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The suicide of acclaimed author Iris Chang, who has received numerous accolades for her work, has brought considerable attention to this encompassing creation. She employed meticulous research in this epic of Chinese- American history. The Chinese made outstanding achievements in politics, economics, and science. Despite 150 years of repression, their emotionally charged stories reveal their determination to avert racism and exclusionary laws. Their dreams, struggles and triumphs exemplify the spirit of America.

The Constitution is so exalted that many Americans fail to realize it was just barely approved as the supreme law of the land. In Virginia, the most influential state at the time, the debate over ratification developed into a titanic struggle between political heavyweights James Madison and Patrick Henry. Even after Madison promised to add a Bill of Rights to mollify anti-Federalists, Henry fought his rival bitterly, ensuring that Madison's political path was strewn with obstacles.

Carnes illuminates the dark corners of our nation's past and traces our ongoing efforts to live up to the American ideals of equality and justice. Fourteen case studies bring readers a first-hand account of the history and psychology of intolerance.

Bausum compares and contrasts the childhoods of John Lewis and James Zwerg in a way that helps young readers understand the segregated experience of our nation's past. The book shows how a common interest in justice created the convergent path that enabled these young men to meet as Freedom Riders on a bus journey south.

Saint Louis University professor Thomas F. Madden delivers lectures on the history of the papacy and also sheds light on the personalities of the popes and the flavor of their pontificates. At the same time, Madden demonstrates how the papacy has survived the tumultuous cauldron of history and offers a studied commentary on the future of this resilient institution.

Saint Louis University professor Thomas Madden delivers a series of lectures exploring all facets of the Inquisition, including the religious and political climate of its time and the Inquisition's relationship to heresy and reformation. He imparts an understanding of the Spanish and Roman Inquisitions while dispelling popular myths associated with the subject.

Saint Louis University professor Thomas F. Madden delivers lectures on the history of the early Church and the spread of Christianity through the Roman Empire.

In this course, Saint Louis University professor Thomas F. Madden focuses on a Church both adapting to a world in flux and striving to exert its influence and power. Throughout modernity, the Church responded to--and weathered--a host of major world events: the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, colonization of the New World, and of course the World Wars that in large part defined the twentieth century.

In this course, London Metropolitan University British and Commonwealty history professor Denis Judd will examine the growth and development of the largest empire in world history--the British Empire--beginning with the late 15th-century Tudor dynasty in England and ending with the death of the Queen-Empress Victoria in 1901.

In the 1950s and 1960s, the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission compiled secret files on more than 87,000 private citizens in the most extensive state spying program in U.S. history. Its mission: to save segregation.