American category: 24906 books
Redeemer Nation in the Interregnum
An Untimely Meditation on the American Vocation
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Redeemer Nation in the Interregnum interrogates the polyvalent role that American exceptionalism continues to play after 9/11. Whereas American exceptionalism is often construed as a discredited Cold War–era belief structure, Spanos persuasively demonstrates how it operationalizes an apparatus of...
Against Wind and Tide
The African American Struggle against the Colonization Movement
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
Against Wind and Tide tells the story of African American’s battle against the American Colonization Society (ACS), founded in 1816 with the intention to return free blacks to its colony Liberia. Although ACS members considered free black colonization in Africa a benevolent enterprise, most black...
Facing the Abyss
American Literature and Culture in the 1940s
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
Mythologized as the era of the “good war” and the “Greatest Generation,” the 1940s are frequently understood as a more heroic, uncomplicated time in American history. Yet just below the surface, a sense of dread, alienation, and the haunting specter of radical evil permeated American art and...
by Jessie Carney Smith, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Walking readers through a rich but often overlooked part of American history, this compendium addresses the people, times, and events that influenced and changed African American history. An overview of major biographical figures and history-making events is followed by a deeper look at the development...
The Modern American Political Novel
1900-1960
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Politics, the workings of government and of people in government, has long been a fertile field for exploration by the novelist. The political arena offers many examples of conflict—between individuals, groups, or the individual and the group, or within the individual. It is natural then that a sizable...
Langston's Salvation
American Religion and the Bard of Harlem
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Winner of the 2018 Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion in Textual Studies, presented by the American Academy of Religion
A new perspective on the role of religion in the work of Langston Hughes
Langston's Salvation offers a fascinating exploration into the religious thought...
Come Shouting to Zion
African American Protestantism in the American South and British Caribbean to 1830
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
The conversion of African-born slaves and their descendants to Protestant Christianity marked one of the most important social and intellectual transformations in American history. Come Shouting to Zion is the first comprehensive exploration of the processes by which this remarkable transition occurred....
Red Dreams, White Nightmares
Pan-Indian Alliances in the Anglo-American Mind, 1763–1815
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
From the end of Pontiac’s War in 1763 through the War of 1812, fear—even paranoia—drove Anglo-American Indian policies. In Red Dreams, White Nightmares, Robert M. Owens views conflicts between whites and Natives in this era—invariably treated as discrete, regional affairs—as the inextricably...
by G.W. Mullins
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
Native American Mythology began long before the European settlers arrived on North American soil. Contrary to popular beliefs, there is more to Native American Folklore than stories of buffalo hunts, teepee living and animal stories. Hundreds of tribes throughout North American created a huge mythological...
by Rowan Ricardo Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2010
In When Blackness Rhymes with Blackness, Rowan Ricardo Phillips pushes African American poetry to its limits by unraveling “our desire to think of African American poetry as African American poetry.” Phillips reads African American poetry as inherently allegorical and thus “a successful shorthand...
Educational Reconstruction
African American Schools in the Urban South, 1865-1890
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Tracing the first two decades of state-funded African American schools, Educational Reconstruction addresses the ways in which black Richmonders, black Mobilians, and their white allies created, developed, and sustained a system of African American schools following the Civil War.
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Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2009
Since 1975, when the U.S. government adopted a policy of self-determination for American Indian nations, a large number of the 562 federally recognized nations have seized the opportunity to govern themselves and determine their own economic, political, and cultural futures. As a first and crucial step...
by Shepard Krech, III
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
Between the 1870s and 1950s collectors vigorously pursued the artifacts of Native American groups. Setting out to preserve what they thought was a vanishing culture, they amassed ethnographic and archaeological collections amounting to well over one million objects and founded museums throughout North...
The Cherokee Full Circle
A Practical Guide to Ceremonies and Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2002
A comprehensive overview of Native American spiritual principles and their application for personal spirit-healing.
• Includes traditional sacred exercises, teaching tales, case studies, and suggested rituals for individual and group healing.
• Outlines the core principals of Native...