Books Out Loud: Bowker's Guide to Audiobooks
The Afro-American jeremiad has been a leading feature of black protest rhetoric from the antebellum through the modern civil rights era.
Offering resources for moments when the march of progress seems to stutter and even stop, this book invites us to reconsider just what democracy can make possible.
The Promise of American Life was first published in 1909. It had an immediate and extensive influence on what social historians call the Progressive Era. At the dawn of the...
One of the most renowned public speakers of his day, Mark Twain was often asked to give speeches to mark public holidays or important anniversaries, for school graduations, at banquets...
To illustrate how the myth crossed racial, gender, and economic boundaries as well as geographic lines, Weaks-Baxter examines the work of diverse writers, including Willa Cather, Ellen Glasgow, Olive Dargan, Zora Neale Hurston, Jean Toomer, ...
Mark E. Neely, Jr., gives us the first compact biography of Abraham Lincoln based on new scholarship. Neely, a Pulitzer prize-winning historian, vividly recaptures the central place of politics...
In The Complex Image, Joseph Fichtelberg takes a twofold approach to the role of revision in significant American autobiographies. He reexamines the problem of the autobiographical subject from a poststructuralist...
When David asks his mother about the man on television, she tells him the story of Barack Obama, discussing his childhood in Hawaii and Indonesia, his parents' divorce, and his desire to help others.
P. Raabe. C. Franke. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1995, pp. 364–383. Pedersen, Johannes. Israel: Its Life and Culture. I-II. Copenhagen: Møllers; London: Oxford, 1926. Pohlmann, H. F. “Erwāgungen zum Schlusskapitel des ...