It's not easy coming to the city all alone when you're a young country girl. It's even harder when a strange discovery sends you right back in time to 1841! Carly Mills is about to learn how dangerous Sydney can be for a lonely colonial girl ... and how hard it is to move in a corset. Mrs Chisholm tells her that kindness and friendship can make the world a better place. Could she be right?
James Axtell, “The White Indians of Colonial America,” WMQ, 3d Ser., XXXII (1975), 55–88; Axtell, The European and the Indian: Essays in the Ethnohistory of Colonial North America (Oxford, 1981), 275–297; J. Frederick Fausz, ...
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This updated second edition of The Cinema of Terrence Malick: Poetic Visions of America charts the continuing growth of Malick's oeuvre, exploring identity, place, and existence in his films.
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For complaints, see James Axtell, “Colonial America without the Indians,” in Axtell, After Columbus: Essays in the Ethnohistory of Colonial North America (New York, 1988), 222-243; James H. Merrell, “Some Thoughts on Colonial Historians ...
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Welcome to the New World tells the Aldabaans’ story. Resettled in Connecticut with little English, few friends, and even less money, the family of seven strive to create something like home.
This collection of nearly two dozen detachable, frameable, propaganda posters offer an outstanding selection of examples from East Germany, Russia, Southeast Asia, and China.
73 Guy B. Johnson, “Notes on Behavior at Religious Service at the Father Divine Peace Mission,” in Guion Griffiths Johnson and Guy B. Johnson, “The Church and the Race Problem in the United States: A Research Memorandum,” CarnegieMyrdal ...