History of the Americas

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A richly illustrated celebration of the paintings of President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama From the moment of their unveiling at the National Portrait Gallery in early 2018, the portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama have become two of the most beloved artworks of our time.

New research on the archaeology of the colonial landscapes of the Caribbean.

During the 1920s and 1930s, changes in the American population, increasing urbanization, and innovations in technology exerted major influences on the daily lives of ordinary people.

Richard Nixon's loss in the 1962 gubernatorial election in California was more than just a simple electoral defeat.

In some ways, no American city symbolizes the black struggle for civil rights more than Birmingham, Alabama.

This book examines the long, complex experience of American involvement in irregular warfare.

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A "e;compelling"e; study of impact of the Civil War in Appalachia that "e;adeptly juggles the military, social, and political complexities of this border war"e; (American Historical Review).

From 1802, when the young artist William Edward West began painting portraits on a downriver trip to New Orleans, to 1918, when John Alberts, the last of Frank Duveneck's students, worked in Louisville, a wide variety of portrait artists were active in Kentucky and the Ohio River Valley.

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New York City witnessed a dazzling burst of creativity in the 1920s.

This book makes a wide, conceptual challenge to the theory that the English of the colonial period thought of Native Americans as irrational and subhuman, dismissing any intimations to the contrary as ideology or propaganda.

Scottish theologian, educator, astronomer and popularizer of science, Thomas Dick (1774-1857) promoted a Christianized form of science to inhibit secularization, to win converts to Christianity, and to persuade evangelicals that science was sacred.

This book is a lively intellectual history of a small circle of thinkers, especially, but not solely, Harry Jaffa and Walter Berns, who challenged the "e;mainstream"e; liberal consensus of political science and history about how the American Founding should be understood.

A Heart Like Marys is the perfect book for all Catholics wishing to begin or deepen their devotion to Mary.

Este libro indaga la experiencia de l@s prisioner@s polític@s bajo regímenes dictatoriales en Paraguay, Brasil y Argentina durante la segunda parte del siglo 20.

Unique summary of "e;military science"e; as it stood at the beginning of the Civil War.

This collection explores the distinct features of post-conflict reconstruction and democratic consolidation in Central America.

The eighth edition of California: A History covers the entire scope of the history of the Golden State, from before first contact with Europeans through the present; an accessible and compelling narrative that comprises the stories of the many diverse peoples who have called, and currently do call, California home.

A supplement to existing ship logs and naval histories, this volume presents a selection of first-hand accounts from the Connecticut Courant, a prominent 18th-century newspaper, documenting significant maritime events of the period.

"e; The underground railroad-with its mysterious signals, secret depots, abolitionist heroes, and slave-hunting villains-has become part of American mythology.

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In The Ellis Island Snow Globe, Erica Rand, author of the smart and entertaining book Barbie's Queer Accessories, takes readers on an unconventional tour of Ellis Island, the migration station turned heritage museum, and its neighbor, the Statue of Liberty.

This short overview of the United States hippie social movement examines hippie beliefs and practices.

Examining the encounters between the girls and the new arm of the state in Cook County, Illinois, Anne Meis Knupfer illuminates the origin of American notions of gender and delinquency.

In 2008, the Canadian government established a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) to review the history of the residential school system, a brutal colonial project that killed and injured many Indigenous children and left a legacy of trauma and pain.

With the final words of the Declaration of Independence, the signatories famously pledged to one another their lives, their fortunes, and their "e;sacred Honor.

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In Remembrance of Patients Past, historian Geoffrey Reaume remembers previously forgotten psychiatric patients by examining in rich detail their daily life at the Toronto Hospital for the Insane (now called the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health - CAMH) from 1870-1940.

This is the story of how Americans attempted to define what it meant to be a citizen of the United States, at a moment of fracture in the republic's history.

Lilith – eine der faszinierendsten und umstrittensten Gestalten der Menschheitsgeschichte.

Modernity and urbanity have long been considered mutually sustaining forces in early twentieth-century America.

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.

The gripping story of the 1894 Alabama coal miners strike The Alabama coal miners' strike of 1894 to gain improved working conditions and to protect themselves from wage reductions.

An established introductory textbook that provides students with a compelling overview of the growth of the mass movement from its origins after the Second World War to the destruction of segregated society, before charting the movement's path through the twentieth century up to the present day.

This collection of seventeen original essays reshapes the field of early American legal history not by focusing simply on law, or even on the relationship between law and society, but by using the concept of legality to explore the myriad ways in which the people of early America ordered their relationships with one another, whether as individuals, groups, classes, communities, or states.

Understand the history, core values, and divisions as they've developed within the Evangelical Christian movement.

Recreates the culture of the city of Tenochtitlan in its last unthreatened years before it fell to the Spaniards.

Newly revised and updated, Mexicanos tells the rich and vibrant story of Mexicans in the United States.

Reverdy Johnson (17961876), Maryland senator, and Horatio Seymour, Democratic governor of New York, were two influential opponents of Abraham Lincoln and the Republicans during the Civil War.

The Salome Ensemble probes the entangled lives, works, and passions of a political activist, a novelist, a screenwriter, and a movie actress who collaborated in 1920s New York City.

In 1864, Union soldier Charles George described a charge into battle by General Phil Sheridan: "e;Such a picture of earnestness and determination I never saw as he showed as he came in sight of the battle field .

The discovery of insulin at the University of Toronto in 1921-2 was one of the most dramatic events in the history of the treatment of disease.

The authors show that meteorologic data and weather information recorded at the HBC trading posts over two centuries provide the largest and longest consecutive series available anywhere in North America, one that can help us understand the mechanisms and amount of climate change.