Fugitive Landscapes: The Forgotten History of the U.S. – Mexico Borderlands Arizona and Sonora have been intricately linked for centuries—well before they were divided by an international boundary and well beyond the establishment of the United States and Mexico boundary. Samuel Truett’s Fugitive Landscapes aims to bring these “forgotten” borderlands to the fore by explaining… Continue reading →

Don H. Doyle, The Cause of All Nations: An International History of the American Civil War (New York: Basic Books, 2015). The impact of the American Civil War extended well beyond the confines of the Union and Confederacy—reaching countries in Europe and the Atlantic World. Historian Don H. Doyle’s The Cause of All Nations explores… Continue reading →

Bondspeople resistance to slavery in the antebellum South was subtle, more often than not. For both men and women it was not common for resistance to take the form of outright violence but instead, as Stephanie Camp’s Closer to Freedom illustrates, was shaped by smaller, every day defiance. These defiance’s included truancy, the use of… Continue reading →