Thanksgiving: The Biography of an American Holiday, Paperback - James W. Baker

Reducere. The origins and ever-changing story of America's favorite holidayAbout the AuthorJAMES W. BAKER was the director of research at Plimoth Plantation ...

Reducere. We all know the story of Thanksgiving. Or do we? This uniquely American holiday has a rich and little known history beyond the famous feast of 1621...

Reducere. We all know the story of Thanksgiving. Or do we? This uniquely American holiday has a rich and little known history beyond the famous feast of 1621...

Reducere. EUREKA! Great things happen when science crosses history! Discover the all-true stories of your favorite inventions with this new multicultural STE...

Reducere. EUREKA! Great things happen when science crosses history! Discover the all-true stories of your favorite inventions with this new multicultural STE...

Reducere. EUREKA! Great things happen when science crosses history! Discover the all-true stories of your favorite inventions with this new multicultural STE...

Reducere. EUREKA! Great things happen when science crosses history! Discover the all-true stories of your favorite inventions with this new multicultural STE...

Reducere. Not so long ago, in a small island nation in the South Pacific, beekeepers produced a most peculiar honey. It was much darker than the clover honey...

Reducere. DescriptionHARRY TRUMANThis book covers the topic of Harry Truman, one of the most influential US Presidents in history. Truman was sworn in as the...

Reducere. Veteran science writer Jon Luoma uncovers the inner workings of an ancient forest, from the microscopic bugs in the soil to the giant trees.

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 ...

Reducere. In this authoritative biography of the congressman and civil rights activist Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., Prof. Hamilton reassesses the man's unique a...

Reducere. Delmore Schwartz was only twenty-four in 1938 when his first book, In Dreams Begin Responsibilities, was published. and received praise from T. S. ...

Plymouth is best known as the destination of the Mayflower. The Pilgrims, their heirs, and more recent immigrants spent their lives here as farmers...

Reducere. Get to know the iconic historical figure, Frederick Douglass through his story and his writing as the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass d...

Reducere. Johnny Cash is one of the most influential figures in music and American popular culture today. While he was an icon to people of all ages during h...

Reducere. A New York Times Bestseller and New York Times Notable Book Robert Merry's brilliant and highly acclaimed history of a crucial epoch in U.S. histor...

At the age of 19, scared and illiterate, James Pennington escaped from slavery in 1827 and soon became one of the leading voices against slavery pr...

From two of America's most revered political journalists comes the definitive biography of legendary White House chief of staff and secretary of st...

Reducere. DescriptionFlyin' Floyd" Gilbert was a blue-collar hero from the golden age of dirt racing. Hailed as an "icon of dirt track racing" during his ind...

Reducere. A story of one family's love and courage in the Jim Crow-era Deep South In defiance of his middle-class landowning family, a young white man named ...

Reducere. The controversial president whose time in office was defined by the September 11 attacks and the war on terrorGeorge W. Bush stirred powerful feeli...

A biography of the poet and libertine the Earl of Rochester.Publisher: Boydell & Brewer LtdAuthor(s): James W. (Customer) James W. JohnsonIllustrat...

Reducere. Through the postwar collective innocence of the 1950s and sucked into the swirling vortex of the 1960s counterculture in Washington DC, the author,...

Reducere. As A. N. Wilson, biographer of Tolstoy, C. S. Lewis, and Jesus, makes clear in this astonishing and gripping narrative, Christianity without Paul i...

Reducere. From the earliest days of European settlement, Americans have cherished the sight of a windmill--an instantly recognizable feature of the American ...

Reducere. As secretary of state, James A. Baker III played a critical role on the world stage in the final years of the Cold War as the Soviet Union unravele...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: John C. CulverAuthor: John Hyde" A] lucid and sympathetic portrait of a fascinating character. Wallace's life reminds us of...

Reducere. Explore the Captivating Life of James MadisonJames Madison earned the title "Father of the Constitution." How did this man who was diminutive of st...

Major General Peter Muhlenberg, born in Trappe, Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia, was one of the more effective military leaders during the American...

The Poet's Notebook brings together excerpts from the working notebooks of twenty-six American poets. Unsystematic, spontaneous, irreverent, intens...

From his emergence in the 1950s - when an uncannily beautiful young man from Oklahoma appeared in the West Coast and became, seemingly overnight, t...

Reducere. The family farm lies at the heart of our national identity, and yet its future is in peril. Rick Hammond grew up on a farm, and for forty years he ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: James OakesThis pathbreaking social history of the slaveholding South marks a turn in our understanding of antebellum Ameri...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Henry Louis GatesEditor: Valerie SmithEditor: William L. AndrewsThe much-anticipated Third Edition brings together the work...

Reducere. Stigmatized and relegated to the margins of Roman society, the Goths were violent "barbarians" who destroyed "civilization, " at least in the conve...

Reducere. The Unknown Prophet, Paperback

Sportin' Life tells for the first time the full, dramatic story of one of America's great song-and-dance men. A groundbreaking tap dancer who provi...

An unusually rich selection of "Backgrounds and Sources" focuses on Johnson's life; the autobiographical inspirations for The Autobiography of an E...

Christians in the twenty-first century need encouragement and inspiration to lead lives that honor God. When faith is weak or the pressures of the ...

Reducere. Times were hard in the 1620. The arrival of the Pilgrims has affected the Natives deeply. New customs and traditions were observed and so, acceptan...