Do you remember landing your first fish? Where the Fisherman Goes... is the delightful story of a father introducing his young son to their family's secret fishing spot and the joy of this tradition. With engaging, lyrical language and vivid, colorful illustrations, this story captures the experience of feeling that tug on the line and the anticipation and joy of the ultimate capture of one's very first fish.Young children to age seven will love this imagi...

The story behind the creation of the first archives in the new United StatesArchives, the foundational resource for historical research, do not emerge from a vacuum. The records, documents, and data that make up the historian’s quarry are never neutral but are themselves the product of historical forces and individual choices. What materials are included in the archive, and why? Whose voices are preserved for posterity, and whose are silenced? In recent years, scho...

Teach Your Gift Bundle, 2 IN 1 Bundle: The Life Coaching and The Prosperous CoachDo you like helping others? Do you feel that you could teach others to lead an organized and structured life? Do you have an organized and structured life yourself? If you answered yes to all of these questions, then I've got the perfect career for you... a life coach! Or if you have valuable knowledge in a particular niche that is in demand, you can make a significant income as an online coach. Many p...

The Life Coaching: The Ultimate Guide on How to Have a Lucrative Career as a Life Coach, Learn Everything About Life Coaching and How to Become a Highly-Paid Life CoachDo you like helping others? Do you feel that you could teach others to lead an organized and structured life? Do you have an organized and structured life yourself? If you answered yes to all of these questions, then I've got the perfect career for you... a life coach! Many people are unfamiliar with what exactly a l...

A New York Times bestseller: “This terrific new book . . . [explores] the ‘notion of whiteness,’ an idea as dangerous as it is seductive.”—Boston GlobeTelling perhaps the most important forgotten story in American history, eminent historian Nell Irvin Painter guides us through more than two thousand years of Western civilization, illuminating not only the invention of race but also the frequent praise of “whiteness” for economic, scientific, and political ends. A ...

**“Exceptional... a remarkable study of the key chapter of American history and its ongoing influence on American character.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of the Founding Era reflects on the birth of American nationhood and explains why the American Revolution remains so essential to our identity and culture.**For Gordon S. Wood, the American Revolution is the most important event in our history, bar none. Since American id...

David Brion Davis has long been recognized as the leading authority on slavery in the Western World. His books have won every major history award--including the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award--and he has been universally praised for his prodigious research, his brilliant analytical skill, and his rich and powerful prose. Now, in Inhuman Bondage, Davis sums up a lifetime of insight in what Stanley L. Engerman calls "a monumental and magisterial book, the essential work ...

Ira Berlin traces the history of African-American slavery in the United States from its beginnings in the seventeenth century to its fiery demise nearly three hundred years later.Most Americans, black and white, have a singular vision of slavery, one fixed in the mid-nineteenth century when most American slaves grew cotton, resided in the deep South, and subscribed to Christianity. Here, however, Berlin offers a dynamic vision, a major reinterpretation in which slaves and their own...

To the original text of what has become a classic of American historical literature, Bernard Bailyn adds a substantial essay, ”Fulfillment,” as a Postscript. Here he discusses the intense, nation-wide debate on the ratification of the Constitution, stressing the continuities between that struggle over the foundations of the national government and the original principles of the Revolution. This detailed study of the persistence of the nation’s ideological origins adds a new dimension to th...

Scientist, abolitionist, revolutionary: that is the Benjamin Franklin we know and celebrate. To this description, the talented young historian David Waldstreicher shows we must add runaway, slave master, and empire builder. But Runaway America does much more than revise our image of a beloved founding father. Finding slavery at the center of Franklin's life, Waldstreicher proves it was likewise central to the Revolution, America's founding, and the very notion of freedom we associ...

A sourcebook for understanding an uprising that continues to incite historical debateIn the fall of 1739, as many as one hundred enslaved African and African Americans living within twenty miles of Charleston joined forces to strike down their white owners and march en masse toward Spanish Florida and freedom. More than sixty whites and thirty slaves died in the violence that followed. Among the most important slave revolts in colonial America, the Stono Rebellion ...

"Bold and original . . . [This book] fearlessly employs the methods and materials of history, economics, anthropology, and social psychology." —John Hope Franklin, Massachusetts ReviewThis third edition of Stanley M. Elkins's classic study offers two new chapters by the author. The first, "Slavery and Ideology," considers the discussion and criticism occasioned by this controversial work. Elkins amplifies his original purpose in writing t...