History of the Americas

When the United States entered World War II, Italian nationals living in this country were declared enemy aliens and faced with legal restrictions.

Southern Capitalism challenges prevailing views of Southern development by arguing that the persisting peculiarities of the Southern economy-such as low wages and high poverty rates-have not resulted from barriers to capitalist development, nor from the lingering influence of planter values.

Wall Street Journal's Five Best Books About CultsFor five days in December 1908 the body of Cyrus Teed lay in a bathtub at a beach house just south of Fort Myers, Florida.

Reveals how babies shaped modern American life, including the rise of the medical authority, consumerism, social welfare, and popular psychology.

Toward a Chican@ Hip Hop Anti-Colonialism makes visible the anti-colonial, alterNative politics in hip hop texts created by Chican@s and Xican@s (indigenous-identified people of Mexican descent in the United States).

New York Times-Bestselling Author:The story of the battle's aftermath-the burial of the dead, and Lincoln's appearance to make "e;a few appropriate remarks.

Use this collection of over 60 primary documents to trace the evolution of trial rights from English and colonial beginnings to our contemporary understanding of their meaning.

In the 1960s and early 1970s, Chicago witnessed a remarkable flourishing of visual arts associated with the Black Arts Movement.

"e;This remarkable publication provides a captivating and brilliantly executed series of conversations among seventeen most impressive historians.

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Working through close rhetorical analysis of everything from fiction and journalism to documents and documentaries, this book looks at how popular memory favors the country Depression over the economic crisis in the nation's cities and factories.

This volume explores the significant connections between the Quaker community and the abolitionist cause in America.

Manifesting America explores how Native American and Mexican American writers use various kinds of nonfiction to challenge the ideology of manifest destiny.

“A well-told, richly contextualized investigation of an appalling episode in American history” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).

This volume explores several issues pertinent to the history of the cross-border region between Mexico, Guatemala and Belize from new explanatory approaches in order to reflect on a history and a reality that are shared by three neighbouring societies, emphasizing the actors and local practices that shape cross-border dynamics.

An inspiring history of the voting rights movement in America, from Frederick Douglass and Alice Paul to John Lewis, James Clyburn, and the Obamas.

The most accessible and popular of British Columbias great scenic fjords, Jervis Inlet punches 60 kilometres into the Coast Mountains a days cruising north of Vancouver.

A notable contribution to North American archaeological literature, The Archaeology of the Atlantic Northeast is the first book to integrate and interpret archaeological data from the entire Atlantic Northeast, making unprecedented cultural connections across a broad region that encompasses the Canadian Atlantic provinces, the Quebec Lower North Shore, and Maine.

North Carolinas Hurricane History charts the more than fifty great storms that have battered the Tar Heel State from the colonial era through Irene in 2011 and Superstorm Sandy in 2012, two of the costliest hurricanes on record.

Norman Sherman's idea of fun is attending a political convention.

No other general in American history has attracted the attention and adoration accorded to Robert Edward Lee, the peerless chieftain of the Confederacy.

Winner of a 2016 Association of Catholic Publishers Excellence in Publishing Award (first place, inspirational books).

Over the past two decades, the Sanctuary City movement has resulted in hundreds of jurisdictions declaring themselves safe spaces for undocumented migrants and people without status.

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First published in 1992, this book focuses on the oeuvre of S.

This new textbook provides students with a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the presidents and presidential leadership in Latin America.

Four major waves of immigration from the colonial period to the present are examined, exploring the causes and consequences.

The #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Our Crowd offers an anecdote-filled tour of the most exclusive suburbs of 1970s America.

Paul has provided a vital piece to our understanding of modern liberalisms origins.

In The Journey to Separate but Equal: Madame Decuirs Quest for Racial Justice in the Reconstruction Era, Jack Beermann tells the story of how, in Hall v.

Breaking the Wave is the first anthology of original essays by both younger and established scholars that takes a long view of feminist activism by systematically examining the dynamics of movement persistence during moments of reaction and backlash.

The evil eye has received considerable attention in the literature of disciplines as diverse as anthropology and medicine.

Though the Civil War ended in April 1865, the conflict between Unionists and Confederates continued.

In this series, private investigators pick up where the historians left off, taking on a series of major cold cases in history, starting with the mishandling of evidence relating to the life and times of Billy the Kid.

Americanized Spanish Culture explores the intricate transcultural dialogue between Spain and the United States since the late 19th century.

This book recounts the reception of selected films about the Great War released between 1918 and 1938 in the USA and Great Britain.

One of a select group of American foreign service officers to receive specialized training on the Soviet Union in the late 1920s and early 1930s, George Frost Kennan eventually became the American government's chief expert on Soviet affairs during the height of the Cold War.

With the Commonwealth of Virginia's Public Park Condemnation Act of 1928, the state surveyed for and acquired three thousand tracts of land that would become Shenandoah National Park.

A compelling history of the national conflicts that resulted from efforts to produce the first definitive American dictionary of English In The Dictionary Wars, Peter Martin recounts the patriotic fervor in the early American republic to produce a definitive national dictionary that would rival Samuel Johnson's 1755 Dictionary of the English Language.

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

An overview of the revisionist case on the Vietnam War, showing how it could have been won by the US at a lower cost than was suffered in defeat.

Desert Rose offers an intimate portrait of Coretta Scott King through the eyes of her sister, Edythe Scott Bagley, illuminating the formative experiences that shaped Coretta's lifelong commitment to justice.

Anita Whitney was a child of wealth and privilege who became a vocal leftist early in the twentieth century, supporting radical labor groups such as the Wobblies and helping to organize the Communist Labor Party.

An easily accessible resource that showcases the links between using documented primary sources and gaining a more nuanced understanding of military history.

A fascinating collection of thirty-two compelling stories about events that shaped the Mount Rushmore State, It Happened in South Dakota describes everything from Lewis and Clark raising an American flag on the Missouri to the continuing creation of a monument to Crazy Horse.