American Histories: Stories

Reducere. From ancient rock drawings to today's urban living, the Native American Almanac: More than 50, 000 Years of the Cultures and Histories of Indigenou...

Reducere. American author and poet Carl Sandburg, best known for the poetry that attributed to two of his three Pulitzer Prizes, also wrote histories, biogra...

Reducere. Roanoke, Virginia, is one of America's great historic railroad centers. The Norfolk & Western Railway Company, now the Norfolk Southern Corporation...

DescriptionThe first comparative history of African American and Black British artists, artworks, and art movements, Stick to the Skin traces the l...

Examines a set of perennial narrative motifs centred on violence within the family as they have appeared in French, English, Spanish, and American ...

Reducere. DescriptionBefore the time of books, computers, tablets and recording devices, the history of many cultures was passed down, from person to person,...

Reducere. DescriptionBefore the time of books, computers, tablets and recording devices, the history of many cultures was passed down, from person to person,...

Reducere. DescriptionThe mythology of the North America Indians is a cultural treasure trove, but many of these myths and legends have been hidden away in ma...

Reducere. Across four centuries, Apache (Ndé) peoples in the North American West confronted enslavement and forced migration schemes intended to exploit, sub...

Reducere. The captivating story of how a diverse group of women, including Janet Reno and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, broke the glass ceiling and changed the modern...

Reducere. Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. California Studies. Film. SAVAGE PAGEANT recounts the history of the defunct zoo, Jungleland, which housed ...

Sugar, Smoke, Song is a collection of ten linked stories set in the Bronx, California, India, and Brazil. Following the secrets and passions of you...

A history of Americans who spied against their country and what their stories reveal about national securityWhat's your secret?American Spies prese...

Reducere. Haunted Histories takes readers on a state-by-state journey across the United States, exploring the nation's most feared places. Along the way, the...

Native Americans used games, myths, dance, and impersonation to teach the children of their history and ways of life. They did not write down or re...

Reducere. The mythology of the North America Indians is a cultural treasure trove, but many of these myths and legends have been hidden away in many old book...

Reducere. Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 - November 28, 1859) was an American short-story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the earl...

Reducere. Dr. Theresa Milk's HASKELL INSTITUTE: 19th CENTURY STORIES OF SACRIFICE AND SURVIVAL presents American Indian/Alaskan Native student stories from e...

Reducere. DescriptionWith Stand by Me, Jim Downs rewrites the history of gay life in the 1970s, arguing that the decade was about much more than sex and marc...

DescriptionRace remains a potent and divisive force in our society. Whether it is the shooting of minority people by the police, the mass incarcera...

Reducere. The story Raven and the Box of Daylight, which tells how Raven transformed the world and brought light to the people by releasing the stars, moon, ...

Reducere. New York Times bestselling author and star of A&E's Duck Dynasty, Willie Robertson, teams up with William Doyle, the bestselling coauthor of Americ...

"We the People." The Constitution begins with those deceptively simple words, but how do Americans define that "We"? In We the People, Ben Railton ...

Reducere. In Mostly Water, essays form a linked memoir that explores the American outback from eastern Oregon horse trails to the arctic and subarctic river ...

Reducere. It is hard to love the high, cold plains of the American West. They are vast and harsh and demanding. And perhaps because they are so hard to love,...

Reducere. This lively and engaging book is the only popular work to explore the profound impact of Ancient Greece and Rome on the Founding Fathers. The class...

Reducere. Ernest Thompson Seton's Masterpiece Manual on Outdoor Life, Camping, and Native American LoreThis deluxe unabridged reprint Legacy Edition of origi...

Reducere. "Who are we?" Ms. Johansson asks her class of fifth graders. Her perplexed students soon discover the lesson she wants them to learn. While studyin...

DescriptionRichly detailed and full of engaging stories, this charming guide traces the history of Chicago's unparalleled architecture. Meticulousl...

A new history of Middle East oil and the deep roots of American violence in Iraq. Iraq has been the site of some of the United States' longest and ...

Reducere. DescriptionDrawn from Hanford History Project personal narratives, Nowhere to Remember highlights life in Hanford, White Bluffs, and Richland--thre...

DescriptionThe first book of its kind, this stunning atlas showcases America's spectacular park system from coast to coast, richly illustrated with...

Reducere. Enduring Critical Poses examines the stories, poems, plays, and histories centered in the Great Lakes region of North America, where the Anishinaab...

Reducere. Beyond the Mountains explores the ways in which Appalachia often served as a laboratory for the exploration and practice of American conceptions of...

Reducere. A city of modest size, Providence, Rhode Island, had the third-largest Native American population in the United States by the first decade of the n...

DescriptionThis inspiring anthology is the first to convey the rich experiences and contributions of women in the American military in their own wo...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Karina Oliva AlvaradoEditor: Alicia Ivonne EstradaEditor: Ester E. HernandezIn summer 2014, a surge of unaccompanied child ...

Reducere. In The Story of America, Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore investigates American origin stories--from John Smith's account ...

Reducere. The first comprehensive view of women on the North American Plains, these essays explore the richness, variety, and complexity of their experiences...

Reducere. Old Man River, Paul Schneider's exploration of America's great waterway--taking the reader from the Mississippi River's origins to its polluted pre...

Reducere. Alaska is home to more than two hundred federally recognized tribes. Yet the long histories and diverse cultures of Alaska's first peoples are ofte...

Reducere. Forever a Soldier captures the personal side of war in 37 extraordinary narratives that bear eloquent witness to both the life-changing experience ...

Montana's hot springs and hot water resorts bubble with fascinating histories of medical cures, Native American legends, glittering spas, and isola...

Reducere. We think we know the story of women's suffrage in the United States: women met at Seneca Falls, marched in Washington, D.C., and demanded the vote ...

Reducere. As a child growing up in rural Oklahoma, Donald Fixico often heard "hvmakimata"--"that's what they used to say"--a phrase Mvskoke Creeks and Semino...

A new historical anthology from transatlantic slavery to the Reconstruction curated by the Schomburg Center, that makes the case for focusing on th...

Reducere. We Are Owed. is the debut poetry collection of Ariana Brown, exploring Black relationality in Mexican and Mexican American spaces. Through poems ab...

Reducere. This book is a compilation of histories-both personal and general-including all Seabee units that served on Iwo but concentrating primarily on the ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Tim HashawSome oppressed groups fought with guns, some fought in court, some exercised civil disobedience; the Melungeons, ...

World-renowned illustrator Seth returns with three new Christmas ghost stories for 2020.Retired officer Colonel Mortimer takes a lease on the mansi...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: James N. GregoryBetween 1900 and the 1970s, twenty million southerners migrated north and west. Weaving together for the fi...

Reducere. Noor Inayat Khan (1914-1944) was SOE's first woman wireless transmitter in German Occupied Paris during World War II. Posthumously awarded the Geor...

Reducere. During the Great Depression, more than 250, 000 children left their homes and hopped freight trains crisscrossing the United States. They were look...

During the American Civil War, women on both sides of the conflict, radiating patriotic fervor equal to their male counterparts, contributed to the...

Reducere. The Unnaming of Aliass performs a paradoxical quest for wildly "untold" stories in the company of one special donkey companion, a femammal of the s...

In the bestselling tradition of The Presidents Club and Presidential Courage, White House history as told through the stories of the best friends a...

Winner of the PEN/Open Book AwardWinner of The Story Prize Spotlight Award A kaleidoscopic portrait of five generations scattered across Asia and t...

Latinos are already the largest minority group in the United States, and experts estimate that by 2050, one out of three Americans will identify as...

Reducere. Unique poems that bring history to life by weaving narratives of the Salem Witch Trials with stories of contemporary women. Set against the histori...

Reducere. Award NameIndieFab awardsAward categoryRegional BookThe long-intertwined communities of the Oglala Lakota Pine Ridge Reservation and the bordering ...

Reducere. In this classic portrait of Jews in the South, Eli N. Evans takes readers inside the nexus of southern and Jewish histories, from the earliest immi...

Reducere. In 1935, in the depths of the Great Depression, Franklin Roosevelt issued an executive order creating the Federal Writers' Project (FWP). Out-of-wo...

Reducere. Even after WWI had ended, the region of Arizona, New Mexico, and West Texas stubbornly refused to be tamed. It was still a place where frontier gun...

Reducere. The long-intertwined communities of the Oglala Lakota Pine Ridge Reservation and the bordering towns in Sheridan County, Nebraska, mark their histo...

Reducere. Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. THIS IS HOW THE BONE SINGS by W. Todd Kaneko carries the pulse of ancient lament through the boneyards of w...

Home to over 730, 000 people, with close to four million people living in the metropolitan area, Seattle has the third-highest homeless population ...