Identity History

This is the extraordinary story of the mutiny aboard the frigate HMS Hermione in 1797 (eight years after the mutiny on the Bounty) - the bloodiest mutiny ever suffered by the Royal Navy, which led to the extradition from America, and the hanging by the British, of the martyred sailor Jonathan Robbins. This event plunged the two-decades-old American Republic into a constitutional crisis and powerfully contributed to the outcome of the US presidential election of 1800.

There is a line on the map: to one side Wales, small, rugged and stubborn; the other England, crucible of the most expansionist culture the world has ever seen. It is a line that has been dug, debated, defined and defended for twenty centuries.

God’s own chosen people were in slavery for 400 years. The more Pharaoh oppressed them, the more they grew. The more they grew, the louder their cry out to God was. The black race was in slavery for approximately 373 years. We grew, we learned who the one true God was, and we cried out to him. Maybe we would have found God in another country, but I doubt it. It is time to quit being mad at our white brothers and sisters and to give God glory because we found Him in the midst of our trials. Our jobs are to raise up families that serve and are willing to die for the love, blood that Christ ...

Town busybody, Tami King, has her sights set on Sheriff Todd Colson while a creepy stalker has her in his sights. I’m Tami King, and I’m proud to be a prima donna. Except I live in a boring, one-corner town, Colson’s Corner, that’s about as far from hip and cool as the Dust Bowl is from Malibu. But it’s home, and it’s where my great-great-grandfather, Hank King, made us Gold Country royalty—thanks to a fifty-pound nugget of gold. They call me spoiled and say I always get what I want, but that’s not true. I don’t yet have a ring on my finger, and my plans to turn my town ...

The Queer Cabaret Underground: LGBTQ+ Performance Art During Prohibition and Beyond in Europe and America by Richard Fleischman Step into the vibrant world of queer cabaret, a daring art form that illuminated the hidden lives of LGBTQ+ individuals during one of history's most repressive eras. In The Queer Cabaret Underground, Richard Fleischman traces the evolution of LGBTQ+ performance art from the underground venues of Prohibition-era America to the flourishing cabarets of post-war Europe. This book is a must-read for enthusiasts of Broadway, theater, LGBTQ+ history, and cultural studies....

Best Book Awards Women's Fiction Finalist 2024 Indies Today Finalist 2024 Readers' Favorite 5 star review Toni Agosti is having a midlife crisis at age thirty-five. Unsurprising, since she hasn’t achieved her dream job of becoming a cellist in the Los Angeles Philharmonic and, instead, is trapped teaching music all day. She’s also barely surviving in her shaky marriage to former soulmate and new Mr. Condescending, uh…Christian. When she learns about her ancestor leaving Italy to reestablish his winery in early 1900s LA, she longs to awaken the freedom-filled family legacy and escape ...

Before the fall, Adam and Eve walked in perfect communion with Yahweh, fully aware of their identity and purpose. But after disobedience, they hid from Yahweh, signaling a loss of intimacy and a shift in their self-perception. Anxiety crept in, followed by alienation—not just from Yahweh but from their own true selves (The Authentic Man). This "spiritual amnesia" meant forgetting who they were in relation to their Creator, leading humanity into generations of identity struggles (The Fictional Man).

How did Africans become "Blacks" in the Americas? Becoming Free, Becoming Black tells the story of enslaved and free people of color who used the law to claim freedom and citizenship for themselves and their loved ones. Their communities challenged slaveholders' efforts to make Blackness synonymous with slavery. Looking closely at three slave societies - Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana - Alejandro de la Fuente and Ariela J. Gross demonstrate that the law of freedom - not slavery - established the meaning of Blackness in law.

Centuries blur when you're an immortal mage seeking vengeance. I never expected to align with a brooding jaguar shifter. His muscles ripple beneath inked glyphs as our forbidden passions ignite. Will my magic swirling inside Rex be enough to mend his broken soul, unifying man and beast at last? Fighting side by side, we will defeat our shared enemy, the wicked mage who severed my family long ago. We will free his siblings, trapped in cult slavery. Let all who deny us come forth - together our forbidden love triumphs. No force can leash our unleashed hearts again.An Enemies to Lovers ...

Halloween in Isla Vista, an un-sponsored annual street party, attracts an estimated average of 20,000 revelers into a minuscule, 1.5 square mile area each year. Yet it has been consistently dismissed by UCSB administrators, the police, and local press as a dangerous frivolity, unworthy of critical inquiry. Until now, this complex cultural performance has remained buried under three decades’ worth of rumor, assumption, and enforced silence. This book breaks that silence, exploring the event’s history through archival sources and oral histories, providing an in-depth reading of the ...

In 2015, millennial author and cultural anthropologist Veronica Kirin drove 11,000 miles across more than 40 states to interview the last living members of the Greatest Generation. Stories of Elders is the result of her years of work to capture and share their perspective for generations to come. Stories of Elders preserves the wisdom, thoughts, knowledge, and advice of the people who make up one of America’s finest generations, including the Silent Generation. Their stories include the devastation that came from major events in US history like World War I and more.

A drama book set in New York City during the early 20th century. Step into a world where love and tragedy entwine against the vibrant backdrop of New York's theater scene. "The Dagger of De Colombo" invites you to unravel the secrets of aristocratic playwright Maxime De Colombo, who must confront the dark shadows of his lineage and the devastating secrets of those he loves. With the murder of his dear friend's father, Alfred Marceau, leaving a blood-stained mark on their lives, Maxime and Florence are pushed into a whirlwind of intrigue, conspiracy, and heartbreaking choices that will test ...

Locking the cell door on the wolf who murdered my soulmate made my day—except I captured the wrong devil-eyed shifter. Now this bounty-hunting jaguar must seek the aid of the wolf she unjustly imprisoned. Trust isn’t easy between a wolf and a jaguar. Our alliance is forbidden and puts us on the run together to track down his long-lost twin. As if there aren’t enough cards stacked against us, my heat comes on, fueling the powerful attraction we’ve denied, and our desire flames into passion. But the threat we cannot ignore comes from within my own pride—the corrupt alpha who ...

Knowing our African history repairs our mind for success and we cannot play with the importance of African history. It instills confidence, dignity, and completeness in the Africans, in a world that sees Africa as poor, underdeveloped, and unaccomplished. African history gives us a strong African identity and self-confidence. One of the ways to get many of our people to believe in our continent is to teach many of our people our history. The desire for dignity and personality development comes from the history that we know about us that makes us confident. The knowledge of our history makes...

Only one performance style has dominated the lexicon of the casual moviegoer: "Method acting." The first reception-based analysis of film acting, Imagining the Method investigates how popular understandings of the so-called Method—what its author Justin Rawlins calls "methodness"—created an exclusive brand for white, male actors while associating such actors with rebellion and marginalization. Drawing on extensive archival research, the book maps the forces giving shape to methodness and policing its boundaries.

A war-torn world. A secret that must never escape. A chase that has no end. In the dying days of World War II, elite spy Lila Dubois is tasked with tracking down a man who should not exist. Deep in the shadows of Nazi-occupied Europe, a brilliant but ruthless scientist, Dr. Meissner, has perfected an experiment that could alter the course of warfare forever. But when his lab is destroyed and his research vanishes, the only thing more dangerous than what he created is what he took with him. Now, Lila and her team are in a desperate race across war-ravaged cities, treacherous mountain passes,...

Over the course of six decades, an unprecedented wave of black Americans left the South and spread across the nation in search of a better life - a migration that sparked stunning demographic and cultural changes in 20th-century America. Through gripping and accessible historical narrative, author and activist Blair Imani examines the largely overlooked impact of the Great Migration and how it affected - and continues to affect - black identity and America as a whole.

Motherland is a ground-breaking exploration of African culture and identity, told via Luke Pepera's journey through 500,000 years of history to connect with his extraordinary heritage. Pepera tackles the questions many people of African descent ask - Who are we? Where do we come from? What defines us? And how might knowledge of deep history affect our understanding of our identity?

Often overshadowed by San Francisco, its twinkling sister city across the Bay, Oakland is itself an American wonder. The city is surrounded by and filled with natural beauty - mountains and hills and lakes and a bay - and architecture that mirrors its history as a Spanish mission, a gold rush outpost, and home of the West's most devious robber barons. It's also a city of artists and blue-collar workers, the birthplace of the Black Panthers, neighbor to Berkeley, and home to a vibrant and volatile stew of immigrants and refugees.

She lept into my life, knife in hand. Our blades clashed igniting a fire of passion neither of us was prepared for. I came to keep a promise and protect the boy mage. She came to capture and kill. The lines between duty and desire have blurred, and an intoxicating mix of hunter and jaguar leaves us wondering who is predator and who is prey. Why is every wolf shifter, human slave trader, and merciless bounty hunter relentlessly chasing us through the wilderness; caring little whether they go through us to get to the boy? We are pawns in a dangerous game set in motion by an innocent boy whose...