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The Cherokee Diaspora
An Indigenous History of Migration, Resettlement, and Identity
The Cherokee are one of the largest Native American tribes in the United States, with more than three hundred thousand people across the country claiming tribal membership and nearly one million people internationally...
Burghley
William Cecil at the Court of Elizabeth I
The first modern biography of the most powerful politician in late Tudor England William Cecil, Lord Burghley (1520–1598), was the closest adviser to England’s Queen Elizabeth I and—as this revealing and...
Ralph Tailor's Summer
A Scrivener, His City and the Plague
One man's life in the plague, his record of the calamitous decimation of a city where nearly half the people died, and its sometimes surprising impact on families and communities The plague outbreak of 1636...
The Making of Assisi
The Pope, the Franciscans, and the Painting of the Basilica
For a brief moment at the close of the 13th century, the town of Assisi was the focus for the two greatest powers in the Latin Church: the Roman papacy and the Franciscan Order. The election in 1288 of Nicholas IV, the...
Variations stylistiques
Cours de grammaire avancée
This advanced level course book teaches stylistic variations of modern French grammar using examples from films and interviews as well as other authentic texts. Written entirely in French, it focuses on the most difficult...
Julius Rosenwald
Repairing the World
From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a portrait Julius Rosenwald—a humble retail magnate whose visionary ideas about charitable giving transformed the practice of philanthropy in America and beyond...
The Gateway Arch
A Biography
The surprising history of the spectacular Gateway Arch in St. Louis, the competing agendas of its supporters, and the mixed results of their ambitious plan Rising to a triumphant height of 630 feet, the...
Subverting Exclusion
Transpacific Encounters with Race, Caste, and Borders, 1885-1928
The Japanese immigrants who arrived in the North American West in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries included people with historical ties to Japan's outcaste communities. In the only English-language book on the...
Water 4.0
The Past, Present, and Future of the World's Most Vital Resource
The little-known story of the systems that bring us our drinking water, how they were developed, the problems they are facing, and how they will be reinvented in the near future Turn on the faucet, and...
Max Eastman
A Life
The definitive biography of a radical activist and intellectual Max Eastman (1883–1969) was a prolific writer, radical, and public intellectual who helped shape the twentieth century. While researching this...