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Real American Dream
Since we discovered that, in Tocqueville's words, "e;the incomplete joys of this world will never satisfy the heart,"e; how have we Americans made do? In The Real American …
The Puritans in America
The whole destiny of America is contained in the first Puritans who landed on these shores, wrote de Tocqueville. These newcomers, and the range of their intellectual achievements …
Hispanic New York
Over the past few decades, a wave of immigration has turned New York into a microcosm of the Americas and enhanced its role as the crossroads of the English- and Spanish-speaking …
The Puritan Ordeal
More than an ecclesiastical or political history, this book is a vivid description of the earliest American immigrant experience. It depicts the dramatic tale of the …
The Elements of Teaching
A newly revised edition of this classic work, exploring the diverse qualities essential for teaching in today’s educational environment."A true classic. Every teacher and parent …
Abolitionist Imagination
The abolitionists of the mid-nineteenth century have long been painted in extremes--vilified as reckless zealots who provoked the catastrophic bloodletting of the Civil War, or …
Representative Men
This work, first published in 1850, is made up of a series of seven lectures by Ralph Waldo Emerson. It was inspired by the romantic belief that there exists a "general mind" that …