Book of Donmon Teith

The Pullman strike of 1894 shut down the rail system from Chicago to the West Coast, culminating two decades of labor unrest and helping to define an epochal tr

Jane Addams was the first American woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. Now Citizen, Louise W. Knight's masterful biography, reveals Addams's early developme

A famous historian demonstrates that one can learn a lot about the contradictions that lie at the heart of America today by looking at them through the lens of

This book examines the regional history of the American West in relation to the rest of the United States, emphasizing cultural and political history.

This finely detailed narrative is the definitive account of the rise to power of the Chicago labor movement amidst the 1877 railroad strike, the 1886 struggle o