A look at systemic racism in the United States
American democracy is the world's most beloved form of government, which is why so many other nations are eager for it to be imposed on them. But just what exactly is it?
The host of the award-winning humorous news program offers tongue-in-cheek insight into American democracy with coverage of such topics as the republican qualities of ancient Rome, the antics of our nation's founders, and the ludicrous ...
Jeffrey Jensen Arnett, a psychology professor at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, and an expert on twentysomethings, ascribes their optimism to their lack of life experience. “The dreary, deadend jobs, the bitter divorces, ...
"This book shows how the Bible decisively shaped American national history even as that history decisively influenced the use of Scripture.
Philip Roth's bestselling alternate history—the chilling story of what happens to one family when America elects a charismatic, isolationist president—is soon to be an HBO limited series.
But it is also a nation of xenophobia. In America for Americans, Erika Lee shows that an irrational fear, hatred, and hostility toward immigrants has been a defining feature of our nation from the colonial era to the Trump era.
In addition to Griffith's movie, there were other film treatments of the Klan in these years 1915's A Mormon Maid and 1919's The Heart o' the Hills, with Mary Pickford. Daniel Eagan, Americas Film Legacy. The Authoritative Guide to the ...
Philip Van Cleave, President, Virginia Citizens Defense League: [The Australian gun ban] stopped one thing! That could also be a statistical anomaly. John Oliver: Yeah—it was just their mass shootings disappeared. Philip Van Cleave: But ...
Volume 1, The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World carries the interrelated stories of publishing, writing, and reading from the beginning of the colonial period in America up to 1790.
... in Middletown in the 1920s and found that only about one-fifth of the town's adults were typically there (358); Caplow et al., ... 143; Ronsvalle and Ronsvalle, “An End?” and Amerson and Stephenson, “Decline or Transformation”).