History of the Americas

A fast-paced, character-filled history that brings the unique American saga to life for readers of all ages "e;This is a little history with a big heart, meant to be savored more than studied, read out loud like poetry, or perhaps sung like a hymn.

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The bestselling author of 'Maharanis' recreates the lives of six remarkable women who, in a time of violent revolution, leapt at the chance to exercise their considerable charm, intelligence and acumen, and make their mark on history.

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In this landmark work, four of the world's leading scholar-activists issue an urgent call for a truly intersectional, internationalist, abolitionist feminism.

This essential reference work enables a deeper understanding of contemporary challenges in the lives of American Indians and Alaskan Natives today, carefully reviewing their unique problems and proposing potential solutions.

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The stories of black American professionals, both historic and contemporary, reveal the hardships and triumphs they faced in overcoming racism to succeed in their chosen fields.

The United States has a troubling history of violence regarding race.

This appealing narrative history of one of the Civil War's most pivotal campaigns analyzes how the western Confederate army under John B.

From 19th-century trade agreements and treatments to 21st-century reparations, this volume tells the story of the federal agency that shapes and enforces U.

More than the story of one man's case, this book tells the story of entire generations of people marked as "e;mixed race"e; in America amid slavery and its aftermath, and being officially denied their multicultural identity and personal rights as a result.

This book explains how the Battle of Antietam-a conflict that changed nothing militarily-still played a pivotal role in the Civil War by affording Abraham Lincoln an opportunity to announce the emancipation of slaves in states in rebellion.

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This book serves as a much-needed source of information on the social and health issues that impact the health of Native American women in the United States, accompanied by invaluable historical, cultural, and other contextual data about this sociocultural group.

The first text of its kind to trace the combined history of Latino groups in the United States from 1500 to the present day.

A comprehensive look at the entirety of Native American history, focusing particularly on native peoples within the geographic boundaries of the United States.

A broadly based historical survey, this book examines Native American boarding schools in the United States from Puritan times to the present day.

This disquieting yet important book describes the injustices, humiliations, and brutalities inflicted on African Americans in a racist culture that was created-and protected-by the forces of law and order.

A comprehensive, compelling, and clearly written title that provides a rich examination of the history of Asians in the United States, covering well-established Asian American groups as well as emerging ones such as the Burmese, Bhutanese, and Tibetan American communities.

This book provides a broad introduction to medical practices among Anglo-Americans, Native Americans, and African Americans during the colonial period, covering everything from dentistry to childcare practices to witchcraft.

This biography provides a concise, accurate, and lively account of one of the best known yet least understood figures of the Civil War, Robert E.

This book provides a comprehensive description of what being sick and receiving "e;medical care"e; was like in 19th-century America, allowing modern readers to truly appreciate the scale of the improvements in healthcare theory and practice.

This much-needed study documents positive Arab-American contributions to American life and culture, especially in the last decade, debunking myths and common negative perceptions that were exacerbated by the 9/11 attacks and the War on Terror.

Concise yet thorough, this engaging book provides an overview of the unique history of an increasingly important Central American nation.

There are few episodes in American history as interesting and controversial as the Salem Witch Trials.

This book comprehensively covers the wide geographical range of the northern home fronts during the Civil War, emphasizing the diverse ways people interpreted, responded to, and adapted to war by their ideas, interests, and actions.

This handbook provides an unmatched, comprehensive political history of Ecuador written in English.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of drug policy in the United States from the early 1900s through the present day, providing historical and social context through the telling of the colorful and often tragic stories of the events and individuals throughout this period.

This valuable book provides a succinct, readable account of an oft-neglected topic in the historiography of the American Revolution: the role of Native Americans in the Revolution's outbreak, progress, and conclusion.

This book examines newspapers, magazines, photographs, illustrations, and editorial cartoons to tell the important story of journalism, documenting its role during the Civil War as well as the impact of the war on the press.

This book examines the century-long migration of African Americans who moved within the South after the Civil War and then left to settle permanently in other regions, irrevocably altering the political, social, and cultural history of the United States; and considers these movements within the broader historical, political, and cultural context of the African Diaspora.

Ideal for general readers as well as professionals conducting extensive research, this informative book offers a collection of documents on the origins and conduct of the Iraq War.

This book provides readers with an overview of how Americans have commemorated and remembered the Civil War.

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How electricity became a metaphor for modernity in the United States, inspiring authors from Mark Twain to Ralph Ellison.

How the interplay between government regulation and the private sector has shaped the electric industry, from its nineteenth-century origins to twenty-first-century market restructuring.

'I cannot help but see the bodies of my near ancestors in the current caravans of desperate souls fleeing from place to place, chased by famine, war and toxins.

Too often, says Jennifer L.

The Adirondacks have been an Indigenous homeland for millennia, and the presence of Native people in the region was obvious but not well documented by Europeans, who did not venture into the interior between the seventeenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Deepens our understanding of Black women's anti-rape activism by attending to how their tactics shifted in response to the federal War on CrimeBeginning in the 1970s, a series of government agencies established to carry out the federal "e;war on crime"e; offered financial and ideological support to the fledgling feminist movement against sexual violence.

An astonishing tale of romance, resistance and bravery'A sad and beautiful book, shining a light on quiet heroism in dark times.

Since the early days of the American republic, political thinkers have maintained that a grossly unequal division of property, wealth, and power would lead to the erosion of democratic life.

How Black Protestants in Chicago created Ethiopianism, a transnational religious movement against Western imperialismCity of Black Souls uncovers the history of how, from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, Black Protestants in Chicago created a transnational religious movement that connected the Black struggle for freedom in the United States to the global Black fight against Western imperialism.

The arrival of English settlers in the American Southeast in 1670 brought the British and the Native Americans into contact both with foreign peoples and with unfamiliar gender systems.

The Confederate army went to war to defend a nation of slaveholding states, and although men rushed to recruiting stations for many reasons, they understood that the fundamental political issue at stake in the conflict was the future of slavery.

Approximately three fifths of the emigration from the United Kingdom to America arrived in the 19th century.

Rock 'n' roll infuses the everyday life of the American adult, but for the first, complete generation of rock 'n' roll fans-baby boomers born between 1946 and 1964-it holds a special kind of value, playing a social personality-defining role that is unique to this group.

On Saturday, November 14, 1944, radio listeners heard an enthusiastic broadcast announcer describe something they had never heard before: Women singing the "e;Marines' Hymn"e; instead of the traditional all-male United States Marine Band.