A “wide-ranging and sophisticated anthology” comparing theaters of war to wars in the movie theater (Dennis Showalter, author of Patton and Rommel). Why We

Retells the story of America--and of its engagement with its neighbors and the rest of the world--as a series of highly contentious battles over clandestine com

As the site of the first permanent English settlement in North America, the birthplace of a presidential dynasty, and the gateway to western growth in the natio

Covers the period from 1787, when the Constitution was sent to the states to be ratified, to 1917 and the eve of our entry into World War I.