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Recognizing the urgent need for students to understand the emergence of the United States' power and prestige in relation to world events, this volume reframes the teaching of American history in a global context. Each essay covers a specific chronological period and approaches fundamental topics and events in United States history from an ......
Recognizing the urgent need for students to understand the emergence of the United States' power and prestige in relation to world events, this volume reframes the teaching of American history in a global context. Each essay covers a specific chronological period and approaches fundamental topics and events in United States history from an ......
Unafraid of reinventing her sound and self to meet changing tastes, Denise LaSalle enjoyed success on and off the stage. This memoir of a lifetime in music is the true story of how a girl from rural Mississippi rose up to become the unquestioned queen of soul-blues.
Unafraid of reinventing her sound and self to meet changing tastes, Denise LaSalle enjoyed success on and off the stage. This memoir of a lifetime in music is the true story of how a girl from rural Mississippi rose up to become the unquestioned queen of soul-blues.
Along the Streets of Bronzeville examines the flowering of African American creativity, activism, and scholarship in the South Side Chicago district known as Bronzeville during the period between the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s and the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s. Poverty stricken, segregated, and bursting at the seams with ......
Along the Streets of Bronzeville examines the flowering of African American creativity, activism, and scholarship in the South Side Chicago district known as Bronzeville during the period between the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s and the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s. Poverty stricken, segregated, and bursting at the seams with migrants, ......
Along the Color Line is a diverse collection of essays by two of the most accomplished historians of the modern African American experience, first published more than a quarter of a century ago. This informed study addresses such topics as black nationalism, nonviolent action, the changing patterns of interracial violence in the twentieth century, ......
The iconic Edith Farnsworth House is a singular glass home designed by Mies van der Rohe. But the oft-told history of the house overwrites Farnsworth's role as Mies's collaborator and antagonist while falsely portraying her as the architect's angry ex-lover. Nora Wendl's audacious work of creative nonfiction explodes the sex-and-real-estate myth ......
