American Voices: A History of the United States
These stories, which were first broadcast on National Public Radio, focus on a range of individuals living and working in contemporary America, from an immigrant Chinese restaurant owner in New York City to an African-American waitress who ...
American Voices
Here are the no-nonsense words of a young immigrant trying to survive as a sweatshop operator in New York City, a hard working farmer's wife who has writing ambitions; a black southern sharecropper seeking fulfillment under a new system of ...
Offering a textured history of the Chinese in America since their arrival during the California Gold Rush, this work includes letters, speeches, testimonies, oral histories, personal memoirs, poems, essays, and folksongs.
American? Both?How can hechoose?Should hehaveprideandjoyin his heritage,orbear itasa shameand sorrow?Should he live in one world or another, ... Iunderstand all this, but I am profoundly distressed by what I see happening today.
From that celebration, this book was born. Collected here under one cover is a brief history of America told through dramatic readings applauding the enduring spirit of dissent.
American Voices, American Lives is a fresh, illuminating core reader for introductory courses in American studies and an exciting companion volume for surveys in American history and American literature that offers extraordinary documents, ...
American Voices: A History of the United States. 1865 to the present
American Voices: A History of the United States