historiography

"A biography of the son of former slaves who received a Ph.D. in history from Harvard and devoted his life to bringing the achievements of his race to the world's attention"--OCLC.

Looks at five American authors and their connections with human relationship to the natural world.

A biography of the son of former slaves who received a Ph.D. in history from Harvard and devoted his life to bringing the achievements of his race to the world's attention.

Examines the Cuban missile crisis and separates myth from reality. Reveals what really happened in the White House during the two weeks of the crisis, highlighting the contributions of key players such as Robert Kennedy, Robert McNamara, Dean Rusk, Llewellyn Thompson, McGeorge Bundy, and Adlai Stevenson. Also details JFK's resistance to war, the bad advice he received, and what could have happened instead.

Presents an examination of the work of Zora Neale Hurston, and describes how Hurston's ethnographies, plays, and fiction paint a picture of the rural African-American South.

Describes how various Indian peoples related and commented on their changing times, explaining how Native American societies transmitted and interpreted their own history.

Although their methodologies, areas of focus, and conclusions may diverge greatly, all philosophers in some form or another pose questions about universal truths. These individuals have elevated discourse and changed the way we interpret the world around us.

Avram Noah Chomsky, a famous linguist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is known for his left-wing politics. It the gravamen of this book, however, that these politics derive as much from the exteme right wing particularly right-wing anti-Semitism as from the rhetoric of the American Left.