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Author | : Richard T. Hughes |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2018-09-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0252050800 |
Download Myths America Lives By Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Six myths lie at the heart of the American experience. Taken as aspirational, four of those myths remind us of our noblest ideals, challenging us to realize our nation's promise while galvanizing the sense of hope and unity we need to reach our goals. Misused, these myths allow for illusions of innocence that fly in the face of white supremacy, the primal American myth that stands at the heart of all the others.
Author | : Craig M. Cameron |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 1994-01-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521441681 |
Download American Samurai Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A study of the cultural dynamics of ground combat.
Author | : Jane MacLaren Walsh |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 530 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : America |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Mary Miley Theobald |
Publisher | : Andrews Mcmeel+ORM |
Total Pages | : 167 |
Release | : 2012-06-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1449424449 |
Download Death by Petticoat Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This myth-busting compendium sets the record straight on American history, from famous-but-false legends to weird-but-true stories. American history is full of oft-repeated errors and outright fabrications—as well as truths that are stranger than fiction. Collaborating with The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Mary Miley Theobald has uncovered the real stories behind many well-known myth-understandings. Did pregnant women really seclude themselves indoors? Were uneven stairs made to trip up burglars? Did people only bathe once a year? Death by Petticoat reveals the truth about these and many other funny, surprising, and strange misapprehensions of history.
Author | : Viola Sachs |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2019-05-20 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3110830477 |
Download The Myth of America Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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Author | : D. L. Mayfield |
Publisher | : InterVarsity Press |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2020-05-05 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 083084824X |
Download The Myth of the American Dream Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Affluence, autonomy, safety, and power—the central values of the American dream. But are they compatible with Jesus' command to love our neighbor as ourselves? In essays grouped around these four values, D. L. Mayfield asks us to pay attention to the ways they shape our own choices, and the ways those choices affect our neighbors.
Author | : James Burkhart Gilbert |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download The Mythmaking Frame of Mind Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Thirteen essays, written by prominent cultural and intellectual historians, illustrate some of the directions of cultural and intellectual history as it is practiced in the United States. The essays are organized chronologically with many interconnecting themes. These themes include the rise of commercial culture, the rise of city and urban life, the formation of the middle class, and the ways in which social myths (the myth of Santa Claus, for example) function to interpret the meanings of modern life.
Author | : Natalie Diaz |
Publisher | : Graywolf Press |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 2020-03-03 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1644451131 |
Download Postcolonial Love Poem Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
WINNER OF THE 2021 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY FINALIST FOR THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY Natalie Diaz’s highly anticipated follow-up to When My Brother Was an Aztec, winner of an American Book Award Postcolonial Love Poem is an anthem of desire against erasure. Natalie Diaz’s brilliant second collection demands that every body carried in its pages—bodies of language, land, rivers, suffering brothers, enemies, and lovers—be touched and held as beloveds. Through these poems, the wounds inflicted by America onto an indigenous people are allowed to bloom pleasure and tenderness: “Let me call my anxiety, desire, then. / Let me call it, a garden.” In this new lyrical landscape, the bodies of indigenous, Latinx, black, and brown women are simultaneously the body politic and the body ecstatic. In claiming this autonomy of desire, language is pushed to its dark edges, the astonishing dunefields and forests where pleasure and love are both grief and joy, violence and sensuality. Diaz defies the conditions from which she writes, a nation whose creation predicated the diminishment and ultimate erasure of bodies like hers and the people she loves: “I am doing my best to not become a museum / of myself. I am doing my best to breathe in and out. // I am begging: Let me be lonely but not invisible.” Postcolonial Love Poem unravels notions of American goodness and creates something more powerful than hope—in it, a future is built, future being a matrix of the choices we make now, and in these poems, Diaz chooses love.
Author | : Paul Ashdown |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780742543010 |
Download The Myth of Nathan Bedford Forrest Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An insightful exploration of the relentless myth of the famous Civil War general, this volume scrutinizes the collective public memory of Nathan Bedford Forrest as it has evolved through the press, memoirs, biographies, and popular culture.
Author | : Howard Means |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2012-04-17 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1439178267 |
Download Johnny Appleseed Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
“Finally, the cliché is peeled away and the essence of this utterly American character is so revealing. John Chapman comes alive here and it is a thrilling experience to escape the specific gravity of the decades of myth” (Ken Burns). This portrait of Johnny Appleseed restores the flesh-and-blood man beneath the many myths. It captures the boldness of an iconic American and the sadness of his last years, as the frontier marched past him, ever westward. And it shows how death liberated the legend and made of Johnny a barometer of the nation’s feelings about its own heroic past and the supposed Eden it once had been. Howard Means does for America’s inner frontier what Stephen Ambrose’s Undaunted Courage did for its western one.