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Recounts Larry Hilton’s experiences as a Marine artilleryman facing constant danger in Vietnam. Vietnam Fire Mission reflects on Larry Hiton’s time in the U.S. Marine Corps, initially enlisting at 1……続きを見る

Winner of the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Nonfiction “If Black women were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free.” **ーCombahee River Collective Statement The Combahee……続きを見る

At the turn of the twentieth century Colorado's coalfields were the site of the nation's most violent labor conflicts. The remote mountains were home to mining companies that provided workers and th……続きを見る

Understand the daily choices, fears, and experiences of freedom seekers along the Underground Railroad. Delving into the lives and stories of everyday men and women either escaping slavery or helpin……続きを見る

"El carnero" es de una de las obras más originales e inclasificables de toda la literatura colonial y representa un texto imprescindible para la historia de Colombia y la fundación de Bogotá. Posee ……続きを見る

Anchoring an Empire is a bottom-up exploration of how gender and ethnicity shaped the lived experience of Spanish subjects across the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century isthmus of Panama. Focusing o……続きを見る

Winner, 2009 Rachel Carson Prize, Society for the Social Studies of ScienceWinner, 2012 Edward Kremers Award, American Institute of the History of Pharmacy The second half of the twentieth century w……続きを見る

American consumers today regard sugar as a mundane and sometimes even troublesome substance linked to hyperactivity in children and other health concerns. Yet two hundred years ago American consumer……続きを見る

Secret Histories claims that the history of the nation is hiddenーin plain sightーwithin the pages of twentieth-century American literature. David Wyatt argues that the nation's fiction and nonficti……続きを見る

Violence was a constant on all colonial frontiers, from the British expansion into the Australian and African continents, to the expansion of the United States and the Napoleonic Empire's many incur……続きを見る

Are we one people, and one America? Or is there much more to it than that? Presidents like FDR, Lyndon Johnson, George H.W. Bush, and Ronald Reagan; are elections like those that created these great……続きを見る

About the Book: A Brief Introduction to American English Literature Compiled and Edited by Uttiya Sarkar Based on the writings of Jesse Latour This book offers a concise yet comprehensive overview o……続きを見る

This book offers a compact, engaging, and informative narrative of the evolution of the United States from colonial resistance to the forging of a nation, through wars, revolutions, and reformations……続きを見る

In Imperfect Strangers**, Salim Yaqub argues that the 1970s were a pivotal decade for U.S.-Arab relations, whether at the upper levels of diplomacy, in street-level interactions, or in the realm of ……続きを見る

Colonel William Prescott’s leadership at Bunker Hill exemplified American resilience, shaping the Revolutionary War’s course. In America, before the United States was established, there were a small……続きを見る

In this groundbreaking reflection on America's relationship with war in the modern era, Gregory A. Daddis explores the deep-seated tension between faith in and fear of war that has shaped US grand s……続きを見る

“At the core, Hit Refresh, is about us humans and the unique quality we call empathy, which will become ever more valuable in a world where the torrent of technology will disrupt the status quo like……続きを見る

For three hundred years the ghetto defined Jewish culture in the late medieval and early modern period in Western Europe. In the nineteenth-century it was a free-floating concept which travelled to ……続きを見る

When Jackie Robinson made his debut at Ebbets Field on opening day in 1947, the Brooklyn Dodgers became the first major league team with a black player anywhere in its organization. By the end of th……続きを見る

A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award, hailed in The Washington Post as "a work of enormous imagination and enterprise" and in The New York Times as "an important, original b……続きを見る

What do you really know about Ancient America? 99 Percent of Earth's Ancient history is forgotten or deliberately eased. This book is one of Ten Great Forbidden Civilizations Books about Ancient Ali……続きを見る

Disgraced is a sweeping religious and cultural history of Protestant sex scandals in nineteenth and twentieth century America. Suzanna Krivulskaya investigates the cultural consequences of scandal, ……続きを見る

The "Contemporary Social Science" in its entirety, faces the "General Loss of Validity", a product of its evident failure and incompetence, evidenced by the catastrophe facing humanity, which is app……続きを見る

This book uniquely reverses today’s MAGA conspiratorial concept of the deep state to reveal how a very real “deeper state” is evident throughout history, back to the founding of American democracy. ……続きを見る

Throughout the history of Western academia, there have been scholars who have interpreted and examined various aspects of human history and made it a point to universalize their own interpretations ……続きを見る

Independence, Colonial Relics, and Monuments in the Caribbean is a collection of critical perspectives on independence and the legacies of colonialism in the post-colonial Caribbean. The contributor……続きを見る

This timely book explores immigration into the United States and the effect it has had on national identity, domestic politics and foreign relations from the 1920s to 2006. Comparing the immigration……続きを見る

Gender Inequality and Women’s Citizenship combines cases across Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago to highlight the range of systemic inequalities that impact women in the Anglo-Carib……続きを見る

In celebration of hip-hop’s 50th anniversary, the authors interviewed scholars and community-engaged educators who have contributed to the field of hiphop and education with the goal of reflecting o……続きを見る

A unique memoir charting the modern political history of Los Angeles as told by one of its most consequential elected leaders. An activist with political skills can take on powerful special interes……続きを見る