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|  | The Lewis and Clark Trail by Dorothy Hinshaw Patent
Description not available.Offers a look at how west of the Mississippi River has changed in the past two hundred years from the time it was completely unknown to Europeans at the start of Lewis and Clark?s expedition in May 1804 to what it has become today. AUTHOR: Dorothy Hinshaw Patent
PUBLISHER: Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History 
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 | The Mayan Factor by Brian Swimme, Jose Arguelles
Description not available.Examines various aspects of the history of the ancient Mayan Indians AUTHOR: Brian Swimme, Jose Arguelles
PUBLISHER: Bear & Company
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | Very Crazy, G. I. by Kregg P. J. Jorgensen
Description not available.In a compelling anthology of unusual true stories, American soldiers reminisce about their unusual experiences during the Vietnam War, including that of a recon team that stumbled upon a fortune, the exploits of a highly decorated (but little known) soldier, and a Marine sergeant who journeys back from the dead. Original. AUTHOR: Kregg P. J. Jorgensen
PUBLISHER: Ballantine Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | Approaches to Auschwitz by John K. Roth, Richard L. Rubenstein
Description not available.Analyzes the history of Judaism and anti-Semitism, discusses Christian attitudes towards the Jews AUTHOR: John K. Roth, Richard L. Rubenstein
PUBLISHER: Westminster John Knox Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | Stories of Freedom in Black New York by Shane White
Description not available.Documents the experience of black New Yorkers as they moved from slavery to freedom, identifying the vibrant urban culture that developed in New York City and profiling the works of the African Company, a troupe of former slaves who performed Shakespeare and other productions for mixed-race audiences. AUTHOR: Shane White
PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History
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 | Sexual Revolution in Early America by Richard Godbeer
In 1695, John Miller, a clergyman traveling through New York, found it appalling that so many couples lived together without ever being married and that no one viewed ante-nuptial fornication as anything scandalous or sinful. Charles Woodmason, an Anglican minister in South Carolina in 1766, described the region as a stage of debauchery in which polygamy was very common, concubinage general, and bastardy no disrepute. These depictions of colonial North America's sexual culture sharply contradict the stereotype of Puritanical abstinence that persists in the popular imagination. In SEXUAL REVOLUTION IN AMERICA, Richard Godbeer boldly overturns conventional wisdom about the sexual values and customs of colonial Americans. His eye-opening historical account spans two centuries and most of British North America, from New England to the Caribbean, exploring the social, political, and legal dynamics that shaped a diverse sexual culture. Drawing on exhaustive research into diaries, letters, and other private papers, as well as legal records and official documents, Godbeer's absorbing narrative uncovers a persistent struggle between the moral authorities and the widespread expression of popular customs and individual urges. Godbeer begins with a discussion of the complex attitude that the Puritans had toward sexuality. For example, although believing that sex could be morally corrupting, they also considered it to be such an essential element of a healthy marriage that they excommunicated those who denied conjugal fellowship to their spouses. He next examines the ways in which race and class affected the debate about sexual mores, from anxieties about Anglo-Indian sexual relations to the sense of sexual entitlement that planters held over their African slaves. He concludes by detailing the fundamental shift in sexual culture during the eighteenth century towards the acceptance of a more individualistic concept of sexual desire and fulfillment. Today's moral AUTHOR: Richard Godbeer
PUBLISHER: Johns Hopkins University Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History
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