American category: 24906 books
by John A. Wright Sr., John A. Wright Jr., Curtis A. Wright Sr.
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
The city of St. Louis is known for its African American citizens and their many contributions to the culture within its borders, the country, and the world. Images of Modern America: African American St. Louis profiles some of the events that helped shape St. Louis from the 1960s to the present. Tracing...
American Writers and the Approach of World War II, 1935–1941
A Literary History
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
Ichiro Takayoshi's book argues that World War II transformed American literary culture. From the mid-1930s to the American entry into World War II in 1941, pre-eminent figures from Ernest Hemingway to Reinhold Neibuhr responded to the turn of the public's interest from the economic depression at home...
Spirit in the Dark
A Religious History of Racial Aesthetics
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Most of the major black literary and cultural movements of the twentieth century have been understood and interpreted as secular, secularizing and, at times, profane. In this book, Josef Sorett demonstrates that religion was actually a formidable force within these movements, animating and organizing...
by William C. Meadows
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2009
Among the allied troops that came ashore in Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944, were thirteen Comanches in the 4th Infantry Division, 4th Signal Company. Under German fire they laid communications lines and began sending messages in a form never before heard in Europe—coded Comanche. For the rest of...
by Ken Lizzio
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Experience the majesty and terror of the Gold Rush firsthand
While the seminal California Gold Rush of 1849 produced numerous firsthand diaries and accounts, Joseph Goldsborough Bruff’s—widely regarded as the best and most accurate—provides the basis of this narrative reimagining of a...
Bret Easton Ellis
American Psycho, Glamorama, Lunar Park
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010
This collection of critical essays on the American novelist Bret Easton Ellis examines the novels of his mature period: American Psycho (1991), Glamorama (1999), and Lunar Park (2005). Taking as its starting-point American Psycho's seismic impact on contemporary literature and culture, the volume...
Dream Catchers
How Mainstream America Discovered Native Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2005
In books such as Mystics and Messiahs, Hidden Gospels, and The Next Christendom, Philip Jenkins has established himself as a leading commentator on religion and society. Now, in Dream Catchers, Jenkins offers a brilliant account of the changing mainstream attitudes towards Native American spirituality,...
Native American Landmarks and Festivals
A Traveler’s Guide to Indigenous United States and Canada
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2018
Native American culture and the history of the United States has always held a fascination for history buffs, students, teachers, and seekers of spiritual enlightenment as well as general readers. United States and Native American history are intertwined. The cultures, heritage, and legacy of Indigenous...
The Gift of the Face
Portraiture and Time in Edward S. Curtis's The North American Indian
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
Edward S. Curtis's The North American Indian is the most ambitious photographic and ethnographic record of Native American cultures ever produced. Published between 1907 and 1930 as a series of twenty volumes and portfolios, the work contains more than two thousand photographs intended to document...
Alabama in Africa
Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Globalization of the New South
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2010
In 1901, the Tuskegee Institute, founded by Booker T. Washington, sent an expedition to the German colony of Togo in West Africa, with the purpose of transforming the region into a cotton economy similar to that of the post-Reconstruction American South. Alabama in Africa explores the politics of...
The American Revolution in Indian Country
Crisis and Diversity in Native American Communities
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 1995
This study presents a broad coverage of Indian experiences in the American Revolution rather than Indian participation as allies or enemies of contending parties. Colin Calloway focuses on eight Indian communities as he explores how the Revolution often translated into war among Indians and their...
Indian Blood
HIV and Colonial Trauma in San Francisco's Two-Spirit Community
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Finalist for the 2017 Lambda Literary "Lammy" Award in LGBTQ Studies
The first book to examine the correlation between mixed-race identity and HIV/AIDS among Native American gay men and transgendered people, Indian Blood provides an analysis of the emerging and often contested LGBTQ "two-spirit"...
American Metempsychosis
Emerson, Whitman, and the New Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
The “transmigration of souls is no fable. I would it were, but men and women are only half human.” With these words, Ralph Waldo Emerson confronts a dilemma that illuminates the formation of American individualism: to evolve and become fully human requires a heightened engagement with history....
by Alex Hobbs
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
As each generation confronts aging and responds to its challenges, the literary community—ranging from Philip Roth to Jonathan Franzen—has provided nuanced and thoughtful depictions that transcend stereotypes of old men as feeble and broken individuals. Under the sage guidance of these authors—many...