American category: 24906 books
African American and Cherokee Nurses in Appalachia
A History, 1900-1965
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
Few career opportunities were available to minority women in Appalachia in the first half of the 20th century. Nursing offered them a respected, relatively well paid profession and—as few physicians or hospitals would treat people of color—their work was important in challenging health care inequities...
Standing In the Shadows
Understanding and Overcoming Depression in Black Men
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
A first-of-its-kind exploration of black men and depression from an award-winning journalist
The first book to reveal the depths of black men’s buried mental and emotional pain, Standing in the Shadows weaves the author’s story of his twenty-five-year struggle with depression with a cultural...
Dancing Otters and Clever Coyotes
Using Animal Energies, the Native American Way
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2009
In many Native American traditions, animals are considered to be our older, wiser brothers and sisters. Their behavior can teach us to better understand ourselves, heal old wounds, adapt to new situations, or warn us of dangers. Dancing Otters and Clever Coyotes shows us how to interpret our physical...
by Daniel G. Brinton
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
American Hero-Myths, published in 1882, is a book written by Daniel G. Brinton that provides an excellent look at Native American myths and religion. A table of contents is included.
Faith in the City
Preaching Radical Social Change in Detroit
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2009
“The dynamics of Black Theology were at the center of the ‘Long New Negro Renaissance,’ triggered by mass migrations to industrial hubs like Detroit. Finally, this crucial subject has found its match in the brilliant scholarship of Angela Dillard. No one has done a better job of tracing those...
An American Teacher in Argentina
Mary Gorman’s Nineteenth-Century Odyssey from New Mexico to the Pampas
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
An American Teacher in Argentina tells the story of Mary E. Gorman who in 1869 was the first North American woman to accept President Domingo F. Sarmiento’s invitation to set up normal schools in Argentina, where she eventually settled. An ordinary historical actor whose life only sometimes enters...
Pressure Makes Diamonds
Becoming the Woman I Pretended to Be
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
"When you get dealt a tough hand, you might choose to fold or you might decide to hold. If you're Valerie Graves, you reshuffle the whole damn deck...Graves's can't-stop-won't-stop energy offers a jump start toward meeting objectives and renews hope. Pressure Makes Diamonds is about more than...
Making Home Work
Domesticity and Native American Assimilation in the American West, 1860-1919
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2006
During the westward expansion of America, white middle-class ideals of home and domestic work were used to measure differences between white and Native American women. Yet the vision of America as "home" was more than a metaphor for women's stake in the process of conquest--it took deliberate...
The Soul of Judaism
Jews of African Descent in America
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
A glimpse into the diverse stories of Black Jews in the United States
What makes a Jew? This book traces the history of Jews of African descent in America and the counter-narratives they have put forward as they stake their claims to Jewishness.
The Soul of Judaism offers the first exploration...
A Calculus of Color
The Integration of Baseball's American League
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
In 1947, as the integration of Major League Baseball began, the once-daring American League had grown reactionary, unwilling to confront postwar challenges—population shifts, labor issues and, above all, racial integration. The league had matured in the Jim Crow era, when northern cities responded...
Greatness in the Shadows
Larry Doby and the Integration of the American League
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Just weeks after Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers, Larry Doby joined Robinson in breaking the color barrier in the major leagues when he became the first black player to integrate the American League, signing with the Cleveland Indians in July 1947. Doby went on to be a seven-time All-Star...
The Black Bruins
The Remarkable Lives of UCLA's Jackie Robinson, Woody Strode, Tom Bradley, Kenny Washington, and Ray Bartlett
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
The Black Bruins chronicles the inspirational lives of five African American athletes who faced racial discrimination as teammates at UCLA in the late 1930s. Best known among them was Jackie Robinson, a four‑star athlete for the Bruins who went on to break the color barrier in Major League Baseball...
by Thomas Paine
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2019
In 1776, writer Thomas Paine publishes his pamphlet “Common Sense,” setting forth his arguments in favor of American independence. Although little used today, pamphlets were an important medium for the spread of ideas in the 16th through 19th centuries.
Originally published anonymously,...
Going Native
Indians in the American Cultural Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
Since the 1800's, many European Americans have relied on Native Americans as models for their own national, racial, and gender identities. Displays of this impulse include world's fairs, fraternal organizations, and films such as Dances with Wolves. Shari M. Huhndorf uses cultural artifacts such as...