In the early 19th-century, Spanish artist Francisco Goya painted what he saw around him, everything from peasants to priests, courtesans to country folk. In time, revolutionary ideas and a spirit of liberalism spread across the Spanish landscape, providing Goya with fresh subjects and a new approach to art--Romanticism.
In the early 19th-century, Spanish artist Francisco Goya painted what he saw around him, everything from peasants to priests, courtesans to country fo...
Jorge Luis Borges, the greatest of Argentine writers, created, through a 60-year-long career, one of the most significant and enduring literary legacies of any writer of the 20th century. Through his work, he managed to bring the literature of other places and other centuries under one canopy, an umbrella of modern writing that will withstand the scrutiny of centuries to come.
Jorge Luis Borges, the greatest of Argentine writers, created, through a 60-year-long career, one of the most significant and enduring literary legaci...
Though born in New York City, Tito Puente lived his life as a Puerto Rican who would become one of the greatest Hispanic-American musicians of the 20th century. During the 1940s and '50s, the worlds of jazz, swing, and Latin music came together to take on new forms and styles, and Puente led the way as an Afro-Cuban music songwriter, arranger, big bandleader, and unrivaled musician.
Though born in New York City, Tito Puente lived his life as a Puerto Rican who would become one of the greatest Hispanic-American musicians of the 20t...
When it was completed in 1825, the Erie Canal caused a great sensation. This book shows how this manmade waterway that extends from Lake Erie in Buffalo, New York, to the Hudson River in Albany helped shape the future of the Empire State.
When it was completed in 1825, the Erie Canal caused a great sensation. This book shows how this manmade waterway that extends from Lake Erie in Buffa...
During the 19th century, hardy pioneers used the Oregon Trail to migrate to the Pacific Northwest. This book focuses on the period of 1840-1859, when approximately 52,000 pioneers moved to Oregon, and nearly five times that opted to move to California or Utah.
During the 19th century, hardy pioneers used the Oregon Trail to migrate to the Pacific Northwest. This book focuses on the period of 1840-1859, when ...
During Reconstruction, the nation sought to reestablish itself in the aftermath of the Civil War, overcome regional politics, determine how the states of the Confederacy should be readmitted into the Union, and redefine the political, social, and economic realities of the nation's four million blacks.
During Reconstruction, the nation sought to reestablish itself in the aftermath of the Civil War, overcome regional politics, determine how the states...
During the American Civil War, the people of the United States fought against one another in a series of conflicts which resulted in the deaths of approximately 620,000 men in uniform. Between 1861 and 1865, more Americans died in battle than in all other American wars combined. This book tells the stories of these battles.
During the American Civil War, the people of the United States fought against one another in a series of conflicts which resulted in the deaths of app...
When George Washington took the reins of the presidency in 1789, the United States was little more than a youthful republic largely populated by farmers who could not imagine their country extending from the Atlantic to the Pacific. But within three generations, the nation stretched across the continent, reliant on steam power and machines to connect its people. The idea of democracy had been redefined, and cities had sprung up across the landscape, planted in the wake of tens of thousands of Americans moving west. The United States experienced two large-scale wars and a scattering of...
When George Washington took the reins of the presidency in 1789, the United States was little more than a youthful republic largely populated by fa...
For more than 150 years, English men and women had planted themselves along the Atlantic Coast of the New World as colonists, intent on creating new lives of possibility and opportunity. But by the 1760s, countless thousands of people who had been loyal to king and country began to question that same loyalty. As British authorities began to hamper the lives the colonists had created, many in America followed a new course of action. As policies brought protest and taxes represented tyranny, those colonists ceased to consider themselves English subjects and came to view themselves as Americans...
For more than 150 years, English men and women had planted themselves along the Atlantic Coast of the New World as colonists, intent on creating new l...