Overview :In the late 1950s, Mike Nichols (1931-2014) and Elaine May (b. 1932) soared to superstar status as a sketch comedy duo in live shows and tel... Read More
Overview :Elegant remnants of the Victorian era grace almost every corner of Cape May. Wealthy locals built opulent homes like the Emlen Physick Estat... Read More
Overview :This fascinating study sheds new light on antebellum America's notorious "filibusters--the freebooters and adventurers who organized or part... Read More
Overview :How did enslaved African Americans in the Old South really experience Christmas? Did Christmastime provide slaves with a lengthy and jubilan... Read More
Overview :"The great value of the book lies in the manner in which May relates the expansionist urge to the "symbolic" differences emerging between th... Read More
Overview :Slavery, Race, and Conquest in the Tropics challenges the way historians interpret the causes of the American Civil War. Using Abraham Linco... Read More
Overview :This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This w... Read More
Overview :According to an oft repeated legend, during Christmas before the Civil War, all enslaved people in the American South enjoyed lengthy vacati... Read More