Amerikansk historie

"There's no such thing as rural America. Or, rather, as Steven Conn argues, "rural America" is a phrase that has been made to mean so many things that it doesn't mean anything. In fact, he maintains, rural America--so often characterized as in crisis or in danger of being left behind--has been shaped by the same major forces as the rest of the country since at least the end of the Civil War: militarization, industrialization, corporatization, and suburbanization. Conn calls for us to dispense with the fantasies and visions that are often imposed on rural America, in the hopes of more productively addressing the real challenges facing all of America"--

If the law cannot protect a person from a lynching, then isn't lynching the law?In By Hands Now Known, Margaret A. Burnham, director of Northeastern University's Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project, challenges our understanding of the Jim Crow era by exploring the relationship between formal law and background legal norms in a series of harrowing cases from 1920 to 1960. From rendition, the legal process by which states make claims to other states for the return of their citizens, to battles over state and federal jurisdiction and the outsize role of local sheriffs in enforcing racial hierarchy, Burnham maps the criminal legal system in the mid-twentieth-century South, and traces the unremitting line from slavery to the legal structures of this period and through to today.Drawing on an extensive database, collected over more than a decade and exceeding 1,000 cases of racial violence, she reveals the true legal system of Jim Crow, and captures the memories of those whose stories have not yet been heard.

A critical history of the largest Maoist organization to emerge in the US out of the tumultuous sixties, and the FBI's unrelenting campaign against it.

Når den amerikanske præsident gennem tiden er gået på talerstolen med vigtige meddelelser og budskaber til den amerikanske befolkning såvel som mennesker i resten af verden, er der blevet lyttet særligt godt efter.For præsidentens ord kan ændre verden og bevæge historien i en ny retning. Kennedy talte om ’peace for all time’ under Den Kolde Krig, Reagan bad Gorbatjov ’tear down this wall’ for at ende selvsamme konflikt – og Obama talte i Selma om behovet for at forene et racesplittet Amerika."De største taler" går tæt på syv af de vigtigste præsidenter i nyere tid og fortæller ud fra samtaler med deres taleskrivere om én bestemt tale. Bogen indeholder fortællinger om Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton og Barack Obama.

This collection of striking color images from the American West is both a moving national portrait as well as a celebration of analog color photography from an undisputed genius of the form. The photographer behind Life magazine's first ever all-color photographic essay, Ernst Haas made-and captured-history as an early adapter of Kodachrome film. The Austrian-born artist had already established himself as a black and white photographer when he moved to America in 1951. But as a member of the renowned Magnum agency, he transformed the genre with his color-saturated images, the perfect medium for capturing America's geographic and cultural landscapes. From desert storms, Route 66 gas stations, and Las Vegas neon to rolling prairie, dilapidated farms, small-town parades, and city sidewalks, Haas' perfectly composed images, contain a distinct pictorial language, suffused with poetry, pattern, and light. At the same time his pictures communicate a journalist's point of view, whether the subject is rural poverty, suburban comfort, or the myth of the American West. The remarkable book offers a vision of America that feels both poignantly distant and reassuringly familiar.

The Constitution of the United States of America includes the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, all Amendments to the Constitution, The Federalist Papers, and Common Sense.

'One of the most important and timely books I've had the privilege to read' Corinne Fowler, author of Green Unpleasant LandA revelatory historical indictment of the long afterlife of slavery in the Atlantic world To fully understand why the shadow of slavery haunts us today, we must confront the flawed way that it ended. We celebrate abolition - in Haiti after the revolution, in the British Empire in 1833, in the United States during the Civil War. Yet in Black Ghost of Empire, acclaimed historian Kris Manjapra argues that during each of these supposed emancipations, Black people were dispossessed by the moves that were meant to free them. Emancipation, in other words, simply codified the existing racial caste system - rather than obliterating it. Ranging across the Americas, Europe and Africa, Manjapra unearths disturbing truths about the Age of Emancipations, 1780-1880. In Britain, reparations were given to wealthy slaveowners, not the enslaved, a vast debt that was only paid off in 2015, and the crucial role of Black abolitionists and rebellions in bringing an end to slavery has been overlooked. In Jamaica, Black people were liberated only to enter into an apprenticeship period harsher than slavery itself. In the American South, the formerly enslaved were 'freed' into a system of white supremacy and racial terror. Across Africa, emancipation served as an alibi for colonization. None of these emancipations involved atonement by the enslavers and their governments for wrongs committed, or reparative justice for the formerly enslaved-an omission that grassroots Black organizers and activists are rightly seeking to address today. Black Ghost of Empire will rewire readers' understanding of the world in which we live. Paradigm-shifting, lucid and courageous, this book shines a light into the enigma of slavery's supposed death, and its afterlives.

Brilliant, funny, charming, imperious, Diana Vreeland?the fashion editor of Harper's Bazaar and editor-in-chief of Vogue?was a woman whose passion and genius for style helped define the world of high fashion for fifty years. Among her eclectic circle of friends were some of the most renowned and famous figures of the twentieth century?artists and princes, movie stars and international legends, including Chanel, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Isak Dinesen, Clark Gable, and Swifty Lazar.Moving from English palaces to the nightclubs of 1930s Paris, the wilds of Wyoming to the exclusive venues of New York high society, D.V. takes readers into this iconic woman's dazzling life, evoking the luxury and brio of an era that encompassed Josephine Baker, England's Queen Mary, Buffalo Bill, and Diaghilev.Vibrant with the vivid, irresistible voice that elevated every tête-à-tête and dinner party, D.V. brings this renowned and uninhibited raconteur alive, whether recalling herself as a young girl, her search for the perfect red, her piquant observations about her world, or her abhorrence for nostalgia. Like her legacy, Vreeland's story, told in her own words, is a classic to be celebrated by both loyal admirers and a new generation of culture mavens and style savants.

The New York Times bestseller from prizewinning author David Michaelis presents a ';stunning' (The Wall Street Journal) breakthrough portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt, America's longest-serving First Lady, an avatar of democracy whose ever-expanding agency as diplomat, activist, and humanitarian made her one of the world's most widely admired and influential women.In the first single-volume cradle-to-grave portrait in six decades, acclaimed biographer David Michaelis delivers a stunning account of Eleanor Roosevelt's remarkable life of transformation. An orphaned niece of President Theodore Roosevelt, she converted her Gilded Age childhood of denial and secrecy into an irreconcilable marriage with her ambitious fifth cousin Franklin. Despite their inability to make each other happy, Franklin Roosevelt transformed Eleanor from a settlement house volunteer on New York's Lower East Side into a matching partner in New York's most important power couple in a generation. When Eleanor discovered Franklin's betrayal with her younger, prettier, social secretary, Lucy Mercer, she offered a divorce and vowed to face herself honestly. Here is an Eleanor both more vulnerable and more aggressive, more psychologically aware and sexually adaptable than we knew. She came to accept her FDR's bond with his executive assistant, Missy LeHand; she allowed her children to live their own lives, as she never could; and she explored her sexual attraction to women, among them a star female reporter on FDR's first presidential campaign, and younger men. Eleanor needed emotional connection. She pursued deeper relationships wherever she could find them. Throughout her life and travels, there was always another person or place she wanted to heal. As FDR struggled to recover from polio, Eleanor became a voice for the voiceless, her husband's proxy in the White House. Later, she would be the architect of international human rights and world citizen of the Atomic Age, urging Americans to cope with the anxiety of global annihilation by cultivating a ';world mind.' She insisted that we cannot live for ourselves alone but must learn to live together or we will die together. This ';absolutely spellbinding,' (The Washington Post) ';complex and sensitive portrait' (The Guardian) is not just a comprehensive biography of a major American figure, but the story of an American ideal: how our freedom is always a choice. Eleanor rediscovers a model of what is noble and evergreen in the American character, a model we need today more than ever.

Den ultimative historie om verdens mægtigste embede fortalt gennem portrætter af de 45 mænd, der har ledet Amerikas Forenede Stater, fra George Washington til Joe Biden. Bogen handler om dem - deres politik, deres personlighed og det aftryk, de efterlod i Det Ovale Værelse - men også om de lange linjer i amerikansk historie gennem mere end 200 år. Med i bogen er små introduktioner til historiske hændelser og nøglepersoner af betydning for forståelsen af amerikansk politisk historie, fra slaveriets ophævelse og Benjamin Franklin til 11. september-angrebet og stormen på Kongressen i januar 2021.Bogen er rigt illustreret med kort og billeder fra USA?s uforlignelige historie og forsynet med forord af RufusGifford, amerikansk ambassadør i Danmark fra 2013 til 2017. Værket er redigeret af historikerne Rasmus Dahlberg og Philip Chr. Ulrich.

Essays on all 46 American Presidents who have held the office over the last 230 years - from George Washington to Joe Biden.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and #1 New York Times bestselling author offers a revelatory new book about the founding fathers, examining their educations and, in particular, their devotion to the ancient Greek and Roman classicsand how that influence would shape their ideals and the new American nation.On the morning after the 2016 presidential election, Thomas Ricks awoke with a few questions on his mind: What kind of nation did we now have? Is it what was designed or intended by the nations founders? Trying to get as close to the source as he could, Ricks decided to go back and read the philosophy and literature that shaped the founders thinking, and the letters they wrote to each other debating these crucial worksamong them the Iliad, Plutarchs Lives, and the works of Xenophon, Epicurus, Aristotle, Cato, and Cicero. For though much attention has been paid the influence of English political philosophers, like John Locke, closer to their own era, the founders were far more immersed in the literature of the ancient world.The first four American presidents came to their classical knowledge differently. Washington absorbed it mainly from the elite culture of his day; Adams from the laws and rhetoric of Rome; Jefferson immersed himself in classical philosophy, especially Epicureanism; and Madison, both a groundbreaking researcher and a deft politician, spent years studying the ancient world like a political scientist. Each of their experiences, and distinctive learning, played an essential role in the formation of the United States. In examining how and what they studied, looking at them in the unusual light of the classical world, Ricks is able to draw arresting and fresh portraits of men we thought we knew.First Principles follows these four members of the Revolutionary generation from their youths to their adult lives, as they grappled with questions of independence, and forming and keeping a new nation. In doing so, Ricks interprets not only the effect of the ancient world on each man, and how that shaped our constitution and government, but offers startling new insights into these legendary leaders.

Mellem 1850 og 1920 udvandrede omkring 350.000 danskere - godt 10 procent af den daværende befolkning - til Amerika for at begynde et nyt liv. Nogle drømte om en ny begyndelse med frihed, rigdom og lykke. Andre flygtede fra ulykkelige begivenheder eller en fortid med kriminalitet. Og andre igen håbede på, at de kunne føre en religiøs levevis, der ikke var plads til i Danmark.REJSEN TIL AMERIKA er udvandrernes historie; en fortælling om store forventninger, hårdt slid, stædighed, falske forhåbninger og - for nogles vedkommende - opfyldelsen af den amerikanske drøm.. Det er en dokumentarisk fortælling stykket sammen af breve, dagbøger, erindringer, artikler, illustrationer, fotos og anden research i USA, Tyskland, England og Danmark.REJSEN TIL AMERIKA udkom første gang som et tobindsværk i 2013 og 2015. Denne version er en sammeskrevet version af de to bind. Dengang skrev anmelderne bl.a:"Et uvurderligt bidrag til den del af dansk historie, der udspiller sig oversøisk." Information"Bevægende." Politiken (fem hjerter)"Mage til vilde skæbner skal man lede længe efter." Weekendavisen"Smukt og fængslende." Fyens Stiftstidende

Featuring stucco sculptures at El Zotz and Holmul, this book includes the discovery of an underwater cavern of the earliest known occupant of the region, the Hoyo Negro girl, and evidence for the first architecture at Ceibal.

ARV AF STORHED skildrer Hakikta Najin Jordans liv fra fødslen på et sioux-reservat i USA til tiden i Danmark. Allerede fra barnsben går Hakikta billedligt talt i sine egne mokkasiner, og hans konstante nysgerrighed på livet får omgivelserne til at kalde ham for ”det vilde barn”. Tilværelsen præges af opbrud, afsavn og tab af relationer, og han kæmper en stor del af sit liv med at søge efter svar på, hvem han virkelig er inderst inde. Bogen fortæller om et menneske, der har en naturlig evne til at trække folk til sig, men også en unik evne til at tilpasse sig - samt vilje til at overleve - selv de mest barske situationer, som livet kan byde på. Det er en gribende skildring af en stor personlighed, der, på trods af at han går så grueligt meget igennem, lærer sig selv at omsætte sin opnåede livserfaring til vejledning for andre på sin vej. Biografisk roman om Hakikta Najin Jordan (1941-2011) fra Rosebud-reservatet i South Dakota, USA. Officiel ambassadør for Lakota Nationen (Sicangu) til Danmark og modtager af Bronze Star og Purple Heart fra Vietnamkrigen.

George W. Bush fik med sine 8 embedsår amerikanerne til at tvivle på værdierne i deres eget land; han fik dem til i 2008 at vælge en præsident, der er hans diametrale modsætning. Efter terrorangrebene 11. september 2001 samlede han amerikanerne, som en præsident aldrig før har samlet dem, så splittede han dem, og til sidst samlede han dem igen, men denne gang i en hidtil uset modstand mod sig selv og sin regering.Krig, katastrofe, krak og korruption – Bushland rapporterer om den tragiske præsident, der afsluttede en epoke og åbnede for en ny. Om otte år, der ændrede ikke bare USA’s, men verdens historie.