Reverent T. L. Flood , publisher of a monthly magazine , offered her a job on his staff . The Chatauquan had a circulation of 40,000 and the right views on government , temperance , labor , monopoly , and feminism .
A stirring, uncompromising portrait of modern America collects essays from around the country and the world that attempt to capture the essence of a country whose diversity and pluralistic culture often presents challenges from within and ...
For her writings, see Ida B. Wells-Barnett, The Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-lynching Crusader, ed. Mia Bay and Henry Louis Gates Jr. (New York: Penguin Books, 2014). Frederick Douglass, Letter, in Ida B. Wells, Southern Horrors: ...
Irwin Unger, a Pulitzer Prize winning author, wrote this book after discovering from his own experiences teaching American History at the University of California at Davis and at NYU, that a thematic approach was much more interesting to ...
The book offers a new approach for studying print nationalism that transforms existing arguments about the political and cultural function of print in the early United States, while also offering a provocative model for revising the concept ...
Presents a collection of humorous anecdotes from the magazine's "Life in these United States" column, which is composed of readers' contributions
'From 1922 to 1925, the Nation's managing editor, Ernest Gruening, persuaded 48 American authors to write about their native states for the magazine. This singularly valuable volume. . . reprints...
Presents the history of the United States from the point of view of those who were exploited in the name of American progress.
A DAR woman boasted that the tablet “[proclaiming] the patriotism of the colored race” in Wadesboro, North Carolina, ... in NACW Records, Part 1, reel 23, frame 00714; Hettie B. Tilghman, “California Notes,” NAN 20 (October 1917): 7, ...
28 Thomas Sowell, Race and Culture: A World View (New York: Basic Books, 1994), 26; William H. McNeill, The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991), 667. 29 Jaime Vicens Vives, ...
Presents stories of significant events and people in American history, patriotic songs, and American folk tales and poems.