BANCROFF PRIZE WINNER • King Philip's War, the excruciating racial war -- colonists against Indigenous peoples -- that erupted in New England in 1675, was, in proportion to population, the bloodiest in American history. Some even argued that the ma...
Americans have always put the past to political ends. The Union laid claim to the Revolution-so did the Confederacy. Civil rights leaders said they were the true sons of liberty-so did Southern segregationists. This book tells the story of the cent...