United States category: 34172 books
Turning South Again
Re-Thinking Modernism/Re-Reading Booker T.
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2001
In Turning South Again the distinguished and award-winning essayist, poet, and scholar of African American literature Houston A. Baker, Jr. offers a revisionist account of the struggle for black modernism in the United States. With a take on the work of Booker T. Washington and the Tuskegee Institute...
The Iran Wars
Spy Games, Bank Battles, and the Secret Deals That Reshaped the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
From the Wall Street Journal reporter who’s been breaking news on the historic and potentially disastrous Iran nuclear deal comes a deeply reported exploration of the country’s decades-long power struggle with the United States—for readers of Steve Coll’s Ghost Wars and Lawrence Wright’s...
American Gunfight
The Plot to Kill Harry Truman--and the Shoot-out that Stopped It
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2005
American Gunfight is the fast-paced, definitive, and breathtakingly suspenseful account of an extraordinary historical event -- the attempted assassination of President Harry Truman in 1950 by two Puerto Rican Nationalists and the bloody shoot-out in the streets of Washington, D.C., that saved the...
Campus Wars
The Peace Movement At American State Universities in the Vietnam Era
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1992
"At the same time that the dangerous war was being fought in the jungles of Vietnam, Campus Wars were being fought in the United States by antiwar protesters. Kenneth J. Heineman found that the campus peace campaign was first spurred at state universities rather than at the big-name colleges....
From Walden Pond to Jurassic Park
Activism, Culture, and American Studies
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2001
Paul Lauter, an icon of American Studies who has been a primary agent in its transformation and its chief ambassador abroad, offers a wide-ranging collection of essays that demonstrate and reflect on this important and often highly politicized discipline. While American Studies was formerly seen as...
General Henry Lockwood of Delaware
Shipmate of Melville, Co-builder of the Naval Academy, Civil War Commander
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
General Henry Lockwood of Delaware: Shipmate of Melville, Co-builder of the Naval Academy, Civil War Commander depicts the fascinating and accomplished life of nineteenth-century Delaware son, Brig. Gen. Henry Lockwood. Excerpt for a leave of absence to fight as a Union general during the Civil War,...
Tri-Faith America
How Catholics and Jews Held Postwar America to Its Protestant Promise
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2011
President Franklin D. Roosevelt put it bluntly, if privately, in 1942-the United States was "a Protestant country," he said, "and the Catholics and Jews are here under sufferance." In Tri-Faith America, Kevin Schultzexplains how the United States left behind this idea that it was...
After Cloven Tongues of Fire
Protestant Liberalism in Modern American History
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
The role of liberalized, ecumenical Protestantism in American history has too often been obscured by the more flamboyant and orthodox versions of the faith that oppose evolution, embrace narrow conceptions of family values, and continue to insist that the United States should be understood as a Christian...
Working Toward Whiteness
How America's Immigrants Became White: The Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2006
How did immigrants to the United States come to see themselves as white?
David R. Roediger has been in the vanguard of the study of race and labor in American history for decades. He first came to prominence as the author of The Wages of Whiteness, a classic study of racism in the development...
The Four Freedoms
Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Evolution of an American Idea
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2015
The specter of global war loomed large in President Franklin Roosevelt's mind as he prepared to present his 1941 State of the Union address. He believed the United States had a role to play in the battle against Nazi and fascist aggression already underway in Europe, yet his rallying cry to the nation...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Departing from conventional narratives of the United States and the Americas as fundamentally continental spaces, the contributors to Archipelagic American Studies theorize America as constituted by and accountable to an assemblage of interconnected islands, archipelagoes, shorelines, continents,...
Commons Democracy
Reading the Politics of Participation in the Early United States
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Commons Democracy highlights a poorly understood dimension of democracy in the early United States. It tells a story that, like the familiar one, begins in the Revolutionary era. But instead of the tale of the Founders’ high-minded ideals and their careful crafting of the safe framework for democracy—a...
Slave Life in Virginia and Kentucky
A Narrative by Francis Fedric, Escaped Slave
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
In 1854, faced with the threat of yet another brutal beating, a fifty-year-old slave in Mason County, Kentucky, decided to try again to escape. His first attempt had ended in his near starvation as he hid for nine weeks in a swamp, before hunger compelled him to return to his master. This time the...
The Color Line and the Assembly Line
Managing Race in the Ford Empire
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
The Color Line and the Assembly Line tells a new story of the impact of mass production on society. Global corporations based originally in the United States have played a part in making gender and race everywhere. Focusing on Ford Motor Company’s rise to become the largest, richest, and most influential...