Margins and Mainstreams: Asians in American History and Culture, Paperback - Gary Y. Okihiro

Reducere. DescriptionIn this classic book on the meaning of multiculturalism in larger American society, Gary Okihiro explores the significance of Asian Amer...

States of Exception in American History brings to light the remarkable number of instances since the Founding in which the protections of the Const...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Dana PolanIllustration(s): 25 b-w illustrationsNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2021Dimens...

DescriptionPictures with Purpose, the seventh volume in the Double Exposure series, explores images from the NMAAHC's collection of nineteenth and ...

Reducere. Bad Guys in American History recounts the events related to our country's most compelling outlaws, from colonial times to the 1930s. Complete with ...

The Latinx revolution in US culture, society, and politics

See the times as they were, the people, the places, the food, the importance of events as they happened. From Columbus boyhood to his discovery voy...

Collecting from the Margins: Material Culture in a Latin American is the first anthology to provide a sustained discussion of the modern practice o...

Reducere. Race and Membership in American History: The Eugenics Movement focuses on a time in the early 1900s when many people believed that some "races, " c...

Reducere. There are many legacies within American history that have been inadvertently forgotten. The book pays homage to one such forgotten legacy--the role...

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 ...

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 ...

DescriptionEach biography ties the present generation to the past through a concise, but fact-filled manner. These men and women are inspirations, ...

This is the sordid chronicle of the U-boat war against merchant shipping along the American eastern seaboard in World War Two. Between January 14, ...

Reducere. An important work in the field of diaspora studies for the past decade, this collection has inspired scholars and others to explore a trail blazed ...

Dr. Samuel W. Mitcham, Jr. is distinguished as a historian who provides original and illuminating insights into familiar aspects of the War Between...

A brilliantly illuminating and darkly comic tale of the ongoing financial and political crisis in America The financial crisis that exploded in 200...

DescriptionSpike Lee's challenging film Bamboozled (2000) is often read as a surface level satire of blackface minstrelsy. Careful analysis, howeve...

Steve Fraser is the preeminent historian of America as a capitalist civilization

Reducere. This unique two-volume set combines selected pairs of documents from Greenhaven's Opposing Viewpoints: American History Series with other carefully...

This unique two-volume set combines selected pairs of documents from Greenhaven's Opposing Viewpoints: American History Series with other carefully...

In Destruction of the Steamboat Sultana: The Worst Maritime Disaster in American History paroled prisoners, civilian passengers, guards, crewmember...

Reducere. NATIONAL BESTSELLEREdgar Award NomineeOne of the Best Books of the Year: O, The Oprah Magazine, Time, The Washington Post, The Christian Science Mo...

Reducere. The first Korean adoptees were powerful symbols of American superiority in the Cold War; as Korean adoption continued, adoptees' visibility as Asia...

Reducere. A devastating loss of life and a community's response March 4, 1908, was an ordinary morning in Collinwood, Ohio, a village about ten miles outside...

National Security and Core Values in American History - William O. Walker III

Reducere. At 3: 17 p.m. on March 18, 1937, a natural gas leak beneath the London Junior-Senior High School in the oil boomtown of New London, Texas, created ...

Reducere. In August 1862 the worst massacre in U.S. history unfolded on the Minnesota prairie, launching what has come to be known as the Dakota War, the mos...

In a panoramic history of our criminal justice system from Colonial times to today, one of our foremost legal thinkers shows how America fashioned ...

Reducere. DescriptionSee the times as they were, the people, the places, the food, the importance of events as they happened. From Columbus boyhood to his di...

Reducere. African Americans have made substantial contributions to the sporting world, and vice versa. This wide-ranging collection of new essays explore the...