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A Promised Land is extraordinarily intimate and introspective-the story of one man's bet with history, the faith of a community organizer tested on the world stage.
Powell said from his table , “ What did you call me ? ” Hawk smiled . “ Still got that agile mind , Spenser . ” Powell said again , “ What did you call me ? ” " It is hard , Powell , " I said to him , " to look tough when your nose is ...
The Selected Letters of Mary Antin (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2000). Includes 110 of Antin's letters as well as five letters written to her. A NOTE ON THE TEXT This edition follows the text.
Tubman apparently told Clark that “there were many people in the slave states, even slaveholders, who were willing to ... See District 4 for the various Cator families; and see also Will of Thomas E. Cator, in Leslie and Neil Keddie, ...
A look at the flight of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North between 1940 and 1970 presents the migrants' stories about everything from rural sharecropper shacks to urban housing projects.
Ferguson, “Public Worshipofthe Lord,”Christian Magazine1(1848); 42–43; Jesse B. Ferguson, quoted in Enos E. Dowling,An Analysisofthe IndexoftheChristian Magazine 1848–1953 (Lincoln,Ill.: Lincoln Bible InstitutePress, 1958),ii.
A look at America's foreign policy over the past two hundred years posits the theory that America is struggling with two visions of itself as reflected in its foreign policy
Looks at thirteen literary works that had a profound influence on American history, culture, and character, including "The Federalist Papers," "Uncle Tom's Cabin," "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," and "The Souls of Black Folk."
"A courageous young woman who was raised as a boy learns of an evil poacher's plan to steal a powerful gem. On a dangerous jungle quest to save the animal kingdom from harm, a childhood friendship transforms into love"--Back cover.