American category: 24906 books
American Arcadia
California and the Classical Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
A vivid and engaging exploration of California's debt to the ancient world Discussing the influence of the classics on America is nothing new; indeed, classical antiquity could be considered second only to Christianity as a force in modeling America's national identity. What has never been explored...
Since '45
America and the Making of Contemporary Art
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Since ’45 details the collision of American history and modern art. Since World War II, New York has been the indisputable center of the art world, and as Katy Siegel shows, it has had a profound influence on the preoccupations that contemporary art would come to have. Tracing art history over...
Encounters at the Heart of the World
A History of the Mandan People
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for History
Encounters at the Heart of the World concerns the Mandan Indians, iconic Plains people whose teeming, busy towns on the upper Missouri River were for centuries at the center of the North American universe. We know of them mostly because Lewis and...
by David E. Jones
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
From the Chickasaw fighting the Choctaw in the Southeast to the Sioux battling the Cheyenne on the Great Plains, warfare was endemic among the North American Indians when Europeans first arrived on this continent. An impressive array of offensive weaponry and battle tactics gave rise to an equally...
A History of American Literature
1950 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
The History of American Literature from 1950 to the Present offers a comprehensive analysis of the wide range of literary works that extends into the 21st century
Covers drama, poetry, fiction, non-fiction, memoirs, science fiction, and detective novels
Features discussion of American works within the...
by Ersula Knox Odom
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Tampa has a fascinating past that has been wonderfully documented with one exception: African Americans. This culturally rich community is virtually invisible in the eyes of history. Tampa�s population exploded during the early 1900s, and the building boom universally required the skills and talents...
And Still I Rise
Black America Since MLK
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
The companion book to Henry Louis Gates, Jr.’s PBS series, And Still I Rise—a timeline and chronicle of the past fifty years of black history in the U.S. in more than 350 photos.
Beginning with the assassination of Malcolm X in February 1965, And Still I Rise: From Black Power to the White...
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS***
Synopsis:
During the 1800s in America, the rise of technology allowed people to have more possessions than ever before, and at a cheaper cost. However, a group known as the Transcendentalists believed that possessions...
Critical Shift
Rereading Jarves, Cook, Stillman, and the Narratives of Nineteenth-Century American Art
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
American Civil War–era art critics James Jackson Jarves, Clarence Cook, and William J. Stillman classified styles and defined art in terms that have become fundamental to our modern periodization of the art of the nineteenth century. In Critical Shift, Karen Georgi rereads many of their well-known...
by Rosa Pryor-Trusty, Tonya Taliaferro
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2003
African-American Entertainment in Baltimore captures the brilliance of the city's musical heritage from 1930 to 1980. This educational and entertaining volume invites readers to take a visual trip down memory lane to the days when Pennsylvania Avenue, the heart of the city's African-American community,...
Freedom Sounds
Civil Rights Call out to Jazz and Africa
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2007
An insightful examination of the impact of the Civil Rights Movement and African Independence on jazz in the 1950s and 60s, Freedom Sounds traces the complex relationships among music, politics, aesthetics, and activism through the lens of the hot button racial and economic issues of the time. Ingrid...
by David Mamet
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
"Gripping. . . . Deep in its gut, Mamet's new play argues, everything in America-and this play throws in sex, rape, the law, employment and relationships-is still about race."-Chicago Tribune"A dramatist celebrated for introducing expletives to the American theatre now tackles a truly taboo four-letter...
by Walt Whitman
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012
Walter "Walt" Whitman (May 31, 1819 March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist and journalist well known in his time for his famous Leaves of Grass collection of poetry. A humanist, Whitman was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works,...
The Black Cultural Front
Black Writers and Artists of the Depression Generation
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
The Black Cultural Front describes how the social and political movements that grew out of the Depression facilitated the left turn of several African American artists and writers. The Communist-led John Reed Clubs brought together black and white writers in writing collectives. The Congress of Industrial...