Martin Klimke is research fellow at the German Historical Institute, Washington, DC, and the Heidelberg Center for American Studies at the University of Heidelberg. Using previously classified documents and original interviews, The Other Alliance examines the channels of cooperation between American and West German student movements throughout the 1960s and early 1970s, and the reactions these relationships provoked from the U.S. government. Revising...

Ian Tyrrell is Scientia Professor of History at the University of New South Wales, Australia. His books include Transnational Nation and Historians in Public. Reforming the World offers a sophisticated account of how and why, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, American missionaries and moral reformers undertook work abroad at an unprecedented rate and scale. Looking at various organizations such as the Young Men's Christian Association...

"Winner of the 2011 Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations" "Winner of the 2010 Best First Book Award, Phi Alpha Theta" David Ekbladh is assistant professor of history at Tufts University. The Great American Mission traces how America's global modernization efforts during the twentieth century were a means to remake the world in its own image. David Ekbladh shows that the emerging concept of modernization...

"Winner of the 2013 Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book Award, Immigration and Ethnic History Society" Donna R. Gabaccia is professor of history and former director of the Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota. Her many books include We Are What We Eat and Immigration and American Diversity. A new history exploring U.S. immigration in global context Histories investigating U.S. immigration have often portrayed America as...

Jeffrey A. Engel is director of the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University. Mark Atwood Lawrence is associate professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. Andrew Preston is reader in American history at the University of Cambridge. A one-of-a-kind anthology of primary texts in American foreign relations How should America wield its enormous power beyond its borders? Should it adhere to grand principles or...

This program digs deep into the history of the numerous ghost towns, forts and battles sites throughout the American West. Explore the amazing history of the gold fueled mining towns that left behind a treasure chest of ghostly stories and perhaps even the ghosts themselves.

In this program, we're going to visit the mining ghost towns of the Rocky Mountains. Explore the remnants of this glorious time in American history to explore the remnants of the souls that built these aesthetically haunting and beautiful towns before they vanished from the western frontier.

"Jürgen Osterhammel, Winner of the 2017 Toynbee Prize, Toynbee Prize Foundation" "Jürgen Osterhammel, Winner of the 2012 Gerda Henkel Prize, of the Gerda Henkel Foundation" "One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014" "One of Project Syndicate's Best Reads in 2017 (chosen by Mark Leonard)" "One of Bloomberg Businessweek's Best Books of 2014, chosen by Satiyajit Das" "One of Marginal Revolution.com's (Tyler Cowen) Best Non-Fiction Books...

"Co-Winner of the 2017 World History Association Jerry Bentley Book Prize" Kiran Klaus Patel is the Jean Monnet Professor of European and Global History at Maastricht University in the Netherlands. His books include Soldiers of Labor: Labor Service in Nazi Germany and New Deal America, 1933–1945, and he has edited a number of volumes, including The United States and Germany during the Twentieth Century. The first history of the new deal in global...

"One of BBC History Magazine's Books of the Year" A. G. Hopkins is Emeritus Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History at the University of Cambridge and former Walter Prescott Webb Chair in History at the University of Texas at Austin. His books include Global History: Interactions between the Universal and the Local; Globalization in World History; British Imperialism, 1688–2015; and An Economic History of West Africa. He lives in Cambridge, England....