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Which Chosen People? Manifest Destiny Meets the Sioux
The belief in American exceptionalism reached its apex during the 1800s and was expressed as a God-given passport called Manifest Destiny. Among its victims were Native Americans. The Sioux resisted, eventually in desperation resorting to Ghost Dancing and claiming that Indians, not the whites, were the chosen people. The military, political, and legal destruction of Indian culture provided precedent and justification for the empire building that accelerated soon after Sioux resistance was crushed. Frank Fiske was a young boy who observed this confrontation firsthand at the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, where Sitting Bull was held, then killed. Fiske recorded the story as he gre...
Constituting Americans
"Constituting Americans" rethinks the way that certain writers of the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth century contributed to fixing the words precisely of what it means to be an American
Woodrow Wilson
Biography of the twentyeighth president of United States, discussing his personal life, education, and political career.
Woodrow Wilson and American Internationalism
This book critiques President Woodrow Wilson's statecraft and diplomacy during World War I, notably with respect to religion and race.
The Past as Present in the Drama of August Wilson
An indispensable guide to the dramatic work of one of America's most important contemporary playwrights
The Department of State Bulletin
The official monthly record of United States foreign policy.
(b)LACK
A play based on black poverty, police brutality and overcoming the " Norm" as African Americans.
The Power of Place
Harm de Blij contends in this book that geography continues to hold us all in an unrelenting grip and that we are all born into natural and cultural environments that shape what we become, individually and collectively.
Toska
“I do not love the sun or ever remember looking up to the sky for any kind of happiness. And when I was younger, people often would not look at me, especially when they noticed the bruises or the swollen lips.” va isn’t like all the other girls. She doesn’t speak to the kids at school—or to anyone, really—unless spoken to by her teachers. She will do anything for her brother, Luke, and her mother, even though neither of them can protect her from her secret life. The life of horrific child abuse that she is forced to endure. Then suddenly, she seems to be totally winning the best life chance of the year. Rescued and adopted by a beautiful, kind, and wealthy psychiatrist, Eva is in...
