Skip to main content
Search Button
Canada Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


“kenneth morrissey”

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “kenneth morrissey”
Skip side bar filters

  • Covered Wagon Women, Volume 11

    Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1879–1903

    Edited by Kenneth L. Holmes ...
    The stories seem simple—they left, they traveled, they settled—yet the restless westering impulse of Americans created one of the most enduring figures in our frontier pantheon: the hardy pioneer persevering against all odds. Undeterred by storms, ruthless bandits, towering mountains, and raging epidemics, the women in these volumes suggest why the pioneer represented the highest ideals and ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Scarlet and Black, Volume Three

    Making Black Lives Matter at Rutgers, 1945-2020

    by Roberto C. Orozco, Carie Rael, Brooke A. Thomas, Ian Gavigan, Pamela N. Walker, Joseph Williams, Kaisha Esty, Whitney Fields, Beatrice J. Adams, Jesse Bayker, Kenneth Morrissey, Edward White, Tracey Johnson, Joseph Kaplan, Meagan Wierda, Lynda Dexheimer ...
    The 250th anniversary of the founding of Rutgers University is a perfect moment for the Rutgers community to reconcile its past, and acknowledge its role in the enslavement and debasement of African Americans and the disfranchisement and elimination of Native American people and culture. Scarlet and Black, Volume Three, concludes this groundbreaking documentation of the history of Rutgers’s ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • The Gentle Tamers

    Women of the Old Wild West

    by Dee Brown ...
    A fascinating history of women on America's western frontier by the #1 New York Times –bestselling author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee .Popular culture has taught us to picture the Old West as a land of men, whether it's the lone hero on horseback or crowds of card players in a rough-and-tumble saloon. But the taming of the frontier involved plenty of women, too—and this boo... ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • White Identity

    Racial Consciousness in the 21st Century

    by Jared Taylor ...
    Ten years in the making, this book is the sequel to Jared Taylor's seminal Paved With Good Intentions. In White Identity, Taylor systematically marshals the data to show that:People of all races pay lip service to the ideal of integration but generally prefer to remain apart.Study after scientific study suggests that racial identity is an inherent part of human nature.Diversity of race, language, ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Wondrous Times on the Frontier

    America During the 1800s

    by Dee Brown ...
    A lively history of the nineteenth-century American West from the #1 New York Times –bestselling author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee ."Glorious . . . Do not miss a page." — Rocky Mountain NewsFrontier life, Dee Brown writes, "was hard, unpleasant most of the time," and "lacking in almost all amenities or creature comforts." ... ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A More Beautiful and Terrible History

    The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History

    by Jeanne Theoharis ...
    This “bracing corrective to national mythology” around the American civil rights movement “shows us how little we remember, and how much more there is to understand” (New York Times).“Theoharis’s view of history is expansive” as it reveals the diverse, unsung heroes of the movement and criticizes the oversimplification of complex figures like Martin Luther King, Jr. (O Magazine).The civil rights ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Best Land Under Heaven

    The Donner Party in the Age of Manifest Destiny

    by Michael Wallis ...
    Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for ExcellenceFinalist for the Oklahoma Book AwardA Publishers Weekly Holiday Guide History Pick“A book so gripping it can scarcely be put down.... Superb.” —New York Times Book Review"WESTWARD HO! FOR OREGON AND CALIFORNIA!"In the eerily warm spring of 1846, George Donner placed this advertisement in a local newspaper as he and a restless caravan prep... ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Living for the City

    Migration, Education, and the Rise of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California

    by Donna Jean Murch ...
    Series series The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
    In this nuanced and groundbreaking history, Donna Murch argues that the Black Panther Party (BPP) started with a study group. Drawing on oral history and untapped archival sources, she explains how a relatively small city with a recent history of African American settlement produced such compelling and influential forms of Black Power politics.During an era of expansion and political struggle in ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey

    by Lillian Schlissel ...
    An expanded edition of one of the most original and provocative works of American history of the last decade, which documents the pioneering experiences and grit of American frontier women. ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • African American Urban History since World War II

    Edited by Kenneth L. Kusmer, Joe W. Trotter ...
    Series series Historical Studies of Urban America
    Historians have devoted surprisingly little attention to African American urban history ofthe postwar period, especially compared with earlier decades. Correcting this imbalance, African American Urban History since World War II features an exciting mix of seasoned scholars and fresh new voices whose combined efforts provide the first comprehensive assessment of this important subject.The first of ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • The Oregon Trail

    An American Saga

    by David Dary ...
    A major one-volume history of the Oregon Trail from its earliest beginnings to the present, by a prize-winning historian of the American West.Starting with an overview of Oregon Country in the early 1800s, a vast area then the object of international rivalry among Spain, Britain, Russia, and the United States, David Dary gives us the whole sweeping story of those who came to explore, to exploit, ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Sweet Land of Liberty

    The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North

    by Thomas J. Sugrue ...
    The struggle for racial equality in the North has been a footnote in most books about civil rights in America. Now this monumental new work from one of the most brilliant historians of his generation sets the record straight. Sweet Land of Liberty is an epic, revelatory account of the abiding quest for justice in states from Illinois to New York, and of how the intense northern struggle differed ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD