United States History (Yale-NUS College): Books

With over 1,400 entries, this volume illuminates not only America's political, diplomatic, and military history, but also social, cultural, and intellectual trends; science, technology, and medicine; the arts; and religion.

Updated and revised to reflect historical developments and current scholarship. For the first time, illustrations and maps are incorporated into the main body of the work; a collection of primary source documents appears in Volume 9.

The Encyclopedia covers historic periods such as the Colonial era and the Reagan era, as well as looks at cultural groups such as the working class and cultural institutions and forms such as the university and cinema.

The two volumes of the Encyclopedia of American Urban History offer both a summary and an interpretation of the field. With contributions from leading academics in their fields, this resource offers an interdisciplinary approach by covering topics from economics, geography, anthropology, politics, and sociology.

The two volumes examine the settling of the West and include coverage of movements of American Indians, African Americans, and the often-forgotten role of women in the West's development.

Covers a wide spectrum of American history and culture, including political events, military history, sports, arts, entertainment, landmark legislation, and business.

Two-volume encyclopedia that covers the major forces that have shaped American politics from the founding to today. Broad in scope, the book addresses both the traditional topics of political history--such as eras, institutions, political parties, presidents, and founding documents--and the wider subjects of current scholarship, including military, electoral, and economic events, as well as social movements, popular culture, religion, education, race, gender, and more.

A dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time.

Portrait of the United States from the origins of its native peoples to the nation's complex identity in the 1990s. Covers political, economic, cultural, and social history, and combines hundreds of short descriptive entries with longer evaluative articles.

Encompassing 75 years of American history, from the start of the Seven Years' War (1754) to the inauguration of Andrew Jackson in 1829, the Encyclopedia covers key events of the era such as the Revolution, the development of the Articles of Confederation and the new Constitution, the organization of a new national government, the emergence of the party system, the Louisiana Purchase, the second war with Britain, and the assertion of national power through the Monroe Doctrine and the acquisition of Florida.

An award-winning and highly recommended comprehensive reference set on the political, social, and military aspects of the American Civil War.

With 128 entries, this illustrated resource is an important contribution to women's history, including biographies of famous women as well as less familiar names.

The editors have organized this reference book around twenty-four thematic sections, including history, religion, folklore, language, art and architecture, recreation, politics, the mythic South, urbanization, literature, music, violence, law, and media. The life experiences of southerners are discussed in sections on black life, ethnic life, and women's life.

Written in the approachable style that has made Russell s works so revered, this is a major work of political history in which significant economic and political forces and events that shaped the nineteenth century are examined.

In this bold and in-depth look at Americans and their politics, Glenn Altschuler and Stuart Blumin argue for a more complex understanding of the "space" occupied by politics in nineteenth-century American society and culture. Mining such sources as diaries, letters, autobiographies, novels, cartoons, contested-election voter testimony to state legislative committees, and the partisan newspapers of representative American communities ranging from Massachusetts and Georgia to Texas and California, the authors explore a wide range of political actions and attitudes.