The book that inspired the blockbuster film, The Passion of the Christ. Faithful to the Biblical account of the Passion, it fills in many hitherto unknown details. Edifying, inspiring, surprising, and
A brief, interpretive analysis of the highly ambitious American reform movements from the 1890s to 1917 that shows progressivism to have been a vital and significant phenomenon although there was no u
Have the poor fared best by participating in conventional electoral politics or by engaging in mass defiance and disruption? The authors of the classic Regulating The Poor assess the successes and fai
Combines personal and social commentary with documentary investigation in an examination of the literatures, issues, purposes, and leaders of contemporary women's groups, focusing on the central femin
Building on arguments presented in The Struggle for Equality,James McPherson shows that many abolitionists did not retreat fromReconstruction, as historical accounts frequently lead us to believe,but
In this engaging, succinct study of the accomplishments and difficulties of the young American republic, key historical questions are discussed with references to important scholarship. Among the topi
