Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape

Awards🏆Winner (2002) - Bancroft Prize - (History)Contributor(s): Author: David W. BlightNo historical event has left as deep an imprint on America'...

An essential collection of Himani Bannerji's writing on ideology, consciousness, and socialist struggle.Publisher: Haymarket BooksAuthor(s): Himani...

Hospitality as a cultural trait has been associated with the South for well over two centuries, but the origins of this association and the reasons...

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

David Hey was one of the leading local historians of our age and the author of a number of highly regarded books on the practice of local history. ...

David Hey was one of the leading local historians of our age and the author of a number of highly regarded books on the practice of local history. ...

Reducere. The Storied Landscape of Iroquoia explores the creation, destruction, appropriation, and enduring legacy of one of early America's most important p...

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...

A book about the joys and pleasures of running, the highs and lows of life, the history and landscape of Ireland, and so much more.

A book about the joys and pleasures of running, the highs and lows of life, the history and landscape of Ireland, and so much more.

DescriptionA critical examination of historical, social and cultural issues that challenge the Christian community through the lens of major schola...

Reducere. "Eating is not only a political act, it is also a cultural act that reaffirms one's identity and worldview, " Enrique Salmon writes in Eating the L...

Reducere. DescriptionIn anticipation of the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing, New York Times bestselling author and historian Douglas Brinkley deli...

A unique book that combines art, science, history, folklore, land ethics, and literature to tell the story of America's Southern landscape and one ...

Reducere. Cedric J. Robinson offers a new understanding of race in America through his analysis of theater and film of the early twentieth century. He argues...

The "Good War" in American Memory dispels the long-held myth that Americans forged an agreement on why they had to fight in World War II. John Bodn...

Reducere. A thorough yet concise walking guide to one of America's most important historic destinationsRelive the birth of America along Boston's historic tw...

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...

Reducere. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is ...

Reducere. Contested Histories in Public Space brings multiple perspectives to bear on historical narratives presented to the public in museums, monuments, te...

Reducere. America's slave past is being analyzed as never before, yet it remains one of the most contentious issues in U.S. memory. In recent years, the cult...

Although in recent years the entire world has been increasingly concerned with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, there are few truly reliable sourc...

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

Contributor(s): Author: Thomas C. LeonardIn Illiberal Reformers, Thomas Leonard reexamines the economic progressives whose ideas and reform agenda ...

Contributor(s): Author: Mary L. DudziakIn 1958, an African-American handyman named Jimmy Wilson was sentenced to die in Alabama for stealing two do...

Reducere. The accomplishments of pioneering doctors such as John Peter Mettauer, James Marion Sims, and Nathan Bozeman are well documented. It is also no sec...

How American colonists went from thinking of the British past as their own to creating an "American history" that would play a crucial role in thei...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Melissa L. CooperDuring the 1920s and 1930s, anthropologists and folklorists became obsessed with uncovering connections be...

Reducere. Now in paperback, an award-winning historian and perennial New York Times bestselling author takes a fresh look at the space program, President Joh...

Reducere. The Natchez Trace is one of the oldest trails in North America. In 1801, President Jefferson ordered the Army to build a road along the trail to pr...

Reducere. When the Revolutionary War began, the odds of a united, continental effort to resist the British seemed nearly impossible. Few on either side of th...

Reducere. What has it meant to be Jewish in a nation preoccupied with the categories of black and white? The Price of Whiteness documents the uneasy place Je...

Reducere. Did you know that our 16th President Abraham Lincoln is in the Wrestling Hall of Fame?Freshen up your memory of everything American and impress fri...

Reducere. Watch the Author Interview on KNMEIn both the historic record and the popular imagination, the story of nineteenth-century westward expansion in Am...

Reducere. The Civil War tends to be remembered as a vast sequence of battles, with a turning point at Gettysburg and a culmination at Appomattox. But in the ...

Reducere. In Beauty of the Wild, Darrel Morrison tells stories of people and places that have nourished his career as a teacher and a designer of nature-insp...

Reducere. Shortlisted for the NSW Premier's History Awards - Australian History Prize. 'At both ends of the world, I have found confusion and profound disagr...

A gripping exploration of the worst single incident of racial violence in American history, timed to coincide with its 100th anniversary.Publisher:...

Reducere. Sherman's March, cutting a path through Georgia and the Carolinas, is among the most symbolically potent events of the Civil War. In Through the He...

This Element demonstrates how landscape paintings of unfamiliar terrains required historical and geological subject matter to supply tactile associ...

Reducere. Happy Retirement guest book, keepsake, and memory book. Excellent item for guests to share their well wishes, photos and memories, perfect addtion ...

Reducere. The #1 New York Times bestsellerThe phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA at the leading edge of the feminist and civil ...

Reducere. Few people have experienced Yellowstone National Park as thoroughly as Michael Yochim, a former Yellowstone ranger and guide. From visits to the pa...