The story of a road trip undertaken in early summer 1791 through upstate New York and New England...

1776, 1861, 1929. Any high-school student should know what these years meant to American history....

A suspenseful account of the glorious days more than a century ago when our national madness bega...

This study examines the conflict over capital punishment and the transformation of American cultu...

What did Abraham Lincoln envision when he talked about ''reconstruction?'' Assassinated in 1865, ...

Masur brings together the personal letters, diary entries, and journal articles of some of the mo...

Louis P. Masur uses Abraham Lincoln's final public address in April 1865 to trace the debate over...

More than one hundred and fifty years after the first shots were fired on Fort Sumter, the Civil ...

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, with Related Documents encourages you to think about how ...

Masur's book is both sweeping and concise, offering an immersion in American history, from the pr...

'If historical scholarship has often proved irrelevant to the world outside university walls, his...

Masur's book is both sweeping and concise, offering an immersion in American history, from the pr...