Few are better prepared than Vardis Fisher to write of the gold rushes and mining camps of the West. He brings together all of the remarkabl...

This wide-ranging volume brings together the commissioned papers that are the basis of James O’Toole and Edward E. Lawler’s The ...

Virtual America traces the complex relationship between Americans, technology, and their environment as it has unfolded over the past sever...

***Winner of the Association of American Publishers' Professional and Scholarly Publishing Award for General Engineering***By applying their...

True or false? "America is falling behind in world competition." The surprise answer is "false." Recent research on industrialized nations s...

Using Muncie, Indiana, as a touchstone, David Nye explores how electricity seeped into and redefined American culture. David E. Nye is Prof...

This compelling saga is the history of the effort to capture the power of the wind for electricity. Environmental historian Robert W. Righte...

This collection offers readers 165 plans with rural character and is a must have for anyone looking to build a country home or bring the rel...

An exploration of the dialogue that emerged after 1776 between different visions of what it meant to use new technologies to transform the l...

The telephone looms large in our lives, as ever present in modern societies as cars and television. Claude Fischer presents the first social...

For over 250 years American technology has been regarded as a unique hallmark of American culture and an important factor in American prospe...

Sometimes it seems that Americans are divided in countless ways—red or blue; black, brown, or white; rich or poor; male or female. Wha...