lived in service that’s a testament to fairness and bipartisanship.

Strikingly few Americans know who wrote the Constitution. Even fewer know that he was a peg-legge...

Where else but in America could a Jewish kid from Kansas, son of self-made, entrepreneurial paren...

After Ross Benes left Nebraska for New York, he witnessed his polite home state become synonymous...

A bold new look at Watergate from a member of the Senate Watergate Committee who argues that the ...

How did politicians, bureaucrats, reporters, and civilians in Richmond understand a war being fou...

Of all the Allied strategic defensive campaigns in the first half of World War II, the fight to d...

The final work by late historian Thomas N. Ingersoll on the political crisis posed by the preside...

A bold and timely proposal for rethinking the role of the Supreme Court in the separation of powers.

Wars are fought by organizations and people who have disparate visions of the world they live in ...

An illuminating study of how foreign and domestic policies have reinforced each other in post-New...

A bold message of political hope in a time of cynicism and despair, Mending the Nation uses lesso...

For William Allen White, the ideal Midwestern community was a utopian vision of what America coul...

A lifelong soccer player and award-winning author shows us how the sport transcends races, ethnic...

Cultural scholar John Wills takes readers on a cultural tour of Doom Town, USA, designed to be th...

The dramatic story of how a small neighborhood in Connecticut became the site and symbol of a pol...

Esteemed presidential historian Stephen F. Knott takes readers on a sobering tour of the lowlight...

For more than half a century, James Hamilton has been an active participant and an inside observe...

Roadside Kansas

What began as a standoff between competing steamship entrepreneurs ended as one of the Supreme Co...

Few Supreme Court decisions have stirred up as much controversy, vitriolic debate, and even viole...

Winner: W. E. B. Du Bois Book AwardIn the world of hip-hop, 'keeping it real' has always been a p...

A classic on the politics of leadership, now expanded to include a chapter on the Trump presidenc...

For decades political scientists studying the Court have adopted behavioral approaches and focuse...

Carl von Clausewitz (1780-1831) is best known for his masterpiece of military theory On War, yet ...

As alarming stories about new pathogens like the Ebola virus or Mad Cow Disease fill today's head...

When the major powers sent troops to the Korean peninsula in June of 1950, it supposedly marked t...

The battles of Belleau Wood and Soissons in June and July of 1918 marked a turning point in World...

So begins Albert Castel's classic history of Kansas during the Civil War. Long recognized as a ke...

Were America's Founders Christians or deists? Conservatives and secularists have taken each posit...

As reported in Newsweek, in various food magazines, and in the pages of major American newspapers...

Fisheries issues have been attracting increasing media attention in the wake of contamination sca...

Black Prisoner of War chronicles the story of James Daly, a young black soldier held captive for ...

Analyses how protest and the immigration debate influence Latinos sense of belonging in the US.

The announced purpose of U.S. antiterrorist policies after 9 11 was to bring democracy and the ru...

The Pacific Northwest has always invoked images of lush forested landscapes and travelog vistas. ...

Why do appellate courts always have an odd number of judges? And what does the answer tell us abo...

An innovative approach to legislative study, this volume views the Kansas legislature from the pe...

Because, it's said, history is written by the victors, we know plenty about the Patriots' cause i...

Until World War II, the Four Corners Region--where New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, and Arizona meet--...

John Marshall remains one of the towering figures in the landscape of American law. From the Revo...

Closing with the Enemy picks up where D-Day leaves off. From Normandy through the 'breakout' in F...

An American president must be master of two arts: politics and management. Without political mast...

Global politics have been transformed by revolution and reformation in the last two decades. As p...

Few American social programs have been more unpopular, controversial, or costly than Aid to Famil...

Red Lodge is typical of a western town that has created new interpretations of its past in order ...