American Histories

Author : John Edgar Wideman
Publisher : Scribner
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781501178351

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American Histories by John Edgar Wideman Pdf

“A powerful assemblage of short stories exploring late-in-life angst through personal myth, cultural memory, and riffs on an empire scorched by its own hubris” (O, The Oprah Magazine) from award-winning author John Edgar Wideman—his first collection in more than a decade. “Race and its reverberations are at the core of this slim, powerful volume, a blend of fiction, memoir, and reimagined history, in which the boundaries between those forms are murky and ever shifting” (The Boston Globe). In this singular collection, John Edgar Wideman blends the personal, historical, and political to invent complex, charged stories about love, death, struggle, and what we owe each other. With characters ranging from everyday Americans to Jean-Michel Basquiat to Nat Turner, American Histories is a journey through time, experience, and the soul of our country. In “JB & FD,” Wideman reimagines conversations between John Brown, the antislavery crusader, and Frederick Douglass, the abolitionist and orator—conversations that produce a fantastical, rich correspondence that spans years and ideologies. “Maps and Ledgers” eavesdrops on a brother and sister today as they ponder their father’s killing of another man. “Williamsburg Bridge” sits inside a man sitting on a bridge who contemplates his life before he decides to jump. “My Dead” is a story about how the already-departed demand more time, more space in the lives of those who survive them. American Histories is “an important addition to Wideman’s body of writing and a remarkable demonstration of his ability to address social issues through a range of fictional forms and styles” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette). An extended meditation on family, history, and loss, American Histories weaves together historical fact, philosophical wisdom, and deeply personal vignettes. This is Wideman at his best—emotionally precise and intellectually stimulating—an extraordinary collection by a master.

Author : Catherine Ceniza Choy
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807050798

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Asian American Histories of the United States by Catherine Ceniza Choy Pdf

An inclusive and landmark history, emphasizing how essential Asian American experiences are to any understanding of US history Original and expansive, Asian American Histories of the United States is a nearly 200-year history of Asian migration, labor, and community formation in the US. Reckoning with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and the surge in anti-Asian hate and violence, award-winning historian Catherine Ceniza Choy presents an urgent social history of the fastest growing group of Americans. The book features the lived experiences and diverse voices of immigrants, refugees, US-born Asian Americans, multiracial Americans, and workers from industries spanning agriculture to healthcare. Despite significant Asian American breakthroughs in American politics, arts, and popular culture in the twenty-first century, a profound lack of understanding of Asian American history permeates American culture. Choy traces how anti-Asian violence and its intersection with misogyny and other forms of hatred, the erasure of Asian American experiences and contributions, and Asian American resistance to what has been omitted are prominent themes in Asian American history. This ambitious book is fundamental to understanding the American experience and its existential crises of the early twenty-first century.

Author : Edward Eggleston
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781627931533

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A First Book of American History by Edward Eggleston Pdf

Continuing the biographical approach to teaching history found in his Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans, Eggleston draws a more in-depth picture of the development of the United States using the stories of the living and breathing Americans who made it all happen.

Author : Catherine Ceniza Choy
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807050804

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Asian American Histories of the United States by Catherine Ceniza Choy Pdf

An inclusive and landmark history, emphasizing how essential Asian American experiences are to any understanding of US history Original and expansive, Asian American Histories of the United States is a nearly 200-year history of Asian migration, labor, and community formation in the US. Reckoning with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and the surge in anti-Asian hate and violence, award-winning historian Catherine Ceniza Choy presents an urgent social history of the fastest growing group of Americans. The book features the lived experiences and diverse voices of immigrants, refugees, US-born Asian Americans, multiracial Americans, and workers from industries spanning agriculture to healthcare. Despite significant Asian American breakthroughs in American politics, arts, and popular culture in the twenty-first century, a profound lack of understanding of Asian American history permeates American culture. Choy traces how anti-Asian violence and its intersection with misogyny and other forms of hatred, the erasure of Asian American experiences and contributions, and Asian American resistance to what has been omitted are prominent themes in Asian American history. This ambitious book is fundamental to understanding the American experience and its existential crises of the early twenty-first century.

Author : Marcius WILLSON
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1847
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0022062052

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Report on American Histories, etc by Marcius WILLSON Pdf

Author : American Museum of Natural History
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Illustrated books
ISBN : 1454912146

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Natural Histories by American Museum of Natural History Pdf

Highlights 40 masterworks of illustrated scientific art from the Rare Book Collection of the American Museum of Natural History.

Author : Thomas Ayres
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publications
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2004-04-27
Category : United States
ISBN : 9781589791077

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That's Not in My American History Book by Thomas Ayres Pdf

This book tackles the messy details, reclaims disregarded heroes, and sets the record straight. It also explains why July 4th isn't really Independence Day.

Author : D. H. Montgomery
Publisher : Christian Liberty Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1930092962

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Exploring American History by D. H. Montgomery Pdf

Author : Tom Nicholas
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780674988002

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VC by Tom Nicholas Pdf

From nineteenth-century whaling to a multitude of firms pursuing entrepreneurial finance today, venture finance reflects a deep-seated tradition in the deployment of risk capital in the United States. Tom Nicholas’s history of the venture capital industry offers a roller coaster ride through America’s ongoing pursuit of financial gain.

Author : Thomas Bender,University Professor of the Humanities Thomas Bender
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2002-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520230576

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Rethinking American History in a Global Age by Thomas Bender,University Professor of the Humanities Thomas Bender Pdf

"In One eloquent essay after another, some of the wisest historians of our time write American history in a grand cosmopolitan context. From the era of discovery to the present, histories that we thought we knew—of labor, of race relations, of politics, of gender relations, of diplomacy, of ethnicity—are more richly understood when causes and consequences are traced throughout the globe. One emerges invigorated, ready to welcome a new American history for a new international century."—Linda K. Kerber, author of No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies: Women and the Obligations of Citizenship "Rethinking American History in a Global Age is an extremely stimulating and thought-provoking collection of essays written by leading historians who offer wider contexts for illuminating the traditional themes and issues of American national history. Particularly impressive is the book's combination of caution and original, sometimes daring insights."—David Brion Davis, author of In the Image of God: Religion, Moral Values, and Our Heritage of Slavery "For decades American historians have been urging one another to place our culture in comparative or transnational perspective. Thomas Bender's unique volume includes not only essays theorizing such efforts and essays exemplifying such work at its most successful and its most provocative, it also provides more skeptical assessments questioning whether American historians can meet the challenge of overcoming our longstanding national preoccupations. Rethinking American History in a Global Age is an indispensable book that will shape the work of a rising generation of historians whose horizons will extend beyond our own shores."—James T. Kloppenberg, author of The Virtues of Liberalism

Author : Martha Few,Zeb Tortorici
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822397595

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Centering Animals in Latin American History by Martha Few,Zeb Tortorici Pdf

Centering Animals in Latin American History writes animals back into the history of colonial and postcolonial Latin America. This collection reveals how interactions between humans and other animals have significantly shaped narratives of Latin American histories and cultures. The contributors work through the methodological implications of centering animals within historical narratives, seeking to include nonhuman animals as social actors in the histories of Mexico, Guatemala, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Chile, Brazil, Peru, and Argentina. The essays discuss topics ranging from canine baptisms, weddings, and funerals in Bourbon Mexico to imported monkeys used in medical experimentation in Puerto Rico. Some contributors examine the role of animals in colonization efforts. Others explore the relationship between animals, medicine, and health. Finally, essays on the postcolonial period focus on the politics of hunting, the commodification of animals and animal parts, the protection of animals and the environment, and political symbolism. Contributors. Neel Ahuja, Lauren Derby, Regina Horta Duarte, Martha Few, Erica Fudge, León García Garagarza, Reinaldo Funes Monzote, Heather L. McCrea, John Soluri, Zeb Tortorici, Adam Warren, Neil L. Whitehead

Author : Joseph Banvard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Florida
ISBN : PRNC:32101068931789

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Romance of American History, as Illustrated in the Early Events Connected with the French Settlement at Fort Carolina by Joseph Banvard Pdf

Author : David K. Yoo,Eiichiro Azuma
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199860470

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The Oxford Handbook of Asian American History by David K. Yoo,Eiichiro Azuma Pdf

After emerging from the tumult of social movements of the 1960s and 1970s, the field of Asian American studies has enjoyed rapid and extraordinary growth. Nonetheless, many aspects of Asian American history still remain open to debate. The Oxford Handbook of Asian American History offers the first comprehensive commentary on the state of the field, simultaneously assessing where Asian American studies came from and what the future holds. In this volume, thirty leading scholars offer original essays on a wide range of topics. The chapters trace Asian American history from the beginning of the migration flows toward the Pacific Islands and the American continent to Japanese American incarceration and Asian American participation in World War II, from the experience of exclusion, violence, and racism to the social and political activism of the late twentieth century. The authors explore many of the key aspects of the Asian American experience, including politics, economy, intellectual life, the arts, education, religion, labor, gender, family, urban development, and legal history. The Oxford Handbook of Asian American History demonstrates how the roots of Asian American history are linked to visions of a nation marked by justice and equity and to a deep effort to participate in a global project aimed at liberation. The contributors to this volume attest to the ongoing importance of these ideals, showing how the mass politics, creative expressions, and the imagination that emerged during the 1960s are still relevant today. It is an unprecedentedly detailed portrait of Asian Americans and how they have helped change the face of the United States.

Author : James Carson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137438638

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The Columbian Covenant: Race and the Writing of American History by James Carson Pdf

This provocative analysis of American historiography argues that when scholars use modern racial language to articulate past histories of race and society, they collapse different historical signs of skin color into a transhistorical and essentialist notion of race that implicates their work in the very racial categories they seek to transcend.

Author : Jonathan H. X. Lee
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313399282

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Asian American History Day by Day by Jonathan H. X. Lee Pdf

For student research, this reference highlights the importance of Asian Americans in U.S. history, the impact of specific individuals, and this ethnic group as a whole across time; documenting evolving policies, issues, and feelings concerning this particular American population. Asian American History Day by Day: A Reference Guide to Events provides a uniquely interesting way to learn about events in Asian American history that span several hundred years (and the contributions of Asian Americans to U.S. culture in that time). The book is organized in the form of a calendar, with each day of the year corresponding with an entry about an important event, person, or innovation that span several hundred years of Asian American history and references to books and websites that can provide more information about that event. Readers will also have access to primary source document excerpts that accompany the daily entries and serve as additional resources that help bring history to life. With this guide in hand, teachers will be able to more easily incorporate Asian American history into their classes, and students will find the book an easy-to-use guide to the Asian American past and an ideal "jumping-off point" for more targeted research.