| |
The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Race in American History brings together a number of established scholars, as well as younger scholars on the rise, to provide a scholarly overview for those interested in the role of religion and race in American history. Thirty-four...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-03-01
PDF, ePub
|
The Roosevelt name conjures up images of powerful Presidents and dashing men of high society. But few people know much about the extraordinary network of women that held the Roosevelt clan together through war, scandal, and disease. InThe Roosevelt Women, Betty Boyd...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2018-02-27
ePub
|
Guides students through a rich menu of American history through food and eating This book features a wide and diverse range of primary sources covering the cultivation, preparation, marketing, and consumption of food from the time before Europeans arrived in North...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2018-02-26
Collection :
Uncovering the Past: Documentary Readers in American History
PDF, ePub
|
Americans today harbor no strong or consistent collective memory of the First World War. Ask why the country fought or what they accomplished, and "democracy" is the most likely if vague response. The circulation of confusing or lofty rationales for intervention began...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-02-01
PDF, ePub
|
Houses Divided provides new insights into the significance of the nineteenth-century evangelical schisms that arose initially over the moral question of African American bondage. Volkman examines such fractures in the Baptist, Methodist, and Presbyterian churches of the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-02-01
PDF, ePub
|
Target success in Edexcel A-level History with this proven formula for effective, structured revision; key content coverage is combined with exam preparation activities and exam-style questions to create a revision guide that students can rely on to review, strengthen...
Editeur :
Hodder Education
Parution :
2018-01-29
ePub
|
Cowboy Christians examines the long history of cowboy Christianity in the American West, with a focus on the present-day cowboy church movement. Based on five years of historical and sociological fieldwork in cowboy Christian communities, this book draws on interviews...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-01-15
PDF, ePub
|
When first opened to the public in 1853, New York's Crystal Palace created a sensation. Those who had seen London's Crystal Palace, the structure it was openly intended to emulate, argued that America's copy far surpassed it. Built in what is today Bryant Park, a...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-01-10
PDF, ePub
|
Originally published in 1942 and now reprinted for the first time, They Knew Lincoln is a classic in African American history and Lincoln studies. Part memoir and part history, the book is an account of John E. Washington's childhood among African Americans in...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-01-08
PDF, ePub
|
Why do white supremacist politics in America remain so powerful? Elizabeth Gillespie McRae argues that the answer lies with white women.
Examining racial segregation from 1920s to the 1970s, Mothers of Massive Resistance explores the grassroots workers who maintained...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-01-02
PDF, ePub
|
The Civil War Dead and American Modernity offers a fundamental rethinking of the cultural importance of the American Civil War dead. Tracing their representational afterlife across a massive array of historical, visual, and literary documents from 1861 to 1914, Ian...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-01-02
PDF, ePub
|
Why put Abraham Lincoln, the sometime corporate lawyer and American President, in dialogue with Karl Marx, the intellectual revolutionary? On the surface, they would appear to share few interests. Yet, though Lincoln and Marx never met one another, both had an abiding...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-12-19
PDF, ePub
|
Americans today choose from a dizzying array of schools, loosely lumped into categories of "public" and "private." How did these distinctions emerge in the first place, and what do they tell us about the more general relationship in the United States between public...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-12-01
PDF, ePub
|
This book presents an original historical-legal analysis of the adoption of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Drawing upon James Madison’s own minutes of the 1787 Convention, it focuses on Madison’s crucial role in shaping a bill of rights that would both reserve...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-30
PDF, ePub
|
Tells the story of how America’s biggest companies began, operated, and prospered post-World War I This book takes the vantage point of people working within companies as they responded to constant change created by consumers and technology. It focuses on the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2017-11-30
Collection :
The American History Series
PDF, ePub
|
Did You Know? This book is available as a Wiley E-Text. The Wiley E-Text is a complete digital version of the text that makes time spent studying more efficient. Course materials can be accessed on a desktop, laptop, or mobile device—so that learning can take place...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2017-11-23
PDF, ePub
|
The story of an ambitious family at the forefront of the great middle-class land grab that shaped early American capitalismAmerican Aristocrats is a multigenerational biography of the Andersons of Kentucky, a family of strivers who passionately believed in the promise...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2017-11-21
ePub
|
A Times History Book of the Year The voyage of the Mayflower is one of the seminal events in world history. But the story did not end with her arrival on the frozen coast of New England in 1620. In an epic history, Rebecca Fraser relates one ordinary family’s...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2017-10-19
ePub
|
Would you pass the government’s test to become an American citizen? Take the 100-question quiz and see! As millions of people know, becoming an American citizen isn’t easy. It involves a lengthy application process, including a tough two-part naturalization...
Editeur :
Union Square & Co.
Parution :
2017-10-17
ePub
|
Mario Cuomo was the most important Democratic officeholder during the Reagan era. The three-term governor of New York was also a famously eloquent defender of the Democratic Party's progressive legacy even as conservatives gained political power across the nation. As...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-10-12
PDF, ePub
|