The authors' own abridgement preserves the hallmark explanatory power of the parent text, helping students to understand not only what happened but why -- so they're never left wondering what's important.
Examines the coverage the American press gave to the Holocaust from 1933 to 1945, and explains how and why it failed to treat the destruction of European Jews as front-page...
In The Landscape of Reform Ben Minteer offers a fresh and provocative reading of the intellectual foundations of American environmentalism, focusing on the work and legacy of four important conservation and planning thinkers in the first ...
With the events of September 2001, America's relationship with the Middle East exploded to the forefront of our national consciousness. Looking back more than a half-century, Douglas Little offers valuable,...
Ranging from Britain and Germany to Italy and Russia, this book covers the origins of socialism and communism and its various offshoots in those countries where they had most impact.
"This book is about the real experiences of a true rebel - a scientist, business executive, politician, citizen activist - who successfully challenged the powers-that-be in business and government to further justice and environmental health ...
The Language of War examines the relationship between language and violence, focusing on American literature from the Civil War, World War I, and World War II. James Dawes proceeds by...
During the 1980s Akzente presented a variety of American poets , both new and established , including John Ashbery , Hart Crane , Robert Lowell , Robert Creeley , Robinson Jeffers , William Carlos Williams , “ Amy Clampitt , Emily ...
Martin Van Buren, eighth president of the United States, has been judged harshly by some historians as a politician by trade and a spoilsman without principles, a "little magician" who...
107 S.Walker, Their Highest Potential: An African American School Community in the Segregated South (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1996). 108 W.E.B. Du Bois, “Does the Negro Need Separate Schools?
Doenitz and Goering disliked each other, and there was very little cooperation between the Luftwaffe and the U—boats. “In 1941 Doenitz had managed to get one air squadron placed under his operational control,” but, “although Hitler ...