History of the Americas

Eddy M.

In this thought-provoking book, David Hart challenges the creation myth of post--World War II federal science and technology policy.

Women were once excluded everywhere from the legal profession, but by the 1990s the Virginia Supreme Court had three women among its seven justices.

For the vast majority of Native American students in federal Indian boarding schools at the turn of the twentieth century, the experience was nothing short of tragic.

In a single volume, In Times of Crisis and Sorrow: A Minister's Manual Resource Guide offers a practical and professional guide for dealing with grief, sorrow, crises, and other difficult situations in the life of a congregation.

Peanuts creator Charles M.

For many years historians of the Cuban missile crisis have concentrated on those thirteen days in October 1962 when the world teetered on the brink of nuclear war.

In The Unwritten War, Daniel Aaron examines the literary output of American writers-major and minor-who treated the Civil War in their works.

In Azusa Reimagined, Keri Day explores how the Azusa Street Revival of 1906, out of which U.

From the North African desert to the bloody stalemate in Italy, from the London blitz to the D-Day beaches, a group of highly courageous and extremely talented American journalists reported the war against Nazi Germany for a grateful audience.

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A fascinating account of the trade patterns and consumption practices that arose following European colonisation of the Atlantic world.

The Yearbook of Transnational History is dedicated to disseminating pioneering research in the field of transnational history.

Many churches are involved in short-term mission trips.

This study of the Manitoba judiciary is not only the first biographical history to examine an entire provincial bench, it is also one of the first studies to offer an internal view of the political nature of the judicial appointment process.

This book explores the presidential image of Donald Trump as it is constructed by the media within American national mythology, precisely the frontier myth.

Your 40-day guide to experiencing more passionate, persistent, intimate communication with God.

Uncovering the history and examining the legacy of lynching in the state of Virginia Although not as associated with lynching as other southern states, Virginia has a tragically extensive history with these horrific crimes.

This is the first book-length study to investigate the place of lay Catholic women in modern Irish history.

Ohio sent eight presidents to the White House--one Whig and seven Republicans--from 1841 to 1923: William Harrison, U.

Offers the first comprehensive study of the diplomatic relationship between America and Ireland in the 1930s.

This user-friendly reference dictionary provides a quick guide to those who have governed Mexico from 1325 to 1997.

This detailed biography gives a portrait of the life of Daniel Alexander Payne, a free person of color in nineteenth century Charleston, South Carolina.

New York City has long been a breeding ground for spies, saboteurs, terrorists, and other threats to the nation and its greatest city.

Maybe there has never been a more comprehensive work on the history of Chicago than the five volumes written by Josiah S.

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

The Virginia Military Institute launched an educational revolution when it became the first school in the American South to combine classical and practical courses under an effective system of military discipline.

This book is a full-length study of the rights of indigenous peoples in international law, focusing in particular on instruments of human rights.

By 1941, a nascent statehood movement began to coalesce into an active and explicit secession campaign seeking to carve from Northern California and Southern Oregon a new State of Jefferson.

Comic Books and American Cultural History is an anthology that examines the ways in which comic books can be used to understand the history of the United States.

The first-ever English translation of the memoirs of botanist and naturalist Karl Heller This volume is the first-ever English translation of the memoirs of Karl Heller, a twenty-year-old aspiring Austrian botanist who traveled to Mexico in 1845 to collect specimens.

Between 1500 and 1900 there was a constant growth in the numbers of large cities and networks of smaller towns throughout the Pacific world in which traders and primary producers did business.

Though some believe that the Indian treaties of the 1870s achieved a unity of purpose between the Canadian government and First Nations, in From Treaties to Reserves D.

A tour de force of writing and analysis, Down to Earth offers a sweeping history of our nation, one that for the first time places the environment at the very center of our story.

Spanning a thirty-year period, from the late 1800s until the 1920s, Hell Paso is the true story of the desperate men and notorious women that made El Paso, Texas the Old West's most dangerous town.

The Appalachian Trail, a thin ribbon of wilderness running through the densely populated eastern United States, offers a refuge from modern society and a place apart from human ideas and institutions.

This academic book, A Historical Study of the Grange, the Farm Bureau, and the Associated Farmers, 19291941 by Clarke A.

In this remarkable collection of essays, acclaimed writer Brian Doyle offers "e;resurrections, restorations, reconsiderations, appreciations, enthusiasms, headlong solos, laughing prayers, imaginary meetings with most unusual and most interesting men.

Cities in the North Atlantic coal and steel belt embodied industrial power in the early twentieth century, but by the 1970s, their economic and political might had been significantly diminished by newly industrializing regions in the Global South.

"e;The Korean missions movement is perhaps the most significant story of the Church in the world over the past one hundred years.

Henry Roe Cloud was the first Native American to graduate from Yale.

The first full-length biography of Daniel Ortega in any language, this exhaustive account draws from a wealth of untapped sources to tell the story of Nicaragua's continuing struggle for liberation through the prism of the Revolution's most emblematic yet enigmatic hero.

This volume explores African American historical fiction written by women in the last four decades of the twentieth century.

Asked in 2010 about his pugnacious approach to federal-provincial relations, Newfoundland premier Danny Williams declared “I would rather live one more day as a lion than ten years a jellyfish.

For generations, fans and critics have characterized classic American radio drama as a "e;theater of the mind.

At the beginning of the 19th century, physicians teaching anatomy in New England medical schools expected students to have hands-on experience with cadavers.

In his farewell address, Dwight D.

This book traces the development of criminal law in America, from the start of the constitutional era to the rise of the New Deal order.