history

Studies the rise of African-American cultural heros during the civil rights and Black Power eras of the 1960s and 1970s, and discusses their influence on, and contributions to the Black Revolution and the continuing vitality of the American spirit.

A collection of photographs of Indian war battlegrounds from Massachusetts to the state of Washington and from Minnesota to Mississippi.

An essay describing the establishment of the Nobel Peace Prize precedes chronologically organized profiles of all the individuals and organizations that have received the award since 1901.

A photographic history of the Greenpeace movement, documenting the non-violent activities of the environmentalist group over the course of twenty-five years.

Based on letters, diaries, books and veteran surveys, Linderman examines the combat experience during World War II arguing that American experience in both theaters, European and Pacific, was very similar and that combat had its own grim logic, independent of causes and countries, flags and commanders.

Biography of John Lewis, civil rights worker and member of the House of Representatives, discussing his participation in several events in the civil rights movement during the 1960s and 1970s and his terms as a congressman from Georgia during the late 1980s and 1990s.

Illustrations and text provide a history of Irish-Americans since the mid-nineteenth century potato famine when millions immigrated to America, and includes essays by some of America's foremost Irish-American writers, historians, and personalities.

A history of the Latino people in the United States, beginning with the arrival of Columbus and his Spanish crew on October 12, 1492, and continuing through the late twentieth century, with information about Hispanic culture, and brief biographies of significant Latinos.

Chronicles the history of the American civil rights movement, looking at the churches, jails, courthouses, homes, barber shops, and soda fountains where the movement's formative events took place.

A history of women's roles in the migration to and settling of the American West.