A Companion to 20th-Century America is an authoritative survey of the most important topics and themes of twentieth-century American history and historiography.

• Contains 29 original essays by leading scholars, each assessing the past and current state of American scholarship
  
• Includes thematic essays covering topics such as religion, ethnicity, conservatism, foreign policy, and the media, as well as essays covering major time periods
  
• Identifies and discusses the most influential literature in the field, and suggests new avenues of...

A Companion to the American West is a rigorous, illuminating introduction to the history of the American West. Twenty-five essays by expert scholars synthesize the best and most provocative work in the field and provide a comprehensive overview of themes and historiography.

• Covers the culture, politics, and environment of the American West through periods of migration, settlement, and modernization
  
• Discusses Native Americans and their conflicts and integration with American settlers

A Companion to African American History is a collection of original and authoritative essays arranged thematically and topically, covering a wide range of subjects from the seventeenth century to the present day.

• Analyzes the major sources and the most influential books and articles in the field
  
• Includes discussions of globalization, region, migration, gender, class and social forces that make up the broad cultural fabric of African American history

This volume of original essays by leading scholars is an innovative, thorough introduction to the history and culture of California.

• Includes 30 essays by leading scholars in the field
• Essays range widely across perspectives, including political, social, economic, and environmental history
• Essays with similar approaches are paired and grouped to work as individual pieces and as companions to each other throughout the text
• Produced in association with the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West

A Companion to American Technology is a groundbreaking collection of original essays that analyze the hard-to-define phenomenon of -technology- in America.

• 22 original essays by expert scholars cover the most important features of American technology, including developments in automobiles, television, and computing
• Analyzes the ways in which technologies are organized, such as in the engineering profession, government, medicine and agriculture
• Includes discussions of how technologies interact with race, gender, class, and other organizing structures in...

A Companion to the American South surveys and evaluates the most important and innovative writing on the entire sweep of the history of the southern United States.

• Contains 29 original essays by leading experts in American Southern history.
• Covers the entire sweep of Southern history, including slavery, politics, the Civil War, race relations, religion, and women's history.
• Surveys and evaluates the best scholarship on every important era and topic.
• Summarizes current debates and anticipates future concerns.

A Companion to the Civil War and Reconstruction addresses the key topics and themes of the Civil War era, with 23 original essays by top scholars in the field.

• An authoritative volume that surveys the history and historiography of the U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction
• Analyzes the major sources and the most influential books and articles in the field
• Includes discussions on scholarly advances in U.S. Civil War history.

A Companion to the Meuse-Argonne Campaign explores the single largest and bloodiest battle in American military history, including its many controversies, in historiographical essays that reflect the current state of the field.

• Presents original essays on the French and German participation in ‒ and perspectives on ‒ this important event
• Makes use of original archival research from the United States, France, and Germany
• Contributors include WWI scholars from France, Germany, the United States, and the United Kingdom
• Essays examine...