True Yankees: The South Seas and the Discovery of American Identity
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With American independence came the freedom to sail anywhere in the world under a new flag. During...
Consuming Stories: Kara Walker and the Imagining of American Race
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In Consuming Stories, Rebecca Peabody uses the work of contemporary American artist Kara Walker to...
Layton's Legacy: An Historic American Art Collection, 1888-2013
John C. Eastberg, Eric Vogel, Dianne MacLeod and Giles Waterfield
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Frederick Layton (1827-1919) was among the very first art collectors in America to fund a...
American Luthier: Carleen Hutchins- The Art and Science of the Violin
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From the time of Stradivari, the mysterious craft of violinmaking has been a closely guarded,...
The Pew and the Picket Line: Christianity and the American Working Class
Christopher D. Cantwell, Heath W. Carter and Janine Giordano Drake
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The Pew and the Picket Line collects works from a new generation of scholars working at the nexus...
The United States of Beer: A Regional History of the All-American Drink
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From the author of "the definitive history of bourbon" (Sacramento Bee) comes the epic true tale of...
Escape Velocity: American Science Fiction Film, 1950-1982
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Today, movie theaters are packed with audiences of all ages marveling to exciting science fiction...
Great American Adventure Stories: Lyons Press Classics
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An extraordinary collection of fifteen stories that celebrate America's unquenchable thirst for...
Insane Clown President: Dispatches from the American Circus
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One of the most important voices in contemporary American journalism - Independent Matt Taibbi is...
Wanderwords: Language Migration in American Literature
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How do (im)migrant writers negotiate their representation of a multilingual world for a monolingual...