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In A Short History of the United States, National Book Award winner Robert V. Remini offers a much-needed, concise history of our country. This accessible and lively volume contains the essential facts about the discovery, settlement, growth, and development of the American nation and its...

The Short Life and Curious Death of Free Speech in America has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher...

From the enslaved potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina, to Ann Lowe, the couture dressmaker who made Jacqueline Kennedy's wedding dress, to Gullah Geechee sweetgrass basket makers, to the celebrated quilters of Gee's Bend, A Short History of Black Craft in Ten Objects illuminates the work of generations of Black craftspeople, foregrounding their enduring contributions to American craft.

A Short History of Reconstruction [Updated Edition] has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher...

Post-traumatic stress disorder was recognized as a psychiatric disorder in the latter part of the 19th century. In PTSD, Allan V. Horwitz traces the fluctuations in definitions of and responses to traumatic psychic conditions. Arguing that PTSD, perhaps more than any other diagnostic category, is a lens for showing major historical changes in conceptions of mental illness, he surveys the conditions most likely to produce traumas, the results of those traumas, and how to evaluate the claims of trauma victims.

The delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention blocked the establishment of Christianity as a national religion. But they could not keep religion out of American politics. From the election of 1800, when clergyman charged that deist Thomas Jefferson was unfit to lead a "Christian nation," to today, when some Democrats want to embrace the so-called Religious Left in order to compete with the Republicans and the Religious Right, religion has always been a part of American politics.

The New Deal shaped our nation's politics for decades, and was seen by many as tantamount to the "American Way" itself. Now, in this superb compact history, Eric Rauchway offers an informed account of the New Deal and the Great Depression, illuminating its successes and failures.

Central Park is perhaps the most well-trod and familiar green space in the country. It is both a refuge from the city and Manhattan's very heart; a respite from the urban grind and a hive of activity all its own. Eight hundred forty-three carefully planned acres allow some 37 million visitors each year to come and get lost in a sense of nature. Unsurprisingly, the park also inspires a wealth of great writing, and here Andrew Blauner collects some of the finest fiction and nonfiction - 20 pieces in all.

In Our American West, Volume 1, discover humor, tragedy, and courage in every one of these delightful stories. Gary McCarthy has been writing about the American West for 30 years and these are some of his favorite topics written - not for the expert or scholar - but for all the armchair admirers of thing historically written.

Il 4 novembre 2008, il senatore dell'Illinois Barack Obama fu eletto come 44º presidente degli Stati Uniti d'America, dopo aver battuto l'allora senatore dell'Arizona John McCain. Quel giorno Obama si convertì nel primo presidente afroamericano nella storia del Paese. La storia di Obama è la storia dell'America stessa. Cresciuto in una famiglia di classe media, il duro lavoro e un'educazione solida sono stati i suoi unici strumenti per arrivare lontano.

Dopo cinque anni e mezzo dal suo arrivo al potere, la Presidente della Repubblica del Brasile Dilma Rousseff fu definitivamente allontanata dalla carica. Ad agosto del 2016, dopo un lungo e logorante processo, il Senato brasiliano votò, con un'ampia maggioranza, a favore della sua destituzione.

La storia politica di Cuba è sempre stata molto travagliata. La figura centrale e più controversa della sua storia recente è stata senza dubbio quella di Fidel Castro, il "lider maximo" che ne è stato primo ministro e poi Presidente del Consiglio di Stato.