Old Is Gold

A fascinating look at the splendor of the French court at Versailles through the eyes of its numerous visitors What was it like to visit one of the most magnificent courts of Europe? Based on a wealth of contemporary documents and surviving works of...

A fresh look at a bold and dynamic 20th-century American art style Characterized by highly structured, geometric compositions with smooth surfaces, linear qualities, and lucid forms, Precisionism fully emerged after World War I and flourished in the 1920s and 1930s. This insightful publication, featuring...

Mrs. Dayton blends genealogy with architectural history to capture the pioneer days of Lewisburg and surrounding Greenbrier County. Each chapter treats an important building over 100 years old at the time of the book's original publication in 1942 and the people who either built,...

By: Herbet & Jeanie Newell, Pub. 1960, reprinted 2020, 469 pages, soft cover, Index, ISBN #0-89308-811-0.This book should be in the library of anyone who has or is researching in the State of Alabama due to not only its scarcity but also for its...

An insider's spirited history of Yale Repertory Theatre In this serious and entertaining chronicle of the first fifty years of Yale Repertory Theatre, award-winning dramaturg James Magruder shows how dozens of theater artists have played their parts in the evolution of a sterling American...

In the late nineteenth century, the Mexican government, seeking to fortify its northern borders and curb migration to the United States, set out to relocate "Mexico-Texano" families, or Tejanos, on Mexican land. In Colonizing Ourselves, José Angel Hernández explores these movements back to Mexico,...

A history of early modern libraries and the imperial desire for total knowledge. Medieval scholars imagined the library as a microcosm of the world, but as novel early modern ways of managing information facilitated empire in both the New and Old Worlds, the world...

"The single most destructive act ever perpetrated on any tribe by the United States," Vine Deloria Jr. called it. For the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara communities living on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota, the construction of the Garrison Dam as part...

When the Vietnam War punctured the myth of American military invincibility, Hollywood needed a new kind of war movie. The familiar triumphal narrative was relegated to history and, with it, the heroic legacy that had passed from one generation to the next for more...

A new history shows how FDR developed a vision of national security focused not just on protecting Americans against physical attack but also on ensuring their economic well-being--and how the nascent conservative movement won the battle to narrow its meaning, durably reshaping US politics....

Founded in 1841 in Marion, Alabama, Howard College provided a Christian liberal arts education for young men living along the old southwestern frontier. The founders named the school after eighteenth-century British reformer John Howard, whose words and deeds inspired the type of enlightened moral...

The definitive account of transpacific Asian movement through the Spanish empire--from Manila to Acapulco and beyond--and its implications for the history of race and colonization in the Americas. Between 1565 and 1815, the so-called Manila galleons enjoyed a near-complete monopoly on transpacific trade between...

In the controversial legacy of the Nixon presidency, the administration's effort to curb and control the spread of the world's weapons of mass destruction is often overlooked. And yet by the time President Nixon left office under the cloud of the Watergate scandal, his...

Benjamin Harrison was an early proponent of American expansion in the Pacific, a key figure in such landmark legislation as the Sherman Anti-Trust Act and the McKinley Tariff, and one of the Gilded Age's most eloquent speakers. Yet he remains one of our most...

For Nazi Germany, the ghetto was a conceptual tool used to facilitate social and political exclusion and further their anti-Jewish campaign. For the Jews who lived in them, the ghettos became the center of their lives-even though they were also sites of immense suffering....

Recognizing such literary and artistic entanglement facilitates a more profound understanding of the multifaceted relationship between women and the natural world in eighteenth-century England.Author: Anna K. SagalPublisher: University of Virginia PressPublished: 08/18/2022Pages: 294Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.55dISBN: 9780813946962Review Citation(s): Choice...

When Harry Truman was rescued from political obscurity to become Franklin Roosevelt's running mate, black Americans were deeply troubled. Many believed that Truman, born and raised in former slave-holding Missouri, was a step back on civil rights from Henry Wallace, the liberal incumbent vice...

A bold account of property reform during the French Revolution, arguing that the lofty democratic ideals enshrined by revolutionary leaders were rarely secured in practice--with lasting consequences. Property reform was at the heart of the French Revolution. As lawmakers proclaimed at the time, and...

How risky encounters between American and Czech writers behind the Iron Curtain shaped the art and politics of the Cold War and helped define an era of dissent. "In some indescribable way, we are each other's continuation," Arthur Miller wrote of the imprisoned Czech...

This book examines the letters, essays, and fiction of Joseph Conrad through an Aristotelian lens. Author: Alexia HannisPublisher: University of Toronto PressPublished: 11/18/2022Pages: 158Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.15lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.20w x 0.70dISBN: 9781442649071