History of the Americas

This edited collection of exciting new scholarship provides comprehensive coverage of the broad sweep of twentieth century religious activism on the American left.

In Women of the Northern Plains, Barbara Handy-Marchello tells the stories of the unsung heroes of North Dakotas settlement era: the farm women.

More than 16,000 Canadian soldiers suffered from shell shock during the Great War of 1914 to 1918.

References to the Indian Wars, those conflicts that accompanied US continental expansion, suffuse American military history.

After two short weeks under siege, the climactic battle of the Alamo lasted under an hour, but its aftermath spawned a legend.

There are heroes who walk among us: the clam digger who rescues a man from a burning retirement home; the dancer who prevents a robber from shooting two policemen at a nightclub; the former Marine, blinded during the Korean War, who saves two women from drowning in a river.

Part research project, part detective story, this book presents results from the most comprehensive study of successful churches in history.

Ninety miles from Florida, the island of Cuba has since long before the Castro revolution focused its attention upon, and drawn the attention of, the United States.

A privileged, hell-raising youth who had greatly embarrassed his familyand especially his war-hero fatherby being dismissed from West Point, Michael J.

Mary Dudziak's Exporting American Dreams tells the little-known story of Thurgood Marshall's work with Kenyan leaders as they fought with the British for independence in the early 1960s.

Writing about the brain and the nervous system more than a century ago, what were U.

Beginning in 1943, US Army leaders such as John M.

The Routledge Handbook of Latinx Life Writing provides an in depth introduction to Latinx life writing, taking a historical approach to the study of a variety of key Latinx life writers, genres, and thematic concerns.

Everyone knows the story of how the Civil War began at Fort Sumter, but what happened to the fort after the first shots were fired there?

This book offers a broad-based study of Jonathan Edwards as a religious thinker.

Exploring the significance of places that built our cultural past, this guide is a lens into historical sites spanning the entire history of the United States, from Acoma Pueblo to Ground Zero.

This book provides the first historical examination of the study of religion in Canada.

Following Iran's Islamic revolution in 1979, hundreds of thousands of Iranians fled their homeland.

Experience daily life in Maya civilization, from its earliest beginnings to the Spanish conquest in the 16th century.

Delving beneath Southern California's popular image as a sunny frontier of leisure and ease, this book tells the dynamic story of the life and labor of Los Angeles's large working class.

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility.

In the Wesley 21-day Challenge small groups or whole churches will spend three weeks working through 21 questions that will engage their physical, spiritual and emotional lives and their relationship with God and others.

Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts in the Enlightenment argues for the centrality of magical practices and ideas throughout the long eighteenth century.

Because, its said, history is written by the victors, we know plenty about the Patriots cause in the American Revolution.

This book argues that understanding truces is crucial for our ability to wind down wars.

The crowning achievement of Afro-Colombian author Manuel Zapata Olivella, Chango, Decolonizing the African Diaspora depicts the African American experience from a perspective of gods who stand over the world and watch.

Known as the "e;Great Dissenter,"e; Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

This book examines the life of actress Adah Isaacs Menken in the culture of the Civil War period.

Mart was a leading Cuban nationalist in the independence war of the 1890s that anticipated the Third World liberation struggles of the 20th century and played for the Cuban Revolution a similar role to that of Lenin in Russia.

Although frequently attacked for their partisanship and undue political influence, the American media of today are objective and relatively ineffectual compared to their counterparts of two hundred years ago.

Early modern, long-distance trade was fraught with risk and uncertainty, driving merchants to seek means (that is, institutions) to reduce them.

American Education, Democracy, and the Second World War examines how U.

Politicians and political parties are for the most part limited by habit-they recycle tried-and-true strategies, draw on models from the past, and mimic others in the present.

How New Deal economic policies played out in the small town of Arthurdale, West Virginia Today, the U.

This resource guide to 100 key events in Latino history provides students, librarians, and scholars with hundreds of original and compelling term paper ideas and the key print and electronic sources needed for research.

Raised in poverty on an Iowa farm, the Cherry Sisters had little education and no training.

As the country grows increasingly diverse and complicated, Americans seek, and occasionally find, a common thread to unite them.

Commanding Petty Despots: The American Navy in the New Republic tells the story of the creation of the American Navy.

When Pittsburgh socialite Laura Corey rolled into Reno, Nevada, in 1905 for a six-month stay, her goal was a divorce from the president of U.

This book examines the legends of who 'really' discovered America.

This book sheds light on William Howard Taft, re-examining the Taft–Theodore Roosevelt relationship and placing Taft in a progressive context.

The National Reform Association (NRA) was an antebellum land reform movement inspired by the shared dream of a future shaped by egalitarian homesteads.

Nebraska Book Award, Biography Honor Most Americans familiar with General John J.

A leading intellectual historian traces the origins of Barack Obama's ideasDerided by the Right as dangerous and by the Left as spineless, Barack Obama puzzles observers.

Tom Nettles believes that Southern Baptist churches are still in the midst of reformation-reformation that began with the conservative resurgence but continues today.

Before radio and television, E.