San Antonio College Library

All of Stevenson's writings about his 12,000-mile journey to California in 1879.

Based on the 5-part 1981 television series "James Michener's USA." Surveys the character of five regions -- the Northeast, the Midwest, the Southwest, the Far West, and the New South -- and includes interviews with prominent Americans.

A collection from the author's newspapers columns written between 1935 and 1940.

Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America (1835) has long been a touchstone for almost any discussion of the American polity. Tocqueville, a 29-year-old French nobleman, traveled the breadth of Jacksonian America with his friend Gustave de Beaumont to inquire into the future of French society as revolutionary upheaval gave way to a representative government similar to America's. In Tocqueville in America, George Wilson Pierson reconstructs - from...

An account of the explosion of the Beatles' popularity in the U.S. includes 450 photos and images from period publications, album art work, merchandising and publicity materials, and documents from various legal tussles between record labels after the Beatles' worth became evident.

The author sets out from New York City to sail his boat across the United States.