American Voices: A History of the United States
Edited by acclaimed linguist, Walt Wolfram, and consultant editor of Language Magazine, Ben Ward, this collection gives readers a new understanding of language diversity through an engaging look at regional, ethnic, and sociocultural ...
Offering a textured history of the Chinese in America since their arrival during the California Gold Rush, this work includes letters, speeches, testimonies, oral histories, personal memoirs, poems, essays, and folksongs.
These stories, which were first broadcast on National Public Radio, focus on a range of individuals living and working in contemporary America, from an immigrant Chinese restaurant owner in New York City to an African-American waitress who ...
Today, land claims are among the most contentious issues, along with such other grievances as legal restrictions on Native fisheries” (McMillan 1994: 231). The Northwest Coast was the most linguistically diverse and one of the ...
American Voices, American Lives is a fresh, illuminating core reader for introductory courses in American studies and an exciting companion volume for surveys in American history and American literature that offers extraordinary documents, ...
American? Both?How can hechoose?Should hehaveprideandjoyin his heritage,orbear itasa shameand sorrow?Should he live in one world or another, ... Iunderstand all this, but I am profoundly distressed by what I see happening today.
Brandeis Series in American Jewish History , Culture , and Life Jonathan D. Sarna , Editor Sylvia Barack Fishman ... Changing Images of Women in American Jewish Fiction Diane Matza , editor , 1996 Sephardic - American Voices : Two ...
The book presents research data and the need for response.
John White's watercolours of the flora, fauna and North Carolina Algonquians he encountered on the expedition sent by Walter Raleigh in 1585 are some of the greatest treasures of the...