America is a nation making itself up as it goes along-a story of discovery and invention unfoldin...

It is accompanied by an introduction, maps, illustrations, and annotations. 'Contexts' provides e...

Born in Silesia, raised in the Frankfurt area and educated in Berlin, Werner Sollors has spent mo...

Aside from the occasional controversy over 'Official English' campaigns, language remains the bli...

Long out of print in America, Alexandre Dumas's most daring narrative is now available in this ma...

The history of blacks at Harvard mirrors, for better or for worse, the history of blacks in the U...

Jeffrey B. Ferguson is remembered as an Amherst College professor of mythical charisma and for hi...

An 1830s African-American slave narrative written in Arabic. Dafydd Morgan, the only American imm...

Bereits 1946 nahm der in Lettland geboren amerikanische Psychologe David Pablo Boder in Europa mi...

In Germany, the years immediately following World War II call forward images of obliterated citie...

Goethe fungierte bis weit ins 20. Jahrhundert hinein als ein Nationalschriftsteller der USA. Die ...

Opening with five intriguing urban short stories by Zora Neale Hurston that are reprinted here fo...

What unites and what divides Americans as a nation? Who are we, and can we strike a balance betw...