This anthology of historic legal documents ranges from the ancient Code of Hammurabi to the American Civil Rights Act. In this volume, Richard W. Nice has asse...
This book is the first to trace the good and bad fortunes, over more than a century, of the earliest large free black community in the United States. Gary Nash ...
Warner Mifflin—energetic, uncompromising, and reviled—was the key figure connecting the abolitionist movements before and after the American Revolution. A d...
The Americas had long been the home to a rich variety of Native American cultures. Hundreds of years ago, however, other peoples-- Europeans and enslaved Africa...
A history of the United States in the twentieth century, featuring sociological and cultural events, as well as strictly historical, and using many pertinent li...
With its rich foundation stories, Philadelphia may be the most important city in America's collective memory. By the middle of the eighteenth century William Pe...
The book covers relationships, interprets evidence, and connects the present to the past--that's what history is all about. ...
Race and Revolution is a trenchant study of the revolutionary generation's early efforts to right the apparent contradiction of slavery and of their ultimate co...
A history of the United States in the twentieth century, featuring sociological and cultural events, as well as strictly historical, and using many pertinent li...
A history of the United States in the twentieth century, featuring sociological and cultural events, as well as strictly historical, and using many pertinent li...
Forgotten Grasslands of the South is the study of one of the biologically richest and most endangered ecosystems in North America. In a seamless blend of scienc...
Here are the fascinating stories of twenty-three little-known but remarkable inhabitants of the Spanish, English, and Portuguese colonies of the New World betwe...
byReed Noss,David Pimentel,Laura Westra
Global Integrity Project has brought together leading scientists and thinkers from around the world to examine the combined problems of threatened and unequal h...
byReed Noss, Save-the-Redwoods League
Evidence is mounting that redwood forests, like many other ecosystems, cannot survive as small, isolated fragments in human-altered landscapes. Such fragments l...
byClayborne Carson, Emma J. Lapsansky-Werner,Gary Nash
'African American Lives, American History' uses a biographical approach to present African Americans as active and thoughtful agents in the construction of thei...