"Because of our shared English language, as well as the celebrated origin tales of the Mayflower and the rebellion of the British colonies, the United States has prized its Anglo heritage above all others. However, as Carrie Gibson explains with great depth and clarity in El Norte, the nation has much older Spanish roots--ones that have long been unacknowledged or marginalized. The Hispanic past of the United States predates the arrival of the Pilgrims...

"Spanning more than two hundred years, An African American and Latinx History of the United States is a revolutionary, politically charged narrative history, arguing that the "Global South" was crucial to the development of America as we know it. Scholar and activist Paul Ortiz challenges the notion of westward progress as exalted by widely taught formulations such as "manifest destiny" and "Jacksonian democracy," and shows how placing African American,...

Text, maps, and illustrations describe Iberian, Native American, and African civilizations and their impact on each other, and trace the development of Hispanic American cultures and their relationships with the United States.

"This wide-ranging overview of the turbulent and little-known history of the diverse Latino experience in America is based on hundreds of interviews and research about the fastest-growing minority in America."--

Offers a fascinating, multifaceted study of influential Hispanic Americans, from Cesar Chavez to Gloria Estefan.

Profiles the lives of Hispanics who helped shape the history of the United States.

The New Republic is the story of how the United States won its freedom with Spain's help and how the new nation dealt with the growing Spanish colonies that bordered it. It is a story of gain and loss, struggle and compromise, that would eventually lead to the end of Spanish rule in the Americas and the emergence of a new Hispanic nation, Mexico.