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Uncle Tom charts the dramatic cultural transformation of perhaps the most controversial literary character in American history. From his origins as the heroic, Christ-like protagonist of Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery novel, the best-selling book of the nineteenth century after the Bible, Uncle Tom has become a widely recognized epithet for a black person deemed so subservient to whites that he betrays his race. Readers have long noted that...

The history of African Americans is explored in their writings, narratives, letters, editorials, speeches, lyrics, & folktales, from U.S. colonial times to today. Here is the most comprehensive collection of African-American writing to date and includes poetry, prose, speeches, songs, documents, and letters from the pre-Colonial era through today's best and most well-known writers. An anthology that anyone interested in the full scope of African-American...

In The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century, as well as successor The New England Mind: From Colony to Province, Perry Miller asserts a single intellectual history for America that could be traced to the Puritan belief system.

"This album of essays, photographs, stories, and art chronicles some of the people and events that have played - and continue to play - a role in the lives of Native families in the Bay Area Indian community over the past seventy years"--P. 4 of cover.

A multicultural anthology of history and literature--a collection of speeches, documents, poems, songs, photographs, and illustrations that captures the many-faceted American spirit in words and images.

Traces the process and influences behind the writing of Esther Forbes' novel, Johnny Tremain, for which she won a Newbery Award in 1943--just a year after winning the Pulitzer Prize for her first novel.

Includes index. An account of the span of American literature from its beginnings in the seventeenth century to the writings of the 1980s.

The New York Times bestselling Percy Jackson series-- The Lightning Thief, The Sea of Monsters, The Titan's Curse, The Battle of the Labyrinth, and The Last Olympian-- features a dyslexic boy who discovers he is the son of a Greek god, the target of mythical Greek monsters, and the center of a prophecy that could change the balance of power in the world forever. In Demigods and Monsters, young adult authors take on the series' Greek gods, demigods,...

Features some of the finest college professors in America, lecturing on literature written from biblical times to the modern era.