One of NPR's Best Books of 2014! After witnessing a devastating incident in Darfur, Alex Baines is stripped of his security clearance and relegated to a desk jo

The Great American Mission traces how America's global modernization efforts during the twentieth century were a means to remake the world in its own image. Dav

The fascinating story of American efforts to liberate and remake Russia since the 1880s.

Mason LaVerle is a young man on a mission–a mission to save his people’s way of life. Mason was raised in a tiny, isolated Montanan sect, the church of the

Before this book first appeared in 1963, most historians wrote as if the continental expansion of the United States were inevitable. "What is most impressive,"