History of the Americas

A sensitive and realistic look at the spiritual life and practices of the Amish This second book by the authors of the award-winning Amish Grace sheds further light on the Amish, this time on their faith, spirituality, and spiritual practices.

A sensitive and realistic look at the spiritual life and practices of the Amish This second book by the authors of the award-winning Amish Grace sheds further light on the Amish, this time on their faith, spirituality, and spiritual practices.

Soul of a People is about a handful of people who were on the Federal Writer's Project in the 1930s and a glimpse of America at a turning point.

There is an extraordinary range of material in this anthology, from Lincoln s Gettysburg address to a contemporary account of a visit from the Ku Klux Klan.

From slave narratives to the Civil War, and from country music to Southern sport, this Companion is the definitive guide to the literature and culture of the American South.

A Companion to the American Revolution is a single guide to the themes, events, and concepts of this major turning point in early American history.

This book covers the entire historical range of the Sioux, from their emergence as an identifiable group in late prehistory to the year 2000.

Slavery and Emancipation is a comprehensive collection of primary and secondary readings on the history of slaveholding in the American South combining recent historical research with period documents.

The Reformation Movement in Germany provides readers with a strong narrative overview of the most recent work on the Reformation in the German lands.

Perspectives on Las Am ricas: A Reader in Culture, History, and Representation charts new territory by demonstrating the limits of neatly demarcating the regions of Latin America and the United States .

Acclaimed national security columnist and noted cultural critic Fred Kaplan looks past the 1960s to the year that really changed America While conventional accounts focus on the sixties as the era of pivotal change that swept the nation, Fred Kaplan argues that it was 1959 that ushered in the wave of tremendous cultural, political, and scientific shifts that would play out in the decades that followed.

A beautifully written history of high society in Newport, Rhode Island, from the acclaimed author of Party of the Century Newport is the legendary and beautiful home of American aristocracy and the sheltered super-rich.

You really can't believe everything you read .

In this outstanding historical reader, the editor has gathered nine essays and over thirty primary documents to present a coherent picture of the history of American religion.

A Companion to American Cultural History offers a historiographic overview of the scholarship, with special attention to the major studies and debates that have shaped the field, and an assessment of where it is currently headed.

A wild ride through Canadian history, fully revised and updated!

A wild ride through Canadian history, fully revised and updated!

Want to know more about American military history?

Everything we know about drugs-from acid to epidemics to DARE and salvia-turns out to be wrong Stock up on munchies and line up your water bottles: journalist Ryan Grim will take you on a cross-country tour of illicit drug use in the U.

Could this be the final victory for civil rights, or the first of many to come?

In his bestselling It's Getting Ugly Out There, CNN s Jack Cafferty skewered the liars and losers who were trying to harm the nation and explained why Americans had to take their country back.

Combining personal stories and sound scholarship, Paul Alexander, a young scholar with a Pentecostal background, examines the phenomenal worldwide success of Pentecostalism.

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Tabak ist mehr als eine Pflanze – er ist eine Kultur, die Jahrhunderte überdauert hat.

The title of this book is The History of the Pledge of Allegiance but you cannot separate our flag and the national anthem from this history.

Como escribió Arturo Barea: «Cuando se espera la muerte, la vida se convierte en simple y clara.

In 1875, the Great Sioux War of 1876-77, the last serious Sioux war erupted, when the Dakota gold rush penetrated the Black Hills.

Discover the epic history of human exploration and migration, and the stories of fearless pioneers the world over, with this stunning tour of history - map by map.

Esta es la historia de una sociedad que surgió de la violencia.

Here is that rare thing:an untold chapter in the Kennedy saga.

The definitive collection of nonfictionfrom war reporting to literary criticism to the sharpest political writingfrom the ';legend of American letters' (Vanity Fair) Robert Stone was a singular American writer, a visionary whose award-winning novelsincluding Dog Soldiers, Outerbridge Reach, and Damascus Gateearned him comparisons to literary lions ranging from Samuel Beckett to Ernest Hemingway to Graham Greene.

Seldom does a sports biographyespecially a page-turnerso comprehensively explain the forces that made an icon the way they are.

Say goodbye to boring history readings.

Say goodbye to boring history readings.

Say goodbye to boring history readings.

You may not think that a history book could make you laugh, but THE AMERICAN PAGEANT just might.

You may not think that a history book could make you laugh, but THE AMERICAN PAGEANT just might.

History isn't about memorizing names and dates.

FOOD IN ENGLAND became an instant classic when it was first published in 1954, and its eclectic mix of recipes, anecdotes, household hints, spells and history has had a deep influence on countless English cooks and food writers since.

The rise of Barack Obama is one of the great stories of this century: a defining moment for America, and one with truly global resonance.

A Turn in the South is a reflective journey by V.

The national bestselling and ';compulsively readable' history of late 19th century American war fever ';is hard to forget and hard to put down' (The New York Times Book Review).

An NPR Best Book of the Year The incredible true story of the last ship to carry enslaved people to America, the remarkable town its survivors founded after emancipation, and the complicated legacy their descendants carry with them to this dayby the journalist who discovered the ship's remains.

An ';engagingly written' (The Wall Street Journal) account of the ';Punitive Expedition' of 1916 that brought Pancho Villa and Gen.

In this ';first-rate work of historical research and storytelling' (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), four sites of American history are revealed as places where truth was written over by oppressive fictionwith profound repercussions for politics past and present.

A ';brilliant' (The Washington Post), ';clear-eyed and incisive' (The New Republic) analysis of how the wealthiest group in American society is making life miserable for everyoneincluding themselves.

A delightfully macabre (The New York Times) Cold War medical history about a brilliant and eccentric surgeon and his quest to transplant the human soul.

Las Vegas Then and Now pairs vintage shots from 100 years of the city's history with the same view today.