This Land is a colorful muckraking journey--part Edward Abbey, part Upton Sinclair--exposing the rot in American politics that is rapidly leading to the sell-out of our national heritage"--
The people you pass say, “Y'all be safe,” the preferred Ferguson greeting these days. Soon there appears the asphalt stage: a quarter-mile cut of West Florissant, bordered by Ferguson Avenue to the south and, to the north, ...
Inthe late 1980s, Catherine King moved from Toronto to the gulf islands west of Vancouver to One of her students thought she'd be a good match for a local artist he knew named Wayne Adams. teach dance workshops. Don't forget to stretch!
A 2019 NPR Staff Pick “Written ‘in sorrow and anger,’ this is a brilliant and urgently necessary book, eloquently making the case against bigotry and for all of us migrants—what we are not, who we are, and why we deserve to be ...
When Pumetacom ignored a summons from Plymouth to explain, the colony dispatched Hugh Cole to investigate, only for him to stumble on a community seemingly preparing for war. Twenty or thirty Wampanoag men brandishing clubs intercepted ...
This volume expands and enhances our understanding of the complexities of western women’s history.
For use in schools and libraries only. Using text and his own paintings, the author describes the experiences of Indians of North America in general as well as his experiences growing up as a Plains Cree Indian in Canada.
Delbert Curtis was the first to recognize the Niagara Peninsula as the Narrow Neck of Land. He gave us a reason to “Return to Cumorah.” He was one of the pioneers. It was truly unfortunate, however, that Curtis dismissed the Manti site ...
In The Riches of This Land, Tankersley fuses the story of forgotten Americans-- struggling women and men who he met on his journey into the travails of the middle class-- with important new economic and political research, providing fresh ...
We are paid 20 cents a crate for every crate we finish. Today I finish 10 crates only, so I made $2.00 exactly. . . . The women are all pieceworkers, especially the spinach cutters. The women who have been working in the cannery every ...