North American History

In Dreams of El Dorado, H. W. Brands tells the thrilling, panoramic story of the settling of the American West....

In 1528, a mission set out from Spain to colonize Florida. But the expedition went horribly wrong. Of the 300 men who had embarked on the journey, only four survived....

Neither a whitewash nor an expose, Massacre at Mountain Meadows provides the clearest and most accurate account of a key event in American religious history....

Historian Daniel Walker Howe illuminates the period from the Battle of New Orleans to the end of the Mexican-American War....

This exhilarating account delivers a sweeping narrative that encompasses Spanish colonialism, the Civil War, the destruction of the buffalo herds, and the arrival of the railroads....

The first comprehensive historical biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder, the beloved author of the Little House on the Prairie book series....