American History - October 2021
English | 78 pages | True PDF | 65.0 MB

American Craft - August 2021
English | 86 pages | True PDF | 57.0 MB

Blood and Faith: Christianity in American White Nationalism By Damon T. Berry
2017 | 282 Pages | ISBN: 0815654103 | PDF | 7 MB
Explores the complex relationship between Christianity and American white nationalists."Berry's groundbreaking debut traces the history of the "alt-right"-an offshoot of conservatism that mixes white nationalism and populism-while unpacking its relationship to the religious right and the tension between them. Certain branches of Christianity have long shared space with the nationalist movement in the U.S., but Berry provocatively posits that racialized Christian mythologies are not the only religious ideologies influencing white racist activists. Berry cites Odinism (a Norse-inspired paganism) and Creativity (a new age racialized movement that began in the 1970s) as the two main examples. Berry stresses that understanding this trend away from Christianity in racialized, right-wing politics is particularly important due to rising "pan-European ethnonationalism committed to the survival of the imagined global white racial community." The chosen medium for the movement is the internet, and its goal is to undermine the mainstream political establishment. Berry's primary mission is to examine why white nationalists are rejecting historical connections to racist Christianity in favor of a new Odinism, racialist Paganism, and other Euro-Aryan ideologies that are providing "spiritual" foundations for the larger goal of "white racial survival." This is a must-read for all Americans who want to understand the shifting spiritual allegiances of the strengthening white nationalist movements throughout the U.S. and Europe."-Publishers Weekly starred review"Berry does a fine job bringing together the ideological, 'biological,' and theological strands of belief that form the bones and sinews of the race movement in the United States."-Jeffrey Kaplan, School of International and Public Affairs, Jilin University, Changchun, China"A powerful, original, and extremely timely book. Tracing the history of white nationalism in the United States, Berry examines a series of hugely influential but today little known figures and movements, revealing their key role in the broader landscape of American religious, political, and racist discourses. Perhaps most importantly, Berry's book also highlights the continuities between these twentieth-century racist currents and our own historical moment, with the rise of the alt-right movement, and the resurgence of white nationalism."-Hugh Urban, author of The Church of Scientology: A History of a New ReligionDamon T. Berry is assistant professor in the religious studies department at St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York. He has published articles in the Journal of Hate Studies and Security Journal.

Black Litigants in the Antebellum American South By Kimberly M. Welch
2018 | 323 Pages | ISBN: 146963645X | PDF | 10 MB
In the antebellum Natchez district, in the heart of slave country, black people sued white people in all-white courtrooms. They sued to enforce the terms of their contracts, recover unpaid debts, recuperate back wages, and claim damages for assault. They sued in conflicts over property and personal status. And they often won. Based on new research conducted in courthouse basements and storage sheds in rural Mississippi and Louisiana, Kimberly Welch draws on over 1,000 examples of free and enslaved black litigants who used the courts to protect their interests and reconfigure their place in a tense society.To understand their success, Welch argues that we must understand the language that they used--the language of property, in particular--to make their claims recognizable and persuasive to others and to link their status as owner to the ideal of a free, autonomous citizen. In telling their stories, Welch reveals a previously unknown world of black legal activity, one that is consequential for understanding the long history of race, rights, and civic inclusion in America."Kimberly Welch has done a remarkable job piecing together a rich set of stories from these evasive texts and artifacts, bringing to life the world of ordinary people who were able to use the courts in extraordinary ways." - Ariela Gross, author of What Blood Won't Tell"In this compelling, carefully researched book, Welch uses local court records to uncover the ways in which black litigants in the antebellum South advanced claims to legal personhood. The prevailing sanctity of private property created space within which they could seek loan repayment, wages due, inheritance, and sometimes even freedom, despite the fact that granting such claims to black litigants could undermine white supremacy. Written with a light touch and telling detail, this landmark study of race and law introduces us to men and women of African descent who took their white neighbors to court to assert rights they insisted should be respected." -- Rebecca J. Scott, coauthor of Freedom Papers"Black Litigants in the Antebellum American South challenges our understandings of the relationship between black people and the law in the antebellum South. Welch gives us a more complete picture of the black legal experience in civil--not criminal--litigation, where property rights precede and function as civil rights in the 1800s. Building on the strength of new approaches to the litigiousness and advocacy among peoples of African descent, Welch has written a deeply researched book that will engage scholars across the Americas." -- Michelle McKinley, University of Oregon

Ballots, Babies, and Banners of Peace: American Jewish Women's Activism, 1890-1940 By Melissa R. Klapper
2013 | 303 Pages | ISBN: 1479850594 | PDF | 8 MB
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The New American Poetry and Cold War Nationalism
(Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics)
English | 2021 | ISBN: 3030773515 | 245 Pages | PDF EPUB | 2 MB

Productivity Machines : German Appropriations of American Technology from Mass Production to Computer Automation
by Corinna Schlombs
English | 2019 | ISBN: 0262537397 | 368 Pages | ePUB | 1.7 MB

North American Indians A Very Short Introduction by Theda Perdue | 2.3 MB
English | 161 Pages

Title: North American Indians
Author: Perdue, Theda; Green, Michael D.;
Year: 2010

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis MOBI | 726.91 KB
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Title: American psycho: a novel
Author: Bret Easton Ellis
Year: 1991

PBS - American Experience - The Feud (2019)
English | Size: 554 MB
Category: Documentary