When James Monroe became president in 1817, the United States urgently needed a national transportation system to connect new states and territories in the west

This book explains how building a nationwide economic market was essential to secure the loyalty of remote regions to the new republic. It defends the activist

This book presents the first extended analysis of the friendship network of John Adams, forged during his lengthy public career from 1774-1801. While scholars h

This volume presents 145 primary source documents of Polish immigrants from different waves and backgrounds speaking about their lives, concerns, and viewpoints

This volume explores the extent to which the Revolutionary period (1740–1815) impacted the faculty, students and institutional life of Yale College and how th