To commemorate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the US Declaration of Independence, also referred to as the United States Semiquincentennial, we are sharing a list of our publications related to American history and culture. This list features highlights from a variety of subject areas, including African American studies, Native American studies, space history and technology, archaeology, colonial history, literature, nature and dance.
If you’re interested in further reading in the subject of archaeology, our series The American Experience in Archaeological Perspective focuses attention on a range of significant themes in the development of the modern world from an Americanist perspective. Each volume explores an event, process, setting, institution, or geographic region that played a formative role in the making of the United States of America as a political, social, and cultural entity.
Political Thought and the Origins of the American Presidency
Ben Lowe
The Emergence of Capitalism in Early America
Christopher W. Calvo
The Archaeology of the American Revolution
Richard F. Veit, Matthew A. Kalos
Historical Archaeology of the Revolutionary War Encampments of Washington’s Army
Cosimo A. Sgarlata, David G. Orr, Bethany A. Morrison
Early Spanish Florida
Unearthing the History of America's Oldest Colony
Judith A. Bense
Fort Mose, Second Edition
Colonial America's Black Fortress of Freedom
Kathleen Deagan, Darcie MacMahon, Jane Landers
Walking St. Augustine
An Illustrated Guide and Pocket History to America's Oldest City
Elsbeth “Buff” Gordon
The History of Florida
Michael Gannon
James Monroe
A Republican Champion
Brook Poston
Jefferson's Poplar Forest
Unearthing a Virginia Plantation
Barbara J. Heath, Jack Gary
The War Worth Fighting
Abraham Lincoln's Presidency and Civil War America
Stephen D. Engle
The Quotable Eleanor Roosevelt
Michele Wehrwein Albion
Monuments and Memory
Archaeological Perspectives on Commemoration
John H. Jameson, Sherene Baugher, Richard Veit
The Archaeology of Contemporary America
William R. Caraher
Living Ceramics, Storied Ground
A History of African American Archaeology
Charles E. Orser Jr.
Black Citizens and American Democracy
Fighting for the Soul of a Nation
Reginald K. Ellis, Jeffrey L. Littlejohn, Peter B. Levy
An American Beach for African Americans
Marsha Dean Phelts
Dreams and Nightmares
Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and the Struggle for Black Equality in America
Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson, Henry Louis Gates Jr.
The Citizenship Education Program and Black Women's Political Culture
Deanna M. Gillespie
Zora Neale Hurston and American Literary Culture
M. Genevieve West
Univision, Telemundo, and the Rise of Spanish-Language Television in the United States
Craig Allen
The Archaeology of American Protests
April M. Beisaw, Dania Jordan-Talley
Everglades
America's Wetland
Mac Stone, Michael Grunwald
Archaeologies of Indigenous Presence
Tsim D. Schneider, Lee M. Panich
We Will Always Be Here
Native Peoples on Living and Thriving in the South
Denise E. Bates
The Democracy Machine
How One Engineer Made Voting Possible For All
Jon Silman, University of Florida
Writing for the Public Good
Essays from David R. Colburn and Senator Bob Graham
Steven Noll, David R. Colburn, Senator Bob Graham
Mission, with a New Preface
An American Congressman's Voyage to Space
Bill Nelson
Picturing Apollo 11
Rare Views and Undiscovered Moments
J. L. Pickering, John Bisney
Picturing the Space Shuttle
The Early Years
John Bisney, J. L. Pickering, Robert L. Crippen
Forever Young
A Life of Adventure in Air and Space
John W. Young, James R. Hansen
NASA and the Long Civil Rights Movement
Brian C. Odom, Stephen P. Waring
NASA and the American South
Brian C. Odom, Stephen P. Waring
Perspectives on American Dance
The Twentieth Century
Jennifer Atkins, Sally R. Sommer, Tricia Henry Young
Perspectives on American Dance
The New Millennium
Jennifer Atkins, Sally R. Sommer, Tricia Henry Young
Todd Bolender, Janet Reed, and the Making of American Ballet
Martha Ullman West