Reflecting on his career, Stephen E. Ambrose - one of the country's most influential historians - confronts America's failures and struggles as he explores both its moral and pragmatic triumphs. To America celebrates the men and women who invented the United States and made it exceptional. Taking a few swings at today's political correctness, Ambrose grapples with the country's historic sins of racism, its neglect and ill treatment of Native Americans,...

"The United States is in the grip of a crisis of bad history. Inaccurate interpretations and outright misrepresentations of the past-cultivated within and promoted by the conservative movement and right-wing media over the last several decades-hold sway among large numbers of Americans, damaging our public discourse. In Myth America, historians Kevin Kruse and Julian Zelizer have assembled an all-star team of historians to provide textured analysis...

"From the birth of the Republican Party to the Confederacy's first convention, the Underground Railroad to the Emancipation Proclamation, the Battle of Gettysburg to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies: The Civil War reveals the amazing and often little known stories behind the battle lines of America's bloodiest war and debunks the myths that surround its greatest figures, including Harriet Tubman, Abraham Lincoln,...

This volume arises out of special concerns of historians who are also Christians. What case can be made for connecting historical work and religious convictions? What is the relation of faith to history? What difference could Christian perspectives make in historical study? Thirteen respected scholars-including some who have changed the face of history writing in the twentieth century-here take up a diversity of subjects in giving a provisional answer...

No es sólo la historia o las humanidades, es el mundo el que está cambiando, en ocasiones de forma estimulante; en otras, de una manera que nos sobresalta. Muy pocos son los que pueden presumir de comprender esa mutación. En medio de la transformación digital, zarandeados por el remolino del cambio, la sensación de confusión y desconcierto es inevitable. Este volumen se ofrece como ayuda, como guía para comprender algunos de los fenómenos...

Los cabildos municipales fueron los primeros instrumentos de organización y acción política utilizados en América durante el proceso de conquista y representaban directamente a los primeros fundadores y pobladores de las ciudades. A lo largo de la época colonial, su papel de esqueleto administrativo sobre el cual la monarquía hispánica asentó su presencia en el continente americano fue evolucionando. Así, durante el siglo XVIII la mayor parte...

This book presents a series of case studies and thought-provoking essays arguing for a radical approach to history and providing a revisionist interpretation of the historian's role. In a new introduction, the author responds to critics of his original work and comments further on the radicalization of history.

¿Queda algo por contar del descubrimiento de las Cuevas de Altamira? ¿Cómo fueron los hallazgos de las pinturas paleolíticas posteriores? ¿Qué relación hay entre los trenes, los balnearios y las cuevas prehistóricas? ¿Eran negros los pintores de Altamira? El profesor Manuel González Morales reúne el trabajo de muchos años de investigación y lo condensa en este breve, divulgativo y apasionante ensayo con el que pretende buscar explicaciones...

A thought-provoking new book from one of America's finest historians "History," wrote James Baldwin, "does not refer merely, or even principally, to the past. On the contrary, the great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history is literally present in all that we do." Rarely has Baldwin's insight been more forcefully confirmed than during the past few decades. History...