Includes appendices, sources.

Photographic history of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, drawn from archival images and local sources.

Study of the white women who attached themselves to the Harlem Renaissance and the complex questions of race and identity their presence raised.

The glory days of Skagway, known as the "Gateway to the Klondike"--The discovery of the Klondike goldfields in 1896, the ordeal of the stampeders trudging over the grueling Chilkoot Pass in the winter of 1897, the 1898 shootout between con man Soapy Smith and city official Frank Reid, the completion of the narrow-gauge White Pass & Yukon Route railroad in 1900, and other milestones in the history of the North's most famous bonanza.

What caused the Civil War? A House Divided presents a fresh and balanced interpretation that challenges the view of slavery as a largely artificial or symbolic issue in the conflict between two incompatible societies.

Classic first-person memoir of cowboy life in the American West, originally published in 1885 by a working Texas cowhand.

Includes index.

Includes bibliography, index.

Analysis of the structural crises facing the American political and economic system as it entered the Reagan era.

Includes colour plates, b&w illustrations, maps, index.

Narrative history of the Spanish conquistadors and their conquest of the New World, covering Cortés, Pizarro, and other major expeditions.

History of Russian colonialism in Alaska, tracing the rise and decline of Russian America from the 18th century to the Alaska Purchase in 1867.

Account of the 1839 Amistad slave ship rebellion, in which 39 African captives mutinied and were brought into American waters, and the subsequent legal battle that reached the US Supreme Court.