Bücher der Reihe Bibliographies and Indexes in American History

This exhaustive bibliography is the result of Kim's research of the Asian American experience for almost two decades. An insightful introductory essay written by Shirley Hune enhances the reader's understanding of the Asian American experience within the context of the development of American scholarship on immigration and immigrants.

The volume covers U.S. repositories, including the large collections at the Library of Congress, the National Archives, the FDR Library at Hyde Park, and the Theodore Roosevelt Collection at Harvard University's Houghton Library, and smaller collections throughout the country.

The entries are organized under four main headings: (1) Context, which includes background material on labor and industry, the history and theory of anarchism, the history of Chicago, and biographical material on the individuals involved;

At a time when human numbers and technological power pose major threats to life on this planet, the need to live with restraint and respect for other life forms and natural ecosystems is increasingly recognized. This bibliography documents the evolution of wilderness consciousness in the United States from a period when the wilderness was simply a resource to be managed and exploited to the more recent development of an environmental ethic, together with scientific concerns for the preservation of essential ecosystems and levels of biodiversity.The definition of wilderness in the Wilderness Act of 1964 has been modified in this work to take account of both earlier attitudes and the scientific developments and philosophical issues that have surfaced in the past two and a half decades. The bibliography covers more than 300 contributions to the wilderness debate, many of which are not treated elsewhere. Lengthy annotations serve as a review of the literature as a whole and provide information on writers, content, themes, and important passages for each entry. The compiler has included such diverse literary materials as poetry, fiction, and nature writing as well as history and philosophy, scientific research, and works advocating particular wilderness uses and policies. Offering easy access to a rich and varied literature, this bibliography will be an important reference for activists, educators, researchers, and policymakers.

This guide provides an analytic and historical overview of the American conduct book as a genre, and of its cultural effect upon America. It includes over 500 titles designed for children, men and women. In addition the work carries a short, selected bibliography of secondary sources.

The category General Studies has been used for those works that cover more than one city or an entire state and because of the multitude of studies, New York City's boroughs and sections have been classified separately.

This bibliography is a comprehensive collection of the non-English-language labor and radical periodical publications of the United States and Canada, written for and by immigrants.

As in the first volume, entries are divided into individual language sections for ease of reference. Each section begins with general information about the cooperating language specialists, the area where the language was spoken in 1910, and explanation of library and depository symbols, and a section bibliography.

Since 1828, every four years has seen the re-emergence of newspapers published on behalf of particular presidential candidates and aspirants.

During the late years of the 20th century, the issue of Native American influence on the formation of the U.S. government has become a hotly debated topic as well as a central point of difference in trenchant arguments over multiculturalism and political correctness.

Written by a knowledgeable film critic and Korean War scholar, this is the only guide exclusively devoted to the study of Hollywood and television films based on the Korean War, 1950-1953. It opens with eight short essays, discussing the appeal of the war film genre, government and filmmaker cooperation, the isolation of Korean War films from other war films, why John Wayne didn't make a Korean War film, the other actors who did, the plots of Korean War films, television and Korean War films, and the myths resulting from films. Eighty-four films are then discussed in alphabetically arranged entries.The entries include production unit, color status, producer, director, screenwriter, actors and actresses, movie length, and the author's numerical rating of the film. The commentary places each film within the context of other war films, the Korean War, trends in Hollywood, and the social and political realities of the United States. The films also are listed chronologically. Producers, directors, screenwriters, actors, and actresses are indexed by responsibility and are included in the general index. The book also provides a list of 109 documentary films available for public viewing.

A reference guide to literature about reconstruction published from 1877 to 1998. Over 2900 entries cover a broad range of topics including politics, agriculture, labour, religion, and race relations, all organised by topic, geographical regions and states.

Entries include both scholarly works and works written by journalists during the two decades from 1970 to 1990. The volume is divided into five major sections (1) General Works and Philosophy, (2) The Team, Players, and Coaches, (3) The Game, Competition, and Contestants, (4) Sport and Society, and (5) Reference Works.

Whether painted by artist-warriors depicting their feats in battle or by other Native American artists, 19th and 20th century ledger drawings-drawn on blank sheets of ledger books obtained from U.S. soldiers, traders, missionaries, and reservation employees-provide an excellent visual source of information on the Great Plains Native Americans.

The presidential campaign from October 4, 1991, to November 3, 1992, is covered in Part two, and Part three provides sources on the transition period from November 4, 1992 to the inauguration.

Barr's Index to Biographical Fragments in Unspecialized Scientific Journals, obituary notices in American journals indexed in the Royal Society's Catalogue of Scientific Papers (1867-1925), lists of deceased scientists in American Men of Science, and other sources.

A directory of special collections of fair-related materials is also included. Newspaper and magazine articles, books, dissertations, drawings, photographs, maps, letters, documents, and collections of memorabilia-these provide the enduring heritage of the fair.

This bibliography provides references to New England and New Englanders in US government publications issued from 1789 to 1849. It traces the origin of many of the social, fiscal, and foreign policies that were instrumental in the development of the country.

The 1960s were a particularly turbulent period, and the events of those years continue to interest and influence American society.

This bibliography organises and describes citations to the historical literature on the "ordinary" life experiences of Americans, such as marriage, childbearing, health, migration and ethnicity and how these phenomena have been interconnected with the events of "headline" history.

The chapters cover books, chapters in books, dissertations and theses, periodical articles, writings for young readers, fiction, songs, poetry, films, recordings, and computer software.

The largest religion begun, organized, and directed by and for Native Americans, Peyotism includes the use of peyote in its ceremonies. This bibliography provides a useful guide for scholars, students, and Native Americans who want to research Peyotism. The bibliography includes books and book chapters, master's theses, Ph.D.

A companion volume to Books on Early American History and Culture, 1991-1995, this work covers scholarship on early American history, including North America and the Caribbean from 1492 to 1815. This useful guide organizes the recent explosion of scholarly literature on pre-colonial, colonial, and early Republican America.

The first in a series of annotated bibliographies covering half a century of scholarship on pre-Colonial, Colonial, and early Republican America, this carefully researched volume surveys nearly 1,000 English-language monographs, essay collections, exhibition catalogs, and reference works published between 1991 and 1995.

The American Settlement Movement was an influential part of the social reforms of the Progressive era. Arranged into six categories, this select bibliography covers titles providing an introduction and overview of the American Settlement Movement.

Following a chapter listing general works, the book is arranged into four chronological chapters, a chapter on the frontier West, a chapter on anti-lynching, and chapters on literature and art. The book opens with a chapter devoted to general works.

For more than a decade scholars have debated the question of whether American Indian confederacies, primarily the Iroquois, helped influence the formation of U.S. basic law.

Benjamin Rush (1746-1813) exerted a remarkably wide-ranging influence on the medical, political, and social life of the emerging American nation.

This text is the result of a project to locate the surviving documentation of the Turner movement, a secular organization in German immigrant communities in America, from the mid-19th century to World War I. It shows the extent of the movement and the range of its interests and activities.

Shamanism is part of the spiritual life of nearly all Native North Americans. The books covered compare practices from tribe to tribe, make distinctions between witchcraft or sorcery and shamanism, and discuss the artifacts and tools of the trade.