The surrender at Yorktown

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Mary E. Hull

Examines the contributions of soldiers, government officials, free blacks, abolitionists, women, and children to the Union cause during the Civil War.

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Christopher Riches

This book wil answer lots of questions about the British monarchy. Full of facts, figures, diagrams and photographs, it provides a guide to: the history and official role of the monarchy; Royal duties; the Royal family; the Royal household; the Crown Jewels and the Honours system; the Royal palaces. In addition, the book contains topics for discussion, recommended websites and a glossary of terms.

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William C. Berman

In America's Right Turn, historian William Berman examines the political, cultural, and economic context in which Republican conservatives operated over the past several decades and explores the crisis of the liberal welfare state against the background of presidential politics from Nixon to Clinton. Berman demonstrates the key roles played by conservative populism and by the conservative backlash to the rights revolution in the collapse of Democratic hegemony. But, most importantly, he shows how conservative politics became allied with conservative economics - an alliance forged with singular success during the presidency of Ronald Reagan.

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Alan Brinkley

How did liberalism, the great political tradition that from the New Deal to the 1960s seemed to dominate American politics, fall from favor so far and so fast? In this history of liberalism since the 1930s, a distinguished historian offers an eloquent account of post-war liberalism, where it came from, where it has gone, and why. The book supplies a crucial chapter in the history of twentieth-century American politics as well as valuable and clear perspective on the state of our nation's politics today.