Black Hawk: An Autobiography
In this provocative new collection, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Daniel J. Boorstin explores the essential "hidden history" of the American experience that is overlooked by most historians.
It tells the story of the Nullification Controversy in South Carolina, describing how from 1816 to 1836 aristocratic planters of the Palmetto State tumbled from a contented and prosperous life of elegant balls and fine Madeira wines to a ...
Frederic Remington 173 Drawings and Illustrations
The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Reader is an anthology of fiction by one of America's most important feminist writers.
In this closely documented study, Professor James W. Silver examines the role of the church in the South during the Civil War: What part it played as a powerful social institution in shaping the mind of the South, bringing on secession, and ...
Originally published in 1903, this classic nature book by Mary Austin evokes the mysticism and spirituality of the American Southwest.
World of Dunnet Landing: A Sarah Orne Jewett Collection
"The New Man" shows Thomas Merton at the height of his powers and has as its theme the question of spiritual identity.
The latest in the series is "Alexandria," written while Forster was in Egypt during the First World War. This edition collates and compares all the existing editions of the work to provide the definitive version of the text.
The First Great Ocean Liners in Photographs
Europe in Decay 1936-1940
Early American Locomotives
Horsecars, Cable Cars and Omnibuses
"Hobsbawm divides the century into the Age of Catastrophe, 1914-1945; the Golden Age, 1947-1973; and the Landslide, 1973-1991 and moves data into an era whose revolutions have transformed us more thoroughly than in any period--Publisher's ...
Life in a Mexican Village: Tepoztlan Restudied
Eight Bads - Eight Goods: The American Contradictions
" Two decades later, it remains the only major collection of his work chosen by Abbey himself, a rich feast of fiction and prose by the singular American writer whom Larry McMurtry called "the Thoreau of the American West" and whom Alice ...
Of Plymouth Plantation: The Pilgrims in America
Cf. Burrage , The Early English Dissenters ... , 1 , 281–311 . ... “ The Rule of the Saints in American Politics , ” Church History , XXVII ( September , 1958 ) , 240–55 ; James F. Maclear , “ ' The True American Union ' of Church and ...