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Sis. Rachel Lyga was born on March 5, 1935, in Pittsburg, Kansas. A self-educated woman of deep faith, she left school after the 10th grade to marry Russell Henderson and became a devoted mother of ……続きを見る

Explores the 1916 New Jersey shark attacks, their impact on shark fear, and how media shaped harmful misconceptions. In the Summer of 1916, a series of shark attacks along the New Jersey shore would……続きを見る

Slipstream is a shining portrait of one man’s-prime minister Michael Manley-enormous heart and undying spirit, and a testament to the ways in which courage and love can inspire us all to soar. 続きを見る

Two Northeast Indian communities with similar histories of colonization accepted Congregational and Moravian missionaries, respectively, within five years of one another: the Mohicans of Stockbridge……続きを見る

De George Washington à Joe Biden, une incroyable saga présidentielle ! En 2024, quarante-six présidents se sont déjà succédé à la Maison Blanche. De George Washington, investi en avril 1789 alors qu……続きを見る

This accessible, up-to-date textbook covers the history of comics as it developed in the US in all of its forms: political cartoons and newspaper comic strips, comic books, graphic novels, minicomic……続きを見る

Segundo volumen de historia argentina de Eduardo Sacheri. Querido lector: En 2022 publiqué Los días de la Revolución, buscando indagar en la etapa revolucionaria del Río de la Plata a principios de……続きを見る

When Rape was Legal is the first book to solely focus on the widespread rape perpetrated against enslaved black women by white men in the United States. The routine practice of sexual violence again……続きを見る

This compilation of the letters of Cordelia Lewis Scales originally was transcribed and annotated in the 1950's by Dr. Benjamin Gray Lumpkin and Martha Neville Lumpkin. The genealogical interest the……続きを見る

A valuable genealogy resource, this book includes eighty photos and illustrations and a listing of three generations of descendants. The print editions contain a full index. From humble beginnings a……続きを見る

Children on the Threshold in Contemporary Latin American Cinema: Nature, Gender, and Agency analyzes child and adolescent protagonists in Latin American cinema. This book contends that child charact……続きを見る

The internment of 'enemy aliens' during the Second World War was arguably the greatest stain on the Allied record of human rights on the home front. Internment during the Second World War compares a……続きを見る

This book examines national debates on immigration, asylum seekers and guest worker programs from 1970 to the present. Over the past 45 years, contemporary immigration has had a profound impact thro……続きを見る

History education, by nature, transmits an ‘official’ version of national identity. National identity is not a fixed entity, and controversy over history teaching is an essential part of the process……続きを見る

Frontiers of Development in the Amazon: Riches, Risks, and Resistances contributes to ongoing debates on the processes of change in the Amazon, a region inherently tied to the expansion of internal ……続きを見る

Contrary to claims that socialism opposed the family unit, Rachel Hynson argues that the revolutionary Cuban government engaged in social engineering to redefine the nuclear family and organize citi……続きを見る

Originally published in 1978. Drawing on a wide range of sources from social, intellectual, and political history, Old Age in the New Land analyzes the changing fates and fortunes of America's elder……続きを見る

Retour sur une chasse à l'homme qui s'achève par le casse le plus célèbre de l'histoire politique : le Watergate. Issu d'une famille modeste, Richard Milhous Nixon fut juriste et servit dans la Mari……続きを見る

This book provides both a historical introduction and a comparative analysis of the five most important guerrilla movements in the Caribbean Basin between 1959 and the 1990s, including Guatemala, El……続きを見る

For fifty-five years, the United States and Saudi Arabia were solid partners. Then came the 9/11 attacks, which sorely tested that relationship. In Thicker than Oil, Rachel Bronson reveals why the p……続きを見る

In Deportation in the Americas: Histories of Exclusion and Resistance, editors Kenyon Zimmer and Cristina Salinas have compiled seven essays, adapted from the Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lecture S……続きを見る

Can literary criticism help transform entrenched Settler Canadian understandings of history and place? How are nationalist historiographies, insular regionalisms, established knowledge systems, stat……続きを見る

This is the first major study to comprehensively analyse English encounters with the New World in the sixteenth century and their impact on early English understandings of America and changing appro……続きを見る

An entertaining and comprehensive look at America’s fastest growing sport, Pickleball for All is the ultimate primer for any level of player interested in the wacky history, unique rules, and exciti……続きを見る

The Yearbook of Transnational History is dedicated to disseminating pioneering research in the field of transnational history. This inaugural volume provides readers with articles on topics such as ……続きを見る

Rhetorics Haunting the National Mall: Displaced and Ephemeral Public Memories vividly illustrates that a nation’s history is more complicated than the simple binary of remembered/forgotten. Some par……続きを見る

History as Art, Art as History pioneers methods for using contemporary works of art in the social studies and art classroom to enhance an understanding of visual culture and history. The fully-ill……続きを見る

Rachel Greenwald Smith's Affect and American Literature in the Age of Neoliberalism examines the relationship between American literature and politics in the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries. S……続きを見る

The development of jazz and swing in the African-American community in Los Angeles in the years before the second World War received a boost from the arrival of a significant numbers of musicians fr……続きを見る

Sites of Memory in Spain and Latin America isa collection of essays that explores historical memory at the intersection of political, cultural, social, and economic forces in the contexts of Spain a……続きを見る