Autobiography of a People is an insightfully assembled anthology of eyewitness accounts that traces the
history of the African American experience. From the Middle Passage to the Million Man March, editor Herb Boyd has culled a diverse range of voices, ...
From the late eighteenth century through the end of the Civil War, Choctaw and Chickasaw
Indians bought, sold, and owned Africans and African Americans as slaves, a fact that persisted after the tribes' removal from the Deep South to Indian ...
In much of the United States, immigrants from China banded together in self-enclosed communities, “Chinatowns,”
in which they retained their language, culture, and social organization. In the South, however, the Chinese began to merge into the surrounding communities within a ...
The history of race and religion in the American South is infused with tragedy, survival,
and waterfrom St. Augustine on the shores of Florida’s Atlantic Coast to the swampy mire of Jamestown to the floodwaters that nearly destroyed New Orleans. ...
This new guide is the first to explore all facets of Native American jewelryits history,
variety, and qualityin one convenient resource. With coverage beginning in the mid-nineteenth century, this resource includes artists, techniques, materials, motifs, and more. The encyclopedia opens ...
First Americans provides a comprehensive history of Native Americans from their earliest appearance in North
America to the present, highlighting the complexity and diversity of their cultures and their experiences. Native voices permeate the text and shape its narrative, underlining ...
The creation of the United States of America is the greatest of all human adventures,
begins Paul Johnson. No other national story holds such tremendous lessons, for the American people themselves and for the rest of mankind. In his prize-winning ...
Robert Gordon Latham; Man and His Migrations; J Van Voorst; 1851 Robert Gordon Latham writes:
The remaining South Americans who are neither Carib nor Guarani. - This division is artificial; being based upon a negative character; and it is geographical ...