This volume focuses on the events from the Civil War through today. The text includes a substantive review unit early American history to facilitate a quick, effective start to the study of modern times.
The host of the award-winning humorous news program offers tongue-in-cheek insight into American democracy with coverage of such topics as the republican qualities of ancient Rome, the antics of our nation's founders, and the ludicrous ...
American democracy is the world's most beloved form of government, which is why so many other nations are eager for it to be imposed on them. But just what exactly is it?
Stephanie Rosenbloom, “Private Flying for (Some of) the Rest of Us,” New York Times, August 22, 2013, ...
Jeffrey Jensen Arnett, a psychology professor at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, and an expert on twentysomethings, ascribes their optimism to their lack of life experience. “The dreary, deadend jobs, the bitter divorces, ...
Alienated America confirms the conservative suspicion that these places cannot be fixed with job-training programs or more entitlement spending, and backs up the liberal belief that new Trump voters are not coming to his rallies to support ...
But it is also a nation of xenophobia. In America for Americans, Erika Lee shows that an irrational fear, hatred, and hostility toward immigrants has been a defining feature of our nation from the colonial era to the Trump era.
In addition to Griffith's movie, there were other film treatments of the Klan in these years 1915's A Mormon Maid and 1919's The Heart o' the Hills, with Mary Pickford. Daniel Eagan, Americas Film Legacy. The Authoritative Guide to the ...
Presents stories of significant events and people in American history, patriotic songs, and American folk tales and poems.
Barrio America uses vivid oral histories and detailed statistics to show how the great Latino migrations transformed America for the better.
The untold story of how America once created the most successful economy the world has ever seen and how we can do it again.