Early American artists and political thinkers wrestled with the challenges of forming a cohesive, if not coherent, culture and political structure to organize t

"Education for Empire examines how American public schools created and placed children on multiple and uneven paths to "good citizenship." These paths offered v

In Imaginary Empires, Maria O’Malley examines early American texts published between 1767 and 1867 whose narratives represent women’s engagement in the form

Empires, the largest political systems of the ancient and early modern world, powerfully transformed the lives of people within and even beyond their frontiers

Education for Empire brings together topics in American history often treated separately: schools, race, immigration, and empire building. During the Gilded Age