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Peoples of the River Valleys
The Odyssey of the Delaware Indians
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Seventeenth-century Indians from the Delaware and lower Hudson valleys organized their lives around small-scale groupings of kin and communities. Living through epidemics, warfare, economic change, and physical dispossession, survivors from these peoples came together in new locations, especially...
Delaware's Forgotten Folk
The Story of the Moors and Nanticokes
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2012
"It is offered not as a textbook nor as a scientific discussion, but merely as reading entertainment founded on the life history, social struggle, and customs of a little-known people."—From the Preface
C. A. Weslager's Delaware's Forgotten Folk chronicles the history of the Nanticoke...
John James Audubon
The Nature of the American Woodsman
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
John James Audubon's The Birds of America stands as an unparalleled achievement in American art, a huge book that puts nature dramatically on the page. With that work, Audubon became one of the most adulated artists of his time, and America's first celebrity scientist.
In this fresh approach...
The Man Who Had Been King
The American Exile of Napoleon's Brother Joseph
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
Joseph Bonaparte, King of Naples and Spain, claimed that he had never wanted the overpowering roles thrust upon him by his illustrious younger brother Napoleon. Left to his own devices, he would probably have been a lawyer in his native Corsica, a country gentleman with leisure to read the great literature...
by Emily Toth
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Ms. Mentor, that uniquely brilliant and irascible intellectual, is your all-knowing guide through the jungle that is academia today. In the last decade Ms. Mentor's mailbox has been filled to overflowing with thousands of plaintive epistles, rants, and gossipy screeds. A mere fraction has appeared...
by Booker T. Washington
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2011
The Story of the Negro is a history of Americans of African descent before and after slavery. Originally produced in two volumes, and published here for the first time in one paperback volume, the first part covers Africa and the history of slavery in the United States while the second part carries...
Slavery's Capitalism
A New History of American Economic Development
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
During the nineteenth century, the United States entered the ranks of the world's most advanced and dynamic economies. At the same time, the nation sustained an expansive and brutal system of human bondage. This was no mere coincidence. Slavery's Capitalism argues for slavery's centrality to the emergence...
Ed Bacon
Planning, Politics, and the Building of Modern Philadelphia
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2013
In the mid-twentieth century, as Americans abandoned city centers in droves to pursue picket-fenced visions of suburbia, architect and urban planner Edmund Bacon turned his sights on shaping urban America. As director of the Philadelphia City Planning Commission, Bacon forged new approaches to neighborhood...
Fall River Outrage
Life, Murder, and Justice in Early Industrial New England
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
Fall River Outrage recounts one of the most sensational and widely reported murder cases in early nineteenth-century America. When, in 1832, a pregnant mill worker was found hanged, the investigation implicated a prominent Methodist minister. Fearing adverse publicity, both the industrialists of Fall...
Exposes and Excess
Muckraking in America, 1900 / 2000
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
From robber barons to titanic CEOs, from the labor unrest of the 1880s to the mass layoffs of the 1990s, two American Gilded Ages—one in the early 1900s, another in the final years of the twentieth century—mirror each other in their laissez-faire excess and rampant social crises. Both eras have...
Debt for Sale
A Social History of the Credit Trap
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2011
Credit and debt appear to be natural, permanent facets of Americans' lives, but a debt-based economy and debt-financed lifestyles are actually recent inventions. In 1951 Diners Club issued a plastic card that enabled patrons to pay for their meals at select New York City restaurants at the end of...
Republic of Taste
Art, Politics, and Everyday Life in Early America
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
Since the early decades of the eighteenth century, European, and especially British, thinkers were preoccupied with questions of taste. Whether Americans believed that taste was innate—and therefore a marker of breeding and station—or acquired—and thus the product of application and study—all...
Peasant Scenes and Landscapes
The Rise of Pictorial Genres in the Antwerp Art Market
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Modern viewers take for granted the pictorial conventions present in easel paintings and engraved prints of such subjects as landscapes or peasants. These generic subjects and their representational conventions, however, have their own origins and early histories. In sixteenth-century Antwerp, painting...
The Traveler, the Tower, and the Worm
The Reader as Metaphor
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
As far as one can tell, human beings are the only species for which the world seems made up of stories, Alberto Manguel writes. We read the book of the world in many guises: we may be travelers, advancing through its pages like pilgrims heading toward enlightenment. We may be recluses, withdrawing...