History of the Americas

In an age when pundits constantly decry overt political bias in the media, we have naturally become skeptical of the news.

Debating the American Conservative Movement chronicles one of the most dramatic stories of modern American political history.

Rabbi Chiel's history of the Jewish community in Manitoba grew out of a curiosity about the colour and vitality of Jewish life in this Canadian prairie province which was impressed upon him during a ten-year residence in Winnipeg.

One of the few publicly known communists in the South, Junius Scales organized textile workers, fought segregation, and was the only American to be imprisoned under the membership clause of the Smith Act during the McCarthy years.

The Cacophony of Politics charts the trajectory of the Democratic Party as the party of opposition in the North during the Civil War.

The first social history of disability and difference in American adoption, from the Progressive Era to the end of the twentieth century.

This anthology of new essays by an international group of preeminent scholars explores the ground-breaking work of Hayden White, whose thought, beginning with his seminal Metahistory (1973), has revolutionized the way we think about the philosophy of history, historiography, narrative, and the relation between history and literature.

THE BIBLE THAT FEELS LIKE HOME.

Too often, says Jennifer L.

The continued history of Beaufort County, South Carolina, during and following the Civil WarIn Rebellion, Reconstruction, and Redemption, 1861-1893, the second of three volumes on the history of Beaufort County, Stephen R.

The Avon Lady acquired iconic status in twentieth century American culture.

The Saint Lawrence valley, connecting the Great Lakes to the Atlantic, was a crucible of community in the seventeenth century.

Do you struggle to get into the Christmas spirit?

This volume provides the first survey in English of the Dutch involvement in the Atlantic slave trade and slave system.

Todays seminary and religious-education instructors are expected to design and redesign their courses more nimbly than in the past.

Merchant John Banister (1707-1767) of Newport, Rhode Island, wore many hats: exporter, importer, wholesaler, retailer, money-lender, extender of credit and insurer, owner and outfitter of sailing vessels, and ship builder for the slave trade.

At the international level the twentieth century was characterized by the rise in national self-determination in the Third World and by the rise of US power.

In his day, John Wesley offered important insights on how to obtain knowledge of God that readily bears fruit in our own times.

A timeless collection of prayers, quotes, poems and speeches for every occasion.

A mix of thematic essays, reference entries, and primary source documents covering the role of religion in American history and life from the colonial era to the present.

Winner of a first-place award in spirituality from the Catholic Media Association.

A fully illustrated narrative of the Atlanta campaign complete with maps, illustrations, and diagrams.

This collection is the first comprehensive, cohesive volume to unite Appalachian history with its culture.

Though still a relatively young field, the study of Latin American environmental history is blossoming, as the contributions to this definitive volume demonstrate.

From 1861 to 1865, the Civil War raged along the great rivers of the Ohio and Mississippi valleys.

Reformed theology is one of the major Protestant theological traditions in the United States and Western Europe, one that includes various forms of Presbyterianism and dozens of other denominations, all deeply influenced by the Genevan reformer John Calvin.

The tony, leafy neighborhood of Georgetown along the Potomac river in Washington, D.

Nancy Christie innovatively and significantly transforms the writing of Quebec history between 1763 and 1837 by locating Quebec within new British practices of imperial governance asserted in the wake of the Seven Years War.

This book breaks new ground in our understanding of a pivotal period in the history of American foreign policy, the early Cold War, and the struggle for dominance in China between the Nationalists and Communists.

Journey back a century and a half back in time to one of the most significant meetings in US history, without which more than half of the American population wouldn't be allowed to vote.

John Nelson was an entrepreneur born in the mid-seventeenth century--a man, in Richard Johnson's words, "e;operating ahead of the government and settled society from which he came,"e; who "e;responded to conventions and conditions derived from several different and often competing cultures.

"e;Incredibly detailed and well-documented"e; (San Francisco Book Review), a revelatory history of the actions of five Indian Nations during the Civil War.

"e;When Harry Met Sally"e; is only the most iconic of popular American movies, books, and articles that pose the question of whether friendships between men and women are possible.

In this provocative account of colonial America, William R.

Winner of a 2020 Catholic Press Association book award (third place, scripture-popular studies).

The #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Miracle of Dunkirk tells the story of the Texans who fought Santa Anna's troops at the Battle of the Alamo.

The Pequot Indian intellectual, author, and itinerant preacher William Apess (17981839) was one the most important voices of the nineteenth century.

Originally published in 1976, this monumental volume is a study of one of the major migrations of modern times - the result of which has been significantly to alter the history of the United States and of the whole Middle East.

What Kansas really tells us about red state AmericaNo state has voted Republican more consistently or widely or for longer than Kansas.

The contention of Film and the American Presidency is that over the twentieth century the cinema has been a silent partner in setting the parameters of what we might call the presidential imaginary.

Central economic planning is often associated with failed state socialism, and modern capitalism celebrated as its antithesis.

THE TEXAS ALMANAC 20162017 includes these new feature articles: *; A history of Texas' various food regionsfrom Tex-Mex to barbecuewritten by Dotty Griffith, longtime food writer for The Dallas Morning News and author of The Texas Holiday Cookbook, Celebrating Barbecue, and Wild About Chili.

An entire household massacred.

The NPR reporter offers an “engaging and enlightening” window into late-90s Cuba, “from the cafes in Havana to the mysterious lairs of Santiago de Cuba” (Kirkus Reviews).

A transatlantic study focusing on African American resistance through unexplored oratorical and performative testimony in the British Isles.

Building Democracy in Brazil is an empirical analysis of the constitution-making process that Brazil underwent in the 1980s as it moved from an authoritarian military regime to a democratic civilian government.

Best Nineteenth-Century Book Award Winner, 2018, Latin American Studies Association Nineteenth-Century Section Moral electricitya term coined by American transcendentalists in the 1850s to describe the force of nature that was literacy and education in shaping a greater society.