(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226849485)
An engaging look at the encounter between Jane Addams, Hull House settlement co-founder and Progressive reformer, and Alderman Johnny Powers. Jane Addams was full of courage and goodwill when she opened Hull House in Chicago’s Ninet...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226849492)
An engaging look at the encounter between Jane Addams, Hull House settlement co-founder and Progressive reformer, and Alderman Johnny Powers. Jane Addams was full of courage and goodwill when she opened Hull House in Chicago’s Ninet...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: New York University Press, ISBN-13: 9781479840885)
During the twentieth century’s Great Migration, kitchenette apartments served as the primary homes for Black migrants to Chicago. These small one- and two-room units were often illegally converted from larger apartments and were concentrated on the c...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: New York University Press, ISBN-13: 9781479840892)
During the twentieth century’s Great Migration, kitchenette apartments served as the primary homes for Black migrants to Chicago. These small one- and two-room units were often illegally converted from larger apartments and were concentrated on the c...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Texas Press, ISBN-13: 9781477334102)
A history of European immigrants in Texas and how they redefined racial identity. A history of European immigrants in Texas and how they redefined racial identity. While the creation of a Black-White racial binary...Loe edasi...
A celebration of the extraordinary lost natural wonder of the eastern U.S.—once the center of American wildness before its despoliation—and a lively tour through recent efforts to return elk, bison, wolves, and other creatures to their ver...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Down East Books,U.S., ISBN-13: 9781684752508)
Ten miles out to sea, Smuttynose Island, in the Isles of Shoals, is a kind of time machine. Native Americans hunted here more than 6,000 years ago. In the dawning days of the American colonies, hundreds of European fishermen salted and dried their...Loe edasi...
Dive into the electrifying tale of a Brooklyn-born patriot turned radical activist, in an era when America was torn by its ideological extremes In the shadow of recent turmoil, Join the Conspiracy transports readers to a pivotal moment of...Loe edasi...
William R. Seaburg, Laurel B. Sercombe, Jay Miller, Elizabeth D. Jacobs
Sari: Global Indigenous Literatures
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Nebraska Press, ISBN-13: 9781496246158)
Ghosts Dance in an Empty House and Other Stories comprises forty-five narratives dictated by Coquelle Thompson, an Upper Coquille Athabaskan Indian residing on the Siletz Indian Reservation in Oregon, during the fall of 1935. Elizabeth D. Jacobs tra...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Nebraska Press, ISBN-13: 9781496246684)
In the fall of 1891 Mary Louise Eldridge and Mary Raymond were sent by the Womens Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church to work among the Navajos living along the San Juan River in northern New Mexico. There they founded the Nav...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Nebraska Press, ISBN-13: 9781496247032)
In this singular memoir, Pearl E. Casias tells the story of her rise from poverty to chair of the Southern Ute Indian Tribe in rural southwest Colorado. Casias grew up in poverty and was raised by alcoholic parents. She endured domestic violence in...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Illinois Press, ISBN-13: 9780252089084)
Since the beginning of the twentieth century, communities in the Downriver region of the Detroit River have forged an enduring claim to the well-being of waterways that are central to where they live, work, and play. Lisa M. Fine examines...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Oklahoma Press, ISBN-13: 9780806196480)
A vivid biography of a little-known woman in the Arizona Territory that sheds light on issues of drugs and addiction in the 19th century west. Provided by publisher. This moving tale of a young womans years-long struggle with trau...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Duke University Press, ISBN-13: 9781478033462)
Furman University: An Illustrated History, 1826–2026 is a beautiful, hardbound, full-color coffee table book published in commemoration of Furman’s bicentennial. Featuring a foreword from President Elizabeth Davis, 1,100 historic and contempor...Loe edasi...
Frontier Doctor, Urling C. Coes autobiographical account of his thirteen years in Central Oregon, details the extraordinary experiences of a young physician in a frontier town, from childbirthing to epidemics, broken bones to unwanted pregnancies....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Nebraska Press, ISBN-13: 9781496246554)
Tilton and Grace Entokah: An Osage Story offers an episodic history of the Osage Nation of Oklahoma as told through the life narratives of Anthony Lookouts great-grandparents Tilton and Grace Entokah. Anthony Lookout grew up hearing the stories of...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Louisiana State University Press, ISBN-13: 9780807185902)
Melissa Daggetts Eugène and Eulalie is an epic story of love, race, prosperity, and legal maneuvering. It chronicles for the first time in a comprehensive way the largely forgotten lives of Eulalie Mandeville, a free woman of color, and her white p...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Fordham University Press, ISBN-13: 9781531513191)
A photographic time capsule of a pre-gentrified South Brooklyn Memorial Day parade, 80 photographs that preserve a neighborhood and a moment now largely vanished On Memorial Day 1976, weeks before the nation marked its 200th birthda...Loe edasi...
Sari: Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Louisiana State University Press, ISBN-13: 9780807185995)
Henry Eustace McCulloch provides the first comprehensive account of a pivotal nineteenth-century military leader and politician from Texas. In his military career, Henry McCulloch served with his brother Ben in one of the first Texas Ranger companie...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Illinois Press, ISBN-13: 9780252049781)
Whether Jonagolds or Ida Reds, the apple provides Midwesterners with both a versatile food and a powerful archetype of their culture and heritage. Lucy M. Long examines the ubiquitous fruits place in regional culture and its role in how people in t...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Illinois Press, ISBN-13: 9780252089459)
Whether Jonagolds or Ida Reds, the apple provides Midwesterners with both a versatile food and a powerful archetype of their culture and heritage. Lucy M. Long examines the ubiquitous fruits place in regional culture and its role in how people in t...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Illinois Press, ISBN-13: 9780252049613)
A central figure in Illinois early history, Sidney Breese forged an eventful public life that spanned the states transition from a frontier territory to a modern industrial society. Joseph A. Ranney tells the story of the lasting achievements and...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Illinois Press, ISBN-13: 9780252089275)
A central figure in Illinois early history, Sidney Breese forged an eventful public life that spanned the states transition from a frontier territory to a modern industrial society. Joseph A. Ranney tells the story of the lasting achievements and...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526175397)
A writers quest to understand the deep past and uncertain future of his homeland.After inheriting the miners safety lamp that belonged to his great-grandfather, Jake Morris-Campbell sets out on a pilgrimage across his homeland. Travellin...Loe edasi...
Discover the three generations of Dousman women who breathed life into a grand Gilded Age estate. On the banks of the upper Mississippi River at Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, stands Villa Louis, the majestic Italianate-style mansion an...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Minnesota Press, ISBN-13: 9781517912956)
This book recreates twenty days in April 1970 when a then-illegal strike by Minneapoliss public school teachers marked a singular moment of cultural upheaval-and forever changed the citys politics, labor law, educational climate, and the right to...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Minnesota Press, ISBN-13: 9781517913441)
The complex and dramatic history of an illegal teachers’ strike that forever altered labor relations and Minnesota politics When viewed from our turbulent times, the Minneapolis of fifty years ago might seem serene, but Minneapol...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Minnesota Press, ISBN-13: 9781517916107)
Shipwreck stories from along Minnesotas north shore of Lake Superior and Isle Royale Against the backdrop of the extraordinary history of Great Lakes shipping, Too Much Sea for Their Decks chronicles shipwrecked schooners, wooden freighte...Loe edasi...
Joel Zapata, Andrew Reynolds, Alex Hunt, John Beusterien
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Oklahoma Press, ISBN-13: 9780806197005)
For centuries Mexican people of the plainsor los Llaneroshave inhabited and embodied the borderland region known today as the Southern Great Plains. Yet their central presence in the area is often forgotten. This diverse collection of essays brings...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: John Donald, ISBN-13: 9780859767491)
Winner of the 2025 Frank Watson Book PrizeWhy did Scots in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries know so little about their past and even less about those who controlled their history? Is the historical narrative the only legitimate medium t...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226849485)
An engaging look at the encounter between Jane Addams, Hull House settlement co-founder and Progressive reformer, and Alderman Johnny Powers. Jane Addams was full of courage and goodwill when she opened Hull House in Chicago’s Ninet...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226849492)
An engaging look at the encounter between Jane Addams, Hull House settlement co-founder and Progressive reformer, and Alderman Johnny Powers. Jane Addams was full of courage and goodwill when she opened Hull House in Chicago’s Ninet...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: The University of North Carolina Press, ISBN-13: 9781469693668)
In the early twentieth century, most US states established eugenics programs to “improve” the human race through selective breeding. North Carolina ran one of the nation’s most aggressive programs; between 1927 and 1977, at le...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: The University of North Carolina Press, ISBN-13: 9781469693675)
In the early twentieth century, most US states established eugenics programs to improve the human race through selective breeding. North Carolina ran one of the nations most aggressive programs; between 1927 and 1977, at least 5,700 people were ster...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: New York University Press, ISBN-13: 9781479840885)
During the twentieth century’s Great Migration, kitchenette apartments served as the primary homes for Black migrants to Chicago. These small one- and two-room units were often illegally converted from larger apartments and were concentrated on the c...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: New York University Press, ISBN-13: 9781479840892)
During the twentieth century’s Great Migration, kitchenette apartments served as the primary homes for Black migrants to Chicago. These small one- and two-room units were often illegally converted from larger apartments and were concentrated on the c...Loe edasi...
