First Americans, Hardcover

More Than Just a Game: The Black Origins of Basketball, Hardcover - Madison Moore

92,99 RON 99,99 RON

Reducere. Today, the NBA is around 74% Black but, when basketball first started to catch on, it wasn't easy for Black people to play. They couldn't enter seg...

albert whitman & company, carti, carte straina, children's

elefant.ro

The Kaepernick Effect: Taking a Knee, Changing the World, Hardcover - Dave Zirin

136,99 RON 146,99 RON

Reducere. Riveting and inspiring first-person stories of how "taking a knee" triggered an awakening in sports, from the celebrated sportswriter"The Kaepernic...

new press, carti, carte straina, society & social sciences

elefant.ro

Forward: Notes on the Future of Our Democracy, Hardcover - Andrew Yang

141,99 RON

A lively and bold blueprint for moving beyond the "era of institutional failure" by transforming our outmoded political and economic systems to be ...

crown publishing group (ny), carti, carte straina, biography

elefant.ro

Accused: My Story of Injustice, Hardcover - Adama Bah

88,99 RON 95,99 RON

Reducere. Adama Bah grew up in East Harlem after immigrating from Conakry, Guinea, and was deeply connected to her community and the people who lived there. ...

norton young readers, carti, carte straina, children's

elefant.ro

Señor Sack: The Life of Gabe Rivera, Hardcover - Jorge Iber

151,99 RON 162,99 RON

Reducere. Gabriel "Gabe" Rivera was one of the greatest players in the history of Texas Tech football. He earned All American status, was enshrined into the ...

texas tech university press, carti, carte straina, biography

elefant.ro

Life Among the Paiutes: Their Wrongs and Claims, Hardcover - Sarah Winnemucca

87,99 RON 94,99 RON

Reducere. Life Among the Paiutes (1883) is a book by Sarah Winnemucca. Written toward the end of a lifetime of advocacy on behalf of Native Americans, Life A...

mint editions, carti, carte straina, biography

elefant.ro

White Men's Law: The Roots of Systemic Racism, Hardcover - Peter Irons

160,99 RON 172,99 RON

Reducere. A searing--and sobering--account of the legal and extra-legal means by which systemic white racism has kept Black Americans 'in their place' from s...

oxford university press, usa, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology

elefant.ro

Bryson Bison's First Homecoming, Hardcover - Derick Bowers

165,99 RON 177,99 RON

Reducere. "Bryson Bison's First Homecoming" is a children's book about a child who attends an HBCU (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) Homecoming ...

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For Home and Country: World War I Propaganda on the Home Front, Hardcover - Celia Malone Kingsbury

344,99 RON 369,99 RON

Reducere. World War I prompted the first massive organized propaganda campaign of the twentieth century. Posters, pamphlets, and other media spread fear abou...

university of nebraska press, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology

elefant.ro

Pendleton, Hardcover - Elizabeth Gibson

166,99 RON 178,99 RON

Reducere. Before Europeans came to the Pendleton area, the Umatilla River valley of eastern Oregon was populated by Native Americans. The Cayuse, Umatilla, W...

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elefant.ro

The Power of Scenery: Frederick Law Olmsted and the Origin of National Parks, Hardcover - Dennis Drabelle

160,99 RON 172,99 RON

Reducere. Featured in Wall Street Journal's 2021 Holiday Gift Books Guide Wallace Stegner called national parks "the best idea we ever had." As Americans cel...

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elefant.ro

Stephen A. Swails: Black Freedom Fighter in the Civil War and Reconstruction, Hardcover - Gordon C. Rhea

157,99 RON 169,99 RON

Reducere. Stephen Atkins Swails is a forgotten American hero. A free Black in the North before the Civil War began, Swails exhibited such exemplary service i...

lsu press, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology

elefant.ro

Northern Liberties: The Story of a Philadelphia River Ward, Hardcover - Harry Kyriakodis

166,99 RON 178,99 RON

Reducere. Since the time of William Penn, the Philadelphia neighborhood of Northern Liberties has had a tradition of hard work and innovation. This former Le...

history press library editions, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology

elefant.ro

Los Angeles's Little Tokyo, Hardcover - ***

166,99 RON 178,99 RON

Reducere. In 1884, a Japanese sailor named Hamanosuke Shigeta made his way to the eastern section of downtown Los Angeles and opened Little Tokyo's first bus...

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elefant.ro

Time in the Wilderness: The Formative Years of John "Black Jack" Pershing in the American West, Hardcover - Tim McNeese

211,99 RON 226,99 RON

Reducere. Most Americans familiar with General John J. "Black Jack" Pershing know him as the commander of American Expeditionary Forces in Europe during the ...

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elefant.ro

The Black Man's President: Abraham Lincoln, African Americans, and the Pursuit of Racial Equality, Hardcover - Michael Burlingame

159,99 RON 171,99 RON

Reducere. Frederick Douglass called the martyred president "emphatically the black man's president" as well as "the first who rose above the prejudice of his...

pegasus books, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology

elefant.ro

The Greek Revolution: 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe, Hardcover - Mark Mazower

196,99 RON 210,99 RON

Reducere. Chosen as one of the top history book of the year by The Economist From one of our leading historians, an important new history of the Greek War of...

penguin press, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology

elefant.ro

Public Education: Spending Less, Achieving Lesser, Hardcover - Daniel Kneip

95,99 RON

Fact: roughly 9 out of 10 Americans attend public school. That means people of all vocations and ages will enjoy reliving their middle school years...

austin macauley, carti, carte straina, children's

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Gourdvine Black and White: Slavery and the Kilby Families of the Virginia Piedmont, Hardcover - Timothy Kilby

121,99 RON 130,99 RON

Reducere. Gourdvine Black and White is the history, biography, and genealogy of one family divided into two by race and the time in which they lived. For fou...

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Haitian Revolution: A Captivating Guide to the Abolition of Slavery, Hardcover - Captivating History

110,00 RON

Explore How the Slaves Freed Themselves in the Haitian RevolutionThe Haitian Revolution was a slave rebellion that began in 1791 in the French colo...

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elefant.ro

Against the Hounds of Hell: A Life of Howard Thurman, Hardcover - Peter Eisenstadt

197,99 RON 211,99 RON

Reducere. An inspiration to Martin Luther King Jr., James Farmer, and other leaders of the civil rights movement, Howard Thurman was a crucial figure in the ...

university of virginia press, carti, carte straina, society & social sciences

elefant.ro

Fears of a Setting Sun: The Disillusionment of America's Founders, Hardcover - Dennis C. Rasmussen

163,99 RON 175,99 RON

Reducere. The surprising story of how George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson came to despair for the future of the nation th...

princeton university press, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology

elefant.ro

Give Me the Now: An Autobiography, Hardcover - Rudolf Zwirner

157,99 RON

Rudolf Zwirner, "the man who invented the art market, " as coined in Der Spiegel, reflects on more than sixty years in the art business in his auth...

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Wilbur Wright Meets Lady Liberty, Hardcover - Robert Burleigh

107,99 RON

In Robert Burleigh's nonfiction picture book Wilbur Wright Meets Lady Liberty, illustrated by Wendell Minor, two American icons meet during Wilbur ...

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Grace & Steel: Dorothy, Barbara, Laura, and the Women of the Bush Dynasty, Hardcover - J. Randy Taraborrelli

151,99 RON

From New York Times bestselling celebrity biographer J. Randy Taraborrelli comes Grace & Steel, the epic, hidden history of the exceptional women b...

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elefant.ro

Framing First Contact, Volume 38: From Catlin to Russell, Hardcover - Kate Elliott

343,99 RON 368,99 RON

Reducere. Representations of first contact--the first meetings of European explorers and Native Americans--have always had a central place in our nation's hi...

university of oklahoma press, carti, carte straina, the arts

elefant.ro

Native Providence: Memory, Community, and Survivance in the Northeast, Hardcover - Patricia E. Rubertone

672,99 RON 720,99 RON

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...

university of nebraska press, carti, carte straina, society & social sciences

elefant.ro

The Strange Genius of Mr. O: The World of the United States' First Forgotten Celebrity, Hardcover - Carolyn Eastman

238,99 RON 255,99 RON

Reducere. When James Ogilvie arrived in America in 1793, he was a deeply ambitious but impoverished teacher. By the time he returned to Britain in 1817, he h...

university of north carolina press, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology

elefant.ro

We Need to Hang Out: A Memoir of Making Friends, Hardcover - Billy Baker

125,99 RON

In this comic adventure through the loneliness epidemic, a middle-aged everyman looks around one day and realizes that he seems to have misplaced h...

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elefant.ro

Dinner at Omar Khayyam's, Hardcover - George Mardikian

224,99 RON 240,99 RON

Reducere. This is a new edition of the 1944 classic by George Mardikian, America's first celebrity chef. Omar Khayyam's is an Armenian restaurant with a Pers...

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elefant.ro

The Idealist: Wendell Willkie's Wartime Quest to Build One World, Hardcover - Samuel Zipp

231,99 RON

"The Idealist is a powerful book, gorgeously written and consistently insightful. Samuel Zipp uses the 1942 world tour of Wendell Willkie to examin...

belknap press, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology

elefant.ro

United States History in Rhyme: A Child's First History Book: A Must Read for All Americans, Hardcover - Larry Markus

135,99 RON 145,99 RON

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

westbow press, carti, carte straina, society & social sciences

elefant.ro

The Night Watchman, Hardcover - Louise Erdrich

149,99 RON 160,99 RON

Reducere. New York Times BestsellerBased on the extraordinary life of National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich's grandfather who worked as a night w...

harper, carti, carte straina, children's

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A Long, Long Way: Hollywood's Unfinished Journey from Racism to Reconciliation, Hardcover - Greg Garrett

132,99 RON 142,99 RON

Reducere. From the beginning, American cinema has been both a powerful mythmaker and a social critic. D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation, arguably the first f...

oxford university press, usa, carti, carte straina, the arts

elefant.ro

Blood and Germs: The Civil War Battle Against Wounds and Disease, Hardcover - Gail Jarrow

121,99 RON 130,99 RON

Reducere. Acclaimed author Gail Jarrow, recipient of a 2019 Robert F. Sibert Honor Award, explores the science and grisly history of U.S. Civil War medicine,...

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elefant.ro

Redress: The Inside Story of the Successful Campaign for Japanese American Reparations, Hardcover - John Tateishi

156,99 RON 167,99 RON

Reducere. This is the unlikely but true story of the Japanese American Citizens League's fight for an official government apology and compensation for the im...

heyday, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology

elefant.ro

African American History: A Captivating Guide to the People and Events that Shaped the History of the United States, Hardcover - Captivating History

154,99 RON 165,99 RON

Reducere. Explore Captivating Stories and Facts about African American History The history of African Americans is a long and tragic chronicle of events. The...

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elefant.ro

Accordionly: Abuelo and Opa Make Music, Hardcover - Michael Genhart

84,99 RON 90,99 RON

Reducere. When both grandpas, Abuelo and Opa, visit at the same time, they can't understand each other's language and there is a lot of silence. The grandson...

magination press, carti, carte straina, children's

elefant.ro

Let's Talk About It: Por La Buena O La Mala, Hardcover - Lizbel Ortiz

170,99 RON 182,99 RON

Reducere. As first-generation Americans raised by Caribbean parents, many of us have spent a lot of time having intense discussions in our living rooms, barb...

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elefant.ro

The Highest Tribute: Thurgood Marshall's Life, Leadership, and Legacy, Hardcover - Kekla Magoon

123,99 RON

A brilliant picture book biography about Thurgood Marshall, who fought for equality during the Civil Rights Movement and served as the first Black ...

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elefant.ro

The Fight for Free Speech: Ten Cases That Define Our First Amendment Freedoms, Hardcover - Ian Rosenberg

152,99 RON 163,99 RON

Reducere. A user's guide to understanding contemporary free speech issues in the United States Americans today are confronted by a barrage of questions relat...

new york university press, carti, carte straina, law

elefant.ro

American Awakening: Identity Politics and Other Afflictions of Our Time, Hardcover - Joshua Mitchell

185,99 RON

America has always been committed to the idea that citizens can work together to build a common world. Today, three afflictions keep us from pursui...

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elefant.ro

Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019, Hardcover - Ibram X. Kendi

179,99 RON 192,99 RON

Reducere. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A chorus of extraordinary voices tells the epic story of the four-hundred-year journey of African Americans from 161...

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The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, 1: A Photographic History, Hardcover - Karlos K. Hill

215,99 RON 231,99 RON

Reducere. On the evening of May 31, 1921, and in the early morning hours of June 1, several thousand white citizens and authorities violently attacked the Af...

university of oklahoma press, carti, carte straina, society & social sciences

elefant.ro

8 Miraculous Months in the Malayan Jungle: A WWII Pilot's True Story of Faith, Courage, and Survival, Hardcover - II Humphrey, Donald J. Dj

158,99 RON 170,99 RON

Reducere. Book DescriptionA Grueling Survival Story About a WWII Hero's Fight for FreedomOn January 11, 1945, Major Donald J. Humphrey had his B-29 Superfort...

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Engine of Inequality: The Fed and the Future of Wealth in America, Hardcover - Karen Petrou

144,99 RON

The first book to reveal how the Federal Reserve holds the key to making us more economically equal, written by an author with unparalleled experti...

wiley, carti, carte straina, economics

elefant.ro

Classified: The Secret Career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee Aerospace Engineer, Hardcover - Traci Sorell

109,99 RON 117,99 RON

Reducere. Mary Golda Ross designed classified airplanes and spacecraft as Lockheed Aircraft Corporation's first female engineer. Find out how her passion for...

millbrook press (tm), carti, carte straina, children's

elefant.ro

Asphalt: A History, Hardcover - Kenneth O'Reilly

164,99 RON 176,99 RON

Reducere. La Brea Tar Pits once trapped prehistoric mammals. Today that killer has a chemical cousin in the Athabasca oil sands of Alberta, Canada--immense d...

university of nebraska press, carti, carte straina, technology

elefant.ro

A Pair of Wings: A Novel Inspired by Pioneer Aviatrix Bessie Coleman, Hardcover - Carole Hopson

196,99 RON 210,99 RON

Reducere. A Pair of Wings is a novel based on the life of pioneer aviatrix Bessie Coleman. Arriving in Chicago in 1915 from Waxahachie, Texas, Coleman is amo...

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elefant.ro

In Our Reach: How Resourceful Employees Build and Preserve Wealth at Work, Hardcover - Tony Verheyen

161,99 RON 173,99 RON

Reducere. Why were so many Americans unprepared for COVID-19's financial fallout? Within weeks or months, it eviscerated their earnings, savings, credit, inv...

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Italians in the Lowcountry: Sunny Italy's Charleston Colony, Hardcover - Christina Rae Butler

342,99 RON 366,99 RON

Reducere. Italians in the Lowcountry is the first book to explore the contributions and legacies of the Italian and Italian American community in Charleston,...

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elefant.ro

American Survivors: Trans-Pacific Memories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Hardcover - Naoko Wake

165,99 RON 177,99 RON

Reducere. American Survivors is a fresh and moving historical account of U.S. survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, breaking new ground no...

cambridge university press, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology

elefant.ro

War Is All Hell: The Nature of Evil and the Civil War, Hardcover - Edward J. Blum

325,99 RON 348,99 RON

Reducere. During his first inaugural address, Abraham Lincoln expressed hope that the better angels of our nature would prevail as war loomed. He was wrong. ...

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elefant.ro

Opening the Road: Victor Hugo Green and His Green Book, Hardcover - Keila V. Dawson

109,99 RON 117,99 RON

Reducere. Hungry? Check the Green Book. Tired? Check the Green Book. Sick? Check the Green Book. In the late 1930s when segregation was legal and Black Ameri...

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Charcutería: The Soul of Spain, Hardcover - Jeffrey Weiss

214,99 RON

2015 James Beard Award nominee 2015 Gourmand World Cookbook Award nominee An updated and redesigned edition of Charcutería: The Soul of Spain, the ...

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Pulp Empire: The Secret History of Comic Book Imperialism, Hardcover - Paul S. Hirsch

179,99 RON 192,99 RON

Reducere. In the 1940s and '50s, comic books were some of the most popular--and most unfiltered--entertainment in the United States. Publishers sold hundreds...

university of chicago press, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology

elefant.ro

Issei Baseball: The Story of the First Japanese American Ballplayers, Hardcover - Robert K. Fitts

164,99 RON 176,99 RON

Reducere. Baseball has been called America's true melting pot, a game that unites us as a people. Issei Baseball is the story of the pioneers of Japanese Ame...

university of nebraska press, carti, carte straina, biography

elefant.ro

Long Island Beaches, Hardcover - Kristen J. Nyitray

166,99 RON 178,99 RON

Reducere. For centuries, Long Island's beaches have provided sustenance, relaxation, and inspiration. The coastline is renowned for its sandy Atlantic Ocean ...

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elefant.ro

Diminishing the Bill of Rights, Volume 3: Barron V. Baltimore and the Foundations of American Liberty, Hardcover - William Davenport Mercer

298,99 RON 319,99 RON

Reducere. The modern effort to locate American liberties, it turns out, began in the mud at the bottom of Baltimore harbor. John Barron Jr. and John Craig su...

university of oklahoma press, carti, carte straina, law

elefant.ro

A Pledge with Purpose: Black Sororities and Fraternities and the Fight for Equality, Hardcover - Gregory S. Parks

292,99 RON 313,99 RON

Reducere. Reveals the historical and political significance of "The Divine Nine"--the Black Greek Letter Organizations In 1905, Henry Arthur Callis began his...

new york university press, carti, carte straina, society & social sciences

elefant.ro

City of Big Shoulders: A History of Chicago, Hardcover - Robert G. Spinney

350,99 RON

City of Big Shoulders links key events in Chicago's development, from its marshy origins in the 1600s to today's robust metropolis. Robert G. Spinn...

northern illinois university press, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology

elefant.ro

African Americans in Mercer County, Hardcover - Roland Barksdale-Hall

143,99 RON

African Americans in Mercer County have a legacy spanning two centuries of progress. Runaway slaves secreted along stations of the Underground Rail...

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elefant.ro

Homewood, Hardcover - Martha Wurtele

166,99 RON 178,99 RON

Reducere. Shades Valley was primarily used as a hunting ground by Native Americans until the arrival of the first white settlers in the 1830s. During Birming...

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elefant.ro

Hidden History of Ridgefield, Connecticut, Hardcover - Jack Sanders

164,99 RON 176,99 RON

Reducere. Time nearly erased many astounding tales and unexpected anecdotes from Ridgefield's history. Its colorful characters include a widow who built a la...

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Fort Monmouth, Hardcover - Wendy A. Rejan

155,99 RON

The U.S. Army established Fort Monmouth in June 1917, just a few months after Congress declared war on Germany. It initially served as a signal tra...

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elefant.ro

Randolph, Hardcover - Gail M. Hari

155,99 RON

Throughout its history, Randolph has had a diverse array of residents, including the Minsi Native Americans, European settlers, and Jewish immigran...

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elefant.ro

Church Street: The Sugar Hill of Jackson, Mississippi, Hardcover - Grace Sweet

166,99 RON 178,99 RON

Reducere. The 1930s and 1940s saw unprecedented prosperity for the African Americans of Jackson's Church Street. From the first black millionaire in the Unit...

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elefant.ro

Oregon Wine: A Deep Rooted History, Hardcover - Scott Stursa

180,99 RON 193,99 RON

Reducere. The history of winemaking in Oregon is steeped in legends so well known they've become gospel, but reality is even more fascinating. Discover the t...

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elefant.ro

African Americans of Canton, Ohio: Treasures of Black History, Hardcover - Nadine McIlwain

172,99 RON 185,99 RON

Reducere. From Canton's earliest days, the black population has contributed to the city's, and even the nation's, prominence and prosperity. During World War...

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elefant.ro

Woodland Mounds in West Virginia, Hardcover - Darla Spencer

164,99 RON 176,99 RON

Reducere. The first Europeans to arrive in the Ohio Valley were intrigued and puzzled by the many conical earthen mounds they encountered there. They created...

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