americans

Presents photographs and text alongside images of handwritten manuscripts penned by Abraham Lincoln, and features speeches, letters, and childhood notebooks.

Chronicles Jack London's seven-year cruise around the world in a forty-three-foot, custom-built boat called the Snark.

Poet W.S. Merwin chronicles his life in Europe in the years before he won the Yale Younger Poets Award in 1952.

Provides information and guidance on the field of ESL teaching, covering training and qualifications, duties, salary, places to work in the U.S. and Canada and around the world, and the job search; and includes lists of print and online resources and directories of job contacts and training programs.

Christopher Newman, a wealthy American, goes to Europe to enjoy his wealth and becomes engaged. Her family is against the engagement and has it annulled. Newman is confronted with a moral dilemma when the possibility of revenge presents itself.

Presents the text of the novel in which high-spirited American, Isabel Archer, travels to England to find romance, heartbreak, and betrayal.

Examines the history of the U.S.'s foreign policy regarding Latin America, discussing the U.S.'s actions and tactics in Latin America as "imperial" precedents for the Iraq War.

Born to Japanese parents in America, Sam Hamada falls in love with another Japanese-American who is later placed in an internment camp while Sam is drafted into the army during World War II.

Douglas flees his life of petty crime and drug abuse in Minneapolis to Edinburgh, Scotland, where his Grandma McLaren hopes to offer him a fresh start, but as Douglas earns his living playing music, he learns that Edinburgh hides its own dangers, forcing him to choose between the allure of drugs and the promise of a new life.