William - North America 1

From the author of Europe Central, winner of the National Book Award, a journalistic tour de force along the Mexican-American border – a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award For gener……続きを見る

“No blessing, no good, can follow in the path trodden by slavery.” - Dorothea Dix Slave Narrative Six Pack 6 presents six more essential texts: Is Slavery Sanctioned by the Bible? by Isaac Allen. N……続きを見る

This book is a study in depth of the work of Franz Boas and twenty of his students at Columbia University in the early years of the twentieth century. Collectively they laid the entire institutional……続きを見る

In a projected four-volume series, The Common Law in Colonial America, William E. Nelson will show how the legal systems of Britain's thirteen North American colonies, which were initially establish……続きを見る

The examination of slavery and the rise of the abolitionist movement during the 1780s. Carter uses a historical examination and assessment that is aided through the use of Early American Newspapers,……続きを見る

Short work that shows how the staunchly sometimes racist Woodrow Wilson resembles modern day Donald Trump both in their perspective corners of racisim.続きを見る

Short work that looks at the life of Ida B. Wells and the women's suffrage movement and African Americans.  続きを見る

America's Schizoaffective Writer of Short Works writes about Regan's Demise and the Iran Contra Affair as it relates to Trumpism in 2017.続きを見る

"The House of Governors" is a pamphlet published by William George Jordan in 1907 that deals with the ideas of uniform legislation, state rights, centralisation, and democracy in US politics. It was……続きを見る

The economic impact of free trade among the North Atlantic countries on the Canadian pulp and paper industry is here discussed in a detailed analysis of costs and marketing. 続きを見る

William George Jordan's 1923 biography of Charles Waldo Haskins delves deep into the life and work of this esteemed and pioneering accountant, exploring what made him special and the lasting impact ……続きを見る

Canada did not come of age at Vimy, and in all of Canadas wars both soldiers and civilians have died in vain. So why do people continue to support war in general, despite its poor record of benefits……続きを見る

In William Dean Howells' Spanish Prisoners of War (from Literature and Life), the reader is introduced to a collection of short stories that reflect upon the impact of war and its consequences on in……続きを見る

The Triumph of the Amateurs is the story of the lost world or professional rowing in America, a sport that attracted crowds of thousands, widespread betting, and ultimately corruption that foretold ……続きを見る

Portrait of an English Migration recounts the history of those who left North Yorkshire for North America between the eighteenth century and the early twentieth century. Focusing on individual stori……続きを見る

William Hickling Prescott (May 4, 1796 January 29, 1859) was an American historian and Hispanist, who is widely recognized by historiographers to have been the first American scientific historian. D……続きを見る

Excerpt: "Thirty years ago, a young colored man came to my father’s house at Aurora, Erie County, New York, to deliver a lecture on the subject of American Slavery, and the following morning I sat u……続きを見る

Excerpt: "I now undertake to write a history of the part which the colored men took in the great American Rebellion. Previous to entering upon that subject, however, I may be pardoned for bringing b……続きを見る

Excerpt: "A narrative of the life of the author of the present work has been most extensively circulated in England and America. The present memoir will, therefore, simply comprise a brief sketch of……続きを見る

Clotel; or, The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States is an 1853 novel by United States author and playwright William Wells Brown about Clotel and her sister, fictiona……続きを見る

Excerpt: "The calumniators and traducers of the Negro are to be found, mainly, among two classes. The first and most relentless are those who have done them the greatest injury, by being instrumenta……続きを見る

In John William Regan's 'First Things in Acadia, The Birthplace of a Continent,' readers are taken on a journey through the rich history and culture of Acadia, now known as the Maritime provinces in……続きを見る

Excerpt: "When one is in the Garden of the Gods one should be, I suppose, in Elysian humor. My mood, to the contrary, for private reasons of my own, was thunderous. I lay on my elbow among the kinni……続きを見る

"McAdams, who was curator of the State Museum at Springfield seems to have excavated to a considerable extent." - The Cahokia Mounds (2000) "Geologist and Archaeologist William McAdams...interpreted……続きを見る

Sir,ーThe enclosed ancient manuscript I found some years ago in a grocer’s shop in this town, of whom I obtained it with a view of saving what remained from destruction. I lament extremely that a pa……続きを見る

Sir,ーThe enclosed ancient manuscript I found some years ago in a grocer’s shop in this town, of whom I obtained it with a view of saving what remained from destruction. I lament extremely that a pa……続きを見る

“[This] biography of the ‘Father of Electric Traction’ details the life and times of an exceptional engineer, maverick innovator, [and] entrepreneur.” ーNMRA Magazine Frank Julian Sprague invented a……続きを見る

An incredibly detailed account of Indigenous lifeways during the initial rounds of European exploration in south-central North America. Several hundred tribes of Native Americans were living within ……続きを見る

Written over a period of years by the leader of the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts, William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation is the single most complete authority for the story of the Pilgrims and……続きを見る

William Henry Johnson's 'French Pathfinders in North America' is a meticulously researched exploration of French explorers and colonizers in North America. Through detailed accounts and vivid descri……続きを見る