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Grand Canyon: A History of a Natural Wonder and National Park
Don Lago · University of Nevada Press,
Pages: 208
Format: Print book |
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The Grand Canyon has long inspired deep emotions and responses. For the Native Americans who lived there, the canyon was home, full of sacred meanings. For the first European settlers to see it, the canyon drove them to great exploration adventures and Wild West dreams of wealth. The canyon... |
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The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition
Manisha Sinha · Yale University Press
Pages: 784
Format: Hardcover |
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Received historical wisdom casts abolitionists as bourgeois, mostly white reformers burdened by racial paternalism and economic conservatism. Manisha Sinha overturns this image, broadening her scope beyond the antebellum period usually associated with abolitionism and recasting it as a radical... |
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Recommended Reading: 600 Classics Reviewed
Salem Press. · Salem Press, Inc., a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ;
Format: Print book |
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Recommended Reading: 600 Classics Reviewed covers 600 noteworthy works that have endured the test of time and continue to hold the interest of general readers and literary specialists year after year. This brand-new second edition of this renowned reference work contains 100 more titles... |
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American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804
Alan Taylor · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 681
Format: Print book |
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From the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, a fresh, authoritative history that recasts our thinking about America's founding period.The American Revolution is often portrayed as a high-minded, orderly event whose capstone, the Constitution, provided the ideal framework for a democratic, prosperous... |
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From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
Elizabeth Kai Hinton · Harvard University Press
Pages: 449
Format: Print book |
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In the United States today, one in every thirty-one adults is under some form of penal control, including one in eleven African American men. How did the "land of the free" become the home of the world's largest prison system? Challenging the belief that America's prison problem... |
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China 1945: Mao's Revolution and America's Fateful Choice
Richard Bernstein · Vintage
Format: Paperback |
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At the beginning of 1945, relations between America and the Chinese Communists couldn't have been closer. Chinese leaders talked of America helping to lift China out of poverty; Mao Zedong himself held friendly meetings with U.S. emissaries. By year's end, Chinese Communist soldiers... |
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Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America
Patrick Phillips · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 283
Format: Print book |
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A gripping tale of racial cleansing in Forsyth County, Georgia, and a harrowing testament to the deep roots of racial violence in America.In 1912, a young girl's murder rocked the rural community of Forsyth County, Georgia, and led a mob of whites to lynch a black man on the town square.... |
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Children of Paradise: The Struggle for the Soul of Iran
Laura Secor · Riverhead Books, 2016.
Pages: 528
Format: Print book |
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The drama that shaped today's Iran, from the Revolution to the present day. In 1979, seemingly overnight - moving at a clip some thirty years faster than the rest of the world - Iran became the first revolutionary theocracy in modern times. Since then, the country has been largely a black... |
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