American category: 24906 books
Burnt-Out Fires
California’s Modoc Indian War
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
Burnt-Out Fires deals with a very dark period of American history, a period that, until recently, had been purposefully forgotten ... a period that hopefully will cause a re-evaluation of the American ideals and dreams.
Everyone pointed to...
Tohopeka
Rethinking the Creek War and the War of 1812
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2012
Tohopeka contains a variety of perspectives and uses a wide array of evidence and approaches, from scrutiny of cultural and religious practices to literary and linguistic analysis, to illuminate this troubled period.
Almost two hundred years ago, the territory that would become Alabama...
From Cochise to Geronimo
The Chiricahua Apaches, 1874–1886
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
In the decade after the death of their revered chief Cochise in 1874, the Chiricahua Apaches struggled to survive as a people and their relations with the U.S. government further deteriorated. In From Cochise to Geronimo, Edwin R. Sweeney builds on his previous biographies of Chiricahua leaders Cochise...
Legends of the Chiefs
The True Legends Passed Down by Native Americans
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
Beth Shumway Moore and Blackhawk Walters with a combined talent of one hundred and fifty years; tell stories from a view point that will soon be lost forever. Blackhawk as a young boy kneeling at Geronimo’s grave making a vow that he would be a great warrior and keep American Indian History alive....
The Art of Richard Mayhew
A Critical Analysis with Interviews
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
African American and American Indian artist Richard Mayhew was a pivotal member of the movement, headed by Romare Bearden, of the most important black artists of the Abstract Expressionist era. Bearden’s group, Spiral, was formed as a visual response to the March on Washington. Mayhew associated...
The Wars of Reconstruction
The Brief, Violent History of America's Most Progressive Era
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
A groundbreaking new history, telling the stories of hundreds of African-American activists and officeholders who risked their lives for equality-in the face of murderous violence-in the years after the Civil War.
By 1870, just five years after Confederate surrender and thirteen years after...
by Carolyn Niethammer
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
She was both guardian of the hearth and, on occasion, ruler and warrior, leading men into battle, managing the affairs of her people, sporting war paint as well as necklaces and earrings.
She built houses and ground corn, wove blankets and painted pottery, played field hockey and rode racehorses.
Frequently...
by James N. Leiker, Ramon Powers
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
The exodus of the Northern Cheyennes in 1878 and 1879, an attempt to flee from Indian Territory to their Montana homeland, is an important event in American Indian history. It is equally important in the history of towns like Oberlin, Kansas, where Cheyenne warriors killed more than forty settlers....
Three African-American Classics
Up from Slavery, The Souls of Black Folk and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
This essential collection comprises a trio of the most influential African-American writings of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Exploring such themes as slavery and its abolition, the struggle for equality, and the impassioned rise from bondage to international recognition, each landmark book...
by Lorena M. Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2004
Storytelling is alive and well in the 21st Century. A good Fable or Fairy-tale can still hold its own in an era of DVDs, Play Stations and Cyberspace. Just imagine reading a passage in one of these stories that is so vivid that you can relate to a time and place never experience, yet, draw an association...
by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
This vintage book contains Ulrich Bonnell Phillips's 1918 historical treatise, “American Negro Slavery: A Survey of the Supply, Employment, and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime”. Although Phillips displays what we would now consider to be unrepentant racism in this...
Twenty Thousand Mornings
An Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
When John Joseph Mathews (1894–1979) began his career as a writer in the 1930s, he was one of only a small number of Native American authors writing for a national audience. Today he is widely recognized as a founder and shaper of twentieth-century Native American literature. Twenty Thousand Mornings...
by Benjamin Quarles
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Originally published in 1961, this classic work remains the most comprehensive history of the many and important roles played by African Americans during the American Revolution. With this book, Benjamin Quarles added a new dimension to the military history of the Revolution and addressed for the...
American Nightmare
The History of Jim Crow
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2003
For a hundred years after the end of the Civil War, a quarter of all Americans lived under a system of legalized segregation called Jim Crow. Together with its rigidly enforced canon of racial "etiquette," these rules governed nearly every aspect of life--and outlined draconian punishments...