American category: 24906 books
Blood Moon
An American Epic of War and Splendor in the Cherokee Nation
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
An astonishing untold story from the nineteenth century—a “riveting…engrossing…‘American Epic’” (The Wall Street Journal) and necessary work of history that reads like Gone with the Wind for the Cherokee.
“A vigorous, well-written book that distills a complex history to a clash...
Native American & Pioneer Sites of Upstate New York
Westward Trails from Albany to Buffalo
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Prior to the Revolutionary War, everything west of Albany was wilderness. Safer travel and the promise of land opened this frontier. The interaction between European settlers and Native Americans transformed New York, and the paths they walked still bear the footprints of their experiences, like the...
by Harold Smith
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
Jazz begins with the blues – not just the bent notes and field hollers, but the colors themselves. Blue is the primary visual motif of traditional Black music, from Ma Rainey and Leadbelly to Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, and John Coltrane. Just think of the titles: Good Morning Blues. Mood Indigo....
Seeing the Unspeakable
The Art of Kara Walker
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2004
One of the youngest recipients of a MacArthur “genius” grant, Kara Walker, an African American artist, is best known for her iconic, often life-size, black-and-white silhouetted figures, arranged in unsettling scenes on gallery walls. These visually arresting narratives draw viewers into a dialogue...
Faith Ringgold
A View from the Studio
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2014
When you look out of your studio window, what do you see? I see my determination to be free in America. Faith Ringgold: A View From the Studio is a remarkable book about a world-famous Black American artist. It is an artist's artist's book--by one artist and about another--about the making of art,...
Archibald Motley Jr. and Racial Reinvention
The Old Negro in New Negro Art
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
An essential African American artist of his era, Archibald Motley Jr. created paintings of black Chicago that aligned him with the revisionist aims of the New Negro Renaissance. Yet Motley's approach to constructing a New Negro--a dignified figure both accomplished and worthy of respect--reflected...
Indian-Made
Navajo Culture in the Marketplace, 1868-1940
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
**Ralph Emerson Twitchell Award
New Mexico Book Award**
In works of silver and wool, the Navajos have established a unique brand of American craft. And when their artisans were integrated into the American economy during the late nineteenth century, they became part of a complex cultural...
Dreams of El Dorado
A History of the American West
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2019
From a New York Times-bestselling author, a sweeping history of the American West
In Dreams of El Dorado, H. W. Brands tells the thrilling, panoramic story of the settling of the American West. He takes us from John Jacob Astor's fur trading outpost in Oregon to the Texas Revolution, from the...
by Patsy Mose Fletcher
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
From the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, African Americans in the Washington, D.C. area sought leisure destinations where they could relax without the burden of racial oppression. Local picnic parks such as Eureka and Madre's were accessible by streetcars. Black-owned steamboats ferried...
At the Hands of Persons Unknown
The Lynching of Black America
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
WINNER OF THE SOUTHERN BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR NONFICTION • “A landmark work of unflinching scholarship.”—The New York Times
This extraordinary account of lynching in America, by acclaimed civil rights historian Philip Dray, shines a clear, bright light on American history’s...
Forgeries of Memory and Meaning
Blacks and the Regimes of Race in American Theater and Film before World War II
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Cedric J. Robinson offers a new understanding of race in America through his analysis of theater and film of the early twentieth century. He argues that economic, political, and cultural forces present in the eras of silent film and the early "talkies" firmly entrenched limited representations...
by Kenneth Shields Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 1998
For generations, the Native American people have been a society of great mystery. The Assiniboine and Sioux Indians of the Fort Peck Reservation in northeastern Montana are no exception. Althoughcenturies old, their culture is only now being rediscovered and explored. The idea to reveal some of their...
Eakins Revealed
The Secret Life of an American Artist
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2005
Thomas Eakins is widely considered one of the great American painters, an artist whose uncompromising realism helped move American art from the Victorian era into the modern age. He is also acclaimed as a paragon of integrity, one who stood up for his artistic beliefs even when they brought him personal...
Of Arms and Artists
The American Revolution through Painters' Eyes
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
A vibrant and original perspective on the American Revolution through the stories of the five great artists whose paintings animated the new American republic.
The images accompanying the founding of the United States--of honored Founders, dramatic battle scenes, and seminal moments--gave visual...