Pembroke in the Twentieth Century

Connee Brayboy

• Paperback | Engels | American Century
• The twentieth century can truly be said to have been America's century. As the nation reached the position of world leader, her towns and cities chang... Lees meer

The Big Sea

Langston Hughes

• Paperback | Engels | American Century
• "This book is the chronicle of a bright and lively artistic ear that brought the African-American people full into the twentieth century. It is a wond... Lees meer

From Plantation to Ghetto

August Meier, Elliott Rudwick

• Paperback | Engels | American Century
• This pioneering work in African American history begins with the earliest experiences of blacks in the United States and offers an in-depth account of... Lees meer

Rhode Island Amusement Parks

Rob Lewis, Ryan Young

• Paperback | Engels | American Century
• Rhode Island Amusement Parks brings back the memories of a time less complicated than the present, when a sense of family held communities together. R... Lees meer

Seekonk in the Twentieth Century

Phyllis Dupere

• Paperback | Engels | American Century
• The twentieth century can truly be said to have been America's century. As the nation reached the position of world leader, her towns and cities chang... Lees meer

Amusing the Million

John F Kasson

• Paperback | Engels | American Century
• Coney Island: the name still resonates with a sense of racy Brooklyn excitement, the echo of beach-front popular entertainment before World War I. Amu... Lees meer

I Wonder as I Wander

Langston Hughes

• Paperback | Engels | American Century
• In I Wonder as I Wander , Langston Hughes vividly recalls the most dramatic and intimate moments of his life in the turbulent 1930s. His wanderlust le... Lees meer

The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man

James Weldon Johnson

• Paperback | Engels | American Century
• James Weldon Johnson's emotionally gripping novel is a landmark in black literary history and, more than eighty years after its original anonymous pub... Lees meer

Black POW-Wow

Ted Joans

• Paperback | Engels | American Century
• "Jazz is my religion, and surrealism is my point of view." Ted Joans was one of the first Beat poets in the Greenwich Village arts scene, pioneering a... Lees meer

American Negro Poetry

• Paperback | Engels | American Century
• With 200,000 copies in print, this anthology has for decades been seen as a fundamental collection of African-American verse. Bontemps (1902-73), an i... Lees meer

Military Incompetence

Richard A Gabriel

• Paperback | Engels | American Century
• The history of American military operations in the post-Vietnam era has been marked by failure and near-disaster. Since 1970, American forces have bee... Lees meer

The Best of Simple

Langston Hughes

• Paperback | Engels | American Century
• Langston Hughes's stories about Jesse B. Semple--first composed for a weekly column in the Chicago Defender and then collected in Simple Speaks His Mi... Lees meer

American Populism

Robert McMath

• Paperback | Engels | American Century
• From the first crises in America's farming regions in the 1870s through the fracture and demise of grass-roots protest organizations at the end of the... Lees meer

Spreading the American Dream

Emily S Rosenberg

• Paperback | Engels | American Century
• In examining the economic and cultural trs that expressed America's expansionist impulse during the first half of the twentieth century, Emily S. Rose... Lees meer

Pillars of the Republic

Carl Kaestle

• Paperback | Engels | American Century
• Pillars of the Republic is a pioneering study of common-school development in the years before the Civil War. Public acceptance of state school system... Lees meer

Mexican Americans, American Mexicans

Matt S Meier, Feliciano Ribera

• Paperback | Engels | American Century
• In the years since the first edition of this important study was published, the changes in the Mexican American community in the United States have be... Lees meer