I request that you pass the following to the authorities in the United States of America. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes expressly focusing on black and brown children, theorists suggested that America would soon be overcome by "elementary school youngsters who pack guns instead of lunches" and who "have absolutely no respect for human life." Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

By “steel barons,” the strikers meant the owners and top executives of the steel companies, many of whom were among the richest men in America. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

All over America, kids were walking into school yards and classrooms, and the American flag was waving. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

In America, he said, it’s even hard to stay Korean. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over a longer stretch of time, the Farewell Address achieved transcendental status, ranking alongside the Declaration of Independence and the Gettysburg Address as a seminal statement of America's abiding principles. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

In America, ha would have been called a white man, but—it struck me, hard and instantly—from the way he acted, I had no feeling of him being a white man. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

People often said that money grew on trees in America. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I was crisscrossing North America sometimes as often as four times a week. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It allowed him to fulfill his pledge to his parents to become the greatest architect in America, for certainly in his day he had become so. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

His words were carefully chosen, but the implication was clear: America’s monopoly over the atomic bomb was over. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

All this says nothing of the fact that Prohibition was directly responsible for the birth of organized crime in America and the introduction of the American gangster. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

After just a couple weeks in Rochester, I began another weird new adventure: middle school in America. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

We forget that North America also supported populous Indian societies in the most logical place, the Mississippi Valley, which contains some of our best farmland today. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

After I hear the front door close, I head out to the television for some America’s Funniest Home Videos. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Yellowstone National Park is no more representative of America than is Disneyland. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

South America hosted an even more exotic menagerie of large mammals, reptiles and birds. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had never seen anyone beg for food in America, but over there if she had given a beggar food, it would not have made a whit of difference. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

"Would you like to go to South America, Jake?" he asked. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

She ultimately found what she was looking for—and more still—in the Communist Party of the United States of America, the CPUSA. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The idea that America was really Asia died within a generation, while the alchemists’ project was much more resilient. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It doesn’t cling in all the right places like Miss America’s dress did on the night she won. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“I was eight months old when my parents took me to America. I keep telling my mom that she should have gone earlier and had me there!” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“America, as it should be, once more. What price can one put on that?” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“God bless America,” he would say to the air, nodding in my direction. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

These extinctions were much more severe in Australia and the Americas than in Eurasia or Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Unlike southern Sudan, it seemed that here in America every road was paved. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Congress because it killed millions of birds, fish, and amphibians after World War II, the insecticide called DDT was still being used in South America. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Fuller understood that there are two routes to power in America—money and people—and dollars were in short supply in the neighborhoods he was trying to organize. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I talked enough and stole enough and sold enough to buy a steamship ticket, and I joined the multitudes going to America. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

“America is confronting another disaster that has caused destruction and loss of life,” he said. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He has lived in America for fifty-two years. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

And we both agreed that if racism could be removed, America could offer a society where rich and poor could truly live like human beings. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps she wasn’t in America anymore but had pushed beyond it. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

"South America hell! If you went there the way you feel now it would be exactly the same. This is a good town. Why don't you start living your life in Paris?" The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

It was a riches-to-rags kind of story, but everyone found different paths to getting permanent residency in America. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

In contrast, many apparently widespread Native American crops prove to consist of related species or even of genetically distinct varieties of the same species, independently domesticated in Mesoamerica, South America, and the eastern United States. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

This looks like the kind of place the royal family of another country might stay if they were visiting America. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Arguably the most important parallel between mass incarceration and Jim Crow is that both have served to define the meaning and significance of race in America. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Or how it might be our last day in America. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Every morning before he left for work, he would say jokingly, “So what are we doing today in planning to go to America?” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“We might be in South America now,” Camilla said one night while we were drinking bourbon from teacups in my room and listening to rain dripping from the eaves. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

"Thought any more about going to South America?" The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Doubtless it is all to do with our historic impulse to tame and exploit the wilderness, but America’s attitude to nature is, from all sides, very strange if you ask me. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He also knew exactly who he wanted to approach—one of America’s top code breakers, Elizebeth Smith Friedman. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He asks us what you call policemen in America and Malachy says, cop. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He made a few calls, including one to Stan Smith in America. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You could never convince an Englishman that anything out of America was better than something made in England.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were learning more and more about what South America’s top spies were up to. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

In America, one could always name whose house one was in; and to live in a house not one’s own was to be less than a man. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

In that optimistic, postwar America, which I caught the tail end of, everybody was the master of his own destiny, so it only followed that my father would try to be the master of his. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She would later change the name, but at first she called it Raceteenth or Curious Observations by a Non-American Black on the Subject of Blackness in America. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

But looking out upon the ruins of America, my heart was cold. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“Hmm. What about another chance to be on the show? All of America would forget about you standing there like a deer in headlights.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

And now that I am back in America, my attitude here concerning white people has to be governed by what my black brothers and I experience here, and what we witness herein terms of brotherhood. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Malia, meanwhile, was in South America on a gap-year adventure, feeling the freedom of being as far away from the political intensity as she could. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

In order to create sugar, Europeans and colonists in the Americas destroyed Africans, turned them into objects. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

More people are killed by lightning in Tangerine County per year than in any other county in America.’ Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And what if the Nazis established air bases in South America? The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

In 1824 the Marquis de Lafayette, the great French champion of American independence, paid a final visit to America. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

In 1957, the Soviets launched Sputnik /, casting a shadow of fear across America. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When you’re First Lady, America shows itself to you in its extremes. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Because of income inequality—the widening gap between rich and poor—large swaths of America that had once been solidly middle class no longer were. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

America arrived on the scene first, closely followed by Little Giant. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

The executives who had secretly plotted and carried out the destruction of America’s light rail network were fined $1 each. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

Joseph Lister changed other minds, too, particularly those of America's younger doctors. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

But the hard truth is this isn’t helping to solve America’s racist problem. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

America could have used in other ways the energy that both groups have expended in this conflict. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Whereas, if you think about it, the Africans are running all over America right now, having riots for their civil rights and predominating the sports and popular-music industries. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a ladder of racial hierarchy in America. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

If it was as easy as they thought it was going to be, why, they’d be done by now, and Africa would look just like America with more palm trees. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The project brought in Purdue engineers, crews of Texas roughnecks, and their families, who lived outside Léopoldville in a strange city called Little America. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet the northward spread of those Andean specialties was stopped completely by the hot intervening lowlands of Central America. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Packingtown had grown over the last half of the nineteenth century as part of a massive transformation in the way America’s meat was processed. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Even if I have to start from the beginning in America, at least I know when I will graduate,” she said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Her liberator who was first going to free her from her mother, then free Puerto Rico, and later they would both sail back to America like conquistadors in reverse. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Almost beyond belief, we really were going to the United States of America! The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

That’s teacher talk for: Andy will stand up on a table and sing “God Bless America” at the top of his lungs if he’s giving a report on patriotism. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As this new pesticide-resistant Aedes aegypti gradually reestablished itself in Central and South America, another problem was noted. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

He believes Juan Manuel has made it big in New York and he is waiting for money from America to complete the upstairs. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Rosaleen came home, a bona fide registered voter in the United States of America. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We don’t have anything from America,” Karen said, as though she were seeing her family’s possessions for the first time. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

America and its Western allies, in contrast, saw Stalin's intransigence as the actions of a new Hitler, someone bent on undoing all they had fought and died for. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The idea of beauty in America was new to me, and it was troublesome. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

That suite’s modest potential for domestication was responsible for the late start of food production in North America. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

My first meal in America is one that I make for myself and eat by myself. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Presumably they began walking to the Americas soon thereafter. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“To answer stones and bad language with a random volley of .30-caliber bullets was not imaginable in America,” he later reflected. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

She had been to America as a girl. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

This chapter focuses on the decades-long dispute over when human beings first came to the Americas—an argument that seemingly has been won by those advocating a more ancient date. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“In America anything is possible. Do as you wish.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I am, and have been—first, last, and always—a child of America. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Every now and then a racy book about lowlife—Tobacco Road, for example—would catch the public fancy, but for a surprisingly long time middlebrow fiction in America was about upper-middle-class life. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Hands up, he says, who is the President of the United States of America? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I said, “Set against the backdrop of America in its final days, it’s the high-spirited story of their love together, it’s laugh-out-loud funny, really heartwarming, and a visual feast.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He never missed an opportunity to say how happy he was to have traded all that for the enchantment of America. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every force that thirsts for the destruction of the black man in America. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back then, these grandmasters commanded as much prestige in Soviet society as a movie star or an Olympic athlete does in contemporary America. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The modern United States is a European-molded society, occupying lands conquered from Native Americans and incorporating the descendants of millions of sub-Saharan black Africans brought to America as slaves. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He saw a film called The Front Page and now he wants to go to America some day and be a tough newspaper reporter with a hat and a cigarette. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

There The women I worked with were all white and, with one exception, Anglo, as are the plurality of housecleaners in America, or at least those known to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

As for the most advanced native societies of North America, those of the U.S. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He was the palpable reality that clothed the revolutionary rhapsodies in flesh and blood, America’s one and only indispensable character. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

That picture was taken about a month before my mom told me she wasn't supposed to be in America. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“People in England were being mean to them because of their religion, so they sailed to America and landed at Plymouth Rock.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Life in America was fun, with new adventures every day. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

She became very involved with the Vietnam Veterans of America, and served on its National Board of Directors. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

On the night of Thursday, May 5, officials of the National Cordage Company, a trust that controlled 80 percent of America’s rope production, placed itself in receivership. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Thus, unlike Australia and the Americas, East Asia and most Pacific islands remain occupied by East Asian and Pacific peoples. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He would explain things to her, things about India, and she would explain things to him about America. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The criminalization and demonization of black men is one habit America seems unlikely to break without addressing head-on the racial dynamics that have given rise to successive caste systems. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

That will sure help deal with violence in America. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

On it was written the third verse of "America, the Beautiful": America! The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he was worried about America's industrial strength. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

The man who had leaked the explosive letters was Benjamin Franklin, who would become one of America’s most important secret agents. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next Saturday news of a truly stunning failure stuttered through the submarine cable that linked Britain and America. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“Tennessee occupies a pivotal position and the eyes of all America are upon us,” he said. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Three hundred dollars was a little more than the average person got paid in a month outside the camps in America. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Irwin’s stable was probably the largest in America at the time, and may have been the largest ever, but most of the horses would have been hard-pressed to outrun Irwin himself. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But not all who came to the United States were “pushed” out of Europe; many were “pulled” to America, a country seen by many as the golden land, offering freedom and opportunity to all. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

When he was advised that he had no avocation, he left the island, came to America to study the then budding field of psychiatry. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Great Smoky Mountains National Park is the most popular national park in America, but Gatlinburg—this is so unbelievable—is more popular than the park. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Running more than 2,100 miles along America’s eastern seaboard, through the serene and beckoning Appalachian Mountains, the AT is the granddaddy of long hikes. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

A huge percent of the wealth created in America today comes not from manufacturing, but from providing services. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

They believed they had found traces of ancient Indians in modern blood—a first step, possibly, toward rewriting the history of the Americas. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Then Aunty Ifeoma jumped out of the bathtub and, in the manner of dreams, jumped into America. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Second, that caused America to enter World War II. And third, more than 110,000 Nikkei—mostly American citizens—living on the West Coast had been imprisoned in ten different places, for no good reason. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

We had been through so much to get our golden ticket to America. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Suppose that the peoples of the Americas had, in some parallel world, understood the concept of contagion and been prepared to act on it. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The failure to secure the blessings of democracy was the feature that most defined their existence in America. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Scruggs felt a palpable sense of expectation as family members waited in the hallowed hall, then wept openly to hear the names of their loved ones spoken aloud, honored in “America’s Church.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Not nowhere as close as Michigan, America, neither. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

I said that we either defended our country abroad, or we would be forced to fight in the streets of America, which everybody seemed to like. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was this belief in their nengkan that had brought my parents to America. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a Muslim from America, I was the center of attention. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

What hand, Darwin asked, had guided the creation of such different varieties of finches on those distant volcanic islands or made small armadillos out of giant precursors on the plains of South America? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Recordings of Mr. Muhammad’s speeches were now regularly being broadcast across America over small radio stations. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We have tied up with several small and medium-size CPA firms in America.” The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

I got a real clear memory of it ’cause it was tied up with the last time we had slave catchers come to Buxton from America. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

I could see that I was just beginning to scratch the surface of understanding race in America. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

In parts of Central America and the Andes, the Native Americans were originally so numerous that, even after epidemics and wars, much of the population today remains Native American or mixed. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Historians had long wondered how many Indians lived in the Americas before contact. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

To avoid demoralizing troops, flights carrying the containers to America took place at night. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Consumed by the great drive toward wealth and power that had begun after the end of the Civil War, America seemed to have scant interest in celebrating its distant past. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

America now needed top-notch code breakers of its own. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“This is America’s war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

You can hardly show me a black adult in America—or a white one, for that matter—who knows from the history books anything like the truth about the black man’s role. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

To live in America, until recently, meant to be far from war. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

If people who were actually born here had to prove they were worthy enough to live in America, this would be a much less populated country. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, yes, but that is because countries in Europe were based on exclusion and not, as in America, on inclusion,” Mark said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Constantly, wherever I went, I was asked questions about America’s racial discrimination. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Okay, we need to remember that America is the nation of freedom, and that freedom, my friends, freedom does not lesions make. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

So he refused to recognize Haiti—America’s only sister republic. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

He told us how, as one result, the black man in America was “mentally, morally and spiritually dead.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Consider this: Half of all the offices and malls standing in America today have been built since 1980. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He chose to bring his son Kermit, and of the six American men that he originally brought with him to South America, he chose only one to continue with them down the River of Doubt. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

The Americas had two empires, those of the Aztecs and Incas, which resembled their Eurasian counterparts in size, population, polyglot makeup, official religions, and origins in the conquest of smaller states. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I was quickly learning that I was not considered African American, even though I was from Africa and I was living in America. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He also described how a Nazi saboteur should act while in America, so he would blend in and not draw attention to himself and the mission. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Some of America’s youngest but strongest stars had ventured north of the border to play. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It cost so much money to come to America, especially to pay everyone for the proper papers. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Daniel Ellsberg is the most dangerous man in America,” Henry Kissinger told the president and other top aides in the Oval Office. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

My cousin Mehdi, who still lives in Tehran with his wife and kids, made his first trip to America in 2015. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I tell her, I want to go to America, Mrs. O’Connell. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

When my father and I had passed through Bucharest on our way to America, the Ripper had been the talk of the capital. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“You are worse than that. You’re a traitor—an environmental traitor. These little falcons belong to North America.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Still, I was hoping that he would be one of the Lost Boys who would come to America. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Lyons’s side of the family had moved to America way earlier, but Grace still called him “Uncle Charley.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Nor that Hobbes’s source for his claim that the life of men outside society is “solitary, nasty, poor, brutal, and short” was “the savage people in many places of America.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Ah yes, in America everything smelled good, I thought, even the toilet! Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the final part of our tour, Miss New Jersey takes us to the Miss America stage to practice our model walk. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the time has come to give up the racial bribes and begin an honest conversation about race in America. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Once in America, Meng’s plan is to work hard and send money to the family. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Much of America in the 1920s did not open its arms to a black singer performing the classics. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

A fireplace opposite the bed roared with a warm and inviting fire, and a memory came to him of a strange, dreamlike week visiting his grandfather in America when he was six. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Well, on that first day I got here, I stared up at that flag thinking, this is happening all over America. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The oil deserts of the Near East, the opening lands of South America have felt the thrust. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

But let us take the example of sailing to America. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I began to gain a deeper understanding of the complexities of race in America. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

All during the summer, all across America, the highways filled up with the migrating families of the American military. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some white Peace Corps members who talked with me were openly embarrassed at the guilt of their race in America. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the surface, Atzerodt’s plan is an act of genius, allowing one of the most wanted men in America to hide in plain sight. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Hanako did not know if it was legal in America to even think about hating him. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

But other crops and domestic animals failed to spread between Mesoamerica and South America. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s like Mr. America. Every Election Day, I get a big lecture on what makes this country the best in the world.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“The thought of skiing in America makes me quite ill,” Alexa said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

How much food was there in America that a ship could drop such an enormous supply for fewer than twenty guards? Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The entry of America into the European war, with its stupendous resources, made an Allied victory seem almost inevitable by mid-1943, notwithstanding earlier tactical setbacks in North Africa and the Balkans. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

In the coming months, he would declare an oil embargo, freeze Japanese assets in America, and finally declare a total trade embargo. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

I told him that in America you could step into a grocery store and buy any of fifteen or twenty different types of cereal. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Public discussions about racial caste in America are relatively rare. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

America was where all my mother’s hopes lay. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

This handsome and brilliant young woman, like her students, despises the idea that in America any man has to “earn” his rights to first-class citizenship. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it was realized that ancient tapirs had existed simultaneously in South America and Southeast Asia a land bridge was drawn there, too. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Some white dude is hiking through a rain forest somewhere in Central America. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

And once you have found America, if you were trying to get to Asia, then the search will begin for ways round it. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Amazingly, given the moose’s lack of cunning and peculiarly blunted survival instincts, it is one of the longest-surviving creatures in North America. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“No, not everywhere. There have been a few cases of it reported in other countries, but here in America...” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Would Ovid still have been Ovid if he had lived in America? An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Many who had, however, returned to America feeling that they had earned the full rights of citizenship. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

They no longer believe it’s possible to reach America. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I can see kids counting backward on their fingers, trying to figure when their grandparents or great- grandparents were born, when they came to America, if they would have made the Neck Cut. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was my first hint that life in America might not be such a dream after all. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Don’t forget us when you get back to your friends and your life in America.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

It is experience in this sense—experience as the path to discovery—that was scarcely recognized before the discovery of America. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

There were places in nineteenth-century America where people lived in harmony. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

So various were the peoples of the Americas that continent-wide generalizations are risky to the point of folly. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The journey of the first humans to Australia is one of the most important events in history, at least as important as Columbus’ journey to America or the Apollo 11 expedition to the moon. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe going to America was just a dream that would fizzle away; after all, who was I to think that I could go to America? Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time he enrolled in the University of Alaska at Fairbanks, in 1973, Waterman had established a reputation as one of the most promising young alpinists in North America. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Are there so many cars that America must be divided into places with and places without them? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many people worry surrender to America would mean Japan lose kokutai.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I think we would like to kill you ourselves before seeing you killed by the streets that America made. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

It was an absolute fact that America had won the war, yet some people in camp did not believe it. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

All the bombs explode within approximately ninety minutes of one another, rocking some of the biggest urban areas in America, including New York, Boston, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Washington, DC, and Philadelphia. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

But everyone thought I was hallucinating in thinking I could become a professional tennis player, let alone get to America. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

And America could use all the help it could get. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He then found ships to carry the supplies to America. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it could be in time to save America from imminent disaster—the same destruction brought upon Germany by racism that eventually destroyed the Germans themselves. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now there are days I don’t want to go to America. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

It was a far cry from what I used to eat in Cuba, but like lots of things in America, I had grown used to it and now actually liked it. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

For those left behind, especially those within prison walls, the celebration of racial triumph in America must seem a tad premature. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

What kicked off the Rum War was Prohibition, America’s ban on alcohol, which cut off the nation’s supply of wine, beer, and spirits. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He had been bom in America on a farm in Georgia. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Therefore he becomes of interest in any investigation of America. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Is that the kind of behavior you brought from America? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

His Algerians, scores of them along with all their animals and material possessions, were already at sea, sailing for America and the fair—one year early. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“Still dreaming of America, I see,” my mother said with a sigh of resignation. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I just somehow had to get to America. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rahel gave up her job at the gas station and left America gladly. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Monte Verde was a minimum of 12,800 years old, Indians must have come to the Americas thousands of years before that. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

When one works out the likely numbers involved, one finds that this effect would make only a trivial contribution to the Americas’ 5,000-year lag in food-producing villages. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“So much like America,” Ma said, shaking her head. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

So journeys through unknown parts of America became my chief war memory, and I think of the first of them as this nighttime trip to Leper’s. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

When America should venture beyond the confines of Earth was just as obvious as why. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Each time, he had been forced to return to South America, not knowing if his men were alive or dead. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

As the most famous, and controversial, woman in America, she did not want to draw attention to herself and upstage Marian Anderson. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

The melting pot that is America has yielded brand new genres such as big band, jazz, blues, rock and roll, etc. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Before one of the biggest archaeological audiences in history, Hrdlicka chose to discuss the skeletal evidence for Indians’ early arrival in the Americas. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

In reality, that’s not true: on the average across all industries, America’s industrial productivity is higher than that in either Japan or Germany. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

How even in America, folks can live different. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

At the same time the relatives were coming from Chicago and Georgia, the Marine pilots from around America began to land in Ravenel, began to arrive in transports and jets, and private planes. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had lived all her life in America, and then she had spent the last two weeks in a dizzying half-world between America and Japan. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

It was a matter of chance that I should have rented a house in one of the strangest communities in North America. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Joseph put on the broken watch and decided to recreate the beloved study he remembered from America. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

In terms of species richness, Balee told me, the forest islands of Bolivia are comparable to any place in South America. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The date of our going back to America had always been a sure thing. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

All his major published works on political philosophy, including his Defence of the Constitution of the United States of America and Discourses on Davila, along with his unpublished autobiography, lacked coherent form. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

And so it occurs to him that no one he knows in the world, in Russia or India or America or anywhere, shares his name. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Bancroft had also been hired by Franklin, who had arrived in Paris to head a three-man commission that would represent the new United States of America in France’s royal court. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You never heard of America! You say you’re from Earth and yet you don’t know!” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

About this time, Dr. C. Eric Lincoln’s book The Black Muslims in America was published and the Black Muslims became a subject of growing interest. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

In America do you knowl This part of the city didn’t actually belong to the Chinese, even though the beggars sat there, even though upper-class Chinese lived there. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Found at Painted Rock Cave and other places in the area, it is the oldest known pottery in the Americas. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Neubauer had been in the hospital when he received a letter from Kappe asking him if he wanted to go on an assignment to America. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

I may not be Miss America, but I am not the abominable snowwoman either. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

The first phase of Hitler's secret attack on America, code name Operation Pastorius, had begun. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

"Cool accent, foxy mama. But in America, chicks don't hold hands unless they're dating. Each other, I mean." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

We sit on the floor and tell stories about things that happened, things that never happened and things that will happen when we all go to America. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

So take stock in America, my heirs, and sing in praise of this generous land. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within two years, there was no Soviet Empire to hide behind anymore or to prop up autocratic regimes in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, or Latin America. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Hamilton was a musical celebration of America’s history and diversity, recasting our understanding of the roles minorities play in our national story, highlighting the importance of women who’d long been overshadowed by powerful men. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Though the solutions he’ll go on to propose differ substantially, Obama’s account of America’s situation there is not all that different from what his Republican opponents would have acknowledged. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

While the German economy was in a tailspin toward disaster, the Roaring Twenties were in full swing in America. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

“Thanks. My mom and dad came to America fromCuba. We still speak Spanish in my house...and English, of course.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

He’d get them jobs, legal jobs that didn’t pay a lot but got them started on their new life here in America. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

The British colonizers were driven by the belief that they were entitled by divine decree and by royal declaration to live on and use the land and resources of North America. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Today, by far the largest number of people whose first language is English live in North America, with others scattered over the globe in Britain, Australia, and other countries. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

So we should stand up and cheer for America, I guess. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Back in America the government had let some Nikkei out of the camps to go to work, usually in factories. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He believed America would win the war, and he knew, even after all he’d endured, that if he had a future it still lay in this country. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ben deletes the title and retypes: "Differences: America's Far Past and Recent Past" “Specifics?” asks Ben. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Then the ships brought sugar to North America, to be sold or turned into rum—which the captains brought back to Europe. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Most of the lepers came to America already sick,” she said. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Prisons are big business and have become deeply entrenched in America’s economic and political system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Dante and I were the last two boys in America who grew up without television. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

If we knew nothing else about language distributions and history, we might have guessed that the English language arose in North America and was carried overseas to Britain and Australia by colonists. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It turns out there’s another food chain in America, one that looks very different from the industrial farms I had been visiting. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The driver launched into a long speech peppered with familiar words like America and President Kennedy. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Then I leave Korea with my husband to come to America, for work. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Is America the only country with dumpy teenagers? Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“We thought America would be like this,” Alex said, pretending to be a magician with a wand and flicking it at the table. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Here in America, when we look at the moon, the dark parts form a face. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Outside the ballparks, America was in the midst of a massive and uncertain shift. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“The human cry of this...woman is a call to America.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Already, in her first months in America, Desdemona was suffering “the homesickness that has no cure.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Yet White knew that America’s judicial institutions, like its policing agencies, were permeated with corruption. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Eleven southern states seceded from the United States, forming the Confederate States of America. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I could’ve sworn it was a lion, except that Hons don’t live wild in America, and this thing was the size of a Hummer. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“I believe,” concluded Scott, “if Congress should at any time be of the opinion that a state of slavery was a quality inadmissible in America, they would not be barred...of prohibiting this baneful quality.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Papa has a friend whose father used to beat him. So the man wanted to love his father, but it was hard because of the beatings. Papa says that’s how he feels about America.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I’d been trumpeting it for more than a year and a half now, all over America: My husband was calm and prepared. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He remembered Madame Zeroni telling him that she had a son in America. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

I’m going to America till one priest catches my attention. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Mama used to tear photos from magazines, photos of the Dust Bowl years in the 1930s in America, when a long drought had stricken the Midwest. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He asked me did I feel any white men had ever done anything for the black man in America. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both of the pilots were smiling at me, treating me with the same honor and respect I had received ever since I left America. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is a profound question because America understands itself as God’s handiwork, but the black body is the clearest evidence that America is the work of men. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Generally speaking, writers avoid using the word genocide in history and textbooks about North America and the United States. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

He told us about the training and preparation the Freedom Riders took before they headed across America in a bus. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Then Franklin wondered if Bonvouloir might be a French agent, sent to America to get intelligence on the colonists’ struggle against England. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

This truck wasn’t covered like the ones that had taken them to the first camp—called an “assembly center”—in America. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Without a hint of irony or self-consciousness, Levitt marketed his sprawling development as a utopia: “the most perfectly planned community in America.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Did the government know of my intention to study in America, and was this an effort to stop me? Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The second Eurasian attempt to colonize the Americas succeeded because it involved a source, target, latitude, and time that allowed Europe’s potential advantages to be exerted effectively. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Me: “Please just let me watch America’s Next Top Model. It’s an activity.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Aside from family and friends, the men I most trusted all had something in common: they all wore the uniform of the United States of America. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Ever since America had won her freedom from England, she had to fight for her rights on the high seas. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Prisons would have to be closed across America, an event that would likely inspire panic in rural communities that have become dependent on prisons for jobs and economic growth. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The fact that America had accused us, or excluded us, or imprisoned us, or whatever it might be called, did not change the kind of world we wanted. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

No municipality in all of America had ever taken such draconian action. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The American victory at Saratoga proved to be a turning point in the war, for it convinced France to come to the aid of America. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now when he saw people for whom America was a disappointment, for instance — the Petes of the world — he did not look away. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back then, I thought about America as mine and Pakistan as hers. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

The Tug, Dad said, had the highest level of fecal bacteria of any river in North America. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The victory of the terraqueous globe theory following the discovery of America is the first great triumph of experience over philosophical deduction, and thus the beginning of a revolution. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

This idea, part of Jefferson's legacy to America, written down in one of the country's noblest documents, was incompatible with the idea of legalized slavery. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

America is a shining city on a hill. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

And since Las Casas historians, clerics, and political activists have debated whether Europeans and their descendants in the Americas are morally culpable for the enormous Indian losses. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

But hiking has always been a marginal pursuit in America, and within a few years the AT was once more largely forgotten except among a few diehards and eccentrics. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

His letter began: “They say America is the ‘Land of the Free and Home of the Brave,’ but what’s so free about a land where people get killed?” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Do you realize this is one of the major reasons why America’s white man has so easily contained and oppressed America’s black man? The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

America’s patriotic song “America the Beautiful” invokes our spacious skies, our amber waves of grain, from sea to shining sea. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Australia, the smallest and most isolated continent, has always had far fewer species of big wild mammals than has Eurasia, Africa, or the Americas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I really could have been something in America. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The enemy has landed. And now the honor and success of America depends on you.” I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

And finally, I hope America will remember that I am still the son you raised. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The president declared détente—the attempt to improve relations between America and Russia—a failure. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Having been deprived of the company of her own parents upon moving to America, her children’s independence, their need to keep their distance from her, is something she will never understand. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Jefferson thus became perhaps the last person in America to recognize that he was running for the presidency against his old friend from Massachusetts. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Father Amadi smirked and said, “We go mostly to Europe and America, where they are losing priests. So there is really no indigenous culture to pacify, unfortunately.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I knew that when my letter became public knowledge back in America, many would be astounded—loved ones, friends, and enemies alike. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like so many of the spies who fought the secret war between America and Russia, Harvey's outward appearance concealed a very different person. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Indigenous peoples of what came to be called the Americas were citizens of self-governing nations. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Twelve hours a day, seven days a week, the mill noisily turns America’s river of corn into cattle feed. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“But not everyone wants to live in America. I know I don’t.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

“Did you accompany your husband to America, Madame?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon he was in possession of all kinds of secrets, which he passed along to America’s own diplomats. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

A brilliant scientist can come over the border from Mexico to live in America, but if he speaks in broken English, people say, “Eh, I don’t trust this guy.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I said that both races, as human beings, had the obligation, the responsibility, of helping to correct America’s human problem. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Keeping in mind all those old ladies who have passed on, today is the eve before we honor the first English child born in America—Virginia Dare in 1587. Don’t forget your history,” she murmured. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

In America, England is where you go to wash yourself of ethnicity. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The Wednesday before the family’s second Thanksgiving in America, they piled into the Mazda van, all eight of them. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“So trying to come to America from the wrong country is a crime?” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“In America you learn about having things,” Papa was telling them now. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

While a frustrated nation sought vengeance, Jones had sheltered and nourished the most hated man in America. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Anything is possible in America,” Papa always said. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the great Republic of America, to our Elector Primo, to our glorious states, to unity against the Colonies, to our impending victory! Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

What Adams could never quite fathom, and Jefferson understood intuitively, was that the very word “aristocracy” had become an epithet in the political culture of postrevolutionary America. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The answer is in the local struggle among contending rivals for leadership of the black masses, which are potentially the most volatile sub-group in America.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

One thing you figure out quick is America doesn’t play when it comes to letting Mexicans sneak in their country. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

But this place is the brainchild of a bunch of Survivalists, built on a dream of pre-war America, which is how I know that my next words will change everything. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

In America, you walk in a store and spend a hundred dollars, and leave, and you’re still a stranger. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was this nativist philosophy, bolstered by his fear and distrust of foreigners, that prompted Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer to pursue policies that brought the Red Scare in America to a head in 1919. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

In other words, the Americas were immeasurably busier, more diverse, and more populous than researchers had previously imagined. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

"No, I have been in Mexico and South America and had someone send the cablegram for me from Japan," Haupt lied. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

To the left on the map was all of North America above the Rio Grande. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

We ate mostly corn and beans—yellow corn, from America. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thanks to the miles of sandy beaches, Rio felt like a grand tropical island instead of a major city in South America’s largest country. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Salem’s Captain John Derby brought news of the peace to America. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She even let her mother pick her platform: Beautifying America, because there was nothing controversial about cleaning up litter, nothing that would make the country uncomfortable. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The people at Blackwater Draw were the ancestral culture of the Americas. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The fair’s capitulation pumped steam into America’s—and Chicago’s—already-boiling labor movement. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I think she had wanted to attend her sister’s wedding in America.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

There was something strange about this country of America, something that they all seemed to share and understand and she did not. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

It was the first and only thing about America she approved of. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Tapped by the hand of God to bring my particular skills to bear on the issues facing blacks in America. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It’s a funny thing to complain about, but most of America is perfectly devoid of smells. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Booth’s father abandoned his first wife and two children in England and fled to America with eighteen- year-old Mary Ann Holmes, who became Booth’s mother. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Those who were lucky enough to live in Shaker were certain theirs was the best community in America. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

But I think that if they were alive, they’d feel at home in modern America. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Miss America probably gets a full spread with candlelight and flowers on the table and real fancy china to eat her food on. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The girls on television at the Miss America pageant make this look so easy. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

How does a thirty-dollar pair of shoes go from a handful of downtown Manhattan hipsters and designers to every mall in America in the space of two years? The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

No wonder, then, that Roosevelt feared that South America might fall to Hitler, or at least cooperate with him. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t know where or what America is, but he does know, already, that he’s got round ears that stick out like the sideview mirrors of the only car in town — his father’s. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even if he had had some motive to use me, he knew that I was separated from Elijah Muhammad and the Nation of Islam, my “power base,” according to the press in America. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was exactly the break America had been looking for. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Nine days later, all over America people were dancing in the streets. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like so many other immigrants to America in those years, theirs was a leap of faith. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

We have seen already that the two-spheres theory could not survive the discovery of America; now we find that traditional Ptolemaic astronomy could not survive the discovery of the phases of Venus. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

For much of the last century archaeologists believed that Indians came to the Americas through the Bering Strait about thirteen thousand years ago at the tail end of the last Ice Age. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Most of the antibiotics sold in America today are for animal feed, not for humans. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The astronauts represented everything that mainstream America held dear—and they’re with us, the students marveled. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Arnold passed the British many secrets, such as how many French troops were landing in America and where and when they were landing. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gogol knows now that his parents had lived their lives in America in spite of what was missing, with a stamina he fears he does not possess himself. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Sorry I’m not Miss Mary Sunshine, but a so-called Muslim sociopath attacked us. Again. If these jerks hate America so much, why don’t they stay in their own countries? He killed little kids.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Could the same happen with me if Stan managed to get me to America? Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

His book, My American Journey, helped me harmonize my understanding of America’s history and my aspiration to serve her in uniform. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

He worked in the sabotage division of the Abwehr, and he had hatched a plot against America. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Had the birds been blown over from the coast of South America and then diverged as they lived and died. generation after generation, on the islands? he wondered. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

During those first years in America, I had been in contact with other Lost Kids who had left Kakuma and come to the United States. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

In some years nearly half the income of America’s corn farmers comes from government checks. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Just like in America, the colonists here had their way with the native women, as colonists so often do. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Later, for her first shower in America, she chooses Simon and Garfunkel's "The Sound of Silence." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“What part of America did he come from?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was shouted at from every editorial sanctum in America from sea to sea,” he later lamented. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The fractious archaeological community embraced his ideas with rare unanimity; they rapidly became the standard model for the peopling of the Americas. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“You mean the Greek gods are here? Like ... in America!” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone started chattering—we all knew and loved America. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

His skills were recognized by none other than Major George Beckwith, the head of British intelligence operations in America at the end of the war. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We shall feast every day in America. Every day.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Without their knowing, my grandparents, on their way to America, were each carrying a single mutated gene on the fifth chromosome. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

They would travel together to America and rebuild their community. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

As I drift to sleep, I think of Pa. I know his spirit can travel over land to be with me but worry if he can cross the ocean to America. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I walked over to him, I noticed he was wearing actual pajamas—Captain America ones—even though he was thirteen. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The strikes would open the public’s and the press’s eyes to the plight of America’s laborers. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

"About fifty, and that was just in North America." Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A first step toward satisfying that responsibility for Europeans and their descendants in North and South America would be to treat indigenous people today with respect—something that, alas, cannot yet be taken for granted. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Salim has been in New York, in America, for a week. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Media coverage of all the innocent people wrongly convicted had an effect on the death-sentencing rate in America, which began to decline in 1999. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Bill Harvey spent the next three years in Berlin building BOB into a formidable base of operations for America's secret campaign against Russia. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Did you and Grandma think you’d made a mistake coming to America?” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

What gets taught in America’s public schools has always been a mixture of state and local preferences influenced by various passing trends. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

To stand up to the police in America was to take the nation’s promise of justice for all at face value. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The loss of income made London rescind some of the taxes it had imposed on America. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

"This is the name of a school in America. The students at the school raised the money for this well to be dug." A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, in a timely piece of fortuitousness, America got a secretary of the interior, Stewart Udall, who actually liked hiking. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

It included North America south of the Rio Grande as well, and even Arabia and Iran in Asia. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

At first, glaciers blocked the way from Alaska to the rest of America, allowing no more than perhaps a few isolated pioneers to investigate the lands further south. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if they rethought the whole show once America swoons over Cha-Cha the chow chow. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The only way of rescuing the theory in the light of the new evidence would have been to say that all the navigators were wrong: America was not where they thought it was. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

They were sure, of course, that they wouldn’t “become wild” here in America, where there was “no one to control them.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had never seen a soap opera in America, so I had no frame of reference, but the Iranian soap operas were absurd. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Mong seemed to have our whole night planned, probably figuring it was our last one in America. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The temperance folks had given America Prohibition, and had thrown in a ban on gambling while they were at it. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The White City was a symbol of America’s grandeur. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

A lightship with twin beacons glides past as America recedes; ahead wait the great glittering prairies of the Atlantic. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

A god who speaks is your dad who calls on the phone with advice for your life in America. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“When the immigrants came to America through Ellis Island, they would sometimes get ice cream for a treat. But they didn’t recognize ice cream. They thought it was butter, so they spread it on toast.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

At a White House meeting, the president’s top foreign policy advisor put it bluntly: “Daniel Ellsberg is the most dangerous man in America. He must be stopped at all costs.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

For the two years that Samuel was alone in America, he lived with an old family friend of his mother’s. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

It is likely that the first British villages in North America, thousands of miles from the House of Lords, would have lost some of the brutally graded social hierarchy that characterized European life. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Black newspapers and their readers wasted no time in making the link between America’s inadequacy in space and the dreadful conditions facing many black students in the South. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

But there are no photographs to document Ashoke’s childhood; not until his passport, not until his life in America, does visual documentation exist. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

There were no cacti anywhere—another oversight on Fatty Bolger’s part, because I looked it up, and cacti are actually native to the Americas. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I realized they thought I was an influential figure in America, which of course I was not. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Where there is no likeness of experience it’s very difficult. I understand you were not born in America.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He made his name with ragtime but this style, as we saw in the previous chapter, was in the early 1920s being superseded all over America by jazz. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Those ancestors walked into the gathering as legal property and emerged as free citizens of the United States of America. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Those factors seem to me to account for the Americas’ technological lag behind Eurasia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

After negotiations for better pay and working conditions broke down, the Marx & Haas Clothing Company locked out one thousand workers, including United Garment Workers of America Ladies’ Local 67, of which Fannie Sellins was president. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

He keeps picturing it: an hour from now, millions and millions of TVs across America simulcasting his face, his voice, June’s words, Henry at his side. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

And when Mr. Powell heard about the Broadway play, he went over to Birds of America and turned pages until he came to the one he wanted. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

They’d only come up from America a couple of years ago and were still struggling. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

In America, farmers have repeatedly traded one insect enemy for a worse one as spraying upsets the population dynamics of the insect world. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Across America, that combination of words was new and significant, although it meant different things to different people. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

He tells the policeman we’re undocumented immigrants, and that America never gave him a fair shot. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

They introduced dozens of different salad mixes to mainstream America. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Tyler’s account and scores of others even more sinister, particularly those by Jewish emigrants from Germany, fell almost entirely on deaf ears in America that fall. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Reilly saw again the horrible, coffee-stained lumber jacket that she had always secretly wanted to give to the Volunteers of America along with several other pieces of Ignatius’ favorite clothing. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mastodons, saber-toothed tigers, wolves, caribou, wild horses, and even camels all once thrived in eastern North America alongside the moose but gradually stumbled into extinction, while the moose just plodded on. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

On the first Saturday back, we went to the library together and I showed her the Arctic Tern in John James Audubon’s Birds of America. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

However, the prospect of that tiny marginal colony’s sustaining an exploration, conquest, and settlement of the Americas was nil. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I put eight pounds in the post office for my fare to America and that night we have a big supper of ham, tomatoes, bread, butter, jam. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The black man needs to reflect that he has been America’s most fervent Christian—and where has it gotten him? The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

By 1780 General Sir Henry Clinton, successor to General Howe as commander of the British forces in America, had split his troops in two. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

America might only be rounding up Muslims right now, and the Director might only be focused on us, but bigots don’t generally limit their hate. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The Streeler is native to several African countries, though it has been successfully raised by wizards in Europe, Asia and the Americas. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I do but you can come back at the end of the war and we can all go to America. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“White America” is a syndicate arrayed to protect its exclusive power to dominate and control our bodies. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“It isn’t safe there, but it’s safe here, crammed right up close with America’s worst criminals?” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I do know this—the big and mysterious America is bigger than I thought. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Voice of America was reporting it, as was French radio, which Olanna translated: Tanzania was the first country to recognize the existence of the independent nation of Biafra. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Everywhere throughout New England you find old, tumbledown field walls, often in the middle of the deepest, most settled-looking woods—a reminder of just how swiftly nature reclaims the land in America. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The Americas form the world’s second-largest landmass, significantly smaller than Eurasia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He wrote a farewell letter to his girlfriend, Gerda, telling her that he came back to America for her. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

America didn’t become completely real for me until the next day after we’d left San Francisco and were out in the country. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They keep repeating the words America and new life. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then we moved to America and the birth-date fraud became completely irrelevant. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The son of a former slave, Hayes was recognized as one of the finest singers in America. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

The number includes very dangerous malaria vectors in West Africa, the Middle East, Central America, Indonesia, and the eastern European region. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The crowd sang “God Bless America” and the military band played. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The facts are when he was sixteen he got a shot at coming to America, gambled on the land of opportunity and lost. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I saw in the heap a part of the charred cover of Famous Short Stories of England and America. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Greetings, heroes!” called Mrs. Yunghans, the middle school librarian, who absolutely loved having the most famous library card holders in America checking out books in her library. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

“After twenty years of living in America,” he said, swerving the truck to avoid a pothole the size of a beach ball. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Horse racing was one of the most lucrative sports in America at that time, and even undistinguished horses often earned two to three thousand dollars a year. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They’re kicking up a fuss about immigration as well. Although, of course, America has always been kinder to immigrants than Europe.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Most of the room applauds the tray drop because I believe that’s the officially required response in every school cafeteria and dining hall across America. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Belmont officials, anticipating the largest crowd ever to attend a horse race in America, had worked themselves to exhaustion and spent $30,000 to publicize the race and prepare the track. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“America,” historian Daniel Okrent has stated, “had been awash in drink almost from the start—wading hip-deep in it, swimming in it, at various times in its history nearly drowning in it.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“Well, we will pass from that. Have you ever been in America, Colonel Arbuthnot?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

European conquest of the remaining native states of Central America and northern South America followed during the 16th and 17th centuries. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Curly had never met a movie star or a television actress or a Miss America or a Miss Anything. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Around the time that ragtime and the Blues were giving way to jazz in mainland America, a form of music called son was becoming popular in Cuba. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Then they descended out of the America of factory work and tyrannical foremen into an Arcadian grotto of forgetfulness. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

In contrast, use of writing in the Americas was confined to the elite in a small area of Mesoamerica. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“America was the land of opportunity,” she said. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

People all around us were fleeing to America: we heard tales of oranges the size of baking potatoes; fields of grain waving under sunny skies; clean, dry timber houses with indoor plumbing and electricity. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

These results contrast sharply with the reality of drug crime in America. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It seemed particularly unfair to them that white immigrants new to America, born in foreign lands, could vote and could find higher-paying jobs in manufacturing industries—rights that native-born blacks were denied. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But after four years in New Haven he didn’t want to move back to Massachusetts, to the one city in America his parents know. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The war will always be fought very far from America and it will never end. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is Ashima’s first job in America, the first since before she was married. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Rather than just kill Lincoln and Grant, he now plans to do nothing less than undertake a top-down destruction of the government of the United States of America. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

America believes itself exceptional, the greatest and noblest nation ever to exist, a lone champion standing between the white city of democracy and the terrorists, despots, barbarians, and other enemies of civilization. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

He needed to destroy America's infrastructure by blowing up factories, power plants, water supply systems, and bridges. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

I write that America is my home in my heart, and how citizenship will legalize what I already feel. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I laughed and explained, with Auma’s help, that I was black through and through, basically as black as we come in America. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Were the blacks in America really like us? Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

America will continue to be divided into a North and a South, a United States of America and a Confederate States of America. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

In America in the closing decades of the century there arose a rivalry even more spectacularly venomous, if not quite as destructive. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The simple discovery by Europe of the existence of the Americas caused an intellectual ferment. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She did what she could to disappear into America and prayed this country would hide us from the evil that had taken my father. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Native peoples also left an indelible imprint on the land with systems of roads that tied their nations and communities together across the entire landmass of the Americas. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

The result was an opulent structure that, for the moment, was the biggest private building in America. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Those homelands were the Fertile Crescent and China in Eurasia, and the Andes and Amazonia, Mesoamerica, and the eastern United States in the Americas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

When did Columbus discover what we now call America? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I was envious that Rocco had grown up in America, a place where people could date across cultures and it was not an issue. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Yes. He was so proud. He always talks about his grandchildren in America. Always.” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Nazi propaganda portrayed America as racially impure, a nation of mongrels, The Land Without a Heart. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

There's a lot of chatter about Palestine, about relatives in America. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

My mother doesn’t watch over me here as she did in America. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

What did this war mean for “Americas tenth man,” the one in ten citizens who were part of the country’s largest minority group? Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I feared that if my answers didn’t match up precisely with those of my family, we would not get to go to America. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“You have been in America, I presume, Madame?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t understand much of what was going on, but it didn’t matter since all I cared about was going to America on time. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sandy opened the front door for the couple, whistling "America, the Beautiful." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

And there was, at that moment, nothing that was more beautiful to her than America. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Surely, I thought, we would find a place for ourselves in America. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

With Britain still under attack from German bombers, they agreed the actual work of building a bomb would 4 6 be done in America. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the Coast Guard had the most advanced radio interception network in the Americas. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

In the 1970s, when Ken Seacrest first began his training to join the ranks of America's spies, the pace of the arms race quickened. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

And more than that, they now considered themselves not Jamaicans who were living in America but Americans of Jamaican descent. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Tutwiler made a list of the ten worst prisons in America compiled by Mother Jones; it was the only women’s facility to be so dishonored. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

This is what everybody said: Lieutenant Carroll said that we had to demonstrate that America stood for something, and that’s what we were doing. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kennedy's ability to outmaneuver Khrushchev, and to assess the threat at America's doorstep, depended on the flow of secret intelligence passed to Janet Chisholm in a Moscow park. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Some of those related beans and barleys were indeed domesticated independently in the Americas or China, far from the early site of domestication in the Fertile Crescent. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Communism's heyday in America lasted only a few years. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Or maybe it was, because America had changed.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Force, firebrand, future leader of America, I’m sure. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

I’ll stay home, locked away in my room, staring at all my Miss America posters crumpled in the trash can, and telling Vanessa Williams, Listen, girlfriend, I tried! Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He’s got documents and ledgers detailing sales from here all through the Confederate states, Cuba, and throughout South America.” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Yet long before Columbus arrived, that wild grass had managed to evolve into maize and spread across North America. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I wish my essay could have been about the most significant event in my life; how my family immigrated to America. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

As we have seen, eponymy in geography is very rare before the naming of America, and America remained an exception in being named after a commoner. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

For example, by the 19th century North America’s Great Plains Indians were famous as expert horse-mounted warriors and bison hunters, but they did not even obtain horses until the late 17th century. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Because Charles knew the top library expert in all of America, maybe the world. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Many of the youngsters from Central America and Mexico who go north on their own do not memorize telephone numbers or addresses. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Benjamin Britten enjoyed an extended holiday in America, while Michael Tippett, a conscientious objector, produced an eloquent and moving wartime plea for unfashionable pacifism in his oratorio A Child of Our Time. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

She also found it hard to believe that we could get to America with the help of white people; it seemed like an impossible dream. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He graduated and went to America, then came back a short while afterwards, very furtive and very wealthy from what many said was a massive credit card fraud. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Supplying arms to America meant that Redcoats would be shot by French bullets from French guns—but French soldiers would not have to pull the trigger. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I rose and approached the president of the United States of America. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

They made it to Pakistan and eventually moved to Portugal, where they lived until they were able to come to America. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Her father hunches over his slanted ink-stained table by the window, sketching, smoking, listening to the Voice of America. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I told them about my having arrived safely in America and about my new life. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our archaeologist might therefore look at the Americas and conclude that Africans, despite their apparently enormous head start, would have been overtaken by the earliest Americans within at most a millennium. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

And twenty-three-year-old Orson Welles as the middle-aged astronomy professor facing the end of civilization...on the night America was spooked. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Slowly, I began to feel better and get used to life in America. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

South America had only one such ancestor, which gave rise to the llama and alpaca. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

When the national media heard about what had happened in Durham, he and Ann had become a hot story: America’s racial “Odd Couple.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“And in America, Pa, you would not be forced to join the army?” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s thinking about quitting his job and moving to America. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The King of America wants a tall, thin man in the Congo to be dead. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And do you feel proud to represent America as you do?” Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He still loves to tell stories from his youth living in America, particularly the moments that English words and phrases got lost in translation. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

They could have attached it to some migratory bird, and Dr. Cable would be on her way to South America instead of in the library overseeing the destruction of the Smoke. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

America was an ideal place for the dangerous game of spy vs. spy. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had survived a bloody massacre and traveled to the other side of the world, only to have Dad die in America? How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

What bonded us into the best organization black Americans ever had was every Muslim’s devout regard for Mr. Muhammad as black America’s moral, mental, and spiritual reformer. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, they are fragmented by geography and by ecology: the Isthmus of Panama, only 40 miles wide, virtually transects the Americas geographically, as do the isthmus’s Darien rain forests and the northern Mexican desert ecologically. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“America,” he said, “will lose the war. And Italy will win it.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t believe that I would actually have a say in who makes the laws in America. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Anyone who has made the coast-to-coast journey across America, whether by train or by car, has probably passed through Garden City, but it is reasonable to assume that few travelers remember the event. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. King accepted Shuttlesworth’s invitation to come to Birmingham, a hotbed of racial violence—the city Dr. King called “the most segregated city in America.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re not not wanted’ in America,” I finally say in a small voice that sounds less confident than I want. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

His absence from the Constitutional Convention was regretted by all—along with Madison he was regarded as America’s most sophisticated student of government. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The problem here in America is that we meet such a small minority of individual so-called ‘good,’ or ‘brotherly’ white people. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

On April 23, President Gerald R. Ford announced the war was finished as far as America was concerned. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

One day in history class, my teacher talked about America’s history of slavery. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The black American today shows us the perfect parasite image—the black tick under the delusion that he is progressing because he rides on the udder of the fat, three-stomached cow that is white America. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the impact of the Nazi saboteurs' mission to attack America lives on. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

He sensed, in her voice, the sadness of defeat, as though her friends who were leaving for teaching positions in Canada and America had confirmed to her a great personal failure. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Today, living in America, I sing my new song of joy and hope. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

At least white America had taught us how to count . Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Ginika complained and cried, painting images of a sad, friendless life in a strange America. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The sponsors will help us find a place to live and schools to teach us English, and they will help us adapt to life in America. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In America, invasion was expected at any moment. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

History did not record precisely what Fannie said to her fellow seamstresses to convince them to organize and join Ladies’ Local 67 of the United Garment Workers of America. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

“When you and Lina got married, I didn’t even know I was coming to America. Please slow down.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

In the month and a half since the racial equality discussion in Socio Evo, Jared’s been on a crusade to prove things in America are equal. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Fifteen years in America very long time,” Aisha said, as though she had been pondering this. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Even primitive boats,” Fladmark has written, “could traverse the entire Pacific coast of North and South America in less than 10-15 years.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was the flag of the America to come—the postwar America, united and expanding. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

When he turned seventeen, his dad sent him to America to earn money. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

None of those uses of the wheel was adopted in the Americas, where wheels are attested only in Mexican ceramic toys. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

America had become a Persian bazaar of self-help. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She went to America and her eyes opened and she forgot me.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

My feeling is that, if there really had been pre-Clovis settlement in the Americas, it would have become obvious at many locations by now, and we would not still be arguing. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Complex agricultural societies gradually arose in the Americas far to the south of that entry route, developing in complete isolation from the emerging complex societies of the Old World. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I read and reread one section in particular: The Army was living the democratic ideal ahead of the rest of America. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Aisha resumed twisting, a sly smile on her face, and then asked, as if Ifemelu could not possibly understand how things were done here, “How long you in America?” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Do Afghan hounds read Musical America?” asked the cricket. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

"All of America in one little island," he says. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The pillows were stuffed with buckwheat—that’s what they used in Japan, not feathers like in America—and they made a soft noise when they were moved. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

In reality, although we frequently draw such a contrast, hunter-gatherers in some productive areas, including North America’s Pacific Northwest coast and possibly southeastern Australia, became sedentary but never became food producers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I had heard about Lost Boys going to America, so I asked a friend of mine who was a coordinator among the boys how that worked. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It may also be the last town in these United States of America where nobody bothers much about locked doors or wondering where their kids are. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

I am thinking of that, but it doesn't go in the plus column for America. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There used to be a column called Ask Marilyn in a magazine called Parade in America. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Well...one day you will have to return to America, and we want you to have an education.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

How can you not laugh at America’s Funniest Home Videos! Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

It is no accident that the first highways in America were called parkways. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“My father is still adjusting to life in America,” I said, by way of explanation. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Ever since he came to America, Ray has been in Oklahoma, so he knows how to “shoot the breeze.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

In America she’d felt she could judge President Roosevelt; she had felt she knew him. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

America’s pride in its growing power and international stature had fanned patriotism to a new intensity. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

We are a family—not perfect, not all the same, some rich, some poor, all kinds of religions and skin colors, some born in America and some immigrating here. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

By the end of World War II, Los Angeles was the second-largest manufacturing center in America, with an industrial output surpassed only by that of Detroit. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

In the America of the 1790s, Washington’s image was everywhere, in paintings, prints, lockets; on coins, silverware, plates, and household bric-a-brac. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Their instructors, König and Schulz, had also built sabotage equipment for the men to take with them and use in America. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

What else accounted for the high divorce rates among Nigerians in America and the low rates among Nigerians in Nigeria? Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Each glistening eclair is a grenade aimed at Celia’s political beliefs, each strawberry shortcake proof—in butter, cream, and eggs—of Lourdes’s success in America, and a reminder of the ongoing shortages in Cuba. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I use “maize” because Indian maize—multicolored and mainly eaten after drying and grinding— is strikingly unlike the sweet, yellow, uniform kernels usually evoked in North America by the name “corn.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Maybe the Preacher had won enough by now to really buy six more slaves out of America! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Jacob Riis, the New York journalist who had devoted himself to revealing the squalid housing of America’s poor, came to Chicago bearing counsel of a graver sort. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Lying on my stomach on our blanket next to Meng and Eang, I hold my breath as moving pictures of America flash on the makeshift screen. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was only Muslim hospitality to another Muslim, he explained, and I was an unusual Muslim from America. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

We thus have many different phenomena converging on the same conclusion: that food production spread more readily out of Southwest Asia than in the Americas, and possibly also than in sub-Saharan Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

And another thing I had conveniently forgotten was how incredibly huge America is. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one else understood the intricacies of our family and what our parents had to overcome just so we could live in America. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Scientists in laboratories throughout North America and Europe began fusing cells and using them to map genetic traits to specific chromosomes, creating a precursor to the human genome map we have today. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The fact that this “career” path leads almost inevitably to jail is often understood as an unfortunate fact of life, part of what it means to be poor and black in America. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

A news chyron on the same network had referred to me as “Obama’s Baby Mama,” conjuring clichéd notions of black-ghetto America, implying an otherness that put me outside even my own marriage. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Maybe one day I’ll come to America,” she says as we walk back into the house arm in arm. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

“You are defending the freedom of Americans and of the South Vietnamese. Your acts of heroism and courage are celebrations of life, and all America thanks you.” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, America’s aircraft industry was a production miracle, easily surpassing Roosevelt’s mark by more than half. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“He lived in ‘America,’ Mama,” I said naturally, as if I knew where America was. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The whole colonial experience of trying to solve a related series of 'Indian problems’ had much to do with giving the colonists an identity indissolubly linked to America,” he wrote. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Together, they take injured migrants back to their hometowns in Central America when going by bus isn’t feasible. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The Peo-ple’s Forums were similar to the town meetings that candidate Bill Clinton held in America on his way to the presidency. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first goal of the mission was to sabotage America's light-metals industry to stop the manufacturing of products needed in war, especially airplanes. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

“And . . . his parents abandoned the house because they were so sad and . . . they moved to America! That’s it! Isn’t it?” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

She was intensely worried about her daughter bringing a son into America, because she could not save him, she could not secure his body from the ritual violence that had claimed her son. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I’m fourteen now and if I save something every week surely I should be able to go to America by the time I’m twenty. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

And it's always stated as an undeniable fact: Leos are born between July 23 and August 22, fitted queen-size sheets measure sixty by eighty inches, and America is the greatest country on earth. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The cross-cultural conversations with those people, who had shared a lot of the same history and struggle as my clients in America, had a huge impact on me. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“I won’t. Can you drop me off at the Motel America, up by the interstate?” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

My homemade education gave me, with every additional book that I read, a little bit more sensitivity to the deafness, dumbness, and blindness that was afflicting the black race in America. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fornatee had been in the United States for seven years, longer than most of his teammates, and was used to life in America. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Then in Chapter 3 he stresses the importance of the discovery of America: earth and water make one globe in which the centre of gravity and the geometrical centre coincide. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

They looked like the illustrations in the Songbirds of North America calendar. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

How one snuck into America and became a citizen, and the other joined the army and died for our country. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

In other words, just one group of paleo- Indians colonized the Americas, but it did so two or three times. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Half of this stuff would never fly on the Miss America stage. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Chiefdoms have arisen pristinely even more often, in all of the same regions and in North America’s Southeast and Pacific Northwest, the Amazon, Polynesia, and sub-Saharan Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t really know how to picture America. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The United Mine Workers of America petitioned for a special prosecutor in an effort to insure an unbiased prosecution, dateline: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, June 7, 1923. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

And needless to say, it is much easier and more satisfying for them to work hard in Bangalore than to pack up and try to make a new start in America. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

You get an instant infusion of wealth and are simultaneously vested with something far more valuable: celebrity, which has become a kind of super-class in America, and one that renders all the old categories irrelevant. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Similar rates of incarceration can be found in black communities across America. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Do you really think that the United States of America is in a state of war with Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan?” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

They rounded up not just thousands but hundreds of thousands of consumers all across North America, and in head-to-head blind taste tests, New Coke beat Pepsi by 6 to 8 percentage points. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

If the discovery of America began in 1492, so too did the discovery of progress. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Martin told her she’d come to America on a Carolina charter with her mother and brother. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He had ideas for writing a book about race in America and planned, he said, to find work that aligned with his values, which most likely meant he wouldn’t end up in corporate law. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Why did agricultural revolutions erupt in the Middle East, China and Central America but not in Australia, Alaska or South Africa? Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

For this reason I cannot commend this account as an America that you will find. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

And some four hundred young men, born into an America that is bursting with opportunity and promise, have ended their lives on Vietnam’s steaming soil. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I didn’t have the money—there weren’t enough cows in Kenya to send me to school in America—so I thought, Well, I’ll just have to change my plans. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the late 1930s she was heard in living rooms across America as a popular radio performer, appearing on such widely listened-to programs as The General Motors Hour and The Ford Hour. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

For this is your home, my friend, do not be driven from it; great men have done great things here, and will again, and we can make America what America must become. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

What has happened since Europeans first encountered the land masses known as North and South America? An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

That’s what’s happening right now, you think I’m hurt and you and every other punk Chihuahua in America is climbing out of the woodwork to try and get a bite out of me. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

If a deadly attack like that had happened in America or Europe, you would never stop hearing about it. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

It eventually became clear to Colin that Starnes did not mean “the United States of America” but rather “this general area of south-central Tennessee.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

For better and worse, though, this spirit is widely identified as one of the Americas’ great gifts to the world. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

After school, I watch America’s Funniest Home Videos and let the phone ring. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

"Someday I will take you to America, where my son lives," Mr. Luftig promised me as we sat together cleaning his pipes on his side of the blanket dividing the apartment. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

In America that means I was a salesman. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

But the axis had shifted: I was now trying to balance parenting with something altogether different and more confusing—politics, America, Barack’s quest to do something important. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I nodded, thinking how I’d study my favorite subjects: poetry and George Washington and the map of America. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

We, the black people here in America, we never have been free to find out what we really can do! The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

In our mutual sincerity we might be able to show a road to the salvation of America’s veiy soul. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hecht regards Indian fire as an essential part of the Amazonian landscape, as it was in the forests of eastern North America. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Concluding that economics, not politics, held the key to black success in America, Moore started a new career as a corporate gadfly, disrupting stockholders' meetings with pointed questions about racial policies and hiring practices. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“The Muslim from America” excited everywhere the most intense curiosity and interest. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mom's upbringing in Iran seemed to permeate other areas of her life in America. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I am shaky, my brain fried like that egg in the Partnership for a Drug-Free America commercial. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I knew that we had been accepted to go to America, I told John, fie was surprised and wanted to know why I hadn’t told him before that I was applying. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Amaka used to write the office of the Head of State, even the Nigerian Ambassador in America, to complain about the poor state of Nigeria’s justice system. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

In his drunkenness he tells the police officer the whole history of our coming to America. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

They had all experienced the fear of being labeled unfit to enter America. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Some New Guineans did become infected, but not on the massive scale that killed off most of the native peoples of Australia and the Americas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I made my remarks brief—but I made them strong: “How can you condemn Portugal and South Africa while our black people in America are being bitten by dogs and beaten with clubs?” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stand with Elizabeth on one side and Rabia on the other, holding hands like some sappy team on America’s Got Talent. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Or so I think, till Minerva comes around asking if I couldn’t spare a couple of pages for America’s statement for her hearing tomorrow. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If so, i-Earthquake is the first named person in the history of the Americas. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

"Do you suppose they have morphia powders in America?" The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I sit up at the idea of Zohra in my hometown and the chance to show her what our lives are like in America. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

She did not understand why Laura looked up so much information about Nigeria, asking her about 419 scams, telling her how much money Nigerians in America sent back home every year. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

White supremacy was also a significant factor in what happened to Native peoples in what came to be called the United States of America. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

She had liked Mr. Dickens’s account of his travels in America—all but the Lowell part. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Because this is America. You’re supposed to pretend that you don’t notice certain things.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Media depictions of Muslims as terrorists and foreigners had inundated our televisions and movie screens, and these harsh misrepresentations fueled anti-Muslim bigotry and policies in America. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Scaramouche and Wilfred thought I had a remote chance of getting to America, but they both urged me to get a job, preferably one that would allow me time to practise and play in tournaments. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Me, I would much like to go to America,” said Poirot. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

The NSA had instructed him to patch up fraying relations with Britain’s intelligence community—and also to lay the groundwork for spying on America’s enemies, as well as some of its closest friends. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

An island of the archipelago in the South Atlantic between North and South America, enclosing the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico: divided into the Greater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles, and the Bahama Islands. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mudd remained calm and did not betray the secret known, at this moment, to him alone: America’s most wanted man was hiding in a farmhouse, less than five miles away! Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yes, urged foreign minister Shigenori Togo, because America’s atomic bomb “drastically alters the whole military situation.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told them I had one week to find the fees, figuring that by the time my letter made it to America, and they responded, it would be even less time than that. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

His ambitions had fixed upon the vast new America on the other side of the Rockies. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

All these years of watching the Miss America pageant, and I ain’t never seen a girl who looked like me. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Imagine a white guy in America, just dark enough to pass for Latino, walking around jail doing bad Mexican-gangster dialogue from the movies. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

In those miles, along the twisted roads beside the steep mountain, I feared that I would never get back to America, civilization, English and wide streets again. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one else in America had the kind of experience that Franklin brought to the Patriot cause. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tasted the heavy cream and I thought: Ugh, this must be how milk tastes in America! How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Like Mamet characters, they populated an America that had never existed, a kid’s idea of sharpies and hucksters and underworld life. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Enabling virtually all citizens to experience noteworthy events simultaneously and in entertaining form, radio created a vast common culture in America, arguably the first true mass culture the world had ever seen. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The core of the disagreement in the debate of 1790 revolved around different versions of what has come to be called America’s “original intentions,” more specifically what the Revolution meant for the institution of slavery. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

It rains on this inconsequential town more than any other place in the United States of America. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Anyone can fight for America,” he began, giving special emphasis to “America,” “even you boys. In a time of need, anyone can fight for her.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I came with the wish to learn what America is like. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

They shared their experiences, and I learned that there was so much discrimination toward all kinds of minorities in America. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Although demographic shifts were a normal part of life in America at the time, the population swell experienced by the North End made it one of the busiest and liveliest places in the nation. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“Because you are right, and it breaks my heart. I thought I had left this behind when we moved to America.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

I said I felt certain that the only reason black Africans—our black brothers—could be so silent about what happened in America was that they had been misinformed by the American government’s propaganda agencies. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

After surviving more than three centuries of subjugation in the New World, black America stood at the crossroads. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Grandpa Dan wasn’t in the camps, thank God. He was born in America, just like you. That’s because my family came over to this country in the early 1900s, second class. Not steerage.” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it all ended with the stock market crash in 1929, Harlem had a world reputation as America’s Casbah. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This, Shirley Temple Wong, is an icebox. A machine that cools food and keeps it from spoiling. In America you only have to market once a week, not every day.” In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

The prosperity in America then, I sure don’t remember that. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The memory of my journey, or should I say my struggle to America, is buried deep inside of me. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

America, of all the Western nations, has been best placed to prove the uselessness and the obsolescence of the concept of color. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

He gets a job in the gas works in Coventry shoveling coal into the furnaces like Uncle Pa Keating, shoveling coal and waiting for the day he can go to America after me. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

And still here I am with Daniel in the middle of the sidewalk, on what is almost certainly my last day in America. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The land of his birth was at war with America; yet after thirty- five years here he was still prevented by law from becoming an American citizen. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took a deep breath, said: “America wasn’t even the first country, Rondo. Most countries are way older than us.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

In 1940, Hitler’s sights were firmly set on conquering Europe, but Roosevelt was concerned that South America might be a future target. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

His fortune was to live in the other America, the legendary America that was every wish come true. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she goes farther west into America, she draws attention. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

America was going to be challenged, but, he insisted, the challenge would be good for America because we are always at our best when we are being challenged. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

With “boots on the ground,” America’s involvement in Vietnam changed radically. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

He came upon the driver of America and its foreman, John Dorsey. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Several years after my grandfather disappeared in South America, a large amount of money was discovered in a safe- deposit box that he’d kept at a bank up in Hallandale. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Watching her brother devour his food, Hanako thought about America, where he would be able to eat all he wanted someday—in a year or two or three, she wasn’t sure. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

For decades, his father had felt that in order to make it in America it was necessary to conceal an essential element of his identity from his friends, his neighbors, and even his own children. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Creditors love the term the ‘democratization of credit,’ ” said Travis B. Plunkett, the legislative director of the Consumer Federation of America, a consumer lobbying group. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Black-Billed Cuckoo, from John J. Audubon’s Birds of America, published in 1827, nearly 125 years after Maria’s work, shows her influence on this artist-naturalist. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But I urge you all and all of the people of Texas and America, don’t leave the weightier matters undone. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have had variations of the same dream since we immigrated to America. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

She didn’t want to be buried here in America. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a scientific expedition to America, Aronnax ruminates over the true nature of the incidents. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“He told me here in America,” Bien recalled later, “they got some bad action.” Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

But it was only an occasional, terrible visitor in the Americas, which meant that most adult colonists had not acquired childhood immunity. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

In America, the service was just about an hour and a half long. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Things are worse here than they are in America. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Whereas many such animals existed in Eurasia, only five animals of any sort became domesticated in the Americas: the turkey in Mexico and the U.S. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, getting adopted and moving to America didn’t promise to be as much fun as I had thought it would be. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another way of saying this is that when Columbus sailed more people lived in the Americas than in Europe. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

They were responsible for social changes that not only revolutionized life in America when they took place but are very much with us today. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

"Handcuffs, machine guns, and so forth. The sirens scream loudly when we ride through Washington. You know what I think of America but now my dream and ours has been destroyed." Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

He read contemporary American fiction, because he hoped to find a resonance, a shaping of his longings, a sense of the America that he had imagined himself a part of. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The Nazi spies in South America might be using relatively simple codes and ciphers, but reading their messages still required focus and care. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The people of Central America cultivated corn in many colors. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

“He didn’t come back to America. Did he like it there, or something?” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

A later development was the idea of terminal narratives, which were theories put forth to explain colonization of the Americas. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

There was a heartbeat in those stands that dotted the Friday nights of Texas and Oklahoma and Ohio and Pennsylvania and Florida and all of America like a galaxy of stars, a giant, lurking heartbeat. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was chased to Egypt, captured, and in 1867 brought back to America for trial. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow he needed to rouse the engineers of America. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

She wore delicate “love beads” around her neck and was in wholehearted agreement with the protestors who wanted America out of Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Fast enough. Unfortunately, were . running out of time. It’s almost sunset. But I imagine we’ll get you across a good chunk of America, at least.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

And the last speaker was Renee Firestone, who lost everything, including her family, in the Holocaust, but still came to America and became a successful clothing designer. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

On the night of September 30, 1919, some one hundred African American sharecroppers attended a meeting of the Progressive Farmers and Household Union of America at a black church three miles north of Elaine, Arkansas. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Bach year these people, like thousands of others, tallied raptors along the four migratory flyways in North America—the Atlantic, Mississippi, Central, and Pacific flyways. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

In the 193os, America was infatuated with the pseudoscience of eugenics and its promise of strengthening the human race by culling the “unfit” from the genetic pool. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Even when the United States consisted of just a few states on the Eastern Seaboard, the country’s founders fully intended for “America” to extend “from sea to shining sea.” An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Daddy, I want to sing and dress up like Miss America. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

This brief overview of precolonial North America counteracts the settler-colonial myth of the wandering Neolithic hunter and vast unused and uncharted lands. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

True, Hitler had shown no pressing interest in South America. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I had pictured us taking off to the United States of America, angel wings on our shoulders. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

He expected ex-slaves from the island to spread into America, preaching freedom and rebellion to the slaves. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Landing of Columbus, by painter John Vanderlyn, is a mural in the Capitol Rotunda in Washington, DC, It is a typical depiction of the 1492 “discovery of America.” An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

If America wanted to understand the USSR's latest ploy in the arms race, they needed someone on the ground, in the Soviet Union itself. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“God bless America, where we turn everyone against each other to keep us safe. Screw trust and friendship.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Physical Education, a requirement here in America, the land of athletic achievement. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In that moment, being surrounded by a diverse group of ethnicities—all of us about to become citizens together—I realized that this is what I loved about America. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

What has already silenced the voices of spring in countless towns in America? Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Similarly, wolves were independently domesticated to become dogs in the Americas and probably in several different parts of Eurasia, including China and Southwest Asia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

No European ever saw sumpweed growing in Indian gardens, because it had disappeared as a crop by the time that European colonization of the Americas began, in A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The media eagerly glommed on to this story, portraying crack dealing as one of the most profitable jobs in America. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

But the presidential panel’s report, “Reinvesting in Arts Education: Winning America’s Future Through Creative Schools,” gingerly stepped around some policy issues. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

After Anna Mathea converted her parents, the family felt called by God to come to America and meet the prophet Joseph. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Grizzlies, by contrast, number no more than 35,000 in the whole of North America, and just 1,000 in the mainland United States, principally in and around Yellowstone National Park. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Some days it’s hard to be in America. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Using their previously calculated rate of genetic change as a standard, they estimated when the original group had migrated to the Americas: 22,414 to 29,545 years ago. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The first European settlements in the Americas, beginning with the one founded by Columbus in 1492, were in the West Indies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

We still need some Paul Revere of conscience to alert every hamlet and every village of America that revolution is still at hand. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Back then, the molasses tank was just one of many strange things about America. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

A Mars mania coursed through Europe and America, and Lowell found himself swept up with it. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She liked the parts about how the Kennedys were like kings and queens in America and how tragedy followed anyone named Kennedy. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Thus America’s problem is not its betrayal of “government of the people,” but the means by which “the people” acquired their names. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I'll probably be moving back and forth from India to America my whole life, just like my parents have. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The Ulster Scots became the core group of frontier settlers in North America. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

In 1933, Austin and a small group of supporters attempted to enroll a black student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill—the first legal challenge to segregation in higher education in America. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The eighties weren't the most ideal time to be a Persian in America. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

We meet at a moment of great uncertainty for America. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think you could search America, sir, and find two men who agree on everything. ’ The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

We have become blind, not so much to race, but to the existence of racial caste in America. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I also heard academic officials say that minority students would someday form a leadership class in America. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know it’s silly, but there is America so close to me for the first time in my life — I can’t bear not to set my foot upon it!” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Changing times means an America that’s different from a hundred years ago. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

They ate fish, drank hot coffee, and enjoyed canned meats and vegetables from America. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

There would be no attempt at a reprieve for South Vietnam from America. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Back when I was a little kid in elementary school, I got the idea that someday I would go to America. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the reason my ancestors had come to America. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Once he’s limped back home behind her, she disappears to shower and he stems the bleeding with a Captain America Band-Aid from his bathroom cabinet. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The white men belonging to the power structures in thousands of communities across America know that I’m right! The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

A new race to build nuclear weapons pushed America and the Soviet Union toward a standoff that threatened not just the two superpowers but the entire world. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

She knows that she was named for Molly Molasses, a famous Penobscot Indian born the year before America declared its independence from England. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

For months, things had been looking up in America. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Szilard was determined that scientists in America should have that one- day advantage. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I have a wife in America, a home, a career, and a family. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

My memory of him in those years, however, is lifted from photographs in the family album which show him on his honeymoon with my mother—the woman who had convinced him to stay in America. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

On his return to America, he promised, he would come to Selma. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pennsylvania coal country was the most dangerous place to work in America. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

“You don’t know America. You say Senegal and American people, they say, Where is that? My friend from Burkina Faso, they ask her, your country in Latin America?” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Decades after first touching the Americas, London’s venture capitalists still hadn’t figured out that New England is colder than Britain despite being farther south. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Mam says I should take it, too, become a postman, save up, go to America and be a postman over there and wouldn’t that be a lovely life. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“It’s true, America is a country with a history of injustice, but can we learn from those injustices? Make sure our society is indeed democratic and fair to all who reside here?” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

For the Americas, in particular, the 1492 snapshot captures the end of the independent trajectory of Native Americans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

A week later she died from poisons she had accumulated in South America from eating birds that had eaten DDT-sprayed insects. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Somehow, that small wild grass that started in the hills of Central America has become the star of the biggest, most expensive food chain in the history of the world. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

"No; listen, Jake. If I handled both our expenses, would you go to South America with me?" The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

But then, in 1970s America, a strange thing happened. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Before the Pleistocene, the Americas had three species of horse and at least two camels that might have been ridden; other mammals could have been domesticated for meat and milk. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

If early humans had inhabited Europe during the Ice Ages, they must also have lived in the Americas at the same time. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I had been too busy trying to survive after the attack, moving to America, attempting to navigate middle school. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

It is critical to note that Washington's crusade took place against a backdrop of terror and intimidation in which the genocide of black people in America appeared a very real possibility. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I discovered race in America and it fascinated me.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Are you from North America or South America?” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“You call them Chinese. Even in America you call them Chinese.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She needed a sandwich board that said, America is my country too. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The Cranes Conquer America was written at the top in Emily’s eight-year-old scrawl, back when she was into putting smiley faces inside her e’s, o’s, and o’s. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

America has imported and bred so many Africans that in many states the whites are outnumbered. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Since there was only one person who could possibly merit the mantle of America’s Samson and Solomon, Jefferson’s customary sense of discretion allowed him to make his point without mentioning the name. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

He wanted the best architects America had to offer, not just for their talent but also for how their affiliation instantly would shatter the persistent eastern belief that Chicago would produce only a country fair. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Because seasons are reversed in the Southern Hemisphere, spring was well under way as the coast of South America slipped away to the northwest. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

“That’s one for the Midwest, America’s heartland, home of all this great nation’s Valentine’s Day decorations. Well done!” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

She was dressed in her work uniform—a starry blue skirt and a red-and-white striped blouse she wore to sell candy at Sweet on America. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

I contacted an acquaintance in America who helped me retrieve your address through a telephone directory in the library. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“In every moving picture house in America little children would have the pleasure of seeing stories acted by the Popper Performing Penguins,” he said. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

A man utterly devoted to his people, but at the same time he was bent on reconciliation between the races in America. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had really been driven home when her cousin Preeti, who was the same age, had introduced Dimple to her neighborhood friends as her cousin from America. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

When the incarcerated population is counted in unemployment and poverty rates, the best of times for the rest of America have been among the worst of times for African Americans, particularly black men. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It pleased him to see America’s civil engineers at last expressing passion for the fair, although in fact the directors had promised nothing to Eiffel. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

There was once a town in the heart of America where all life seemed to live in harmony with its surroundings. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He’d pull the blanket to my chin, and I’d run my fingers down his gnarled knuckles and listen to stories about his job when he first came to America. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Imagine if there was a law that the walls of America’s slaughter houses had to be made of glass. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

First, we moved to America on a visitor’s visa to escape Iran. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I think back to our last night on the roof, when Zohra grabbed my hand and asked, “You’re not going to forget me when you go back to America, are you?” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

“Weed has been communicating with shipping companies and other ‘knights,’ plantation masters and politicians mostly, all throughout the Americas. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

So is it me or is that the perfect metaphor for race in America right there? Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

In Africa, we didn’t casually date the way teenagers do in America. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“And then, well, it is a big world. Maybe America. Somewhere near the sea. Like California.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Farmville, the town that Dorothy left behind in the 1940s, had become in the 1950s a microcosm of Americas struggle over integration in its public schools. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

So it was now, as I looked at the bright-colored projection of monster America. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Papa said he had called Auntie Jean and Uncle Kent, to see if they would help Papa, Mama, Hanako, and Akira when they got to America. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Grandma says, Don’t these children know anything about their religion? and Mam tells her it’s different in America. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

And the black masses in America were—and still are—having a nightmare. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the fortuitous conjunction of these two vast reservoirs of philosophical and physical wealth that defined America's national interest and made it so special. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

More important, anthropologists, archaeologists, geographers, and historians who were reassessing the environmental impact of indigenous cultures in North and Central America inevitably turned to the tropical forest. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

If he didn’t come to America, our team never would have won the championship. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Pageant? Like that Miss America garbage?” he asks. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

In America, racism exists but racists are all gone. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“In a country called America it is not that way.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Until quite recently, it was customary to write “MP’s” and “1980’s” - and in fact this convention still applies in America. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

To make common cause with reviled blacks, the dupes of Communists and despoilers of Southern women, would be to betray America and the South. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

One book, Famous Short Stories of England and America, which we had used as a textbook in high-school English. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

America was a river, roaring along, unmindful of the past. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant, just as unmindful of all the truths and hopes they have brought to America. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had this feeling that in America names didn’t mean anything, not like they did in Korea. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

A gallery in New York exhibited a collection of 2 million live army ants, on loan from Central America, in a one-colony show entitled “Patterns and Structures.” The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know, I know it different from America here. That why you worry?” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

With its wealthy clientele, middle-class owners, and low-income workforce, 3 Guys is a template of the class divisions in America. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

It was April in Zimbabwe, but all this good food felt like Christmas—all thanks to my new friend in America. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Little Rock was in the middle of the United States of America. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

See, the law in America had always been that you couldn’t give up your citizenship during times of war, but President Roosevelt had signed the law just to get rid of them. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

A lifelong bachelor, he had no family in America and so had become attached to ours. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

His was a household name across America, and trainers regarded him with profound reverence. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

A summary of the last 13,000 years of New World and western Eurasian history makes clear how Europe’s conquest of the Americas was merely the culmination of two long and mostly separate historical trajectories. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“He was a Royalist, sir. Here in America are you not also subjects of King James?” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

I also told him that if America spent less money on weapons and war and more on education, the world would be a better place. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The handful of spies in Berlin were the closest to America's communist adversary—and none of them spoke Russian. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was like they were brown people living brown lives in a brown place who made bright colors to sell to America. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

It had never occurred to me to leave America—not even temporarily. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“Want some cereal? Milk in America is the greatest thing ever.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

He had spent the years after college traveling around Asia, Latin America. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The idea of her getting married and moving to America was a lot easier to digest than that of her moving to Europe as a single girl. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I began wondering whether it was worth it, going to America, if it meant being unable to communicate with my family. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think it’s supposed to be South America, because there are palms behind her and swarthy waiters in white tuxedos. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

On our first trip, America seemed possible for us. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

A thaw between America and Russia, something most leaders would have thought impossible only months earlier, seemed on the horizon. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Laleh’s suitcase was twice as heavy as mine, because it was also crammed full of the stuff Mom had brought with her from America. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

As a little girl, I did not know I was a descendant of the Inca, the most powerful ancient civilization of South America. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

So he made arrangements for her to attend a course of study at the University of Rochester in America. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Otto Frisch rushed to Copenhagen, Denmark, catching up with Niels Bohr just as Bohr was boarding a ship for America. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It serves to define the meaning and significance of race in America. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Over in America brawn is called head cheese and she doesn’t know why. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Never ate it until I came to America,” he replies. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

While I was weaving the veterans’ personal stories into the complex, divisive web of politics and protests in America, more than a million refugees poured into Europe from Middle Eastern and African countries. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Republicans in America inevitably bring up Ronald Reagan. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

I have a new father here in America. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“You’re just crazy if you think she’s going to be happy in some run-down farmhouse in America. Not with what she spends on clothes.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

But that advantage alone doesn’t fully explain how initially so few European immigrants came to supplant so much of the native population of the Americas and some other parts of the world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

She whispers to me in Spanish, “Keep it, mi niña, keep it. We will both try to forget about Cuba. We’re in America now. No more tears, mi niña. Just a bright happy future.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

“The kids used to chase me around at lunchtime and beg me to say things in English. They were obsessed with America,” I explained. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Now living with her grandmother in America, she had been badly burned in the attack, the scars stretching across one side of her body. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

A little girl came running up to me, screaming, “Look, Mommy, it’s Miss America! Will you sign my autograph book?” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Governments across America at the time, including state legislatures and the US Congress, were too much under the influence of big business for the workers to gain the benefits they hoped the strikes would bring. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

In many parts of Latin America there is a resentment, abundantly justified, of U.S. workers with big budgets swooping in to profit from the work of poor local scholars. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I talked to them about the difference between liberals and conservatives in America, especially when it comes to issues of immigration, women, and human rights. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

"No one wants the Jews. Not even America. Americans have no right to criticize us. They rounded up their Indians, you know. Put them on reservations." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

It told a story about America that allowed the diversity in. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He says that President Roosevelt is a good man and everyone in America will soon have a job. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

An international grandmaster, he was one of America’s strongest players in the late 1920s and 1930s, when he played in five chess Olympics, winning a number of medals. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Until recently, when it was overtaken by Mount Denali in Alaska, it was the most murderous mountain in North America. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

After he went to Brown University for graduate school, Bill traveled around Europe for a while, and when he came home, he joined Teach for America. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

But America doesn’t seem like any of those things anymore. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Drug trafficking occurs there, but it occurs everywhere else in America as well. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Where are any such things in America^” he taunted the amateurs. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was a good nickname to remind us and everyone else that Marines have always been the toughest of all the armed forces who fight for America. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

We ate with our hands, another thing I had not yet done in America. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

They sent people to America to learn not only how to speak English fluently, but also to learn our American Indian languages. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rivaling germs as proximate factors behind Europe’s conquest of the Americas were the differences in all aspects of technology. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The plan was that my baba would eventually find a way to follow us to America once it was safe for him to leave. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I was terrified that it was the sort of place where you did not know what might happen to you if you suddenly said, ‘I don’t like America.’ Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

For us, as in America, it’s known to be healthy to breast-feed. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

And now Russia’s army was headed right for us with their allies, America and England, blowing wind into Stalin’s sail. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

We share an unspoken understanding, two people from similar backgrounds raised in similar ways in America. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

But when I told Tabitha that I was trying to get us to America, she wasn’t afraid. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

But interhemispheric diffusion made no contribution to Native America’s complex societies, isolated from Eurasia at low latitudes by broad oceans, and at high latitudes by geography and by a climate suitable just for hunting-gathering. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

What if they hadn’t had the guts to leave Iran and try to give us a better life in America? Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

While the FBI and America viewed Sebold as a hero, the Germans branded him a traitor. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

America is woven of many strands; I would recognize them and let it so remain. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was my father who became angry while watching on television some woman at the Miss America contest tell the announcer that she was going to college. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’re going to America! We don’t have to save money anymore!” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That how I learn in America to shake hand. I take class. You supposed to look in eye, then shake firm.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She had been born three months after her parents landed in America. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

How many other people had become black in America? Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

All I need is a few pounds to make up the fare and a few pounds in my pocket when I land in America. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

By the time the European invasions began, Indigenous peoples had occupied and made changes to every part of the Americas. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a thing you sort of have to discuss in New York, because everybody’s family is from somewhere that ain’t America, like Jamaica, or Haiti, or Trinidad, which is where her grandma was from. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He described for Olmsted a vision of a dream city designed by America’s greatest architects and covering an expanse at least one-third larger than the Paris fair. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

So, when she said “God bless America,” it almost felt like I was meeting her for the first time in my life. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

His museum had discovered evidence that the Americas had been inhabited during the Pleistocene, a major scientific coup. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I told him you were in America, but that I did not know much more. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The Norse visits were instead launched from the Greenland colony, separated from North America only by the 200-mile width of Davis Strait. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

She had the album open to photos of her in America: her college graduation, her bridal shower, her citizenship ceremony. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

This is our neighborhood, this is our city, and this is our America. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sort of scenario I warned about in my new book, Get Scared, America! Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Across the West Virginia state line, in Pennsylvania’s Alle-Kiski Valley, known as Black Valley, some of the richest corporations in America piled up profits. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

Her red-white-and-blue Sweet on America uniform smelled like the best things in the world: chocolate, licorice, and all the other stuff she sold at the candy shop in Grand Central. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

This idea about learning was being used successfully by practically every teacher in America. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, what Tim had failed to tell me was that he’d told these people he was bringing a famous rapper from America to come and rap in their talent show. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The Kuiper belt was actually theorized by an astronomer named F. C. Leonard in 1930, but the name honors Gerard Kuiper, a Dutch native working in America, who expanded the idea. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

After the end of his expedition, it was a long time before Europeans again reached the Mississippi Valley, but Eurasian microbes were now established in North America and kept spreading. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“What colleges have you applied to?” he asked as he parked in front of the Bank of America. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

The Soviet Union sent technicians and planes to Nigeria, thrilled at the chance to influence Africa without offending America or Britain. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

For years I’d planned my first day at school in America. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was learning about shades of black in America, and about how your skin tone determines where you stand on the beauty scale. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Everyone had seen him on The Late Show, and on Good Morning, America and two or three other TV shows. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first time she lived in Flushing was decades ago, after leaving London, when she had first settled in America with her husband and two daughters. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

No task is more urgent for racial justice advocates today than ensuring that America’s current racial caste system is its last. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The distance between Mesoamerica and South America—say, between Mexico’s highlands and Ecuador’s—is only 1,200 miles, approximately the same as the distance in Eurasia separating the Balkans from Mesopotamia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“The young whites, and blacks, too, are the only hope that America has,” he said to me once. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

His message of personal responsibility, particularly as it relates to fatherhood, was anything but new; it had been delivered countless times by black ministers in churches across America. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He had not been back to America since completing his survey there eighteen years earlier and had no known reason for being there, or any friends or patrons to greet him. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The papers were full of Seabiscuit, proclaimed on that coast to be the best horse in America. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

By contrast, the Americas had no wild maize, and thus no wild maize harvest. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Editorials in Federalist newspapers accused him of passing information to the French government through pro-French agents in America and meeting routinely with Benjamin Franklin Bache, editor of the Aurora, the chief vehicle for the opposition. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

They were among the fortunate ones, America’s favored children. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Were they thinking, “If this wasn’t America, I just might. . .” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“You and the director can work out the blocking and stunts. We’ll shoot the train-hopping scene on Saturday. I have a feeling America is going to love our new Duke even more than I do.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Some thought that he was making a strong effort to counteract the truth about America that I was telling every chance I got. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

But their parents had replied that in America, Bengali friends were the closest thing they had to family, and so they had gone to Bedford, where the Mazoomdars lived. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

A relieved Joseph Goebbels sat down and wrote, “The Fuehrer is immensely happy... England remains passive. France won’t act alone. Italy is disappointed and America is uninterested.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“God bless America,” we both answered at the same time. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

The plight of the black man in America. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Poor Lodovico, he does not seem to have realized that the discovery of America had made ridiculous the claim that one should never venture into the unknown. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Mother wants to sell the amethyst ring Father brought back from America, where he trained in the navy before I was born. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

At the heart of the story is southern California, whose cities became prototypes for the rest of the nation, whose love of the automobile changed what America looks like and what Americans eat. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

The book was called Roadside America: Your Travel Guide, and had been published in 1998, after this place had been abandoned. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

To keep that from happening, the United States needed inside information about the plans of South America’s Nazi sympathizers and the spies who were working with them. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

It’s the only time I get homesick, when America lands on my doorstep in a missionary guise. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Take the plane north, toward Central America and southern Mexico, into the bulge of the Yucatan Peninsula, homeland of the Maya. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Only such real, meaningful actions as those which are sincerely motivated from a deep sense of humanism and moral responsibility can get at the basic causes that produce the racial explosions in America today. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

These examples demonstrate that the sole missing ingredients required to sustain food production in large areas of the Americas were domestic animals and crops themselves. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

And just as Pop Pop predicts, this is the year black women make history at the Miss America pageant. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Rader also mentioned that a tour of both Russia and South America was being talked about. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She said their house was right on the beach, and they had a tennis court and all, but I just thanked her and told her I was going to South America with my grandmother. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

With most students and teachers I knew, I was opposed to America’s Vietnam War. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They’re putting us on boats. Don’t you see? Were going to America. America!” said the repeater. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

That wouldn’t cut it on the Miss America stage. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Pull back farther, and you got a sense of where Clarkston sat in America—tucked in a green corner of the country beneath the gray ridges of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

He knows that the Miss America girls have to wear makeup for the pageant. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Papi begins explaining that the Garcías have finally gotten permission to leave the country, and they’ll be taking the airplane in a few hours to go to the United States of America. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

He was always looking to do extra work ’cause he was saving up enough money to buy his wife and daughter and son out of America. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“The responsibility...,” the press release said, “is with the government and not with the women of America, if the lack of democracy at home weakens government in its fight for democracy three thousand miles away.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“In America, dogs are treated like family members,” I said. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He brought this picture all the way from America where he found it thrown out by someone who had no time for the workingman. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“So what do you do in America, Amir agha?” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

During the next three weeks every man, woman, and child in America heard about this funny new word that kids were using instead of the word pen. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t know it yet, but she was on the trail of South America’s most dangerous Nazi spy. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

That has been true since penitentiaries first opened in America. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Being from America made me intensely sensitive to matters of color. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nobody but Flider would have dared to suggest that such cooperation turned Churchill or Roosevelt into Communists or Communist tools, or that Britain and America were working to bring about a Communist world. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You did the right thing. You did not think, This is America, I can marry who I want.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I never learned the exact reason he chose to come to America. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like Tanisha said, it’s not like it’s actually Miss America anyway. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Despite warnings that the American public would not accept a white man playing piano for a black singer, Anderson decided to return to America with her Finnish accompanist, Kosti Vehanen. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

You can’t get off a ship from America and go on the dole, says Grandpa. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Ifemelu did not quite grasp what it all meant, but it sounded correct because it came from him, the America expert, who so easily said "graduate school" instead of “postgraduate school.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I’d brought everything I owned: T-shirts, shorts—so worn out that people in America would just have thrown them away. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is the United States of America,” he said. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

To meet this challenge, America's intelligence agencies had few resources and only a handful of agents at their disposal. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

They bought a big picture book, Scenic Wonders of America, and talked about making a trip to the Grand Canyon. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father called America a goldene medina where even poor Jews could make a name for themselves, where anything was possible. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“His uncle bought it illegally in South America. He snuck it back to the States when it was a baby. You know what it eats?” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Harlem, as my wife said, was the Soweto of America. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the time, South America was a very mysterious continent. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

They were Japanese girls in America during a time when America was fighting a war with Japan—did any of them want to deny it? Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

But his medical license had saved him from being sent back to Greece; America needed physicians. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

They were always showing Columbus discovering America, having one helluva time getting old Ferdinand and Isabella to lend him the dough to buy ships with, and then the sailors mutinying on him and all. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“There is desegregation. There is no integration in this community, the same as any community in America.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told us that in America, we would not necessarily fit in, but that we had a chance to better ourselves and further our education. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“We don’t even have anywhere to go in America.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

That winter Robert Cohn went over to America with his novel, and it was accepted by a fairly good publisher. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

In school, most children are taught songs like “America the Beautiful” and “God Bless America.” An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

The president wanted his enemies to think that America's defenses were impenetrable. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

For the whole first year America was in the war, there were no photographs of dead American soldiers in any American newspaper. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

If anyone out there thinks that undocumented immigrants are privately high-fiving each other and throwing backyard barbecues to celebrate their free ride in America, let me assure you that is not the case. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

My mouth dropped open, and I must have looked stunned, because Papa Andrew asked, “How did you think you would get to America? Walk?” Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

A risk-taking journalist, he’d previously worked for Look magazine and Esquire, and was the author of two books, including a history of lynching in America. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It didn’t matter that I had fought for America. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

This town does not actually exist, but it might easily have a thousand counterparts in America or elsewhere in the world. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He did not view the clash between England and France for supremacy in Europe as a distant struggle far removed from America’s long-term national interest. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Joe and I flew home to America in the same plane, and on the way he told me about Prague, and his Prague had no relation to the city I had seen and heard. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

My parents reasoned that in America we could find jobs and help support my sister and brother, whose lives would not be easy in a country struggling to establish itself. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Then the baishakunin, whose work was to procure brides, showed them twelve acres of prime mountain land, which, he said, the potential bridegroom intended to purchase upon his return from America. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

This dramatic change in the roster of nations making up the new America is yet another stage in the saga of this country as a melting pot of cultures and experience. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

J. Edgar Hoover had even starred in a short film that celebrated the FBI’s great victory against Nazi spies in the United States and South America. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Had Europe been united under any one of the first three rulers, its colonization of the Americas might have been stillborn. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

There are customs, attitudes, myths and directions and changes that seem to be part of the structure of America. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sixteenth president of the United States of America did not, as you might imagine, speak in a rich chocolaty baritone. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Frederick was a gifted translator who spoke eight or nine languages, but in America he had to take whatever job he could get. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

As for white people, except for that relative handful privy to certain police or prison files, not five hundred white people in all of America knew we existed. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sold few and attributed the debacle to America’s fading love of poetry. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Thus, among the thousands of culturally diverse native peoples of Australia, the Americas, and Africa, no universal cultural taboo stood in the way of animal domestication. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It almost didn’t even seem like America anymore. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

On the one hand, the election of Barack Obama to the presidency creates an extraordinary opportunity for those seeking to end the system of mass incarceration in America. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

She had an ancient sewing machine that they had bought upon their arrival in America. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Also absent was Compton, who was away on a summertime jaunt to South America. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

It’s like America’s Funniest Home Videos, the way he rebounds off the door. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Parts of Eurasia, and one area of the Americas, independently developed writing as well. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

North America had not yet seen an emergence of an agent that turned people into bleeders. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is the biggest dam in America east of the Mississippi and something of an attraction for people who like concrete in volume. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

In his simple remarks he confirmed for them that America was still great, still number one in the weekly top twenty poll, whatever the threat of the Japanese and the Germans and OPEC. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rest of the Americas was organized only at the tribal or band level. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

What about that ingrained resentment toward yuppies, so strong he’d refused to even consider moving to some of the most interesting cities in America? Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was written in red-blooded English, from New York, the United States of America. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It made me feel like us three were on some kind of important journey to save America from evil. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Their cousins and aunts and uncles ask them about life in America, about what they eat for breakfast, about their friends at school. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

They have left their children behind in Central America and Mexico to find work in el Norte, and they have found this place to sleep. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

In America, the injury is not in being born with darker skin, with fuller lips, with a broader nose, but in everything that happens after. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

He was just giggling at some old episode of America's Funniest Home Videos. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

One might also at first be surprised that the Americas evidently filled up with humans so quickly that people were motivated to keep spreading south toward Patagonia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Lourdes believes that Enrique’s comments reveal a fear: if he goes back to Central America, his mother will not follow him. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

People in America seemed to assume that we were coming from an undeveloped land where we had no decent clothes. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

This proliferation of corn and other crops such as beans, squash, and potatoes required vast networks of cultural and commercial exchange among the peoples of North, Central, and South America. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Collectively recoiling from the native population of the Americas, Europeans learned how to become a new version of themselves. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Mammoths had flourished for millions of years over most of the northern hemisphere, but as Homo sapiens spread—first over Eurasia and then over North America—the mammoths retreated. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“European countries are surrounded by countries that are similar to one another, while America has Mexico, which is really a developing country, and so it creates a different psychology about immigration and borders.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

It is important to learn and know this history, but many people today lack that knowledge and understanding because of the way America’s story has been taught. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Framed photos from our time in America lined the living room, since the photos from our past in Africa had burned in the camp. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I was burdened with a leaden fear as I kept speaking engagements all over America. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

That leads to an error called a hypercorrection, in which people use a nominative pronoun in an accusative coordination: Give Al Gore and I a chance to bring America back. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

How else could it be, that he should find himself lying in coin-spangled ice slosh, in America, embracing — of all people — his sister? Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told people he met about his friend John and his new life in America. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I also met the real Ugly Betty, America Ferrara, who is very pretty. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Interesting! I’ve known him for a long time, since we first came to London. Him from America and me from France, could you guess?” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

For about two hundred years, it was the sole meeting ground of two of the Americas’ largest societies—societies similar in scale to, say, the Maya realm, but much less well known. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

You wouldn’t find one there either, just like in every other community in America. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

In comparison, the sorts of sights offered in such places as Africa and America, though undoubtedly very exciting, would, I am sure, strike the objective viewer as inferior on account of their unseemly demonstrativeness. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

America declares war on Japan, and Germany declares war on America. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Outside, the British Colonies of America detached themselves with infinite lumbering care, while within our enclave I thought on nothing that day but my mother. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was officially the second-largest crowd ever to attend a horse race in America, but because the record tally, at the Kentucky Derby, was famously exaggerated, the attendance at this hundred-grander was undoubtedly the largest. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just some antioxidant recipes. Ready for BiPAP and America’s Next Top Model?” she asked. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

“You hit your little brother? That what you learn from America? To hit your family?” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The Gamzers planned to come to America too, when they could, and I promised to stay in touch. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Did everyone in America go to bed this early? The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Sub-Saharan Africa is the world’s third largest landmass, considerably smaller than the Americas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

And admit it—you say “I’m not black” only because you know black is at the bottom of America’s race ladder. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Not one of us had been to a single state in America. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

All were important foods to the Indians of eastern North America. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The Atlantic floor was effectively two large conveyor belts, one carrying crust toward North America, the other carrying crust toward Europe. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Kappe had told them to bring a complete suit that was made in America to change into and wear, so they would blend in. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

The rumor was that about three thousand boys and young men from the refugee camps would be chosen to go live in America! A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Wallace D. Fard had given to Elijah Muhammad Allah’s message for the black people who were “the Lost-Found Nation of Islam here in this wilderness of North America. ” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the first bomb drops on America the people up here’ll start thinking. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Atahuallpa’s capture symbolizes the European conquest of the Americas, because the same mix of proximate factors that caused it was also responsible for European conquests of other Native American societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

How could my aunt just leave me here in the kitchen—is this how you treat family in America? American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She asked where Mariama was from, how long she had been in America, if she had children, how her business was doing. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

One was the social worker I had told about the Lost Girls, and another was the woman who interviewed us about coming to America. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tells of the history of Panem, the country that rose up out of the ashes of a place that was once called North America. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

North America’s first gardeners were those who got tired of combing the undergrowth for edible gourds and decided to cultivate pumpkins. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wild peach was rampant in South America, too. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

At the same time, other factors were making America appear less class-bound than ever. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I should have remembered what we learned on our way to the library that first day in America: teenaged girls don't hold hands. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Said Mr. Rao, “A few years ago nobody in America wanted to talk to us. Now they are eager.” The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Then he sang Katie songs to the tunes of “Row, Row, Row Your Boat,” “America the Beautiful,” “Kookaburra,” and some songs I didn’t recognize. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

As for Eurasia’s head start, humans have occupied Eurasia for about a million years, far longer than they have lived in the Americas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“So you just go back to America,” Conor carried on, “and go back to your other family and we’ll be fine here without you. Because this is going to work.” A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

With that new dawn, with my mind and my body, my spirit and my emotions in good balance, I was ready to begin my journey as a warrior for America. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was compiled during the depression by the best writers in America, who were, if that is possible, more depressed than any other group while maintaining their inalienable instinct for eating. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

But here we were in real life, and for all of my smarts and skills I couldn’t think of one single way to get what I wanted, a good job in corporate America. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, banks and companies were failing across America, strikes threatened everywhere, and cholera had begun a slow white trek across Europe, raising fears that the first plague ships would soon arrive in New York Harbor. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

In the spring of 2005, The New York Times published a series of articles on class in America, a dimension of the national experience that tends to go unexamined, if acknowledged at all. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

He’d count them off on his fingers: America the brash savior, Britain, and Israel. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

In America, she said, there was fear of death; here life was separate from Being. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“How did you see race in America, by the way, Emenike?” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

One agent inside the CIA never gave up on the idea that a mole had burrowed into the heart of the America spy service. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Now the weight of America’s involvement in the whole complicated, messy conflict in Vietnam sat squarely on his shoulders. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Around the same time I was offered a full-time job in America, in the processing department of a library at MIT. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

If Clovis was not first, the archaeology of the Americas is wide open, a prospect variously feared and welcomed. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She beams, and then, after glancing in my direction, adds dramatically, “At least in America.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

All over America, kids were saying the Pledge of Allegiance, saying ‘indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.’ Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Nately reacted on sight with bristling enmity to this wicked, depraved and unpatriotic old man who was old enough to remind him of his father and who made disparaging jokes about America. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

St. Joseph’s Prep holds itself in high moral regard and self-consciously grooms America’s future elites. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

It may have been out of taste, but that gave me an opportunity, and I used it, to preach them a quick little sermon on America’s racism, and its evils. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But the whole point of the Pentagon Papers is the incredible extent to which the government has defrauded the people of America.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

As of 1492, all of those operations to which animal, water, and wind power were being applied in Eurasia were still being carried out by human muscle power in the Americas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

As if I had never seen a pair of shoes until I came to America! How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

More than once since arriving in America, I had followed a man in the crowd, drawn by my father’s familiar gait or the wink of sunlight across his gold-rimmed spectacles. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

There was every size from a variety of countries—America, Czechoslovakia, Poland, France, and others. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

And there’s Arthur, half the size of the dude dressed up as Captain America. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

The relatively high standard of living that she can now enjoy— enough for a small apartment and car in Bangalore—is good for America as well. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

But I considered myself to be genuinely misunderstood because my parents and I were not having the same life experiences: They had not grown up in America. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Sally, a grandmother from America, speaks about eating turkey on Thanksgiving. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

"They're set in America, and that makes them un-German. I don't want to burn them, and I don't want you to get in trouble." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

She was in her apartment on Spring Garden Street, the first that was truly hers in America, hers alone, a studio with a leaky faucet and a noisy heater. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The black man in America has to lift up his own sense of values. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

On June 2, 2006, the church was filled with our new American friends and with Lost Boys and Girls from all over North America. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Islam in New York City was growing faster than anywhere in America. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I'm not interested in bull-fighters. That's an abnormal life. I want to go back in the country in South America. We could have a great trip." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

In fact, the state that slaves called Lousy Anna was the very worst place for an African in America; it was the Caribbean all over again—a death sentence. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Experts now believe that the FBI-run station likely gave the Germans better intelligence than they got from their actual spies in South America during the entire rest of the war. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Until the United States cured its “Mississippiitis”—that disease of segregation, violence, and oppression that plagued America like a chronic bout of consumption—the paper declared, it would never merit the position of world leadership. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Absent the extinctions, the encounter between Europe and the Americas might have been equally deadly for both sides—a world in which both hemispheres experienced catastrophic depopulation. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

"It's just that America's boring, especially where I live. I want to see something...something...different." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

From that day forward, it was apparent that Muslims had become the boogeyman in America. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“Do you know why I left America, Lidewij? So that I would never again have to encounter Americans.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Since that time, according to an article in the New York Times, bear attacks in North America have increased by 25 percent. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“The air is just blank in America,” I said. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She played music my mother had listened to when she was younger and told her everything would be okay, even if America was not made of gold as people back home thought. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The story was big news all across America. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No. She’s afraid we’ll lose our customs and forget how to be polite and proper Bengali children. I don’t know why we came here to America if we can’t live like everyone else.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

My family began attending classes to learn about life in America. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The beginning of all true wisdom concerning the Farewell Address is that Washington’s core insights were firmly grounded in the lessons he had learned as America’s premier military and civilian leader during the revolutionary era. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“You gotta have talent to be in a Miss America pageant, you idiot. And Nessy here got a voice straight from heaven. Believe that, boy!” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

About 3,600 Sudanese passed the interviews and began being processed for relocation to America. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

But what America got that night was a moment of release, a chance to feel its own resilience. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The evidence for predominantly single domestications in Southwest Asia, but frequent multiple domestications in the Americas, might thus provide more subtle evidence that crops spread more easily out of Southwest Asia than in the Americas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I’m sorry for their troubles but there’s no other way for me to save the money for America. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Then, finally, it descended into the relatively cool, green beneficence of the Puget Sound region, perhaps the only region in America that was not sweltering that summer. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He had only two weeks to train for Compton and, with the Olympic trials in July, two months to become America’s youngest elite 5,000-meter man. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t really come back. I was born in America.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The other asked Bonello if I was an Italian from North or South America. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t wait to tell Moniba: America is a very nice place, but it was just as loud and crowded as other cities I’ve seen, with its honking horns and people rushing here and there. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Seeing how I’m not very inventive, I had to pilfer the idea from John Asscraft, who’d recently handed out some practical advice for staying alive in an orange America. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“This is very popular in America,” I explained. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

In America the quirk was that people were things. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Why don’t you go to America where there’s room for all sorts of uselessness? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Lincoln once said that America was founded on a proposition that was written by Jefferson in 1776. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“So according to your theory,” said Shadow, “Walt Disney World would be the holiest place in America.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

As I started to turn away, he asked if he could interview me on camera about my going to America. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s it. Tectonic plates. It’s like when they go riding, when North America goes skidding into South America, you don’t want to be in the middle. You dig me?” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

And of course, as soon as we had, Mami and Papi got all worried they were going to lose their girls to America. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He had a sister, who had been sent to America with him at the same time to live with the uncle, who would graduate from normal school this year. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Much of that goes to feeding America’s 100 million beef cattle. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

To make matters worse, America was behaving strangely underfoot. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Nearly one-quarter of America’s city dwellers live in poverty. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

And when I went home, I’d tell my mom I was going to America. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The only thing I do believe is that America is going to win the war.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Nazi Parachutes Attack America and Get Shot Down over the Flint River by Captain Byron Watson and His Flamethrower of Death looked like a real cool movie for me to make too. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before Columbus discovered America, there was already a reward announced, should he be successful. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I learned that if I went to America, the government would take care of me for ninety days. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The signs say things like America for Americans and Go Home. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Archaeologists have tended to believe that paleo-Indians would have needed millennia to walk from the north end of the Americas to the south. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Already the Soviets maneuvered for control of Europe, where their espionage networks held the advantage over America and its Western allies. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Despite the introduction of different, more powerful drugs, the new kind of malaria spread across Asia, then to Africa, and eventually to South America. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

For me, it was so that I could find love and freedom in this new home called America with my beautiful girls. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

They existed before, and they exist again, in the city of New Orleans and the United States of America. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Once I’d had a taste of America, I never ate at home. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“You do realize that South America is actually a continent, right?” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Yet people managed to move from one sector to the other, day after day, making Berlin the one place on earth where America and Russia—and their spies—came into contact. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

America's spies had simply missed the evidence of Stalin's progress. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

While Aboriginal Australians and many Native Americans remained hunter-gatherers, most of Eurasia and much of the Americas and sub-Saharan Africa gradually developed agriculture, herding, metallurgy, and complex political organization. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The most outspoken members of the community refused to internalize the contradiction, openly equating the foreign racists America was moved to destroy with the American racists it chose to abide. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Our only hope was asylum in places like England or America, which meant we were refugees, begging for them to protect us. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I may be the only kid in America who ever clinched the Musical Achievement Award by skipping out on his big concert. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Earthbound grows 80 percent of the organic lettuce sold in America. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Everyone in the Soviet Union was happy and friendly, unlike America, where crime made people afraid to leave their homes. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Such names are themselves priority claims, made on behalf of the original discoverers by their admirers, and the implicit analogy is with the naming of America. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

What seems unlikely to be undone is the awareness that Native Americans may have been in the Americas for twenty thousand or even thirty thousand years. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Eisenhower worried about the impact of military spending on the budget of the US government and feared it could crowd out other priorities and eventually stall America's roaring economic growth. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

You owe it to us because we left our homes and came to America. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

How, he wondered, did marsupials travel from South America to Australia? A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

One day, a girl asked, “Sandra, were you surprised when you saw shoes for the first time in America?” How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“I pledge a lesson to the frog of the United States of America, and to the wee puppet for witches’ hands. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Improvements in navigation, the lure of the spice trade and competition among rival European powers made the discovery of America around 1500 more or less inevitable. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, one by one, she lets us take a walk down the same runway that Vanessa Williams graced when she won Miss America. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Having just returned from America, I thought, he might help me contact universities over there about the possibility of a tennis scholarship. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I went back home, and in a couple of days, my Lost Boy friend gave me two applications to go to America—one for me and one for Tabitha. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately for the experts, in the 1920s and 1930s their initial theories about the timing of Indians’ entrance into the Americas were proven wrong, and in a way that allowed the crackpots to claim vindication. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The grimmest examples of germs’ role in history come from the European conquest of the Americas that began with Columbus’s voyage of 1492. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It carried America’s secret weapon, a single atomic bomb. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

America was a ghost in the darkness, like her. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Secretly, he was disappointed that the engineers of America had not yet stepped forward with some novel but feasible scheme to eclipse Eiffel’s achievement. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

There was a chance we could move to America. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

There are no racists in America, or at least none that the people who need to be white know personally. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Not surprisingly, such aspersions were indignantly met in America. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

My cynicism—which had been my protection against an America that had cast me out—slid from me and, timidly, I began to wonder if a solution of unity was possible. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out of the horrific tragedies of lynchings and race riots would come an awakening of black America. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“We’ll take it away in some random direction and stick it on a migrating bird. See how the Specials like South America.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“The Labyrinth is under some building in America.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps, M. MacQueen, you will give me your full name and your address in America.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

For they learn that in America, a baby cannot be released from the hospital without a birth certificate. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Columbus was not ‘responsible’ for the existence of America, nor Galileo for the moons of Jupiter, nor Hailey for the return of Hailey’s comet, although certainly the credit for these discoveries belongs to them. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

They were all men working in America, anxious for news of home and family. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Soviet Communists saw the West as their prime adversary in the battle to win the hearts and minds of oppressed people everywhere; America viewed Stalin's government as an enemy of democracy. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

And the single-minded determination that had propelled him through twenty-five years of green- grocering in a famous ghetto of America would serve him a few last days, and through any of my meager execrations. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is with the people—spread out over Detroit, and Michigan, and America, and maybe even the world. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Is America really ready for a Malcolm X stamp, even if it is thirty-four years after his assassination?” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“At my old school, we always talk about who was already here. In America.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Isatu, on the other hand, had been a favorite of the aunties as Number Two, but her situation was reversed when she arrived in America. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

A paleo-Indian innovation, this type of fluting exists only in the Americas. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

If you want to fully understand what Europeans did when they encountered the Indigenous peoples of the Americas, it helps to know what happened in Europe in the centuries before 1492. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

On October 5, 1957, America awoke to the news that a man-made object launched the previous day from a Soviet space complex was orbiting overhead. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

It’s not Miss America, but like Mrs. Walton said, it sure is a good place to start. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

This new, halting relationship between two old enemies would demand more of the CIA and KGB, as America and Russia asked hard questions about each other's intentions—and motives. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

In 1804 Haiti became the second nation in the Americas to become independent. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

He had written to her just before he sailed for America. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I chill out with Sir Ott on the couch and watch some America’s Funniest Home Videos instead. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The team that emerges as the winner will appear live on national television on Good Morning America the next morning!” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

In America, Benjamin Franklin famously risked his life by flying a kite in an electrical storm. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“She told me folks are thinking of us—they know we’re not the enemy of America. Know that we’re not an Other, that were the Us, too.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

In contrast, the first settlers of the Americas arrived in Alaska with equipment appropriate to the Siberian Arctic tundra. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It isn’t even 4:00 p.m. yet, but he’s already in his Captain America pajama bottoms, and his short black hair is sticking up in all directions. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

What was it about the Americas and Africa that made the spread of food production more difficult there than in Eurasia? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Before I walked back outside, I pulled the Made in America tag out of the collar, so people could see this was not some cheap knockoff from Mozambique. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Similarly, America's emergence as the dominant world power in the 1940s could never have occurred if the United States had not established stable national institutions at the start that permitted the consolidation of the continent. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The classical architecture of the White City made such a profound impression, Sullivan claimed, that it doomed America to another half-century of imitation. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

North America was not ready for that, not yet. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had joined a union, the United Garment Workers of America, or the UGWA. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

America, it appeared, had once been the home of a truly substantial creature–one that would surely disprove Buffon’s foolish Gallic contentions. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The Americas were a great laboratory of evolutionary experimentation, a place where animals and plants unknown in Africa and Asia had evolved and thrived. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Tutors also have rather a hard time of it there, as I know to my sorrow. There’s no place like America for us workers, Miss Margaret.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Board of Education, the landmark 1954 decision that banned segregation in all public schools in the United States of America. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

As part of his search for a way into the America bomb project, he turned to his best courier, Harry Gold. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

My parents were having a difficult time parenting in America because they didn’t know the language or the culture. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He claims he wants to get to know America’s youth, and as part of America’s youth, we would give it to him straight. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

In other words, it was the perfect spot for America and its allies to spy on the Soviets. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dorothy Vaughan entered the Greyhound bus in one America and disembarked in another, no less anxious, hopeful, and excited than if she were an immigrant arriving from foreign shores. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“Well,” she said, “I’m not going to America until Arthur gets here. No matter how long we have to wait.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Turns out that Larry had shipped on one of Red’s crews all the way to South America and back. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the relationship between America and the Soviet Union soured overseas, more and more Americans tended to agree with him. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Herbie retold his story about traveling to Mexico, Japan, and Germany and returning to America on a U-boat. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Thoreau, to protest slavery and what he saw as America’s unjust war in Mexico, had refused to pay taxes. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The greater geographic fragmentation of the Americas compared with Eurasia is also reflected in distributions of languages. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It seems taken for granted in America that life for idiosyncratic, individualistic kids is brutal. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You boys have it too easy here. America make you soft.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Babas right. And Malala's case got a lot of international attention, but sadly, poor girls suffer from injustice everywhere in the world. Including in America.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

The men had been divided up into different teams, and each team was going to land in a different spot along the East Coast of America. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

I looked at him and said, Brooklyn’s part of America. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

While modern continental peoples included ones dependent on stone tools, as were Polynesians, South America also spawned societies expert in using precious metals, and Eurasians and Africans went on to utilize iron. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It primed the whole of America—not just a few rich architectural patrons—to think of cities in a way they never had before. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

For this is your home, my friend, do not be driven from it; great men have done great things here, and will again, and we can make America what America must become. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Blackout curtains were hung in windows across America, from solitary farmhouses to the White House. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Both were learned men; both were especially well-read on America. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Known as Jimmie, he had come to America in his late teens and settled in Palo Alto, where he had endured the social misery of attending elementary school as an adult. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

I was instantly excited by the idea of going to America. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“When you come to America, it’s a chance to forget some of the bad Chinese habits. A person could get up one day from the gambling table and find her life over.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not just like a white kid, but like I was a...a part of everybody running and jumping and playing all over America. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“The big boxing fight that took place in America yesterday.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boat carries around fifty Chinese men who have paid $20,000 each to smugglers to ship them to America. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Located largely on Seventh Avenue between 28th and 41st Streets, it was where America’s clothing was made and assembled. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

One of the mounds at Cahokia is believe to be the largest earthwork in the Americas to have been built before the European invasions. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

I want to keep listening to find out what Baba thinks my uncle won’t like about America. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

That maybe one day I too can make it to the Miss America stage. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

They already let us have our first black Miss America. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

For instance, annually, the black man spends over $3 billion for automobiles, but America contains hardly any franchised black automobile dealers. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

And now America had surprised the world with a weapon that could devastate entire cities in a matter of seconds. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I begin a year-long project on how football in America has become ritualistic, almost a religion, an opiate for the masses. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So, since 2001, America has been engaged in a new kind of war...a war on terror.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

In the end, Markus Wolf concluded that America could never be his home. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Once Spain had thus launched the European colonization of America, other European states saw the wealth flowing into Spain, and six more joined in colonizing America. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The answer was, no, they couldn’t join; our membership was all black—but if their consciences dictated, they could financially help our constructive approach to America’s race problems. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he succeeds, Lincoln’s prayer for a reunified United States of America may never be answered. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

The neighbors stopped by to greet her, the daughter back from America. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Then one of them shook our hands and said, “Welcome to the United States of America,” and pointed us out of Immigration. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“Let them go as fast as they want. They don’t bother me and I don’t bother them. This is America, a free country, no?” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

“I guess it must be a lot harder to be a priest over here in America, huh?” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of years later, America is still not an egalitarian democracy. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Giiiika recounted anecdotes about her own early experiences in America, as though they were all filled with subtle wisdom that Ifemelu would need. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“You see,” he said, “we know more than you think. If Miss Debenham is innocent, why did she conceal that fact? Why did she tell me that she had never been in America?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mam says they call it homework in America but here it’s exercises, the sums, the English, the Irish, the history. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Furthermore, once malaria and yellow fever did become transmitted to the Americas by European ship traffic, they emerged as the major impediment to colonization of the New World tropics as well. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Bien explained that he and his family had just arrived the night before and that he didn’t know anyone or anything about America. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

My parents were a city girl and a village boy, but they still found each other thousands of miles away in America. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

They had no domesticated animals at all except for dogs, which were probably domesticated elsewhere in the Americas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

In contrast, Europeans in North America are generally shown as being fully clothed, even in the sweltering heat of summer. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Mameh was his meal ticket to America, and once he got here, he was done with her. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The recruits were to commit "minor sabotage of a nuisance nature," to prey on America's fear and provoke prejudice against any person possibly connected to Germany, Japan, and Italy. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

In 1987, the amount of oil produced in North America had actually been the same as the amount of oil produced in the Middle East, about 12.5 million barrels a day. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dismissing the impact of disease, in her view, is simply a way to reduce the original population of the Americas. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

We left without anything except the family books and the papers that would enable most of us to go to America. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

The white poor have a vastly different experience in America than do poor people of color, as they are rarely relegated to racially segregated urban areas characterized by intense poverty. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He went to America and got lost, his people would say. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

As one would expect, the word caught on more rapidly in North America than in Britain, where scientists continued to have a classical education. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Thinking back on my visit with Van Riper, I wish that he could have shared his gut instinct about Iraq with the rest of America as well. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

For in North America, then England, France, Haiti, and once again North America, the Age of Sugar brought about the great, final clash between freedom and slavery. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Migra agents particularly like to test suspected migrants with words that have the same meaning in Mexico and in Central America and sound similar but are not exactly the same. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

But the longer she spent in America, the better she had become at distinguishing, sometimes from looks and gait, but mostly from bearing and demeanor, that fine-grained mark that culture stamps on people. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

This was Johnson’s first major escalation of America’s war in Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Between 1890 and 1900, even as questions and concerns about human heredity and its manipulation became central to policy makers in America and Europe, Mendel’s name and his work were lost to the world. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. I’ve been wrestling with why. The World Trade Center was America’s financial engine. The American Dream,” Pop rasps. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

‘For who doubts,’ asked Newton’s associate Roger Cotes, ‘if gravity be the cause of the descent of a stone in Europe, but that it is also the cause of the same descent in America?’ The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Ten gold-rimmed glasses Father brought back from America where he trained before I was born. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The only way I saw out was if I obtained a tennis scholarship to America. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Carl instinctively grasped that the new car culture would forever change America. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

The brutality of the industrial food system in America is something that is pretty recent. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

As sugar planters fled from the revolution in Haiti, some moved to Cuba’s Oriente Province, others to North America—to Louisiana. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

It wasn't America's military strength that he worried about. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Why bring their kids to America, and not let them enjoy the freedoms they wouldn't have been permitted in Iran? Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

He may have wanted the British to know at least some secrets so that England, fearing that France was close to aiding America, would decide to end the war. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s cool, I guess. Plus, who cares about that pageant? It’s not like it’s actually Miss America or anything.” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He loves America and makes us know all the American states in alphabetical order. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

We may not be expanding the number of eaters in America, but we’ve expanded how much food they eat, which is almost as good. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

But especially books about America, and books about doctors and medicine. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

In point of fact, the little town of Milagro had one of the highest death ratios in the United States of America. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We did not know where we would be living in America. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

This is particularly so with dates just around the time that people first came to the Americas, which is one of the reasons the matter is so perennially in dispute. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

When I first got to America, I had gotten a call from some of John’s cousins who lived in Texas and who had heard through the Dinka grapevine that I was in America. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Recently, a Nazi spy in America, William Sebold, had gone to the FBI and blown the cover off Hitler's existing spy ring, destroying it. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

The table suggests that food production began to provide a large fraction of human diets around 5,000 years earlier in the Eurasian homelands than in those of the Americas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

But this banality of violence can never excuse America, because America makes no claim to the banal. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

"Comrade Deputies," he shouted, "I must report to you on aggressive actions against the Soviet Union in the past few weeks by the United States of America." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

So, while we were dancing on the Wall, savoring our Apples, opening up our Windows, and proclaiming that there was no ideological alternative to free-market capitalism, bin Laden was turning his gunsights on America. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

He gives me one of those upper-body-only, twist-to-the-side half hugs that are perfectly appropriate between male and female friends in America. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A bill is coming in that I fear America is not prepared to pay. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

It would be almost two years before we’d go to America. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

At dinner he is asked by his neighbor, a middle-aged woman named Pamela, at what age he moved to America from India. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the wake of Columbus’s discovery of America a silent revolution occurred, the invention of what we now call ‘the terraqueous globe’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

We have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Healthy children! I can see it! Much health happens in America, do you think?” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

And so, America became a place where bottles and bottles of Fanta were to be had, without permission. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

"The will said, Sing in praise of this generous land. The will said, May God thy gold refine. America, Angela, America! Purple mountain majesties, Angela. Whoopee!" The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even before World War II, Hoover had wanted his G-men to become the chief spy hunters in the Americas. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Part of being the “most perfectly planned community in America,” an essential part, was for Levittown to be whites only. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Now I know you boys love America as much as we do, but this is your big chance to show it!” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I started to feel pressure to look like what America considered beautiful. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He frowned at me again when I raised my hand and asked, “Are they bringing us back to America with them?” Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1920 Australian entomologists were sent to North and South America to study insect enemies of the prickly pears in their native habitat. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

When they arrived months later, in December 1941, America and Germany were at war. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

He said that only when he returned to America would he become aware of color differences. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She even recorded a bunch of America’s Funniest Home Videos for me to watch: my smile therapy. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

How had these people, denying profit and home and God, made that hurdle that even the churches of America had not been able to make? Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the first moment Europeans stepped onto what came to be known as North America, they left bloody footprints wherever they went seeking land and resources. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

You know America has a way of turning everything into an illness that needs medicine. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Las Casas, a conquistador who repented of his actions and became a priest, spent the second half of his long fife opposing European cruelty in the Americas. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Every girl in America was taking tap to be the next Shirley Temple. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Walker, America soon learned, was overseeing a massive KGB spy ring in the US Navy that stretched back eighteen years. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Everybody doesn’t hate the Gypsies, but there’s nobody that doesn’t hate us. Nobody is hated close to us. They even hate us in Washington America.” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

But he didn't have enough money to buy a ticket for passage, so Dasch snuck onto a ship and sailed to America as a stowaway. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Then, when I was eight, I left to live with my dad in America; ever since then, coming back to spend summers with my mom meant descending into the muggy and dangerous back of nowhere. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

And Twiggy's not going to work in America. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He was going to journey through South America in areas that were already on the map. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

It was America’s first attempt to reach the moon, and we were excited about it. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I thought that once we got to America, everything would be fine. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The German cockroach throughout much of North America has become resistant to chlordane, once the favorite weapon of exterminators who have now turned to the organic phosphates. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Why were the trajectories of all key developments shifted to later dates in the Americas than in Eurasia? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

What did my father—who had dreamed of Australia—think of his children once they forced him to change plans and remain in America? Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then came the most shocking news: America wasn’t part of England anymore. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted him to see what my life looked like in America. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The tallest being Rachel, at five feet six inches and the full benefit of Miss America posture; the shortest being myself, two inches lesser than my twin on account of crookedness. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But I am happy for you, living in America.” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to pit Red America against Blue America. I want to be the president of the United States of America.” Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He was born twice in India, and then a third time, in America. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

When he was about two years old his mother was shot and he was sent to North America to a zoo. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

I stand at the toilet bowl firing away and wonder what I’d need at a time like this and if this is a common thing in America, women waiting outside while you take a splash. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“I fully expect to see you on Good Morning America with that ten-foot-high trophy!” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

As in Africa, in the Americas the spread of native crops and domestic animals was slowed by constricted skies and environmental barriers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He was like a man who had served a term in prison or had been to Harvard College or had lived for a long time with foreigners in South America. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Damon Hininger, the president and chief operations officer of Corrections Corporation of America, the largest private-prison operator in the United States, is thoroughly optimistic. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

During the pause after Chester had finished “Rock of Ages,” Mr. Smedley came up to the newsstand to buy his monthly copy of Musical America. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

These included America’s supposed head start on the rest of the world in atomic weaponry. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The city’s mayor, Ole Hanson, declared that the walkout was not really a strike at all but a Communist plot to change the very fabric of America. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“I live in America eleven year. America very strong. You can feel how strong is America.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Pa’s always telling me how being in America is unbelievable hard for slaves. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

And nowhere in America was such a single temple potential available as in New York’s five boroughs. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Usually, whichever team won first got to be America the following round, since America always defeated Vietnam in the video show. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

I get out my National Geographic Complete Birds of North America and read it under the table until the period ends. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Glaciers form over Canada, snows fall regularly in Florida and Central America. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Virtually unnoticed, he will become one of an estimated 48,000 children who enter the United States from Central America and Mexico each year, illegally and without either of their parents. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Sargo had been the linchpin in Nazi spy networks not only in Argentina, but also across all of South America. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

When I was young, American schoolchildren were taught that North America had originally been occupied by only about one million Indians. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

My grandmother knew that in spite of America’s social climate, her children would be able to discern for themselves when an act was generated by pure racism, or simply by ignorance. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like dogs all across America, Fred was glued to his human’s TV, watching the new episode of Dog Squad that had just started streaming that night. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

And to Ashish, he was just some weird relic, something that belonged in their parents’ time in India, not here in modern America. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Why, Ivanov asked, was America keeping secrets from its ally? Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The light of the Motel America sign outside shone through his bedroom window. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

I might even say roadside America is the paradise of breakfast except for one thing. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know I was even supposed to have issues until I came to America. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

"We are coming here from India. It was a British colony, just like America. Most recently we have been living in England." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In an hour, every person in America will be able to look at a screen and see their First Son and his boyfriend. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Other researchers distanced themselves, criticizing him for being unscientific, but much of white America embraced his ideas and saw him as a spiritual adviser and a genius. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Most of all, he talks about leaving Cambodia and going to America. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thiel had lived in America for fourteen years and worked as a toolmaker for automobile factories. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

“The British were in Africa, along with the Germans and French. The Dutch were in Asia, and nobody was in South America,” because most of its nations were independent. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Ignoring him, even telling him that she was moving in with a man to whom she was not married, was something she could do only because she lived in America. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

It would be a long time before I told this story to someone in America and learned the reason why: the Kool-Aid was supposed to be mixed with sugar, and sugar was expensive. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Bobby returned to New York, both the Marshall and Manhattan chess clubs conducted victory celebrations, and he was lauded as America’s new chess hero. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Which was fine with C. P. Ellis and his compatriots in Unit Nine of the United Klans of America. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

A society, almost necessarily, begins every success story with the chapter that most advantages itself, and in America, these precipitating chapters are almost always rendered as the singular action of exceptional individuals. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

This book is about getting closer to mass incarceration and extreme punishment in America. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

For example, she had considered the great divide of her self’s time to be coming to America. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is a tropical or subtropical insect, inhabiting South and Central America and Mexico, and in the United States normally restricted to the Southwest. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Based east of Lima in the Andes heights, it first became prominent in the sixth century a.d.—a bad time to be launching a nation on the Pacific side of South America. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The all-day parade, titled Hitler Unlooses War, was a demonstration of America's military and industrial power, aiming to stamp out any doubt about America's ability to crush Hitler and win the war. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

But he assures me it is in America and therefore, it must be a little bit like California. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

While I was a student at Syracuse University, I set up a foundation to help improve the lives of Sudanese refugees still in Africa, as well as Lost Boys who had moved to America. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

In America the white men are thinking ‘I won’t touch a black woman but I could maybe do Halle Berry.’ Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

For this is your home, my friend, do not be driven from it; great men have done great things here, and will again, and we can make America what it must become. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Such newly discovered histories appear everywhere in the Americas. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The little I knew about America I had learned on television. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

In the Miss America pageant, the contestants have to prance around the stage in swimsuits. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Ginika’s parents had been talking for a while about resigning from the university and starting over in America. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

When World War II began, the SS spy agency in Berlin made him their top man in South America. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“We must buy some cloth and make you a dress to wear in America!” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why would something like this exist in America? The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Freedom and justice for all, the greatness of America, but a man living in a country sending satellites into space could still land up a heap in a doorway. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was probably a mistake, a red flag that would make Jesse more determined to try to butt his way into one of the more competitive schools in America. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was born ambitious to be a great cook, way back in another time, way back in America, which was now across the ocean. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Neither Europe nor Latin America were ready for them. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Coming forward as winners from World War II, a modern America began to emerge. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

America done with me and I done with it. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Unlike me, Mom has glossy red hair that bounces around and might obstruct America’s view of her small freckled face. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Doxys are found throughout northern Europe and America, preferring cold climates. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

America’s black man, voting as a bloc, could wield an even more powerful force. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I also give them a stack of clothing from America, and they’re most excited by the price tags and labels, which get posted as artwork throughout the village. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

September 11 hadn't happened yet, and we were decades away from living in Trump's America. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I got my clothes, a rail ticket to Peking, and enough money to go to America. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

According to current estimates, within that short interval, North America lost thirty-four out of its forty-seven genera of large mammals. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grandpa had thought up Southern Independence Day way back in February as a practical joke on the United States of America. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Instead of sailing from Turkey to America, this time she would be traveling from earth to heaven, where Lefty had already gotten his citizenship and had a place waiting. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But a thorough look at the data reveals that the graying of America did nothing to bring down crime in the 1990s. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Wacquant has written extensively about the cyclical nature of racial caste in America. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

France did not want to openly support America and risk being attacked by Britain. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was undertaken to discover if America was involved in the practice of racism against black Americans. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Knowing what the enemy was up to became the essential task of America and the Soviet Union—and the key to the world's survival. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He was Pedro Segundo’s father and he said his grandfather had fought in the ranks of the patriots who kicked the Spaniards out of America. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thanks to her, America’s spy handlers enjoyed highly secure communication links—far safer, for instance, than those used by America’s diplomats. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I know that segregation isn’t dead—just look at schools and neighborhoods and workplaces, and you can see that it’s still all over America. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

“You concealed the fact that at the time of the Armstrong tragedy you were actually living in the house. You told me that you had never been in America.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Quite lethal. In Central America the indigenous people use them to fashion poisoned darts.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I remembered how those stories got you so excited and mad and worked up that you wanted to charge down into America and free all the slaves. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

The simplest solution to the problem of race in America? Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

There was not another wharf in all America so large, so famous, so rich. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Long before America’s aircraft manufacturers placed one of their newly conceived flying machines into production, they sent a working prototype to the Langley laboratory so that the design could be tested and improved. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Natasha’s father, Samuel, moved to America a full two years before the rest of his family did. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

People in Central America domesticated maize and beans without knowing anything about wheat and pea cultivation in the Middle East. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

A ripple of applause turned to a roar as they began to play “God Bless America.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The soldiers who fought this war between America and the Soviet Union maneuvered in secret, often alone, working in the shadows of Berlin, Moscow, and Washington. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Not all immigrants believed that was true, but as one historian has written, “Whenever life could hardly be worse at home, they came to believe that life was better in America.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The AMC, founded over 120 years ago, is not only the oldest hiking club in America but the oldest conservation group of any type. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I realized that race was a very big deal in America. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I was not sure if it was because the woman was asking for the dress or because she had brought up America. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Spreading south at a mere one mile per month, those pioneers would have reached the southern tip of South America only 700 years after crossing the Canadian border. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He enlisted in the Army in 1964 at the age of eighteen, at a time when America was heavily involved in combat. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

For the nearly two decades that he had lived in America, Dasch worked mostly as a waiter. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know what America’s thinking was,” said Jerrod as the pickup edged its way to a little butte rising out of the stubble and the rock. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Didn’t nothing good ever come out of one of these letters from America. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

They had brought us to America for the sole reason of giving us a better life, and they didn't want that life to become an impediment to our relationship. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

And the South being a limb of the nation, its pain spreads out to all America. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spent my days playing tennis at the ranch, hoping for a letter from Stan or George Toley telling me that some university in America had decided to award me a tennis scholarship. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I met many Africans who had either spent some time in America, or who had heard other Africans’ testimony about America’s treatment of the black man. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

America was desperate to lose itself in anything that offered affirmation. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

A new man had joined the group, Augustus St. Gaudens, one of America’s best-known sculptors, whom Charles McKim had invited to help evaluate the designs. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Grandma left Belize and came to America when she was eighteen. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Nikkei were people of Japanese descent, whether they were citizens of America, Japan, or any other country. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

My da used to say every Irishman you meet in America swears to have a relative who fought alongside Michael Collins. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Her father had then done what Greek fathers of unmarriageable girls did in those days: he wrote to America. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Yes. She is now teaching in America. She shares a cramped office with another adjunct professor, but she says at least teachers are paid there.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“And not from Kojo. His grandfather came to America from Zimbabwe, a landlocked country in southern Africa that’s bordered by South Africa, Botswana, Zambia, and Mozambique.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

“I take this to America, bring it back here, and now it will follow you wherever you go in life,” Baachan said. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Sign now and save America from sexual ignorance, chastity, and fear. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Witness the women, both young and old, in America—where scarcely any moral values are left. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without a network of secret agents in America, Hitler needed to build a new one. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Caroline had been born in America, something that she very much took for granted. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“They can write anything they want. It doesn’t mean squat. This is America. Everything’s for sale.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Yes. I pay close attention. Mr. Schmidt said exactly, ‘What are the differences between America’s far past and its recent past?’” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

It had been Papa’s dream to come to America. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

I was too afraid of how girls who'd been born in America would judge me if I confessed that I wasn't supposed to be living in the country. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

While those questions of proximate cause remain unanswered, the ultimate reasons why Norse colonization of Greenland and America failed are abundantly clear. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The guardians of institutional America in Washington were able to ignore the need for fundamental social changes. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She whispers to us that it’s why the cancer rate is so high in America. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

It may be some Ages hence, a voyage to the Southern unknown Tracts, yea possibly the Moon, will not be more strange then one to America. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

"There's nothing wrong with staying in America," Max says, her eyes turning to the window. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Only three months, and listen to you,” she says, telling him that after twenty years in America, she still cannot bring herself to refer to Pemberton Road as home. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The evidence confirmed his innocence and Mr. Hinton became the 152nd person in America exonerated and proved innocent after having been wrongly convicted and sentenced to death. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“It was quite interesting to see how this plays out in America,” Georgina said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

What America and the world needed was a hard man. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

From a few incidents in which before and after totals are known with relative certainty, Dobyns calculated that in the first 130 years of contact about 95 percent of the people in the Americas died. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“In 1951a woman died in Baltimore in America,” he said, pausing for effect. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

When we think of major overseas population movements, we tend to focus on those since Columbus’s discovery of the Americas, and on the resulting replacements of non-Europeans by Europeans within historic times. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Ben deletes, retypes: What are the differences between America's far past and its recent past? Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Our very own Miss New Jersey is going to show us around all of the famous Miss America monuments. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

"I brought gifts for your children before departing for my home in America. I am the daughter of Rajeev Das." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Quantitative data should also be assembled to test my preliminary calculations suggesting differing rates of diffusion along the major axes of Eurasia, the Americas, and Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

If I needed explanations at all, I conjured up vague notions about a war between America and Japan. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn't want to admit how disappointing she found this first glimpse of America. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

And the reason for this ignorance is that a knowledge of the role these people played—and play—in American life would reveal more about America to Americans than Americans wish to know. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

And when the dust settles, America will have won. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He sits at the table on one chair, she sits on the other and Malachy and I sit on the trunk we brought from America. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“I want you to show people in America the beauty of Pakistan. They don’t know this place like you do now.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

This little collection of debutantes represents over four billion dollars of America’s wealth and over fifty of America’s leading families. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

As I lay there in the dark, I thought about life in America, but despite Teacher Sarah’s optimism, I worried that no American mother and father would want a spotted child. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was just about to finish Form Two, the equivalent of eighth grade in America. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Not least, the Americas were more fragmented by areas unsuitable for food production or for dense human populations. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Oceania comprises the Americas, the Atlantic islands including the British Isles, Australasia, and the southern portion of Africa. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

In North America, lightning fire is most common in the western mountains. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She came to America in search of the American dream. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Thus, instead of victory in the traditional sense, America and Russia sought deterrence as their strategic goal. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

If you needed to illustrate the idea of nineteenth-century America as a land of opportunity, you could hardly improve on the life of Albert Michelson. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The Black Belt shone as a symbol of the power of the ballot all across black America. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“No, it is a stepping-stone on the way to America,” Papa Andrew explained. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spoke of his eight brothers and six sisters, how every one of them had eventually come to America, though a few had already passed away. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The floats were followed by a procession of tanks, soldiers, sailors, marines, industrial workers, and others who were protecting America's home front. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Some of those bathing suits are from my own Ladybird Hope, Pageant Princess swimwear line, which is America’s bestselling teen swimwear line, by the way. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I was excited to be a part of politics in America, to have a voice. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“That certainly should throw light upon the matter. An extraordinary country America.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

It used to seem like an adventure just to sit outside after dark in their backyard in America. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Today, because this is America and you are not destined to remain in the class into which you were born, I live in a house with four bathrooms, and there is always enough hot water. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“This whole time, I thought the Taliban was the enemy of America. But didn’t the Afghani family we set up the apartment for have to escape and come here because of them?” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

And so she appeased Tochi, putting America down, talking only about the things she, too, disliked about America, exaggerating her non-American accent, until the conversation became an enervating charade. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

In Paris America had made a half-hearted effort to show off its artistic, industrial, and scientific talent. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

They remain aloof from the modern temptation that captivates many in America’s middle class: the temptation to relieve the anonymity of public life by trying to make it intimate. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Knights of Pythias got their own day, as did the Catholic Knights of America. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

You do not have to sail west, but if you do you will end up in America. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“You should wear this pin close to your heart. Because more than anyone here, you are destined to be a star. I have no doubt that you’ll be on that Miss America stage one day.” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Well, what do you think of America now?” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Those extinctions left Eurasia with many more wild candidates for domestication than the Americas offered. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“America is not going to be destroyed!” he shouted passionately. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Further confusing the matter is that the stages or ages in North America have different names from the stages in Europe and often only roughly intersect in time. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“They say England is gray, but everything about America is too bright. Sometimes I wake up wondering how I’ll get through another day of Type-A personalities and firm handshakes.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

She felt confident about Blaine: he was a descendant of the black men and women who had been in America for hundreds of years. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Mam tells them she had to leave America because she couldn’t stand it after her baby girl died. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Don’t worry about it. It’s no one else’s fault. Besides, I’m over it. You kinda have to have a thick skin if you happen to be Muslim and live in America.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

And in a little while all the copies of Musical America were gone too. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon they were laughing and listing the things they missed about America. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Where they had once dwelled all over North America they now lived in remote parts of Canada, in only two of the lower forty-eight states, and in the wilderness of Alaska. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Waldseemüller’s world map of 1507, the first to include the name ‘America’, the first to show the New World as, in effect, a new continent, and the first to show antipodes. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It’s November 19,1996, and I want to leave you with some final words about our America. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The alleged controversy is as bogus as other catchy dichotomies such as nature versus nurture and America: Love It or Leave It. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Technically, Hawaii wasn’t US soil. It didn’t become a state until 1959. But, yes”—Mr. Schmidt stops writing—“the attack led to America’s entry into the war.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

But by the time my dad made it to America, I didn't recognize him. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

America is propping up most of the remaining white world. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not in China, not in America, not in the past, not in the future. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could hardly believe it was me, Melba Pattillo, sitting on a stage in that elegant gold room with its stately place in America’s history. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But now the Bracelets’ upturned noses suggested that there was another America to which we could never gain admittance. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I hand- scratched to them how the white man’s society was responsible for the black man’s condition in this wilderness of North America. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

After wandering and drinking in America and England he yearned for peace in his declining years. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Well, when I leave my home it was Tuesday, and when I came to America it was Wednesday. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Like Silicon Valley in the heyday of the Internet bubble, London was the center of a speculative mania about the Americas. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Living in America, she said, would make this difficult, because here there was tension and unhappiness. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Does all America so far smell alike? Or are there sectional smells?” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told her that the White House had not confirmed or denied reports that extensive bombing had started in major cities in South America. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not just because it was a place where the living gathered, but because for a few minutes at a time they could see all the world, not just their little corner of North America. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I said, staring at the legend: "After the Struggle: The Rainbow of America's Future" "Well, when you first suggested it, some of the members was against you." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why didn’t Chinese ships cross the Pacific to colonize the Americas’ west coast? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I knew we would have new opportunities in America. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

And so by the 1700s, sugar was becoming a standard ingredient in England, Holland, and the North Americas for everyone who had a bit of money. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

A more challenging academic curriculum was to be installed, the result of Sputnik and the worry over how badly educated America’s children were compared to Russian kids. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Chicago is widely considered to be one of America’s most diverse and vibrant cities. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z