Mark Twain wrote in a dizzying variety of genres, and much of his work resists categorization by exploring themes well outside the realms of normal human experience. This is an…

Explores Mark Twain as a multi-talented man of his times, from his childhood in the rough-and-tumble West of Missouri to his many careers - steamboat pilot, printer, miner, inventor, world…

"Surveys the events and people of all of North America during the 1950s, an era which is often portrayed as uneventful--a period of political and cultural conservatism. The decade was…

‘Africa for the Africans’ was the name given to the extraordinary movement led by Jamaican Marcus Mosiah Garvey (1887-1940). This title demonstrates the central role Africans played in the development…