San Antonio College Library

ETHS alumnus, class of 1946.

A major theme in American history has been the desire to achieve a genuinely republican way of life that values liberty, order, and virtue. This work shows us how new technologies affected this drive for a republican civilization - a question as vital now as ever.

Devoted to features that typified the formative years in America, the current book examines the ways these features became transformed.

A book of chronological lists grouped according to subject, with sections including forming the nation; the states; politics and presidents; the military; natural and human-made disasters and incidents; and notable Americans, which covers awards, sports championships, space exploration, and television milestones.

In recent decades it has become fashionable to maintain that the experience of various American ethnic groups - whether African, Indian, or European - is the most significant. In this important social history, the noted scholar Edward Countryman shows, instead, why the very identity of "American"--Forged by all these people - is what matters. This is a scintillating analysis of what becoming American means in historical terms. Edward Countryman offers...

The memoirs are not traditional autobiography; rather, they are Davis's perspective on the extraordinary cultural changes that occurred during her lifetime and of the remarkable -- and sometimes scandalous -- people who shaped the events. She provides intimate portraits of the famous people she knew, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Louisa May Alcott, Ann Stephens, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Horace Greeley. Equally important are...

This is an illustrated survey of the American ingenuity that energized all aspects of 19th-century society, from the painting of landscapes and scenes of everyday life, to the planning of scientific expeditions and the development of new mechanical devices. It includes works by Winslow Homer, Frederic Church, Albert Bierstadt and Thomas Cole. It features rarely seen prints, survey photographs, zoological and botanical illustrations, patent models,...

Exploring the full range of writings by and about Whitman - not just his most famous work but also his earliest poems and stories, his conversations, letters, journals, newspaper writings, and daybooks - Reynolds gives us a full, rounded picture of the man, of his creative blending of disparate ideas and images, and his contradictory stances on race, class, and gender. Whitman's uniqueness is shown to spring primarily from his closeness to and absorption...

"In this brief but bountiful volume, David S. Reynolds offers a wealth of insight into the life and work of Walt Whitman, examining the author through the lens of nineteenth-century America." "Reynolds shows how Whitman responded to contemporary theater, music, painting, photography, science, religion, and sex. But perhaps nothing influenced Whitman more than the political events of his lifetime, as the struggle over slavery threatened to rip apart...