This “fascinating” (Chicago Tribune), “lively” (The New York Times) history tells how the First Congress and the Washington administration created one of the most productive and far-reaching governmen
The Mexican War introduced vast new territories into the United States, including California and the present-day Southwest. When California settlers petitioned for admission to the Union, Congress was
Washington, D.C., is home to the most influential power brokers in the world. But how did we come to call D.C.—a place once described as a mere swamp "producing nothing except myriads of toads and fro
In Washington, Fergus M. Bordewich turns his eye to the backroom deal making and shifting alliances among our founding fathers and in doing so pulls back the curtain on the lives of slaves who actual
In the face of a new lightly romanticized view of Native Americans, Killing the White Man's Indian bravely confronts the current myths and often contradictory realities of tribal life today. Following
The little known story of perhaps the most productive Congress in US history, the First Federal Congress of 1789–1791.The First Congress was the most important in US history says prizewinning author a
The Mexican War introduced vast new territories into the United States, among them California and the present-day Southwest. When gold was discovered in California in the great Gold Rush of 1849, the
