History of the Americas

Since public audiences were first introduced to the medium of film in 1895, the Catholic Church has sought to impose its will on the distribution and exhibition of movies.

Marvin W.

Congress prohibited slave trading in 1808, Lincoln University was chartered in 1854, Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 and in 1916 Carter G.

This book examines the Indo-Surinamese Girmitiya peasants and their contributions to developing the ethnic community within their newly adopted home.

In May 2017, after sixty years as an ordained United Methodist minister, Rev.

Conceptos fundamentales relacionados con la memoria, la cultura y la sociedad.

Finley Peter Dunne, American journalist and humorist, is justly famous for his creation of Mr.

'Renewed my faith in the human power to resist, imagine and make new, better worlds.

This collection of primary sources examines the history of emotions in the United States, spanning the years 1800-1865.

Rhode Island can legitimately claim to be the home of Baptists in America.

The enduring legacy of the nineteenth-century struggle for Black literacy in the American South Few have ever valued literacy as much as the enslaved Black people of the American South.

The storybook history of the American West is a male-dominated narrative of drifters, dreamers, hucksters, and heroes-a tale that relegates women, assuming they appear at all, to the distant background.

From the Gilded Age to World War II, elite collectors and museums in the United States transformed from owning a smattering of Chinese porcelain as curios to possessing some of the world's largest and most sophisticated collections of Chinese art.

In "Spirituelle Verbindungen: Dein eigenes Ouija-Board gestalten" nimmt dich Anna Techow mit auf eine inspirierende Reise, die Kreativität und Esoterik auf faszinierende Weise verbindet.