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Sharon Coan
Introduce kindergarten students to the Statue of Liberty and the significant meaning behind it. Featuring beautiful images and simple text, this engaging book will teach young children a brief history of the statue and what it stands for. This approp
Buddhists, Hindus, and Sikhs in America explores the challenges that Asian immigrants face when their religion--and consequently culture--is'remade in the U.S.A.'Peppered with stories of individual people and how they actually live their religion, th
Autor:
R. B. Bernstein
In this new concise biography Thomas Jefferson historian R.B. Bernstein finds the key to this enigmatic Founder not as a great political figure, but as leader of a'revolution of ideas that would make the world over again'. Bernstein examines Jefferso
Autor:
Edwin S. Gaustad
In this second edition, Edwin S. Gaustad traces the conflicted and often difficult relationship between religion and government throughout American history, beginning with colonists'concerns after the Revolution and continuing through the 1990s and t
Autor:
Stephen J. Stein
Alternative religious groups have had a profound influence on American history-they have challenged the old and opened up new ways of thinking about healing, modes of meaning, religious texts and liturgies, the social and political order, and the rel
Autor:
Martin W. Sandler
A riveting look at the evolution of transportation in American cities, Straphanging in America begins with an examination of the horsecar and omnibus, then traces the extraordinary impact of the cable car, elevated railway, interurban, and subway on
Autor:
Page Putnam Miller
Throughout history, women have often worked in informal ways and in modest conditions, frequently without monuments or grand examples of architecture preserved to commemorate their accomplishments. Landmarks of American Women's History describes the
Autor:
Maria Fleming
Inspiring and true, A Place at the Table chronicles the lives of American freedom fighters whose stories are little-known, but whose efforts have paved the way for equality and justice in the face of extreme prejudice. Unsung heroes and their brave d