In this course, professor Karbiener explores how Walt Whitman broke with the tyranny of European literary forms to establish a broad, new voice for American poetry. By examining the life of Whitman in the context of broad social and...

A sobering reminder of America’s abhorrent past of slavery, the legacy of which has reverberated its legacy well into the present day, Solomon Northup’s memoir is a fully engrossing chronicle of a free man living in New York State who...

James M. McPherson explores how Abraham Lincoln--struggling with feckless generals, fickle masses, and his own fearful demons--expanded the role of Commander in Chief amidst a war that defined him.

"A decade after the end of the Cold War, both policy makers and academics foresee a new era of peace and prosperity, an era when democracy, open trade, and mutual trust will join hands to banish war from the globe. With insight...

Ranald Macdonald’s roots are in the forest of Ontario’s easternmost county and his character was forged in the small Presbyterian church near his home. When he leaves to test his idealism and faith in the rough world of the lumber...

Through this inspiring history, McCullough offers an account of ambitious Americans who traveled to Paris between 1830 and 1900 to make their greatest accomplishments.

Nearly all of civilization's great advances have come when people, ideas, and artistic creations circulate freely between nations. Orlando Figes offers the first international history of European culture.

This little-known story of Mary Lumpkin reveals a slave woman who lived in a slave jail that she eventually renamed and transformed into a school for Black men, blazing a path of liberation for thousands.