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How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York explained the living conditions in New York slums as well as the sweatshops in some tenements, which paid workers only a few cents p……続きを見る

Working with a friend from the Health Department, Riis filled The Children of the Poor (1892) with statistical information about public health, education, and crime. He argued that teaching immigran……続きを見る

**NATIONAL BESTSELLER New York Times Book Review • 100 Notable Books of 2022 Best Books of 2022 ー New Yorker, Kirkus Reviews Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence “I can only wish……続きを見る

The Civil War Comes Alive in Letters Home! Corporal Edwin J. Barden (Ned) wrote letters to his girl Sara (and later his wife) while assigned to General Grant's headquarters from 1861-1865. As a sold……続きを見る

Join award-winning broadcaster Alvin Hall on a journey through America’s haunted racial past, with the legendary Green Book as your guide. For countless Americans, the open road has long been a plac……続きを見る

Las Vegas Then and Now pairs vintage shots from 100 years of the city's history with the same view today. ‘Las Vegas Then and Now’ captures the city's evolution from a desert railroad outpost into t……続きを見る

The question of the impact of slavery has gained new importance in debates on the history of economic development, capitalism and inequality. This edited volume explores how Atlantic slaved-based ec……続きを見る

This book was written about Helen Keller by Jennie Chappell, a Christian author in her day, and features articles and letters written by or about Helen Keller and was written during Helen's life. It……続きを見る

Nearly 2000 years ago, people living in the river valleys of southern Ohio built earthen monuments on a scale that is unmatched in the archaeological record for small-scale societies. The period fro……続きを見る

THE PEOPLE'S SPIRAL OF US HISTORY sees today's Trump/Bannon assault on democracy erupting from our genetic roots. We're born of the matriarchal Indigenous, whose Hodenosaunee Confederacy embodied hu……続きを見る

Una historia concisa de los Estados Unidos de América. La tierra de la libertad y el hogar de los valientes. ¿Cuánto sabe de la historia de la América actual? Desde su descubrimiento por Colón hasta……続きを見る

Una historia concisa de los Estados Unidos de América. La tierra de la libertad y el hogar de los valientes. ¿Cuánto sabe de la historia de la América actual? Desde su descubrimiento por Colón hasta……続きを見る

Discover the stories that shaped our nation. Sure, you know that America's colonists won our independence from Great Britain, that George Washington became our first president, and that Lincoln free……続きを見る

An expert on the buffalo tells the history of this keystone species through extensive research and beautiful photographs. The mere mention of the buffalo instantly brings to mind the vast herds that……続きを見る

Updated and expanded 2nd edition of the national best seller First Nations 101 First Nations 101 provides a broad overview of the day-to-day lives of Indigenous people, traditional Indigenous commun……続きを見る

"Introduzione alla pirateria da Barbanera a Long John Silver", l'autore analizza l'eta d'oro della pirateria e le vite dei pirati più famosi. Nozioni importanti raccolte dagli antichi diari di bordo……続きを見る

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A Washington Post Notable Work of Nonfiction • An NPR Best Book of the Year • A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year • A Chicago Review of Books Best Book of the Year •……続きを見る

The true confessions of a real life teen who drank blood and lived the vampire lifestyle in New York City. 続きを見る

Estados Unidos es el tercer país más poblado del mundo y la economía nacional más grande del planeta en términos de Producto Interior Bruto. En apenas doscientos años, su historia ha experimentado u……続きを見る

The Mayan civilization was a Mesoamerican civilization founded by the Maya peoples. It was noted for its hieroglyphic scriptーthe only known fully developed writing system of the pre-Columbian Ameri……続きを見る

Excerpt: "Tobacco has been one of the most important gifts from the New World to the Old. In spite of the attempts of various authors to prove its Old World origin there can be no doubt that it was ……続きを見る

In this history of life in an isolated ghost town, bestselling Alaska author Tom Kizzia unfolds a deeply American saga of renunciation and renewal. The spirit of Alaska in the old days-impetuous, fr……続きを見る

Adoption of the Northwest Ordinance in 1787 ended a long and sometimes acrimonious debate over the question of how to organize and govern the western territories of the United States. Many eastern l……続きを見る

John Askin, a Scots-Irish migrant to North America, built his fur trade between the years 1758 and 1781 in the Great Lakes region of North America. His experience serves as a vista from which to vie……続きを見る

Woman in the Wilderness is a collection of letters written between 1832 and 1892 to and by an American woman, Harriet Wood Wheeler. Harriet's letters reveal her experiences with actors and instituti……続きを見る

Over the centuries, processing and distribution of products from land and sea has stimulated the growth of a global economy. In the broad sweep of world history, it may be hard to imagine a place fo……続きを見る

This collection of documents is intended to help those who need to quickly find some important text from the history of the United States. From breathtaking The Declaration of Independence to the wo……続きを見る

A fur trader in the Michigan Territory and confidant of both the U.S. government and local Indian tribes, Jacob Smith could have stepped out of a James Fenimore Cooper novel. Controversial, mysterio……続きを見る

In the past thirty years, the study of French-Indian relations in the center of North America has emerged as an important field for examining the complex relationships that defined a vast geographic……続きを見る

The first biographical account of the life of James Gillespie Birney in more than fifty years, this fabulously insightful history illuminates and elevates an all-but-forgotten figure whose political……続きを見る