Philip Pendleton Barbour in Jacksonian America is the definitive biography of a Virginia legislator and jurist whose life and career mirror the transformational
"Conventional history narratives tell us that in the early years of the Republic, the United States fought three wars against the Seminole Indians and two again
In the wake of the War of 1812, the Madison and Monroe administrations oversaw the institution of a series of protective tariffs meant to shield fledgling Ameri
The admission of Missouri to the Union quickly became a constitutional crisis of the first order, inciting an intensive reexamination of the U.S. Constitution b
This rereading of the history of American westward expansion examines the destruction of Native American cultures as a successful campaign of "counterinsurgency
