This encyclopedia traces the evolution of American workers and labor organizations from pre-Revolutionary America through the present day.In 2001, Robert E. Weir's two-volume Historical Encyclopedia of American Labor was chosen as a New York Public Library Best in Reference selection. Weir recently revised this groundbreaking resource, resulting in content that is more accessible, comprehensive, and timely. The newest edition, Workers in America: A His...

The ground has shifted from the days in which "serious history" and "boring" went hand in glove. Textbooks and lectures have their place, but less traditional classrooms can be powerfully immersive and insightful. Take the 1929 Marx Brothers film The Cocoanuts and what it teaches about both the Great Depression and early sound films. The Marx Brothers are among the funniest comedy teams of all time. Four of their 13 films are on the American Film Institute's list of the 100 greate...

Sport has long been a stage where identity is contested, visibility is earned, and social change takes root.In Boston, the Black athletic body has historically challenged the city's self image as a beacon of liberalism. Boston's Black Athletes: Identity, Performance, and Activism interprets this contested history through the lives and experiences of African American athletes who used their talent as a vehicle for social justice. Editors Robert Cvornyek and ...

For more than thirty years, Jerry Garcia was the musical and spiritual center of the Grateful Dead, one of the most popular rock bands of all time.In Dark Star, the first biography of Garcia published after his death, Garcia is remembered by those who knew him best.Together the voices in this oral biography explore his remarkable life: his childhood in San Francisco; the formation of his musical identity; the Dead's unconventional road to rock star...

In Reclaiming Lives, Rosalie Giffoniello, an American teacher, overcomes her personal struggles of insecurity and dependency and finds her identity by providing educational opportunities for destitute children in the slums of Kolkata (Calcutta), India. Each page abounds with hope, inspiration and fulfillment for countless children who reclaim their lives through Rosalie's determination … as she joyously reclaims her own. "I'm bent on empowering children here in the Kolkata slums, reclaimin...

A new edition of the germinal study of Loyalism in the American RevolutionBuilding on the work of his 1989 book The Loyalist Perception and Other Essays, accomplished historian Robert M. Calhoon returns to the subject of internal strife in the American Revolution with Tory Insurgents. This volume collects revised, updated versions of eighteen groundbreaking articles, essays, and chapters published since 1965, and also features one essay original t...

This is a book that God has laid on my heart for some time now. I believe that both men and women have first hand dealt with a spirit call Jezebel. I'm talking about more than just a distant spirit in the Church but actually married to this fowl spirit. This is a true story of my personal life. I really was married to a woman with a Jezebel spirit. I will tell you the story but will omit the names of people because we don't deal with flesh and blood but Principalities and Powers of wickedn...