The story of the Native American from his immigration from the Asian mainland to life on government-authorized reservations. A well-woven narrative follows the nomad, hunter, and farmer throughout the New World, and presents detailed views of daily life and culture. Index. Bibliography. 6 maps and figures. 107 black-and-white illustrations.

Discover an American masterpiece. This unassuming story about the life of a quiet English professor has earned the admiration of readers all over the globe.

 

William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar’s life, so different from the hardscrabble

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When Erika Drake, of the Westmount Drakes, met and fell in love with Marc Reiser, a Jew from northern Ontario, their respective worlds were turned upside down. Set against the backdrop of the first three years of the Second World War, Earth and High Heaven captured the hearts and minds of its generation and helped to shape the more diverse and inclusive culture we have today.

Published in 1944, this classic novel was very timely; it spoke

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Fifteen stories previously published in The New Yorker, Mademoiselle, Redbook, and The Sewanee Review, Gerber's work discovers her roots in a background predominantly Jewish. Her female look at daily lives is a nice placement alongside a Philip Roth.

Even though Christians in the restoration movement came to America aboard the Mayflower in the early 1600s, this is an excellent primary source to understanding and tracing that portion of the restoration movement that writer Alexander Campbell, influenced. Articles appeal to the dissolving of denominations and coming together in Christian unity. Some articles quote founders of various denominations on baptism, instruments of music in worship, Bible...