History of the Americas

In 1861 young Joseph Twichell cut short his seminary studies to become a Union Army chaplain in New York's Excelsior Brigade.

You name it, we can't do it.

The Cotton States Exposition of 1895 was a world's fair in Atlanta held to stimulate foreign and domestic trade for a region in an economic depression.

Nothing tugs on American heartstrings more than an image of a suffering child.

In Alabama Getaway Allen Tullos explores the recent history of one of the nation's most conservative states to reveal its political imaginary-the public shape of power, popular imagery, and individual opportunity.

On the southern frontier in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, European men-including traders, soldiers, and government agents-sometimes married Native women.

In the years leading up to the Civil War, southern evangelical denominations moved from the fringes to the mainstream of the American South.

For better or worse, representations abound of Native Americans as a people with an innate and special connection to the earth.

How the 1980 Philadelphia Phillies Won the First World Series Championship in Franchise History The road was rocky and the suspense intense as a make-or-break 1980 baseball season unfolded for the Philadelphia Phillies under a new, often-unpopular manager who sought to shape a collection of All-Star talent into champions.

In the late '90s and early 2000s, the Portland Trail Blazers were one of the hottest teams in the NBA.

In 1884, professional baseball was still in its infancy.

The Detroit Tigers Old English D is one of the most recognized symbols in sports.

On January 1, 1966, New York came to a standstill as the city's transit workers went on strike.

During his twenty-four-year career, Ty Cobb was an MVP, Triple Crown-winner, twelve-time batting champion, and was elected in the inaugural ballot for the National Baseball Hall of Fame (along with Honus Wagner, Babe Ruth, Christy Mathewson, and Walter Johnson).

On October 28, 1986, just one day after winning one of the most thrilling World Series in history, the New York Mets were feted by more than two million fans with a parade through the city.

In antebellum America, both North and South emerged as modernizing, capitalist societies.

In the decades between the Berlin Conference that partitioned Africa and the opening of the African Hall at the American Museum of Natural History, Americans in several fields and from many backgrounds argued that Africa had something to teach them.

Using Texas as a case study for understanding change in the American juvenile justice system over the past century, William S.

In Sitting In and Speaking Out, Jeffrey A.

This volume gathers more than one hundred letters-most of them previously unpublished-written by Mercy Otis Warren (1728-1814).

Flashes of a Southern Spirit explores meanings of the spirit in the American South, including religious ecstasy and celebrations of regional character and distinctiveness.

Widely remembered as a time of heated debate over the westward expansion of slavery, the 1850s in the United States was also a period of mass immigration.

The 1954 Brown v.

Pharsalia, a plantation located in piedmont Virginia at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains, is one of the best-documented sites of its kind.

Nicknamed "e;Euroville,"e; Spartanburg, South Carolina, is a home away from home for BMW, Michelin, Ciba-Geigy, and numerous other European corporations.

The 1899 lynching of Sam Hose in Newnan, Georgia, was one of the earliest and most gruesome events in a tragic chapter of U.

Nationalism in the New World brings together work by scholars from the United States, Canada, Latin America, and Europe to discuss the common problem of how the nations of the Americas grappled with the basic questions of nationalism: Who are we?

In September 1950, Horace Ward, an African American student from La Grange, Georgia, applied to law school at the University of Georgia.

This biography of Joseph Henry Lumpkin (1799-1867) details the life and work of the man whose senior judgeship on Georgia's Supreme Court spanned more than twenty years and included service as its first Chief Justice.

In Founding Federalist, Michael C.

Aristocrat.

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Por su calidad intelectual y academica este libro fue galardonado con el Premio Iberoamericano de la Latin American Studies Association (LASA), que se entrega anualmente a la mejor publicacion sobre Latinoamerica en el area de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades.

Por que el Estado debe hacerse cargo de los veteranos de Malvinas?

Ruinas jesuiticas, paisajes de la memoria explora el derrotero seguido por las misiones jesuiticas de guaranies desde su fundacion, en los siglos XVII y XVIII, hasta la actualidad.

En este libro analizamos la intervencion social y politica de varios abogados que, durante la primera mitad del siglo xx, participaron en la vida publica de Mexico ejerciendo un activismo juridico de corte conservador en oposicion al proyecto de la revolucion.

Esta es una obra audaz que recopila perspectivas diversas de quince autores cuyas plumas plasman sus interpretaciones sobre la alimentacion, la produccion y los recursos desde diferentes regiones, tradiciones e historias de Mexico.

Deutsche Migrantinnen und Migranten in Argentinien: Ein historischer Beitrag zur Migrationsdebatte.

Im Herbst 1956 besuchten BND-Mitarbeiter auf Einladung der CIA die USA.

El mundo de la mujer indigena en las misiones habia permanecido practicamente inexplorado hasta el momento.

Este texto "Los pueblos navegantes del Ecuador Prehispánico" consta de tres partes y un epílogo.

La celebracion del Bicentenario de nuestra Independencia tuvo para Quito una especial significacion y convoco la remembranza, recuperacion y revision de toda una antigua memoria colectiva, en busca de entender, desde las realidades de hoy, la dimension admirable de esas luchas, la riqueza de ideas que se gesto alrededor de ellas y el proceso general de constitucion del Estado Nacional ecuatoriano, que arranco en medio del fuego y la sangre de aquellos combates.

"Dies ist die Geschichte von den genialen CIA-Boys, die die einzigen wirklichen Kunstwissenschaftler des 20.

Die Untersuchung von Feindbildern zwischen Nord- und Südstaaten bietet einen völlig neuen Blick auf die Entstehungsgeschichte des Amerikanischen Bürgerkriegs.

Adolescente, leí con pasión La jangada, 800 lieues sur l'Amazone, de Jules Verne, la historia de una familia y su servidumbre, una centena de personas, que navegaron de Iquitos a Manaos sobre una valsa 320 metros de largo por 20 metros de ancho, hecha de troncos de árbol.

Este libro aborda los temas de la colonización, la resistencia y el mestizaje en las Américas, entre los siglos XVI y XX, desde las problemáticas y los métodos combinados de la antropología y la historia y desde una aproximación a la vez estructural y dinámica.

Mittlerweile wohnen weltweit zum ersten Mal in der Geschichte mehr Menschen in Städten als auf dem Land.

Una de las primeras y más completas investigaciones sobre de la Presidencia de Augusto Pinochet Ugarte (1973-1990) de la historiografía chilena.

Cuando lle-ga-ron los espa-no-les, el Mexico anti-guo tenia un largo his-to-rial de gue-rras, con-quis-tas, resis-ten-cias y sumi-sio-nes.

In seinem neuesten Buch entlarvt Marcus drei »gewöhnliche« amerikanische Songs als grundlegende Dokumente amerikanischer Identität: Bascom Lamar Lunsfords »I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground« (1928), Geeshie Wileys »Last Kind Words Blues« (1930) und Bob Dylans »Ballad of Hollis Brown« (1964).