American category: 24906 books
The Victory with No Name
The Native American Defeat of the First American Army
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
In 1791, General Arthur St. Clair led the United States army in a campaign to destroy a complex of Indian villages at the Maumee River in northwestern Ohio. Almost within reach of their objective, St. Clair's 1,400 men were attacked by about one thousand Indians. The U.S. force was decimated, suffering...
American Lit 101
From Nathaniel Hawthorne to Harper Lee and Naturalism to Magical Realism, an essential guide to American writers and works
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
From poetry to fiction to essays, American Lit 101 leaves no page unturned!
Edgar Allan Poe. Willa Cather. Henry David Thoreau. Mark Twain. The list of important American writers goes on and on. These voices played a vital role in shaping the scope of American literature, and the United States...
by David Lehman, Sherman Alexie
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
The premier anthology of contemporary American poetry continues with an exceptional volume edited by award-winning novelist and poet Sherman Alexie, now with a new essay by Alexie on reactions to the 2015 publication.
Since its debut in 1988, The Best American Poetry has become a mainstay for...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
This is the first major collection of criticism on Black American cinema. From the pioneering work of Oscar Micheaux and Wallace Thurman to the Hollywood success of Spike Lee, Black American filmmakers have played a remarkable role in the development of the American film, both independent and mainstream.
In...
Abstractionist Aesthetics
Artistic Form and Social Critique in African American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2015
An artistic discussion on the critical potential of African American expressive culture
In a major reassessment of African American culture, Phillip Brian Harper intervenes in the ongoing debate about the “proper” depiction of black people. He advocates for African American aesthetic abstractionism—a...
The Sacred Hoop
Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Almost thirty years after its initial publication, Paula Gunn Allen’s celebrated study of women’s roles in Native American culture, history, and traditions continues to influence writers and scholars in Native American studies, women’s studies, queer studies, religion and spirituality, and beyond
This...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2012
*Includes pictures of important people and places in Crazy Horse's life.*Explains the Battle of the Little Bighorn and several Lakota oral legends, including the origins of Crazy Horse's name. *Includes a Table of Contents"Upon suffering beyond suffering: the Red Nation shall rise again and it shall...
by Timothy J. Shannon
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2008
The newest addition to the Penguin Library of American Indian History explores the most influential Native American Confederacy
More than perhaps any other Native American group, the Iroquois found it to their advantage to interact with and adapt to white settlers. Despite being known as fierce...
We’Ve Done Them Wrong!
A History of the Native American Indians and How the United States Treated Them
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
From the mountains, to the prairies
To the oceans white with foam,
Every Native American
Must leave his home. l.
Imagine that someone comes to your home and forces you at gunpoint to leave. Your response might be termed savage.
Savage was how the New World invaders described American...
This Indian Country
American Indian Activists and the Place They Made
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
Frederick E. Hoxie, one of our most prominent and celebrated academic historians of Native American history, has for years asked his undergraduate students at the beginning of each semester to write down the names of three American Indians. Almost without exception, year after year, the names are...
The Native American Renaissance
Literary Imagination and Achievement
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
The outpouring of Native American literature that followed the publication of N. Scott Momaday’s Pulitzer Prize–winning House Made of Dawn in 1968 continues unabated. Fiction and poetry, autobiography and discursive writing from such writers as James Welch, Gerald Vizenor, and Leslie Marmon Silko...
by Richard Hofstadter
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Richard Hofstadter, the distinguished historian and twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize, brilliantly assesses the ideas and contributions of the three major American interpretive historians of the twentieth century: Frederick Jackson Turner, Charles A. Beard and V.L. Parrington. These men, whose...
Doctrine and Race
African American Evangelicals and Fundamentalism between the Wars
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Doctrine and Race examines the history of African American Baptists and Methodists of the early twentieth century and their struggle for equality in the context of white Protestant fundamentalism.
By presenting African American Protestantism in the context of white Protestant fundamentalism,...
The Other American Moderns
Matsura, Ishigaki, Noda, Hayakawa
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
In The Other American Moderns, ShiPu Wang analyzes the works of four early twentieth-century American artists who engaged with the concept of “Americanness”: Frank Matsura, Eitarō Ishigaki, Hideo Noda, and Miki Hayakawa. In so doing, he recasts notions of minority artists’ contributions to...