Society for American Archaeology

Reducere. This book represents a period by period synthesis of southeastern prehistory designed for high school and college students, avocational archaeologi...

Reducere. Jack Hranicky is a retired government contractor who has been involved with archaeology as a full-time passion for over 50 years. His main interest...

Reducere. ABoston Globe Best Non-Fiction Book of 2007 Amazon.com Editors pick as one of the 10 best history books of 200 Winner of the 2007 John Lyman Award ...

Reducere. For thousands of years, Native Americans throughout the Eastern Woodlands and Great Plains used the physical act and visual language of tattooing t...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes the Founding Fathers' quotes about the society *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "Omni...

As a study of presidential image-fashioning, FDR in American Memory will be of immediate relevance to present-day readers.Publisher: Johns Hopkins ...

Reducere. Award NameMinnesota Book AwardAward categoryNonfictionAmerican Indian cultural objects, like most objects, deteriorate over time. Precious and irre...

Reducere. DescriptionWe have a glut of text and trade books on American history. But what we don't have is a compact, inexpensive, authoritative, and compuls...

Reducere. During the early 1890s, a series of shocking lynchings brought unprecedented international attention to American mob violence. This interest create...

Reducere. Blue Jacket (ca. 1743-ca. 1808), or Waweyapiersenwaw, was the galvanizing force behind an intertribal confederacy of unparalleled scope that fought...

Reducere. In Hidden Heroism, Robert Edgerton investigates the history of Afro-American participation in American wars, from the French and Indian War to the ...

Reducere. The Great War of 1914-1918 confronted the United States with one of the most wrenching crises in the nation's history. It also left a residue of di...

Reducere. In Liberty and Insanity in the Age of the American Revolution, Sarah L. Swedberg examines how conceptions of mental illness intersected with Americ...

Law has played a central role in American history. From colonial times to the present, law has not just reflected the changing society in which leg...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Charles MorrisIn the first few decades of the nineteenth century, America went from being a largely rural economy, with lit...

Reducere. What is the Southern tradition and why should anyone study it? If the South is simply the land of racist, backwoods bigots, of people who worship "...

Reducere. Say you found that a few dozen people, operating at the highest levels of society, conspired to create a false ancient history of the American cont...

Reducere. DescriptionA Desperate Mother Searches for Her ChildStep into True Colors -- a new series of Historical Stories of Romance and American Crime Widow...

Reducere. For too long we've lacked a compact, inexpensive, authoritative, and compulsively readable book that offers American readers a clear, informative, ...

In World War I the American motor vehicle industry was tested by the sudden appearance of vast transport challenges. The nation's immense manufactu...

Reducere. A Woman Rice Planter offers insights into a broad spectrum of Southern life after the Civil War. As an account of a woman's struggle for survival a...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Adam D. ShprintzenVegetarianism has been practiced in the United States since the country's founding, yet the early years o...

Reducere. The War for Independence touched virtually every American. It promised liberty, the opportunity for a better life, and the excitement of the battle...

Reducere. The name Joffre Lanning Coe (1916-2000) is synonymous with North Carolina archaeology, and the original publication of this book in 1964 represente...

Reducere. A wide-ranging cultural and political history that will forever redefine a misunderstood decade, Stayin Alive is prize-winning historian Jefferson ...

Zitkala-Sa, also known as Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, was born on the Yankton Sioux reservation in 1876 and went on to become one of the most influent...

Reducere. Zitkala-Sa, also known as Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, was born on the Yankton Sioux reservation in 1876 and went on to become one of the most influent...

Reducere. This visual guide details 60 years of NASA's history through the patches astronauts wore on their space missions Celebrate 60 years of the U.S. spa...

Reducere. The 1676 killing of Metacomet, the tribal leader dubbed "King Philip" by colonists, is commonly seen as a watershed event, marking the end of a blo...

Reducere. Whether conveyed through newspapers, photographs, or Billie Holliday's haunting song "Strange Fruit, " lynching has immediate and graphic connotati...

Reducere. In the early nineteenth century, Protestant missionaries promoted the translation of evangelical hymns into the Ojibwe language, regarding this mus...

Reducere. Renowned American historian and leading horticulturalist Francis Parkman (1823-1893), briefly a Professor of Horticulture at Harvard University and...

Reducere. Chickasaw Society and Religion brings back into print one of the most important ethnographic sources on Chickasaw Indian society and culture ever p...

Reducere. In this audacious recasting of the American Revolution, distinguished historian Gary Nash offers a profound new way of thinking about the struggle ...

Reducere. DescriptionUp to 750, 000 Mexican American men served in World War II, earning more Medals of Honor and other decorations in proportion to their nu...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Philippine-American War between 1899-1902, then keep reading...The Philippine-American War o...

Harriet TubmanSlavery in the United States has left deep, unhealed wounds in American society. It was a dark period in American history that saw th...

"A well-founded and presented description of the integral role that psychoactive substances played in ancient societies. . . . A unique addition to...

Reducere. Rockefeller Medicine Men: Medicine and Capitalism in America By E. Richard Brown Contents Introduction --Doctors --Other Interest Groups --Foundati...

Contributor(s): Author: Roger DanielsIn the thirty-five years after 1890, more than 20 million immigrants came to the United States--a greater numb...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Robert O. SelfAs the birthplace of the Black Panthers and a nationwide tax revolt, California embodied a crucial motif of t...

DescriptionOver the course of the eighteenth century, Anglo-Americans purchased an unprecedented number and array of goods. The Power of Objects in...

Brandeis University is the United States' only Jewish-sponsored nonsectarian university, and while only being established after World War II, it ha...

Reducere. Equality is a fundamental American value. The nation's Declaration of Independence declared equality as a self-evident foundation for political lif...

Want to know more about American military history? U.S. Military History For Dummies presents concise and revealing accounts of all of the nation's...

Refuting the common perception that the American left has a religion problem, Vaneesa Cook highlights an important but overlooked intellectual and ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Fernando PicoOne of Puerto Rico's leading historians, Fernando Pichas had tremendous influence over our currect understandi...

Reducere. The biggest, bloodiest battle ever fought on Texas soil took place in a sandy valley in Atascosa County near the Medina River in 1813, twenty-three...

Reducere. DescriptionBeatriz Williams, the New York Times bestselling author of The Summer Wives, is back with another hot summer read; a dazzling epic of Wo...

A sweeping history of transformative, radical, and abolitionist movements in the United States that places the struggle for racial justice at the c...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Indian War of 1864 chronicles one of the bloodiest conflicts between the European settlers and military forces of the United States,...

Reducere. In 1929, a small group of men and women threw off their clothes and began to exercise in a New York City gymnasium, marking the start of the Americ...

Reducere. From a celebrated military historian, a powerful account of the most pivotal year of the Vietnam War--the cataclysm that forever changed America. T...

DescriptionA woman's heart dares to defy the rules of Victorian society in USA Today bestselling author Caroline Fyffe's novel of romance, royalty,...

The beginning of the Civil Rights Movement can be traced back to slavery and the Civil War. The Thirteenth Amendment of the Constitution gave Afric...

Reducere. Driving While Black demonstrates that the car--the ultimate symbol of independence and possibility--has always held particular importance for Afric...

Reducere. With a new afterword by William Chad Stanley Here a private in the Continental Army of the Revolutionary War narrates his adventures in the army of...

Reducere. What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? (1852) is a novella by Frederick Douglass. Having escaped from slavery in the South at a young age, Freder...

Reducere. What possessed a woman from the elite of eighteenth-century New England society to conspire with American and British soldiers to murder her husban...

Reducere. Daybreak Woman, also known as Jane Anderson Robertson, was born at a trading post on the Minnesota River in 1812 and lived for ninety-two years in ...

Reducere. Pulitzer Prize finalist David Philipps brings to life the chilling story of how today's American heroes are slipping through the fingers of society...

Tells the riveting narrative of the growth, disappearance, and eventual rediscovery of one of the largest free black communities of the nineteenth ...

That churches are one of the most important cornerstones of black political organization is a commonplace. In this history of African American Prot...

Reducere. This is a transnational history of the activist and intellectual network that connected the Black freedom struggle in the United States to liberati...

Reducere. Winner, 2019 Anna Julia Cooper and C.L.R. James Award, given by the National Council for Black Studies Finalist, 2019 Pauli Murray Book Prize in Bl...

Reducere. Description"In this splendid volume, editors Gregory A. Waselkov and Kathryn E. Holland Braund pull together from a variety of published and archiv...

A passionate account of how the gulf between France's metropolitan elites and its working classes are tearing the country apart Christophe Guilluy,...

Reducere. Silver Medal winner for "Military Non-Fiction" category Military Writers Society of America 2008 AwardsThe Sons of the Republic of Texas Presidio L...

Reducere. Historians have often glorified eighteenth-century Virginia planters' philosophical debates about the meaning of American liberty. But according to...

Reducere. A Nation of Women chronicles changing ideas of gender and identity among the Delaware Indians from the mid-seventeenth through the eighteenth centu...