In a sweeping history of centuries, Ted Widmer's Ark of the Liberties recounts America's ambition to be the world's guarantor of liberty.
In Beggars and Choosers, Solinger shows how historical distinctions between women of color and white women, between poor and middle-class women, were used in new ways during the era of "choice.
In I Wonder as I Wander, Langston Hughes vividly recalls the most dramatic and intimate moments of his life in the turbulent 1930s.
Jesse B. Simple, Simple to his fans, made weekly appearances beginning in 1943 in Langston Hughes' column in the Chicago Defender.
threats against Jews with efforts to preserve the secrecy of the Final Solution. Outbursts of official anti-Semitic rhetoric had some practical purposes: they helped to rally the Party faithful into action and preserve a sense of ...
Amazing Decisions is a fascinating and entertaining guide to developing skills that will prove invaluable in personal and professional life.
"Wiesel's account of his time in concentration camps during the Holocaust with updated front and back matter to include speeches and essays commemorating his recent death"--
American Populism chronicles the Populists' battles with the dominant institutions of an industrializing nation.
In the first of these two stories, a fourteen-year-old boy aids rebels in the 1810 Mexican struggle against Spain. In the second, a young girl is involved in the conflict...
They did not expect the Zuni themselves to endure, but they have, and the complex relation between the Zuni as they were and are and the Zuni as imagined by these three Easterners is at the heart of Eliza McFeely's important new book.
... quarrelsome leader who followed orders with counterorders, accepted then cancelled charters, and generally made a ... the Knights found pleasant, plausible form in Edward Bellamy's extraordinarily popular utopia, Looking Backward.
He has crafted an eerie vision of the hamlet where the tale unfolds and the unforgettable ritual its inhabitants set into motion.
Timothy J. Henderson's A Glorious Defeat provide a short, accessible account of the US-Mexican War.
In this fascinating new book, the distinguished historian Natalie Zemon Davis offers a virtuoso study of the fragmentary, partial, and often contradictory traces that al-Hasan al-Wazzan left behind him, and a superb interpretation of his ...
A Shopkeeper's Millennium not only explores the interconnections between these vitally important economic, social, political, and religious changes but presents an evocative picture of a rapidly growing frontier city.
"The thirty essays in this book trace how the tangentiality of English and other modes of language affects the production of English literature, and investigate how questions of linguistic "code" can be made accessible to literary analysis" ...
Holy Warriors: The Abolitionists and American Slavery
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Need to understand today's economy? This is the book for you.
The Specter of Communism is a concise history of the origins of the Cold War and the evolution of U.S.-Soviet relations, from the Bolshevik revolution to the death of Stalin.