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Voices of Cherokee Women (Real Voices, Real History)
Carolyn Ross Johnston · John F. Blair, Publisher
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback |
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Voices of Cherokee Women is a compelling collection of first-person accounts by Cherokee women. It includes letters, diaries, newspaper articles, oral histories, ancient myths, and accounts by travelers, traders, and missionaries who encountered the Cherokees from the 16th century to the present.Among... |
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Border Patrol Nation: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Homeland Security
Todd Miller · City Lights Books
Pages: 355
Format: Paperback |
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"In his scathing and deeply reported examination of the U.S. Border Patrol, Todd Miller argues that the agency has gone rogue since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, trampling on the dignity and rights of the undocumented with military-style tactics. . . . Miller's book arrives at a moment... |
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The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race
Jesmyn Ward · Scribner
Pages: 288
Format: Print book |
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National Book Award-winner Jesmyn Ward takes James Baldwin's 1963 examination of race in America, The Fire Next Time, as a jumping off point for this groundbreaking collection of essays and poems about race from the most important voices of her generation and our time.In light of recent... |
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Closing Time: Prohibition, Rum-Runners and Border Wars
Daniel Francis · Douglas & McIntyre; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover |
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Canadians have long associated Prohibition with the colorful history of the Jazz Age in the United States. But even before the American ban that was in place from 1920 to 1933, Canada initiated its own Prohibition. The so-called Cold Water Army was led by zealots and prudes preaching hellfire... |
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The Frozen Chosen: The 1st Marine Division and the Battle of the Chosin Reservoir
Thomas McKelvey Cleaver · Osprey Publishing
Pages: 296
Format: Print book |
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The Frozen Chosen is an account of the breakout from the Chosin Reservoir in North Korea by the First Marine Division from November to December 1950, following the intervention of Red China in the Korean War. Fought during the worst blizzard in a century, it is considered by the United... |
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Ellis Island: Echoes From A Nation's Past
Lewis Hine · Aperture; 1St Edition edition
Pages: 152
Format: Hardcover |
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"A celebration of photography as well as a document of the place, Ellis Island contains images by such well-known photographers as Jerry Uelsmann and Emmet Gowin. Filled with dozens of family portraits and both historic and contemporary documentary photos, the book resists the temptation... |
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A life beyond the boundaries
Benedict R O'G Anderson · Verso
Pages: 205
Format: Print book |
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An intellectual memoir by the author of the acclaimed "Imagined Communities" Born in China, Benedict Anderson spent his childhood in California and Ireland, was educated in England and finally found a home at Cornell University, where he immersed himself in the growing field of Southeast... |
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The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation
David Brion Davis · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 422
Format: Hardcover |
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Winner of the 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction Shortlisted for the 2014 Cundill Prize in Historical LiteratureFrom the revered historian, the long-awaited conclusion of the magisterial history of slavery and emancipation in Western culture that has been nearly... |
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Ravensbruck: Life and Death in Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women
Sarah Helm · Nan A. Talese
Format: Hardcover |
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A masterly and moving account of the most horrific hidden atrocity of World War II: Ravensbrück, the only Nazi concentration camp built for women On a sunny morning in May 1939 a phalanx of 867 women - housewives, doctors, opera singers, politicians, prostitutes - was marched through... |
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