History of the Americas

Entre 1867 et 2000, le gouvernement canadien a placé plus de 150 000 enfants autochtones dans des pensionnats d’un bout à l’autre du pays.

Originally published in 1937 as "e;The Commercial Empire of the St.

Mississippi is a unique case study as a result of its long-standing defiance of federal civil rights legislation and the fact that nearly half its population was black and relegated to second-class citizenship.

The terrorist attacks of 9/11 are indelibly etched into our cultural memory.

President Andrew Jacksons conflict with the Second Bank of the United States was one of the most consequential political struggles in the early nineteenth century.

Most studies of the Salem witch trials focus on social history and the dynamics between accused and accusers.

In Reconstructing American Historical Cinema: From Cimarron to Citizen Kane, J.

At the turn of the 20th century, the California dream was a suburban ideal where life on the farm was exceptional.

A comparative history of public and private sector unions from the Wagner Act of 1935 until todayThe 2011 battle in Wisconsin over public sector employees' collective bargaining rights occasioned the largest protests in the state since the Vietnam War.

Nearly everyone in the U.

In June 1990, Indigenous peoples shocked Ecuadorian elites with a powerful uprising that paralyzed the country for a week.

This book examines the career of Rufus Anderson, the central figure in the formation and implementation of missionary ideology in the middle decades of the nineteenth century.

Take a ride-along with Sergeant Mark Tappan and his amazing K9 partner Mattis, whose heroic actions will inspire you to live courageously, serve selflessly, and love passionately because every human (and dog) has a purpose.

The timely, true story of Thomas Nast, the granddaddy of political satire who destroyed a corrupt regime in 19th century New York City—with cartoons.

As a pastor, have you ever had a loss of words during those many trying moments in your ministry, when you found it difficult to express your true feelings?

Since the earliest years of European colonialism, Latin America has been a region of seemingly intractable inequalities, marked by a stark divide between the haves and the have-nots.

Nation and Migration explores the significant contributions of Scotland, Ireland, and Wales to the development of a British Atlantic literature and culture, moving beyond traditional studies of transatlantic literature that focus on what Stephen Spender has described as the "e;love-hate relations"e; between the United States and England.

The object of this volume is to present in as consecutive and comprehensive form as possible the history of the Catholic Sisterhoods in the late Civil War.

With more than 400 photographs, extensive interviews with the descendants of pioneer Jewish Texan families, and reproductions of rare historical documents, Natalie Ornish's Pioneer Jewish Texans quickly became a classic following its original release in 1989.

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How the United States was created-a complex and surprising story of patriots, Indigenous peoples, loyalists, visionaries and scoundrels The story of the Thirteen Colonies' struggle for independence from Britain is well known to every American schoolchild.

Free Boy is the story of a 13-year-old slave who escaped from Washington Territory to freedom in Canada on the West's underground railroad.

The Early and Middle Woodland periods (1000 BCE-500 CE) were remarkable for their level of culture contact and interaction in pre-Columbian North America.

This study examines the origins of the Vietnam War itself, going back to the nature of French colonial rule in the early 20th century.

This pathbreaking study examines the radical Left in Puerto Rico from the final years of Spanish colonial rule into the 1920s.

From the Preface to the Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition:This was a controversial book, and likely remains so.

This history of the 11th North Carolina Infantry in the Civil War-- civilian soldiers and their families--follows the regiment from their 1861 mustering-in to their surrender at Appomattox, covering action at Gettysburg, Bristoe Station, The Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor and Petersburg.

Vanguard of the New Age unearths a largely ignored dimension of Canadian religious history.

During the past quarter century, free-market capitalism was recognized not merely as a successful system of wealth creation, but as the key determinant of the health of political and cultural democracy.

1912 is the first 'golden year' in the career of D.

Before the Civil War, George Proctor Kane had been a businessman, thespian, political appointee, philanthropist and militiaman.

Explores the emerging issues of virtual work and looks at how employers have turned to technology during the pandemic.

From the moment that the attack on the "e;problem of the color line,"e; as W.

This book analyzes the foreign policy decision-making processes of Presidents John F.

Christianity Made in India: From Apostle Thomas to Mother Teresa discusses the indigenization of Christianity in the Indian context.

A compelling and readable narrative history, How Long?

You've heard his name, you've probably heard your pastor quote him, but who is he really?

When O.

The dramatic January 1, 1994, emergence of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) in Chiapas, Mexico, brought the state's indigenous peoples to the attention of the international community.

One of the leading figures in Latin American folk music and art during her lifetime, Violeta Parra was a vital force in the artistic, musical, visual, cultural, and social cultural production of the Chilean 1960s.

In Looking for Mexico, a leading historian of visual culture, John Mraz, provides a panoramic view of Mexico's modern visual culture from the U.

Haskell Institute of Lawrence, Kansas, first opened its doors in 1884 to twenty-two Ponca and Ottawa children, sent there to be taught Anglo-Protestant cultural values.

In his career as corporation and constitutional lawyer, Methodist layman, Liberal politician, and internationalist, N.

It is difficult to imagine how orphan asylums and children's homes - often depicted as places where abuse, deprivation, and cruelty were commonplace - once presented a viable solution to child neglect.

When the colonies that became the USA were still dominions of the British Empire they began to imagine their sporting pastimes as finer recreations than even those enjoyed in the motherland.

The definitive history of the Wesleyan movement in the United States.

Toronto Trailblazers explores the influence of seven key women who, despite pervasive gender bias, helped advance a modern literary culture for Canada.