History of the Americas

In this gripping narrative history, Al Roker from NBC’s Today and the Weather Channel vividly examines the deadliest natural disaster in American history—a haunting and inspiring tale of tragedy, heroism, and resilience that is full of lessons for today’s new age of extreme weather.

From the author of the acclaimed biography Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet, new perspectives on how Luther and others crafted his larger-than-life imageMartin Luther was a controversial figure during his lifetime, eliciting strong emotions in friends and enemies alike, and his outsized persona has left an indelible mark on the world today.

Providing a general overview of the accurate history of World War IIwhich was essentially a continuation of World War I with the same saber-rattling participantsThe Ruling Elite describes the circumstances leading up to World War II.

Invisible Stars was the first book to recognize that women have always played an important part in American electronic media.

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This volume charts the complex history of American ascent to world power between 1900 and 1945.

In a sweeping survey of archaeological sites dating from a span of thousands of years and located across continents, this book asks fundamental questions about the place of cultural heritage in Western society.

Throughout the nineteenth century poor relief in Quebec was private and sectarian.

Although there are numerous books about Louisiana, little information about the forts are included and none combines the forts with ghost stories.

Betty Bard MacDonald (19071958), the best-selling author of The Egg and I and the classic Mrs.

An eye-opening, meticulously researched new perspective on the influences that shaped the Founders as well as the nation's founding document From one election cycle to the next, a defining question continues to divide the country’s political parties: Should the government play a major or a minor role in the lives of American citizens?

1776 – deutsche Migranten machen Revolution in AmerikaDie deutschen Founding Fathers: Johannes Ehrmann erzählt zum ersten Mal Amerikas Revolution und den Unabhängigkeitskrieg als deutsche Familiengeschichte.

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This book describes how the international spread of antitrust suggested the historical process shaping global capitalism.

This innovative volume makes a key contribution to debates around the role of the university as a space of resistance by highlighting the liberatory practices undertaken to oppose dual pressures of state repression and neoliberal reform at the Universidad Centroamericana (UCA) in Nicaragua.

The tale begins in sixteenth-century Venice, when explorer Juan de Fuca encountered English merchant Michael Lok and relayed a fantastic story of a marine passageway that connected the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.

Today's popular tassa drumming emerged from the fragments of transplanted Indian music traditions half-forgotten and creatively recombined, rearticulated, and elaborated into a dynamic musical genre.

This book contains the transcribed journals and reports of a war correspondent for the Boston Journal covering the campaign that captured New Orleans in 1862.

The economy of the United States is constantly evolving in response to wars, technological innovations, cultural revolutions, and political maneuverings.

In his expansive history of documentary work in the South during the twentieth century, Scott L.

From the landing of Federal troops at the Tennessee-Ohio confluence to the new river of the TVA, whose dams "e;stand athwart the valley in Egyptian impassivity,"e; this volume completes the story of the transformation of a river and of the culture it nourished.

"e;As Canadian as the maple leaf"e; is how one observer summed up the United Church of Canada after its founding in 1925.

The most enigmatic of the associates of Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth, Confederate soldier Lewis Thornton Powell, using the alias Lewis Paine, was a key player in the postwar attempt to undermine the Federal government.

This short book calls to account the government misrulers and corporate criminals who made suffering from the global coronavirus pandemic more acute.

Jamaica Ladies is the first systematic study of the free and freed women of European, Euro-African, and African descent who perpetuated chattel slavery and reaped its profits in the British Empire.

This is a detailed examination of the theological innovations of Kevin Vanhoozer and John Franke.

The American Conception of Neutrality After 1941 by Jurg Martin Gabriel, is a study of global political history since 1941 with a particular emphasis on America's attitude to neutrality.

At a time when North Carolinas population is exploding and its economy is shifting profoundly, one of the states leading economists applies the tools of his trade to chronicle these changes and to inform North Carolinians in easy-to-understand terms what to expect in the future.

Scholars of second-wave feminism often center their research on northern thought and political activity and usually overlook the vibrant pockets of activism that existed elsewhere.

‘A Justifiable Obsession’ traces the evolution of Ontario’s relationship with the federal government in the years following the Second World War.

Americas best idea our National Park units!

The rubber industry was born in bankruptcy and built through bankruptcies.

Although suburb-building created major environmental problems, Christopher Sellers demonstrates that the environmental movement originated within suburbs not just in response to unchecked urban sprawl.

What role did music play in the United States during World War II?

Over the last 30 years, the Connecticut Office of State Archaeology and the Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resource Conservation Service have entered into a partnership employing ground-penetrating radar (GPR) to the study of the state’s archaeology and history.

In December 1883, five outlaws attempted to rob the A.

Between 2011 and 2015, the Opinion section of The New York Times published Disunion, a series marking the long string of anniversaries around the Civil War, the most destructive, and most defining, conflict in American history.

The Civil War scene in Kentucky, site of few full-scale battles, was one of crossroad skirmishes and guerrilla terror, of quick incursions against specific targets and equally quick withdrawals.

1776 symbolizes a moment, both historical and mythic, of democracy in action.

Manpower is the lifeblood of armies regardless of time or place.

Analyzing how tennis turned pro The arrival of the Open era in 1968 was a watershed in the history of tennis--the year that marked its advent as a professionalized sport.

This is the first, full-length biography of Florence Nightingale told from a post-feminist perspective.

In The Labor Question in America: Economic Democracy in the Gilded Age, Rosanne Currarino traces the struggle to define the nature of democratic life in an era of industrial strife.

This book explores the struggle to define self-government in the critical years following the Declaration of Independence, when Americans throughout the country looked to the Keystone State of Pennsylvania for guidance on political mobilization and the best ways to create a stable arrangement that could balance liberty with order.

Containing a wealth of new scholarship and rare primary documents, The Black Jacobins Reader provides a comprehensive analysis of C.

Are you confused about how to find your true love?

The Fall of Che Guevara tells the story of Guevara's last campaign, in the backwoods of Bolivia, where he hoped to ignite a revolution that would spread throughout South America.