Many American blacks proudly say they have some “Indian.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

More often, the theme was politics and the awkward cold war thought up by the American paranoids, who should be back in the law offices of middlewestern towns. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

“I reflected on how inadequate any man is for the office of the American Presidency,” he later recalled. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

That’s how long it took for the American ship to be unloaded. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

He ordered a second American destroyer, the Turner Joy, to join the Maddox. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

While Shin was still in the Seattle area, he invited me to a Korean American Pentecostal church in the city’s northern suburbs. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

American cannon were firing on the Vulture, which quickly weighed anchor and sailed away. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the victory in the American Revolution, the English had then been expelled. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

I’d always supposed I knew exactly what an American school would be like, but as the time came near, I wasn’t sure. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was the Americans and the Belgians. It had nothing to do with Katanga.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

That night as I held the American flag steady, I saw that everything I had been through, all the sacrifices my family and I had made to get to this moment, had been worth it. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

And I submit, then, that the racial tensions that menace Americans today have little to do with real antipathy—on the contrary, indeed—and are involved only symbolically with color. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

He and his staff had picked out two local youths whom he hoped to send to the new medical school that Cuba was opening for Latin American students. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“She heard it on Axelroot’s radio. She says he’s a mercenary killer working for the Americans.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would later get an American nickname, too. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

His ambition was to protect the South American Indians and preserve their culture, striving for a peaceful coexistence. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

From them we take a belief that every American is a natural-born hunter. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The issue had already caused a split within the American Anti-Slavery Society. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Then she intoned, as if she alone possessed this knowledge: “There is an American flag on the moon!” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I suppose there had been some confident belief in the rehabilitative effects of playing a good American team sport. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

He could hear the American tanks firing over the nearby explosions of grenades, rocket-propelled grenades, and small-arms fire. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Created in the nineteenth century as a volunteer citizen militia to fight American Indians on the frontier and, later, Mexicans along the border, the Rangers had evolved into a kind of state police force. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Yet in the wider world, the war was drawing closer to American shores—and it would push both Elizebeth and William to their limits. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

By the summer of 1946, Americans everywhere started seeing signs of communist traitors in their midst. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

By now, more than ten million Americans were unemployed, and the auto industry was in a perilous free fall. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Before the Americans could go inside, their only English-speaking guard told them to memorize their simple address, in case they got lost in the big city. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Early in the morning, reading a graphic description of combat wounds suffered by American soldiers, Gravel began to cry. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The American teenager whipped out a small-caliber pistol and began shooting. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

A world away from Lamphere and Gardner's quiet deliberations in Arlington Hall, American and Soviet forces in Europe inched toward open hostility. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Anyone who favored a strong executive was vulnerable to the charge of being a quasi-monarchist, and therefore a traitor to the republican principles of the American Revolution. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

My class was American Literature, a lecture about Frederick Douglass in a mostly empty auditorium, and it was incredibly difficult to stay awake. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

‘We will fight for the rights of Americans. England cannot take our money away by taxes.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Course, that was before I knew you were more American than me.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I saw newsreels of long lines of defeated German soldiers, just peacefully walking away from the battle, guarded by only a few Americans. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Villagers ran from combat clutching small children as news anchors reported ever-growing numbers of Americans killed in action. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I’d never been someone who dwelled on the more demoralizing parts of being African American. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Because most Americans, including those within law enforcement, want to believe they are nonracist, the suffering in the drug war crosses the color line. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In 2004 two U.S. anthropologists and a Venezuelan medical researcher proposed that Native American susceptibility to infectious disease might have a second cause: helper-T cells, which like HLAs help the immune system recognize foreign objects. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Her American children had no feelings and no memory. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the American kids knew nothing of my history in Africa. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

In addition, Native American HLA profiles are dominated by an unusually small number of types. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

At the height of his popularity, some 70 percent of the American public believed he was doing an outstanding job of rooting out secret Communists. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

She’s never forgiven me for doing better in an English class when I was “foreign,” and she was American. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

In the American pantheon, with Franklin on his deathbed, he ranked second only to Washington himself. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

One day I passed Edith, the homeless woman who plays the accordion every day on the corner of Sutter and Stockton, and spotted an American flag sticker on the accordion case at her feet. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Cat got your tongue? Or wait—do you Americans even say that?” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

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

There was a possibility that if I did get a scholarship to an American university I would be refused a passport. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thus, Chapter 3 sketched the immediate factors behind Europe’s conquest of Native Americans, and Chapter 4 the development of those factors from the ultimate cause of food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

She learned about Indian words that have been incorporated into American English, like moose and pecan and squash, and Penobscot words like kwai kwai, a friendly greeting, and woliwoni, thank you. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Was he “the future of America”? Was he upholding “the American way of life”? I guess it depends on who you ask. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

A lady talks about what a visionary Noah Webster was to create the first American spellers and dictionaries. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

He pointed to cars, said their names and where they were made: Soviet Volgas, American Chevrolets, German Opels. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

They would need to learn English and how to fill out job applications, and they would have to get used to the expectations of the American workplace. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The place was crowded with loud American children and their aggravated parents. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He’s a low opinion of Americans and no opinion at all of any other nationality.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not for the first time in Native American history, the confusing, incorrect name prevailed. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

They had been off Alicante about a week when a ship flying the American flag anchored near them—the Ember, from Salem, Captain Gorman commanding. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Americans didn’t have one, although, like some of the other countries, they had gunboats on the river. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, she wanted to be cremated and have her ashes scattered in a sacred Native American ceremony somewhere in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She supported suffrage as a means of improving the working conditions of children and African Americans. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

If my mother's not American, how can I be? The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, though the exhibition did garner coverage in local newspapers, not one story mentioned the reason for the event: to bring attention to the American team’s financial straits. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Ellsberg had just become the first person in American history to face criminal charges for leaking government secrets to the press. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Apparently we whispered even more softly than the Americans. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He despised those American colonials who had fought against his England, yet he still chose to settle in Philadelphia, where he set up a royalist newspaper called The Porcupine's Gazette. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

The American economy has also grown more quickly than Europe’s in recent decades, leaving an impression of boundless opportunity. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“What did he say?” asked one of the Americans. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

“You think you are so American,” Ma said to Caroline. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Those who did know about it often thought of it as “the Nazi code,” something that applied to barbarians and dictators, not to American doctors. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

One theory makes him a British agent who decided to spy for the Americans after he saw that they would probably win the war. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aside from my dayee Mehrdad, who had an American wife, we were the only other family among my relatives who bothered to celebrate Christmas. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

It wouldn’t be the first time American planes had dropped their payload on Cambodia. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Even the American Bar Association’s standards of practice for prosecutors are purely aspirational; no prosecutor is required to follow the standards or even consider them. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“They may work out all right,” said Stuart, “but I would hate to meet an American Indian while I had one of these things in my hand.” Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

“The man was really killed by a clumsy stun,” reported Scientific American, “for which a dextrous blow from a pole ax would have been an expeditious substitute.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They think we’re Americans now. And maybe we are! Maybe we don’t belong there anymore after all.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

In a Gallup poll this week, 82 percent of Americans surveyed said the Internet was at least partly to blame for the Colorado killings. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cotter was persistent, however, and thanks to his efforts the American Embassy persuaded the Nepalese army to attempt a helicopter rescue in the Cwm. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Carroll was shaking his head in frustration—about the crime and about all the challenges of peacekeeping—when an aide appeared and told him an American was waiting at the compound gate to see him. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

He summarily rejected their offer to become the American Caesar and denounced the entire scheme as treason to the cause for which they had fought. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

There will also be an American flag no larger than a child’s hand—glued to a lollipop stick and flying from the cash register. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Making himself the spokesman for the ordinary American, he wondered aloud how politicians met the costs of their political expenses without putting those costs onto the taxpayer. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

It was a movie about American bombers in the Second World War and the gallant men who flew them. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

By 1922, ten million American households owned a radio receiver - up from just sixty thousand in 1919 - many of which were homemade ‘crystal’ sets. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“Are you really an American?” said the Englishman. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Until we moved to Epiphany, I had no idea how busy Americans are between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day, the time they refer to as The Holiday Season. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

I'm mesmerized by what she chooses to adopt from American culture. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Does the capacity to repent, to atone, exist in a majority, in one-half, in even one-third of American white society? The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

By that point, nearly every effort to send a US agent behind the Iron Curtain had failed; the KGB was simply too well entrenched and too vigilant for the Americans to sneak past its nets. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The lyrics retain images of early American life: the one-room schoolhouse, the rural environment, no industrial noise and automobiles, and the prevalence of animals. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

In the American boat, Don Hume bowed his head as if in prayer. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Do not be so pessimistic. Someday, Americans will elect a woman President.” In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

An accusation was enough to ruin a person's reputation; in the shadow of a looming Soviet menace, many Americans jettisoned the most basic standards of due process, fairness, or the presumption of innocence. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The Revolution in this romantic rendering became one magical moment of inspiration, leading inexorably to the foregone conclusion of American independence. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

When we fought the American Revolution, we’d all fight on the same side. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Wise guy,” they say, because this is what Americans say in comic books. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The problem boiled down to the fact that they wanted to become Americans and their father—and their mother, too, at first—would have none of it. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

During that same summer of the Americans’ annihilation by the Soviets, Bobby Fischer, now twelve, was engaged in his own battles on the board, playing in a tournament in Greenwich Village. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

For many African American voters, the Populist approach was preferable to the paternalism of liberals. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The American Beverage Association had promised to improve the clarity of its ingredient labeling. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

An American flag, stark and lonely against the violet sky, whipped back and forth on the brass flagpole. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“You know the one with the astronauts standing next to the American flag?” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

She was the only one in the family who called him by his American name. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Some Americans seemed to embrace it, understanding all too well the amount of organization and drive it takes to raise children. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

And the place they are fed is the American factory farm. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t routinely taught in medical schools, and many American researchers —including Southam —claimed not to know it existed. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I suppose they could all be lumped into the single question: “What are Americans like today?” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, the very man whose name symbolizes non-violence here today has stated: ‘ ‘Our nation was bom in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The picture was widely published two days later as heartening evidence of how miserably equipped the American Army often was, despite its reputation for being rich. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The United States, he insisted, must stop the bombing and withdraw American troops from the South before any serious negotiation could begin. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He hoped Shell would rent it because the oil companies were always the best renters, never complaining about abrupt hikes, paying easily in American dollars so that nobody had to deal with the fluctuating naira. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

During Black History Month, Americans congratulate themselves for having put an end to discrimination against African Americans in employment, housing, public benefits, and public accommodations. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It was conceived a century ago as a kind of woodland bank, a permanent repository of American timber, when people grew alarmed at the rate at which American forests were falling. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I had studied American history the year before, but I was having a hard time making the connection. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The other guy had an American accent, Californian. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

My first poem was titled “The American Dream,” a tale of a woman immigrating to this country—“the land of unlimited opportunity”—and barely being able to feed her family. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

No responsible statesman in the revolutionary era had ever contemplated, much less endorsed, a biracial American society. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

I used to watch American movies where cops would pull people over and say, “You didn’t signal” or “Your taillight’s out.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Why were blacks the ones who came to be so widespread, rather than the four other groups whose existence Americans tend to forget? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the histories of Native American wheels and writing exemplify the principles illustrated in a more extreme form by true island societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Now imagine reading a nonfiction book packed with stories such as this—true tales soberly related—just before setting off alone on a camping trip of your own into the North American wilderness. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The residents were not only overwhelmingly African American, but generally considerably older. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In this, the most famous duel in American history, both participants were casualties. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Just the mention of that name brings back the memories I’ve tried to block since second grade: our class play about American independence. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“Annh! Why do you Americans have only these morbid thoughts in your mind?” cried my mother in Chinese. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The unfamiliar American coins felt light in my hands. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He has won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, among other honors, for his novel Native Speaker, and was selected by the New Yorker as one of the twenty best American writers under forty. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the War of 1812 and the burning of the White House still a reasonably fresh memory, feelings were high, particularly on the American side. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Seaborg’s early life told the same quintessentially American story of immigration and assimilation as Ernest Lawrence’s, although his upbringing was rather more insular and culturally constrained than that in the Lawrences’ educated household. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

It was an exact copy of the American bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two people went to the principal’s office, one was African American and the other was Hispanic. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

It depicts the American Revolutionas a liberation movement, a clean break not just from English domination but also from the historic corruptions of European monarchy and aristocracy. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

When the fog finally lifted, the American army was not to be found. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a man without a country, Bobby eventually chose to settle in Hungary, and he had never heard another word from the American government. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It’s like those ladies you see on American TV these days, the ones who are so happy they have washed out a stain so the clothes look better than new. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said I felt that as far as the American black man was concerned they were both just about the same. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

They pursued that glimmering American phantasm called Justice by attacking legalized discrimination in voting, in public accommodations, and in schools. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I see Bedouins in the Sahara and the French Foreign Legion, cowboys on the American prairie. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Then there was the Russian Tsiolkovsky, Goddard the American, and von Braun, of course. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Being Americans, they’ll have so much more to share with Sam than I do. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

This was the idea of one of his most brilliant contemporaries, Paul Simon, with his knowingly entitled 1973 hit ‘American Tune’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“Wait until you try the American tortillas,” my mom said. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“I thought she’d been born to American parents overseas. It had never occurred to me that she was Jordanian.” Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The walls were woven from plant material, like a Native American hut, but they looked pretty waterproof. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

More than a million Americans had served in combat or in at-risk support teams in Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

It would’ve been rude, and Pakistani parents like mine don’t care much for their kids’ impolite American ways. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

By the time Elizebeth and William first saw the letters, British and American officials already knew the broad outline of the plot, and many Indians who had worked with the Germans had been arrested. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

In modern times, European farmers thereby replaced western North American Indian hunters, Aboriginal Australians, and the San people of South Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the rest, especially in the West, retreated to a sort of racing underground, a series of leaky-roof tracks scattered through Canada and the few American states where the sport had not been banned. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

President Johnson and Secretary of Defense McNamara were telling the world that the American destroyers had been on a routine patrol in the Gulf of Tonkin. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

To avoid impeachment by the House of Representatives, Nixon resigned on August 9, 1974, the first American president ever to do so. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Are you really? Well, you know what they say—God will not look you over for medals or diplomas, but for scars. That’s Elbert Hubbard, an American essayist, if you’re interested.” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

To learn early American history, for example, students dressed in costumes of the era and were taught how to spin yarn, hook rugs, and use quill pens. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I nibble on the bread and a soft cheese wedge and watch my movie, marveling over the fact that I actually picked an Indian movie over all the American choices. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Staff Sergeant X was in his room on the second floor of the civilian home in which he and nine other American soldiers had been quartered, even before the armistice. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

She sat there across from him, going over the notes for her speech, a twenty-four-karat gold American flag on her lapel, and Alex was so proud he thought he’d throw up. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The false document indicated that American troops were on their way to Lafayette’s camp. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said Ms. Angelou is one of the greatest American writers. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

He added that the order to restrict text messaging by federal employees behind the wheel “sends a very clear signal to the American public that distracted driving is dangerous and unacceptable.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I think her main goal in life is to make me into her ideal Mexican American señorita. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

I had qualified for my first Pan American Games in 2011, held in Guadalajara, Mexico, and captured the gold medal along with my teammates. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

We watched other American Indian persons making pipes out of the stone. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

It is from this basic step that most American Black dances are born. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

They ended up in Pittsburgh, where Wolfe became William—and an American citizen. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

But this part of American Street stretches long. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

"Ah, you American kids are a clever bunch for sure!" he says brightly. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“All Americans should be indignant when one American is denied the right to vote,” he told reporters. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

More intriguing was my early discovery that there was such a thing as an African American elite. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

We had both made concessions for this new American life; it was inevitable. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

It was to become a key factor in the American Revolution. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

They thereby injure even more American zookeepers each year than do tigers! Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The man asked him in Russian a question that Powers interpreted to mean, "Are you an American?" Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

To the Americans, owning and controlling property was the difference between freedom and slavery. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Following a skillful amphibious landing, more than 75,000 American and South Korean troops punched forward against the North Korean army. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Several South American countries including Brazil and Argentina have submitted requests to join the Global Alliance in response. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other white women didn’t think the African American women belonged in the parade at all. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

So light skin is valued in the community of American blacks. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“The imperative is...no, no. That’s not it. The American imperative is a splendid thing...a beacon...a shining beacon.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The movement of Americans to different income groups has leveled off and may have actually slowed. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“I’ll have you know that I represent the New American,” Toby said haughtily. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everywhere, there was a kind of recklessness borne of a sense that the American woods was effectively inexhaustible. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The area had been almost completely flattened by American bombers. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

From their vantage point, the children could make out the khaki uniforms of American soldiers escorting women and children onto the ships. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

There are some forty-five thousand items in the average American supermarket and more than a quarter of them now contain corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“I have retained my citizenship. I still put up the American flag in the bar and celebrate every single Fourth of July.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, those few successes have changed our food habits far less than Mexican corn changed food habits of Native Americans in the eastern United States after A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The host, a Frenchwoman, glanced at her American husband, a slyly pleased smile on her face; the most unforgettable dinner parties happened when guests said unexpected, and potentially offensive, things. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The American arrived in the company of General Steyn, the commissioner of prisons, who rarely made appearances on the island. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My aunt always brings this cake for our Fourth of July barbeque where she puts strawberries and blueberries on whipped cream to make an American flag,” Emily says. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

When Mr. Dimming got to American presidents in class, 1 rocked! Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“I’m Black, Mom. African American. That’s what I put on my official school tests when they ask. I’m Black and I’m proud of that.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

On the morning of November 3, Election Day, Johnson’s advisors secretly met to discuss how the American military could most effectively come to the aid of South Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Though the American republic became a nation of laws, during the initial phase it also had to be a nation of men. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The American Woman Suffrage Association had worked on state-by-state campaigns to secure women’s right to vote. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

That way, the American public would know Hitler had a long reach, igniting fear, panic, and prejudice. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Finally, this chapter responds to skeptics who claim that mass incarceration cannot be understood as a racial caste system because many “get tough on crime” policies are supported by African Americans. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

When the original owner wore it, black Americans could not vote because they were black. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

What bothered him was that American policy in Vietnam was failing. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

It was said that he once cured a woman dying of an ancestral curse that had eluded the best of American doctors. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fortunately, the Americans had plenty of artillery support. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

His ancestors were all Americans; the only language they spoke was English. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Had he revealed American secrets to the Soviets? Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The stock market was going up and up, and Americans were living big. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

The only other memory I have of her is from fifth grade when she snapped at a teacher who kept calling her African American. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“Yes, your dad wanted her to change it like the Americans do, but I told her to keep her traditions.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

It said that the factories had been closed because the owners were giving all their profits to foreigners and that the churches had been infiltrated by American sympathizers. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Indigenous communities regularly used fire in multiple ways that changed the precolonial North American landscape. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Was Hall really an American double-agent, feeding false data to the Soviets in order to make them waste their time and resources on bomb designs that wouldn’t work? Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know you blacks. You leave the country and start telling Americans lies about how bad things are here. Is apartheid a bad system, boy?” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

For years, for a number of reasons having to do with discrimination and cultural patterns, there simply weren’t a lot of women and minorities entering the management ranks of American corporations. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“Canned beans and hot dogs and something the Americans call salsa.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“The American Translation might clear that up for you. It says, ‘washed their wounds.’” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

A terrified boy could become a brave American fighter. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

She was carrying a suitcase-sized pocketbook, from which protruded a pair of knitting needles, some mending, crochet hook, baby’s bottle, and copy of the Scientific American. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She can’t make me not hate you. You dirty sneaking American Italian.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Every Saturday all the Japanese Americans for many miles around met at a bowling alley in the middle of the state. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

In the average American household, the TV set is on for seven hours per day. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I received a barrage of congratulations from my work colleagues and from my American boyfriend's family. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The Russians and the Americans ran to the base of the ladder as the policeman descended with his discovery: “Two dead flies!” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

By the end of 2007, more than 7 million Americans—or one in every 31 adults—were behind bars, on probation, or on parole. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In 1921, Eubie Blake’s Shuffle Along became the first musical comedy written by African-Americans and starring African- Americans to run successfully on Broadway. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Many of the forms of discrimination that relegated African Americans to an inferior caste during Jim Crow continue to apply to huge segments of the black population today—provided they are first labeled felons. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In the 1990s Black reviewed thirty-six studies of South American Indians. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“And I don’t think editors have any right to talk against the President. Americans ought to stand together!” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Americans are so nutty about physical appearance and what defines beauty. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Hameed straightens her spine and lifts her shoulders, reminding me of the way Nan always told me and my brothers to stop slumping like lazy Americans and use our good British posture. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

She and Roberto had been out on the boat Sunday and seen an American warship on the horizon. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are gone, left in cars that came for them, driven by pale Americans in white uniforms with gold braids on their shoulders and on their caps. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Far more Native Americans and other non-Eurasian peoples were killed by Eurasian germs than by Eurasian guns or steel weapons. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Being a strong, motivated, hardened American soldier was drummed into Oshiro and every member of the Special Forces until they were the elite force the army expected. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Being an American is hard enough; being a Nisei among these occupying forces is sometimes agony. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

There were many letters in the Odessa American, but none made a more personal attack than this one. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But the speech was marvelous,” added the colonel, smiling at the American doctor. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

You have been running around with that American girl for too long. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

“What about no wind on the moon? What about the American flag?” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Imagine having to learn a completely different version of history from your childhood. Here, it’s not the American War of Independence, but the Revolutionary War,” replies Elizabeth’s mom, biting into her scone. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

He wants me to know the Persian poets like I know American rappers. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Elizebeth also had to search for signs of hostile actions—anything from a foreign warship laying mines to submarines behaving strangely off the American coastline. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

They had speculated that growing up in the American military could affect the personality of an individual in one of two ways. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Doesn’t it produce cheap food for the American people? The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

It took no time for the mysterious name to pass from Soviet mouths to American ears: Sputnik. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

For example, it had been arranged that I would first stop and address the faculty and the students at the American University of Beirut. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was also a victory for Avery Brundage, president of the American Olympic Committee, and his allies who had fought tooth and nail to ensure that there was no boycott. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Greenhouse was a turning point in the American H-bomb program. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

When a serious felony case went to trial in a county like Monroe County, which was 40 percent black, it was not uncommon for prosecutors to exclude all African Americans from jury service. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Females of all classes and races were part of the movement that made millions of Americans receptive to the idea of women voting. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

He passed information to Washington—in a way still unknown—and convinced many Hessians to go over to the American side. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day, on the phone with a State Department official named Mike Forrestal, Ellsberg quoted from a cable that had just come in from the American embassy in Saigon. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

She was strikingly pretty, American, but raised somewhere in Europe, and she’d already been caught in the older boys' hungry gazes—I'd seen them huddled around her, vying for her attention. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Our American Cousin starts at eight, and his plan will go into action shortly after ten P.M. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Traveling about, I early learned the difference between an American and the Americans. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the era of mass incarceration, poor African Americans are not given the option of great schools, community investment, and job training. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In some ways, I decided, women are showpieces in American society, too. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Stassen leaped into his job with characteristic energy, declaring that he would assemble a supporting staff of “experienced men with brilliant analytical minds” to review American disarmament strategy from top to bottom. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

A nation that drew its audacity from the quintessentially American belief that success is open to anyone willing to work for it was disillusioned by seemingly intractable poverty. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

According to most estimates, by the mid-1770s, the average American colonist consumed more than three quarts of molasses a year—making it an irreplaceable part of the colonial economy. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

I wanted to make new friends, to feel like an average American teen. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Who were they, all these Americans who left the United States—volunteers and draftees—to fight in a war far away? Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I was beginning to believe that the long hard fight was over, that finally this American way of life was going to pay off. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Others say most Americans have no problem with this trend. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Each of these phases is specialized and unique, and neither India nor China nor Russia has a critical mass of talent that can handle the whole product cycle for a big American multinational. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Next for my first steps on American soil, but when the time came, I forgot all about them. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

For instance, you can marry someone who’s an American citizen and receive a green card through your spouse. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Buy a Liberty Bond and save American liberty! Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

After Nixon’s first few weeks in office, increasingly war-weary Americans wanted to see his plan for Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Tito and some fellow Liberians were walking up the street when they ran into an African American teenager they knew, walking with his mother and her boyfriend. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Maine, Mr. Reed tells them, is the only state in the nation that requires schools to teach Native American culture and history. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Try some serves,” he said in his mellifluous American accent. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The guards told the Americans to form in ranks of four, which they did. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the Korean War, U.S. forces helped push back the invasion, but at a cost of more than thirty-six thousand American lives. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He hopscotched electronically around the country, hour after hour for days, browsing through the help- wanted ads on newspaper websites in dozens of American cities. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She spoke with people who had been forced to come to the city after their villages had been destroyed by American bombs, their crops wiped out by Agent Orange. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

They could have been American or North Korean. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Since the sixteenth century, the origins of Native Americans have been an intellectual puzzle.* 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Should farmland in South America be used to grow expensive food for well-off North Americans? The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

That week, which included the hottest three-day period in the nation’s history, the heat would kill three thousand Americans. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

About twenty thousand American soldiers were stationed in South Vietnam, arming and training the military. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Aly had also won silver on floor, and Maddie had taken silver on bars, making us the most decorated American Olympic gymnastics team. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

When the three of us turned to face our country’s flags as the American national anthem played, I’d placed one hand over my heart and held my bouquet behind me with the other hand. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Ew,” Henry says in a flat American accent, and he laughs and Alex throws an elbow. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Written in grease pencil on the acetate surface of the chart were columns and rows of numbers—the numbers of American and enemy troops killed or wounded in battle. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The closest we come to worship is the Trinity of Visa, MasterCard, and American Express. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

We knew of the phenomenon called the Bradley effect, named for an African American candidate, Tom Bradley, who’d run for governor in California in the early 1980s. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I watch it bend and stretch like a slow-turning cyclone until it stops at the street signs—where Joy Road meets American Street. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Agent Jones closed his eyes for a second and tried to cast his mind back to a more pleasant time, when he had helped stage a brutal coup in a small South American republic. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Not only did they have American manners but they could still work like horses in the fields. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

Through the valley flowed a Mississippi of humiliated Americans. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the food chain that feeds most Americans is anything but natural. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He was tall and African American, with a shaved head, glasses, and an easy, sympathetic manner. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

But while I was forced into isolation from my dad's family back in the day, I still had more relatives living in the Bay Area than most of my American friends. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

But he did try to subtly emphasize the benefits of his preferred option: peace talks and the withdrawal of American troops. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Maybe they would adopt her, and give her an allowance like other American girls got, which Sandi would then pass on to her real family. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Their meeting was a critical moment in American history. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

While Americans celebrated victory, a woman in her early thirties, with short, dark hair stepped off a train in the tiny town of Las Vegas, New Mexico. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

At last real American words started coming out of his mouth. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

It would look bad for the American consul to be hosting a man who has only just been pardoned by the government. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

For millions of Americans, concerned that excess drinking of alcoholic beverages had become a national epidemic destroying thousands of families, it was indeed a cause for celebration. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

They were more American than a lot of Americans. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

My mom gently told me that Americans preferred to greet each other with a simple "hello" or a friendly wave and handshake. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

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

It had come to this: American military were shooting down unarmed Americans. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The leaders of the American movement to rethink the prison were the Quakers in Pennsylvania. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

On Sunday, June 28, the news of the Nazi saboteurs and their capture was broadcast on American radio. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Then it was on to the annual meeting of the American Physical Society, held in Chicago in the glare of the 1933 World’s Fair. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“We have completed your American family tree. Let’s meet your first American ancestors!” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

In any case, practically overnight, Bobby turned himself from a dead stockbroker and incapacitated bon vivant into a live, if somewhat unqualified, agent-appraiser for a society of independent American art galleries and fine arts museums. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

The American basketball player Frank Lubin lingered in Berlin for a few days. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

The vicious and easily identifiable demons that had haunted black Americans for three centuries were shape-shifting as segregation began to yield under pressure from social and legal forces. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The extent of the success had been kept a secret for many years after the war—a secret from the American people. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could and did imagine the inclusion of Native Americans. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

That’s an ancient Greek saying that translated pretty well into American. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“It was beginning to become clear to most economists that mobility in the United States was neither what they had long believed nor what most Americans took for granted,” Janny said. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“American troops are pushing into German soil. The Russians have captured back all of Romania. Only yesterday the Greeks in the Eighth Army captured Rimini. The Germans are on the defensive everywhere!” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Huh? Yeah. I think my mom was kind of scared to come. You know, ’cause my dad is American. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Something novel, original, daring and unique must be designed and built if American engineers are to retain their prestige and standing.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The Australians, the Americans at the embassy where she would sit all day to beg them to let us into their country, nobody. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Here we see both liberals and conservatives endorsing the same meta-narrative of American individualism: When individuals get ahead, the group triumphs. When individuals succeed, American democracy prevails.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

As the sky grew dark, the exhausted Americans sat on the ground gulping water from canteens and licking melted chocolate bars from the wrappers. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The average farmer grew enough food to feed twelve other Americans. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Around four o’clock, an American field howitzer, two miles away, lets fly a single improperly ranged shell. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Most important of all, the resistance that African Americans demonstrated during the riots in Washington, Chicago, Elaine, and elsewhere were the first stirrings of what would develop into a movement that would change America forever. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

I think—as I thought in 1967—that the black civil rights leaders were correct: Higher education was not, nor is it yet, accessible to many black Americans. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a boldly written article in American Anthropologist in 1954, Meggers proclaimed the implications: There is a force at work to which man through his culture must bow. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Americans are famous for talking about money, and I do everything possible to keep our reputation alive. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The banner didn’t yet carry much symbolic meaning for him, or many other Americans, in the summer of ’36. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, “It ain’t no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.” Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I slept, the news was confirmed: American voters had elected Donald Trump to succeed Barack as the next president of the United States. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

This principle was as valid for Hawaiian chiefs as it is for American politicians today. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

On September 19, 1777, Redcoats under General Burgoyne clashed with American troops, who nearly defeated the British. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 2008, Wes and many of his fellow inmates followed the presidential campaign closely, hoping for the election of the first black president in American history. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

"Let go of me. I'm an American. You must call the embassy. The number is 252-00-11." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He chose not to explain to the American people that the bombing would continue indefinitely. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The immediate causes of that language replacement were the advantages in technology and political organization, stemming ultimately from the advantage of an early rise of food production, that invading Europeans held over Native Americans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Southern redneck would prove to be one of the most durable inventions in American history. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

We passed the gazebo at the end of our street where the American Legion band played every Saturday night of the summer and we crossed Beach Street. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Without missing a step they snapped their bayonets onto their guns, presenting the glistening blades directly at the Americans. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

He found a bottle of wine in one of the huts and tried to buy it for four American dollars. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

In this case, the danger, in the minds of most white Americans, is the loss of their identity. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

I thought that when two American destroyers arrived, along with die Dutch cruiser Van Kingsbergen, to protect the lake tankers, Mother would change her mind. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Whatever the enemy may be planning, American science will be equal to the challenge,” Roosevelt wrote to Oppenheimer. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

African American abolitionist and civil rights leader Frederick Douglass had heard enough. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

So many lives lost, both Americans and Vietnamese. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“It is from an American recipe for potato stew that I am making this one,” Harrison said, as he watched Richard eat. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The American mothers were at once charmed and perplexed by her sense of duty. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Adams had always supported military preparations more as a diplomatic maneuver to impress the French government of American resolve. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

"Why settle for something less challenging? My daughter can sing any American song after listening to it two or three times, but have you ever seen an American who can master a Tagore song?" You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

American soldiers stood at attention in their trenches. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

Aware that whatever happened now would become the truth, that whatever he seemed to be would become what he was—already an American, in other words—he waited for Desdemona to come up on deck. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Before long, the dogwood, like the American chestnut and American elm, will effectively cease to exist. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Crossing customs on the American side is always fast and easy. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

He said to me, “My students would like to change some American traveler’s checks. Can you do this?” Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he pursued pre-med studies, he began making friends among African American, Asian, and Hispanic students. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

There were some American things they developed appetites for that alarmed me, and things they ignored, which alarmed me even more. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the end of a couple of years of this, at twelve dollars a month, the girls were highly desirable wives for American boys. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Hello, HALEY. Welcome to your American heritage. Let’s begin your voyage!” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

These weren’t the heirs and scions of industry; these were working-class Americans. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Bobby’s claim that he was an American citizen and had a right to make a phone call was ignored. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

In Parade magazine, journalist Jack Anderson said that the only way an American woman would make it into space would be as a guest of a Russian lady cosmonaut. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

Since this trip will really help bring “World Literature” to life, I’ve got to think of a clever way to bring “American Literature” to life. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“You know. A makher. A boss. The Americans call them the upper crust.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Modern Americans have lost the solution to the omnivore’s dilemma and today the problem is bigger than it has ever been. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

First, there was a good deal of unfinished business between the two men, a clear recognition on both sides that they had come to fundamentally different conclusions about what the American Revolution meant. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

And as much as class anxiety had driven the eugenic efforts of England in the 1890s, “race anxiety” drove the eugenic efforts of Americans in the 1920s.* The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Easy enough as it was to adopt white American values, I still had a Japanese father to frighten my boyfriends and a Japanese face to thwart my social goals. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

He passed on to her things he had heard on the streets, like how the American president Richard Nixon had resigned over a scandal. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Instead, I did the most American thing I could have done during the rest of the ceremony: I worked. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

What followed was one of the biggest disasters in all of American military history. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“They all went back to Japan after they lost to the Americans.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

In addition to their germs and technology, Eurasian and Native American societies differed in their political organization. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The wind swept over the crusted snow into my Byzantine face, which was the face of my grandfather and of the American girl I had once been. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

H. G. Wells was visiting the United States on a speaking tour to encourage American support for Britain in the war against Germany. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

As author Thomas Reppetto has noted, bootlegging was “a quick and equal opportunity pathway to the American dream.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Back in Berlin, Bill Harvey's carefully nurtured network of informants continued to reap new intelligence rewards for the Americans. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

It included lists of prominent American Jews, whom the MID kept tabs on. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

When the number of incoming African Americans in a particular neighborhood reached a certain point — 20 percent, say — sociologists observed that the community would “tip”: most of the remaining whites would leave almost immediately. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pictures and videos taken in the markets showed bags of grain marked as “A Gift from the American People.” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Because the Americans couldn’t tell who was fighting for the Viet Cong, they were suspicious of all but the oldest men. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Because of his love of words, in a strange way, it was the language difference—English English versus American English—that started Branwell’s fascination with the au pair. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had never imagined a man like him, an American like him. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The Star Spangled Banner” blared from speakers as the American flag rose on a wire over the magenta-colored arena floor. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The Guardians volunteer some of their time to tutor and counsel young African Americans. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t sure just what it was, but it looked like they meant to mount a huge attack on Khe Sanh, the American base next to the Laotian border. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Here's my down payment—and I have an American friend who will cover the rest.” I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

A block away was the state capitol, adorned with three banners: the American flag, the white and red state flag of Alabama, and the battle flag of the Confederacy. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Assuredly they are Americans. I meant what did you think of their personalities?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spent Thursday’s recess in the library, reading the new issue of American Drummer, which Librarian Higgins orders especially for me. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The elderly American lady’s voice rose shrill and plaintive. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was not easy to gain Americans’ sympathy when you’d spent years cutting off their liquor supply, but articles about a tiny woman bringing gangsters to justice made their departments look like the good guys. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Whistles blew and a band played both the Brazilian and American national anthems. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

The soldiers wrapped Lincoln in an American flag. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Ulster Scots were, for the most part, foot soldiers in the formation of the North American empire. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

“The British have confined all American officers to their lodging houses today.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, nationwide, the rate of incarceration for African Americans convicted of drug offenses dwarfs the rate of whites. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It’s an old catchy tune—like an American commercial. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The leadership of the National American Woman Suffrage Association opposed what they considered to be Alice Paul’s daily harassment of the president. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Three times over the course of the fall of 2011, Barack proposed bills that would create thousands of jobs for Americans, in part by giving states money to hire more teachers and first responders. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Bragg was in for a moment, but neither of us wanted the perverse joy of informing him that the English labs were again about to be humiliated by the Americans. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

African Americans constituted only 15 percent of current drug users in 1995, and they constitute roughly the same percentage today. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Wild celebrations were breaking out across the country, as Americans everywhere cheered the Allied victory. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

American troops entrenched on the new line and repulsed two powerful German counterattacks. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The coded Soviet telegrams couldn’t be used in a public court, because the Americans didn’t want the Soviets to know they had broken their code. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the effort of talking American seemed to have tired him. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Thus recent American and Soviet missions to Venus seem to have provided verification that the greenhouse effect is indeed the reason for the high surface temperature. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cahokia was located next to the largest stretch of good farmland in the entire American Bottom. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Do you see that rooftop balcony? We had a party there the night the American Civil War began. The shelling of Fort Sumter.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

American universities, already beginning to enjoy the fruits of collaboration with big business, duly put this relationship to work. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

A thoughtful African American man in a three-piece suit and a bow tie. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

In 2015, after American women soldiers stationed in Afghanistan complained that the army still did not provide boots in women’s sizes, the United States Congress suggested it might be time for a more up-to-date policy. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

How can the American Negro past be used? The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

The following year, in July 1955, a return match in Moscow was even more distorted in favor of the Soviets: The Americans lost again, this time 25–7. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Now the ship that had plundered and pillaged up and down the east coast of the American colonies was sinking under the relentless attack of a British man-o’-war that had chased it upriver. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

I hate it when the American kids make fun of the way we speak English. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Everybody watched American films and exchanged faded American magazines, but he knew details about American presidents from a hundred years ago. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Every night, she liked to read The New York Times in bed before turning off her light, to see what the Americans were up to. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

And I swear on the dictionary, if Freak ever tries to eat American chop suey again, I'll dump it on his head or something. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

We were standing before a giant, jubilant mass of Americans who were also palpably reflective. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

On the streets, Rasheed named various buildings with authority; this is the American Embassy, he said, that the Foreign Ministry. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

As her eyes followed it, they came to rest on an oil drum, the signpost of American civilization in the North. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had followed the American press about me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

In his more than a score of years as custodian of the sanctuary there, Maurice Broun has observed and actually tabulated more hawks and eagles than any other American. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Violence kept escalating in American inner cities, and tensions reached a boiling point in the middle of the hot, restless summer of 1967. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Eight years earlier, American agents had discovered "bugs," or tiny listening devices, embedded inside the Great Seal of the United States in the US ambassador's office. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

With this closer, peripheral examination, I suddenly wondered if the girl was a Native American. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The woman leans down and picks up the money and shows everyone that, yes, it’s just a plain old American twenty, unaltered, not sticky. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

As a teenager, Nguyen found odd jobs to do for the Americans on the nearby base, digging ditches and fixing potholes in roads. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“And the American fighting man is second to none.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

In the hysteria that followed over Soviet scientists’ apparent outdistancing their American counterparts, a new group of technical advisors was brought into the White House. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

She believes she’s doing them a favor by giving them a job and breaking them in to American life. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the morning of the parade, the issue of where the African American women would march remained up in the air. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

That’s what Ratwatte meant when he said that no American would have been so fatally intimidated by the controllers at Kennedy Airport. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

But if insecurity was the primal source of Hamilton’s incredible energy, one would have to conclude that providence had conspired to produce at the most opportune moment perhaps the most creative liability in American history. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

While American officials knew that Soviet troops had already landed on Cuba to help Castro's government, they had no idea that Khrushchev was quietly assembling a nuclear arsenal on the Caribbean island. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He had, of course, seen plenty of bare limbs before, belonging to the American and European ladies who took his tours. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

My father is a history professor, the Great and Powerful Expert about the American Revolution. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

As American casualties shot up, debilitating insomnia kept Johnson awake at night, prowling the White House halls in his bathrobe and slippers. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Like most people, Americans want to think well of themselves, their ancestors, their history, and what they and their leaders do. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

By executive order President Truman desegregated the military in 1948, raising expectations among black Americans that conditions would improve even more. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

She had written a post about inner cities—“Why Are the Dankest, Drabbest Parts of American Cities Full of American Blacks?”—and he told her to include details about government policy and redistricting. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

In 1793 Jefferson accompanied Adams for his induction into the American Philosophical Society. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Expectations now changed, not only for Bobby’s future, but for American chess itself. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The guards and the Americans came at nightfall to an inn which was open for business. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Walasi-Yi was run by an Englishman named Justin and his American wife, Peggy, and we fell into a running conversation with them as we drifted in and out through the afternoon. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The British could have captured most of the American army, including General Washington! I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

By the end of 2011, the last American soldiers had left Iraq; a gradual drawdown of troops was under way in Afghanistan. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She viewed the civil rights achievements of black Americans with pride, as if they were her own. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I can’t believe you remember that dress! My mother always made me wear stuff like that at the holidays, and we don’t even celebrate Christmas. Like she was dressing up an American Girl doll.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

When the conference leaders in England learned that the American Anti-Slavery Society had elected several female delegates, they wrote to discourage the group from bringing the women to the convention. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

And he knew that when the fighting flared up again, Nixon would likely resume the American bombing missions. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Daniel’s mom and dad sell the store to an African American couple. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

They believed that if this small, lone African American woman could take such a courageous stand, then they could, too. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

She taught me how to play rummy, which is a card game Americans play at summer camps. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

But he knew, as soon as he arrived, that he did not need the sugar to cancel out his GI crewcut and his American smile. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t wanted her to know, because believing in spirits in the pines wasn’t American. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“This is a time in American history,” I wrote one day, “when people say nothing. People are murdered, and no one says, ‘This is wrong’ or does anything about it.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It's an American song, one that the boys learned from church missionaries. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Why, they wondered, didn’t he turn Hansen around much lower on the mountain, as soon as it became obvious that the American climber was running late? Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

There she sat, in her robes, smiling, an extremely proud and handsome woman, with Africa, Europe, and the America of the American Indian blended in her face. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

More brochures, application forms and letters from tennis coaches from various American universities continued to come. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

White Americans have thought of it as their shame, and have envied those more civilized and elegant European nations that were untroubled by the presence of black men on their shores. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

“I win at being the worst at killing myself. I’m a champion, an American hero. USA! USA! USA!” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Every person who hears a legacy makes the choice of a partner with whom they will share it, whom the American people will hold beside them in hearts and memories and history books. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Not only would I be the first American woman to do that, but if I delivered strong performances in the event finals, I could also become the most decorated American gymnast in Worlds history. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“He read this particular article in Scientific American” Milton said. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Both Bookman and Noyes believed in the American concepts of “growth” and “progress”; hence, they could see no justification for the small farmers’ wrath. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Liyana found some dusty black-and-white postcards at the American Colony Hotel gift shop that said “Palestine” instead of Israel and she bought them, too. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

It is much trickier to deal with a demon of the Middle Kingdom than an American devil, because you always know that the American devil means you harm. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were not wholly of the American aristocracy but tolerably close, with connections and affluence that endowed Alfred with upper-class tastes and bearing. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I was sitting on the bed, reading the textbook in preparation for my American history exam the next day. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“And, if I might cite the American Library Association’s code of ethics...” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Laura is raising her girls American style, reading all the new literature, so she knows she shouldn't have beaten Yoyo that time the girl gave them such a scare. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

American soldiers were dying in an undeclared war with England. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the practice is not well known to most Americans. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Three weeks later, two American atomic bombs forced Japan to surrender. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

President Roosevelt had decided to take Americans as prisoners of war as well as Germans, Italians, and Japanese. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

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

The Americans recognized the ANC as an indispensable element of any solution in South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The problem arises when a tree encounters an attacker for which evolution has left it unprepared, and seldom has a tree been more helpless against an invader than the American chestnut against Endothia parasitica. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Black minstrels were largely viewed as celebrities, earning more money and achieving more fame than African Americans ever had before. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Halfway around the world, in the American Southwest, there was then a high culture, rich in astronomical tradition, that also witnessed this brilliant new star.' Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

What if the Americans, and the Belgians before them, hadn’t tasted blood and money in Africa? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

West Point guarded the Hudson River, a prize that the Americans held and the British desperately wanted. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The naked Americans took their places under many showerheads along a white-tiled wall. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Alabama and across the South during the early 1960s, African Americans were denied the most fundamental right in a democracy—the right to vote. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hunters expanding southward through the Americas, encountering big animals that had never seen humans before, may have found those American animals easy to kill and may have exterminated them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they’d roll down their window, pull in something colorful, place crisp American bills into brown hands and then roll their window back up. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The government—Papa often just called them “they”—wanted to induct the “loyal” men into the army, so they needed to figure out who was a loyal American and who could be discarded as disloyal. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I dug back into the American history that I had learned both in and out of school. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

On his horse, the Hessian officer cantered forward, looking up the hill at the Americans. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

The unmasked letter had enough false information in it to fool any American who happened to see it. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Of course it’s also nearly three hundred years old. This was written before the American Revolution.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

According to the articles under the headlines, thousands of Americans thought that Martians had invaded. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Those who remained continued to work the land, but the out-migration of African Americans combined with other factors to make traditional agriculture less sustainable as the economic base of the region. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

This unearned cash makes me feel a little bit more American. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He also puzzled over the doctor’s comment, “I’m an American.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

A legend in his own time, Americans had been describing Washington as “the Father of the Country” since 1776—which is to say, before there was even a country. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

He had come to Hong Kong with a stack of flash drives containing classified NSA documents—documents that detailed a vast system of surveillance the American public had no idea existed. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Late in the day on their summit push, the two Americans climbed a stratum of steep, crumbly rock—the infamous Yellow Band. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

In the minds of some Americans, the very thought of two Syrians paddling through New Orleans together after a hurricane would seem suspicious enough. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“What did you do in...let’s see...American History?” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

After the girls and Doña Laura left with the American zombie whites, I heard a door click in the master bedroom, and I went out to the corridor to check for intruders. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I wonder how Americans get demerits in school. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Around the same time, millions of Americans got caught up in the fad called “Fletcherizing.” The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“The American public got a slight taste of the fear which overshadows the people of Europe constantly.” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

How could they have imagined that a silent, determined team of Americans, thousands of miles away in the peaceful countryside near Washington, might pick up on this simple error? Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

In time, the Americans managed to "strip" the cipher completely from a group of Soviet cables. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Until recent centuries, these areas were still occupied by hunter-gatherers—Native Americans in the first three cases and Aboriginal Australians or Native Siberians in the last two. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I enjoyed American movies because they helped me improve my English and gave me something to talk about with my classmates. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

In the years leading up to the American Revolution, the women of New England refused to buy English products and English tea. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

It came from Don Meredith, who had been an All- American quarterback at Southern Methodist University and an All-Pro quarterback with the Dallas Cowboys. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was, as the American reporter noted, bread and work for all. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Who do you think’s jamming the radar? It’s the Americans, Milt. It’s us.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I want to throw pinecones at Divino heads, and more heads, too: those peoples—the American man and his daughter—who moved into Casa Rosa. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

It would seem like a slap at all American doctors, and especially at Dr. Rush. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

He says, My boys, from the frozen wastes of North Dakota to the fragrant orange groves of Florida, Americans enjoy all climates. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Maybe a someone we Koreans were becoming, the latest brand of an American. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Given this, it is important to remember music education’s history, origin and deep roots in the American education experience. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

And this past March, the Americans finally drove the British out of Boston. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

This is an example of Aeolian mode in the American folk song “Aeolian Lullaby.” Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

It was the largest margin of victory in American history. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He wrote to her about the American custom of stomping on straw hats come fall. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Americans went to these, brushing away flakes of whitewash before they sat down. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now the residents of the city forged an American dream of steel girders, fashioning opportunity with fire and iron. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Alex has always known his gay American history—after all, his parents’ politics have been part of it—but it wasn’t until he figured himself out that he started to engage with it like Henry. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

When she was younger, she had asked Papa about that war, and he said he doubted it would be the last battle fought on American soil. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Human Rights Watch reported in 2000 that, in seven states, African Americans constitute 80 to 90 percent of all those sent to prison on drug charges. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

If there just wasn’t substantial tournament money to be had, why couldn’t the American Chess Foundation sponsor him? Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

With the protection of federal troops, African Americans began to vote in large numbers and seize control, in some areas, of the local political apparatus. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

That made the American attack illegal, with some Canadians calling it piracy. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

On May 7, 1945, one week after Hitler’s suicide, Germany surrendered unconditionally to the Americans. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Michelson was awarded a Nobel Prize in physics for the work–the first American so honored–but not for twenty years. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The word referred to entire races and nationalities of Americans, those numerically underrepresented in institutional life. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It may be impossible to overstate the significance of race in defining the basic structure of American society. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I left the Infirmary and went to my 10:10 class, which was on American history. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m not sure, with a grandmother like mine, if you can ever become a true American in the sense of believing that life is about the pursuit of happiness. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

A rare false note was struck when Bobby and Miyoko attended a screening of the American film Pearl Harbor. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The Redcoats fired a volley and charged with bayonets, killing eight Americans. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the night of Monday, March 15, as seventy million Americans watched on television, the president made his case before a joint session of Congress. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Carol Moseley Braun also won decisively, becoming the first African American woman ever to hold a Senate seat. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“You said that only American citizens could fish in the rivers. And Natives weren’t considered citizens yet.” The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

In American History they’ve been studying how the United States was founded on indentured servitude. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I wanted to be like my American friends. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

A growing number of white Americans expressed alarm over the Osage’s wealth—outrage that was stoked by the press. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

But they found a good and proper group in the American wing where they spent a lovely and informative hour and a half learning about the arts and crafts of colonial days. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Never realized that there was a community center for Native American youth here in Portland. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“We’re in touch. He has a child with an American woman.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Soon thereafter Sandy began her expensive, widely trumpeted campaign to become the first American woman to climb the Seven Summits. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Here in race-tom America, I am convinced that the Islam religion is desperately needed, particularly by the American black man. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wimpy’s is the fancy grocery store where mostly Americans and other foreigners shop. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, the reckless, freewheeling ways of the First National Bank of Midland made it a trendsetter in the American banking industry during the eighties. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I asked her if she had done what they claimed, she looked at me with a mysterious smile and said, “Rebellion is as American as apple pie. And so is fascism.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“I know. But the principal has explained that in America everyone is assigned according to age. Ten years old means fifth grade. And we must observe the American rules, mustn’t we?” In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

This was according to Ruth Werner’s instructions—before leaving Britain, she had told him where and when to meet his American contact. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So, if you want to be a good American, you’ve got to practice bad Americanism. That makes sense, too,” Mr. Gayle sighed. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

What possible rationale could exist for a large American land force, since the conflict with France was occurring on the high seas? Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

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

She liked, most of all, that in this place of affluent ease, she could pretend to be someone else, someone specially admitted into a hallowed American club, someone adorned with certainty. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

There are also pictures of the astronaut the Americans have put up in space. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

She found the door with his number on it; there was also American lettering on the glass. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thanks to modern developments in armor, American service members were now surviving bomb blasts that would once have killed them. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She recently took to wearing shawls and granny glasses, American fashions. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now I’d be more like a normal American teenage girl, except for my accent, but that was something Jennifer insisted was part of what made me unique and more interesting. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

They quit hiding out to hold their dances when they found that their American friends didn’t laugh at them as they feared. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Like most Americans, when I was in school, I never read about the murders in any books; it was as if these crimes had been excised from history. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“If I meet an American on the street,” she asked, “how do I greet him?” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“An African American? Oh, evil! But then it’s this trans kid wearing a skirt. What?” The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Amerinds, he concluded, had split off from northeast Asian groups about fourteen thousand years ago, which fit well “with the widely held view that the first Americans were the Clovis-culture big-game-hunting paleo-Indians.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Of course it does. And if that doesn’t work, point out the great number of American families that depend on it for income.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Most Americans only come to “know” about the people cycling in and out of prisons through fictional police dramas, music videos, gangsta rap, and “true” accounts of ghetto experience on the evening news. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Although African Americans do not engage in drug crime at significantly higher rates than whites, black men do have much higher rates of violent crime, and violent crime is concentrated in ghetto communities. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Neither did the public learn that the Central Intelligence Agency was warning Johnson that even a large American ground force would probably be unable to stop the Communists from eventually taking over in Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Lead by gymnast Alfred Joachim, the American flag bearer, they emerged singing from the darkness of the tunnel and marched out into the vast interior of the stadium. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

His name was George Cherrie, and he was one of two naturalists that the American Museum of Natural History had hired to accompany Roosevelt. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Even as small as we then were, some of the African and Asian personages had sent Mr. Muhammad private word that they liked his efforts to awaken and lift up the American black people. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Well, Big Ma had gone down to Friendship Baptist Church to hear Senator Kennedy tell the black people they were American citizens who deserved decent homes, decent education for their children, safe neighborhoods, and opportunities. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

In the sixties, minority became a synonym for socially disadvantaged Americans—but it was primarily a numerical designation. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually an American federal judge ruled the quarantine unconstitutional and ended the Guantanamo program. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

While I was working there, two American wars raged on. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The attack came fast and furious, overwhelming the American troops. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to be Horatio Alger in someone’s tear-filled homage to the American dream. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“But I was registered at the American embassy. Do you have a list?” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Fear of Communism had all but destroyed Americans ability to deal with the complexities of class issues, or even to recognize that class differences exist in this country. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I suppose I could have reviewed them in terms of how familiar they are to me or to American readers, or the order in which the studies were done, or even alphabetically. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

After presenting the data and making my arguments about the unconstitutional exclusion of African Americans, the judge complained loudly. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“I’m used to it. My parents think I’m not Korean enough. Everybody else thinks I’m not American enough.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I had helped Mr. Muhammad and his other ministers to revolutionize the American black man’s thinking, opening his eyes until he would never again look in the same fearful, worshipful way at the white man. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t want Roosevelt and the other Americans to suffer. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

And I knew that any American white man with a genuine brotherhood for a black man was hard to find, no matter how much he grinned. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

US soldiers could earn a South Vietnamese parachutist badge as well as American versions. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

It’s selfish and horrible, but in this terrible moment, all I want is to be a plain old American teenager. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

For the most part, the athletes held their formations, except for the Americans, a good number of whom rushed up to the ropes to get a better look at Hitler. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

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

A blue-blooded American prince, who wore his black polo shirt with the collar popped under a matching cable-knit sweater. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

And it was home for my mom until her parents earned enough money to bring the family to the States to fulfill my grandfather’s dream of a theology degree from an American university. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

His job was to listen to American radio newscasts and translate them from English to German. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

The original Native American population has been reduced by a debated large percentage: estimates for North America range up to 95 percent. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Undoubtedly, the historical legacy of slavery was also an important factor driving American eugenics. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

On the screen is a school portrait, a blue backdrop with an American flag on one side. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The term World Music is often used as a catch-all category referring to almost any music with widespread popularity that clearly does not sound like North American popular music. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

African- Americans could now register to vote without undergoing ridiculous qualification games, taking difficult exams, experiencing Klan intimidation, and paying “blacks only” poll taxes. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Harriet Beecher Stowe, the renowned best-selling American author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, offered to write for Stanton, but only if the paper would consider a less provocative name. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Like my family, most residents of Bonetti Ranch were Mexican or Mexican American field laborers. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

I don’t claim that Powell had it all figured out: American history bedevils the most earnest attempts to make sense of it. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The Times analysis also shows that over the next decade, the tax cuts Bush wants to extend indefinitely would shift the burden further from the richest Americans. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The canon of black autobiography sensibly includes scores of books about resistance to the American system. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“Yes, it is. But our work is not without the help of good American citizens like yourself. You are an American citizen, right?” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“It seemed to me,” Hall said, “that an American monopoly was dangerous and should be prevented.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

A painful throbbing had started behind her eyes and a mosquito was buzzing nearby and she felt suddenly, guiltily grateful that she had a blue American passport in her bag. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I am pretending that I have an American family and this is my family book.” Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

While both organizations advocated for voting rights for women, the National favored a federal amendment, while the American worked to pass women’s voting rights at the state level, state by state. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I miss my little boy and his American jokes and the way he pinch my cheeks and tell me I’m the prettiest of all the ommas. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The vast majority of those stopped and searched were racial minorities, and more than half were African American. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Clearly this was the moment for Maurice’s boss to discuss with Bragg whether it made sense for Crick and the American to duplicate King’s heavy investment in DNA. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Egypt and Syria, reacting to a number of political factors, including growing American influence in the region, merged, creating the United Arab Republic. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The sheriff was referring to the lynching of a young African American man named Michael Donald in Mobile, about sixty miles south. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Even in the South American binary counting schemes, linguists see the beginnings of a quinary system. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

When they discussed things like American TV shows and pop culture, I would have no idea what they were talking about. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The entire American rowing team had arrived in Berlin with high hopes and expectations. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

American agencies had spent about a billion dollars to stop a full-blown outbreak. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

This table gives approximate dates of widespread adoption of significant developments in three Eurasian and four Native American areas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

To resume my parents’ story, I need to bring up a very embarrassing memory for a Greek American: Michael Dukakis on his tank. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Just before I turned twenty-one, I moved out of my foster parents’ house and in with two friends—one a Lost Girl and another an American. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

"But you're from another country, so it's different for you. I bet you eat different foods and speak a different language and all that. You're not plain old American." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

We have a saying among Black Americans which describes Momma’s caution. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Shall we put it that I don’t care very much for Americans, sir.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother could not believe his generosity until Brother Quang says the American government gives sponsors money. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Gilly jiggled her foot through a Central American earthquake and the bribery trial of a congressman from who cared where. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

That is the rationale behind the American Heritage Dictionary’s Usage Panel: two hundred authors, journalists, editors, scholars, and other public figures whose writing shows that they choose their words with care. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Rugby league is a lot like American football, but with no helmets and no pads. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

But American troops did not go to Vietnam, and neither did Ellsberg. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

But there were still a few wounded Americans, though, and some of the bombers were in bad repair. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He promised them that they would not be inconvenienced for more than a day or two, that the Americans would soon be shipped to Dresden as contract labor. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

After American school, we picked up our cigar boxes, in which we had arranged books, brushes, and an inkbox neatly, and went to Chinese school, from 5:00 to 7:30 P.M. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first glance, she might have been African American. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“The American dream is to be an action hero.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

But until quite recent times—painfully recent times—one thing remained in abundance that preserved the primeval super-Eden feel of the original forest: the massively graceful American chestnut. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

What she did tell her babcia: that she had applied and been accepted to an exchange program with an American university. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The other would come home the undisputed champion of American racing. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Americans ever knew, many of them forgot that these women had taken part in astronaut testing in the early 1960s. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

Americans, do we want this in our fair land? Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mission completed, Morgan returned, in a Redcoat uniform, accompanied by six British soldiers—all true deserters, won over to the American army by Morgan. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Different but still American. Like the school map. Americans immigrate. Come from everywhere.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

The conditional probability that someone speaks English, given that he or she is an American citizen, on the other hand, is probably about 19Ao or .95. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The long-term advantages of Jay’s Treaty, however, were wholly invisible to most Americans in the crucible of the moment. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

A few weeks later, Nixon sat at his desk in front of television cameras reading his speech and calling on the “great silent majority” of his fellow Americans to support him. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

As often as I could, I visited military hospitals where American troops were recovering from the wounds of war. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

When I was a little girl I had three best friends who happened to be Chinese, African American, and Caucasian. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

So even with the outsourcing of some service jobs from the United States to India, India’s growing economy is creating a demand for many more American goods and services. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Left out of these depictions in the history books, though, are the many Native Americans who were losing land and rights just as settler women were gaining them. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

He hated the Germans, he hated Americans, he hated the Russians, but he just couldn’t stand the Irish. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Listen, the hawk and cry of the American city. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

They want to know what it means to be Native American. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Realizing that he needed nourishment to heal and regain his strength, Americans sent gifts of food and drink. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I have an American passport. Maybe that will help.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

He told Americans he was ordering a sharp reduction in the bombing of North Vietnam, in the hope that this would lead to peace talks with Hanoi. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

This rejection was a gift from your grandparents, who never tried to console me with ideas of an afterlife and were skeptical of preordained American glory. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Blake's Soviet case officer went to extreme lengths to make sure that he was not being tailed by British and American agents. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

She was good-natured about it; she understood that American culture was different from ours, but still, my friends would come over and she would shake her head. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I spoke to a great crowd at Yankee Stadium, telling them that an unbreakable umbilical cord connected black South Africans and black Americans, for we were together children of Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The seller’s face came alive at the sight of one of the American dollars, and as Jiichan bargained, Hanako and Akira eagerly picked out five cakes apiece, just as they had in the train station. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

South American revolutionaries, it would seem, died with flair. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Some editorial writers pointed out that gullible Americans were susceptible to propaganda such as the kind used in Germany. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

In real life I am moderately brave, but plenty of brave people shed their courage in POW camps, and maybe something similar goes on in the infinitely more congenial milieu of the low-wage American workplace. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even before the British got into their transports, word had come back to Boston that the King’s fort at Portsmouth had been seized and His Majesty’s military stores stolen by the rebellious Americans. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chess players were beginning to regard the forthcoming Fischer–Spassky duel as the most important match ever played by an American. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The lawn outside the American embassy in Islamabad was neatly mowed, dotted with circular clusters of flowers, bordered by razor-straight hedges. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I once wrote to a significant minority of the Forbes 400, a list of the four hundred richest Americans, asking for $25,000 in support for a project I was working on at the time. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was just in his nature as an American white man. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The walls of apartheid were coming down just as American hip-hop was blowing up, and hip-hop made it cool to be from the hood. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Soon the Americans will join them. They won’t let Germany roll over all of Europe.” Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“And in Shanghai, Americans are crazy to keep up with American fads. They don’t want to fall behind.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew nothing about Kim Jong II. Instead, he told a story that his American debriefer found to be credible and utterly astounding. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I love these streets lined with big American sedans and livery cars and vans. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

My whole life, my mom and aunts had praised me for how American I looked. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Dear Lucia, Have you completely sold yourself to the materialism of the American society? The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

But still: 1.6 million American women a year who got pregnant were suddenly not having those babies. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

And then I discovered the greatest selling appeal of all—one that crawls through nearly all American life. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The National was more radical; the American, more conservative. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

And the Chinese can’t hear Americans at all; the language is too soft and western music unhearable. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another says, ‘It’s one of the best American novels which has appeared for years.’ Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

After ten years of bitterness and competition, this was the first time Fischer had had a friendly interchange with his American rival. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

On March 22, 1621, an official Native American delegation walked through what is now southern New England to negotiate with a group of foreigners who had taken over a recently deserted Indian settlement. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

As the millennium approached, the American Bottom had a resident population of several thousand. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Another American,” said the driver in Italian looking at the hernia man. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The Chinese had arranged a small conference room for the Americans to work in. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now at night, I held you and a great fear, wide as all our American generations, took me. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

James Fisk, who supervised the American side of the talks with a diplomatic skill unexpected of a scientific appointee, brought home an agreement designating the detection of nuclear bomb tests as “technically feasible.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Drug treatment on demand must be provided for all Americans, a far better investment of taxpayer money than prison cells for people struggling with drug addiction. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Burns was the first American to see the immense possibilities of the instrument in detective work,” the Literary Digest reported in 1912. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

My life was inseparably committed to the American black man’s struggle. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

A free man, the Americans believed, had the right to what he had built with his own strength, brains, and will. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

No wonder the roots of organized crime and criminal organizations such as the American Mafia were tied directly to Prohibition. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

American values are part of my present, of Pop’s. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

If the new "space race" made Americans fear that they were falling behind the Soviets, a new arms race—involving intercontinental ballistic missiles, or ICBMs—added a terrifying new dimension to the Cold War. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

By the 1980s, virtually every facet of life was improving for black Americans, and the progress showed no sign of stopping. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

As the broiling sun set, a different kind of American landscape lit up: The halogen floodlights from the truck stop could be seen for miles. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

American Indians became a growing impediment to white European “progress,” and during this period, the images of American Indians promoted in books, newspapers, and magazines became increasingly negative. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

And if not, to what extent are contemporary American conflicts over race the playing out, at least in part, of a cultural divide that came into being hundreds of years before Columbus? 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

More and more he sounds like an American. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

The most oft-cited story was that an American consular official with connections to the CIA had tipped off the authorities. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As an employee of the American embassy in Saigon, he was positive he was not supposed to fire at anyone. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

We wait and wait, but Mother says a possible widow, three boys, and a pouty girl make too huge a family by American standards. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Have Lina marry an American citizen so she could sponsor you?” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Michael Dukakis never heard that sound, and even if he had he probably would have dismissed it as some silly tribal rite practiced in the American boondocks by people who made no difference. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He already had serious doubts that American ships had been attacked in the Gulf of Tonkin on the stormy night of August 4. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

"Oh, no," said the first girl, "it couldn't be that, because he was in the American army during the war." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

He was one of those young men who affected a style of dress that mimicked the well- tailored gangsters in American movies. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each time he had called me “American friend” and had walked me back to the Bund. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why, Diaz wonders, do these Central American governments send us all their problems? Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Not surprisingly, those government purity specifications are based on what German breweries put into beer, and not on what American, French, and Swedish breweries like to put into beer. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Important, crucial, final things, and here was their own mother, who didn't have a second to help them puzzle any of this out, inventing gadgets to make life easier for the American Moms. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Like most Americans whose lives were not directly touched by the war, I put it behind me and went on with my life. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Though there have been many successful colonial rebellions against imperial domination since the American Revolution, none had occurred before. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Mostly, though, it seemed he was just making noise in general, surfacing on cable shows to offer yammering, inexpert critiques of Barack’s foreign policy decisions and openly questioning whether he was an American citizen. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Again, African Americans have been “crucified by conscientious blindness.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

And they ambled, these Americans, they walked without rhythm. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The dead would always be with me, I knew, even when I was surrounded by life again, even if the Americans gave me back all the objects I had lost. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The state dog is the American foxhound and the state fish is a brook trout, he calls out. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although many collateral sanctions were repealed by the late 1970s, arguably the drug war simply revived and expanded a tradition that has ancient roots, a tradition independent of the legacy of American slavery. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Some American ambulance units were to be sent down and this hospital would look after them and any other Americans on service in Italy. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

He said he wanted to make a film about them, and he assured them that it was going to blow up the perception of wealthy entrepreneurs as predators and show the Angels as “American heroes.” Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

So Americans were glad to have the Soviets do the bloody work of fighting Hitler. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I am an American, connected to my school, my friends. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

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

From a distance, it looks like a major American city, with highrises and construction going on everywhere. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What? You still do not see? That is inexcusable—for you had a second chance again just now when he said, ‘You're apt to be done down if you speak nothing but good American.’” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Stupid girl. The Americans are helping the NKVD,” said the bald man. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

And yet, by the 1770s, the 1.75 million North Americans were actually drinking even more tea than the five to six million English. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Even after they remarried, we knew there was still an uphill battle ahead to becoming American citizens. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

His goal was to reach the American lines, which he did. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Elizebeth and her unit were not the only Americans trying to uncover spies. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Then I got a copy of the American Standard Bible. It was very new then. And it was different in this passage. It says, ‘Do thou rule over him.’ East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Think about other patriotic songs you know and the ways a covenant between the American people and the Christian god is reflected in those lyrics. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Right now, she was a mathematician, an American citizen whose greatest talents had been recognized, and who was about to offer those talents in the service of her country. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“It’s not fancy like American medicine, I know, just an old remedy my mother taught me.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

But just as the Blues, ragtime and jazz emerged among the poor, disconnected communities of the American South, there is a modern-day equivalent that was likewise born in areas of deprivation: hip-hop. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

But successful negotiations required a French government sufficiently stable and adequately impressed with American power to bargain seriously. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

I think about the story Albert told in social studies when we were studying Native Americans. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

In this view, Americans care less about emulating the top tier than about simply having a fair share of the bounty and a chance to carve out a place for themselves in society. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Now you can just get on a plane anytime you feel like it and go anywhere in the world. Nations go to war over women like you. You’re an American.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

L.V. carefully kept the clipping, just as he carefully kept a pile of other glowing clippings about Boobie from the Dallas Morning News and the Odessa American his junior year. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He called over a member of the Sandrouni family, who quoted something equaling about sixty-five American dollars. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

She will return to India with an American passport. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Wyclef is their god and American rap videos are their church. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

American Indians were considered unsuitable as slaves, largely because native tribes were clearly in a position to fight back. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He had come away from Vietnam sick to death of being lied to by American officials. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Men,” he said, “it is exactly one hundred and thirty- eight years since the Marines fought in Tripoli and first raised an American flag over foreign soil.” Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I applauded Team USA in that moment, because their decision to vote for a Muslim American woman in hijab was a powerful rebuke to Trump’s rhetoric. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The American candy worked extremely well as bribes to keep the little boys going. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The Americans would keep fighting for as long as it took. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

Irish American through and through, Day had grown up just north of the Washington campus, in the area where the fraternities were located. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The real hero is Abraham Lincoln and the principles for which he lived—and died: freedom and equal rights for all Americans. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the American Equal Rights Association met in 1867, the group debated whether to support the Fourteenth Amendment. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

He's speaking English, and his accent is almost 100 percent American, like Starry's. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Cassius Clay, being a Muslim, didn’t need to be told how white Christianity had dealt with the American black man. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

If she was considering coming back to Nigeria, then it meant she was no longer with the black American. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

But he was a military veteran, so his survivors were entitled to receive an American flag upon his death. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

To paraphrase: I hope to see you put your green American money where your filthy mouth is soon. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

We learned American history, of course, and American geography. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The first thing I tell them is that at least where my own particular Black Nationalist organization, the Organization of Afro- American Unity, is concerned, they can’t join us. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are the first American friends she has made in her life. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

When word came that the Americans were going to put their first woman into space, the Soviets dropped plans for an all-female crew and instead focused their energies on launching a second woman into space. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

They’d been told that Americans were devils who would kill and torture them. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

On Saipan, over 3,000 Americans died between June 15 and July 13, when the Marines were pulled back. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

To get citizenship, my parents and siblings had to study a list of facts about American history, presidents, and politics, and then take a test. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Certainly, outlawing barbaric punishments was evidence of progress in penal practice, and perhaps of progress in American civilization as well. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“United we stand; divided we fall. And all that American patriotic stuff.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Today most Americans have their tissue on file somewhere. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

She wishes the curtains were open, so that she could talk to the American women. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

So, Khrushchev is said to be here dancing with the man-eating natives, teaching them to hate the Americans and the Belgians. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was the American Zeus, Moses, and Cincinnatus all rolled into one. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

She examined the photographs on the cover, the young Kenyan woman staring befuddled at the camera, arms enclosing her son, and the young American man, jaunty of manner, holding his daughter to his chest. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

American soldiers receive an allowance for their uniforms, and it is now possible for American military women to purchase approved boots made to fit their feet. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The pilot called in an air strike and within minutes American planes sped over the village, dropping bombs. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Over the next twelve days, American bombers struck Hanoi and Haiphong with twenty thousand tons of explosives. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“The injection of disease-causing organisms into unaware human subjects has occurred before in American medical science,” the article explained. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

We Americans are titillated by sex, obsessed by it, horrified by it. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Willard’s success was unquestionable, but for many years she shared the limelight with one of the most eccentric, unforgettable characters in the entire American experience. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Whites comprised a mere 8 percent of people frisked by the NYPD, while African Americans accounted for 85 percent of all frisks. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

We lived in a hotel in Manhattan for five months while my parents waited for the revolution to fail or for the Americans to intervene in Cuba. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not a ‘cultured American’ so that’s asking too much of me.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He used three adoption studies, two American and one British, each of them containing in-depth data about the adopted children, their adoptive parents, and their biological parents. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

This South American country was rumored to be wild and inhospitable, but she had contacts in the Dutch colony there, through her son-in-law and other former Labadists. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“As if there was something more admirable about Lemuel Johnson because he was 100 percent American—whatever that is.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Soon he would be surrounded by a houseful of independent American women. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

She played basketball, volleyball, soccer, and baseball, and stood out to her coaches, particularly an African American woman named Rhonda Brown, who coached volleyball. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Bottom line, it’s been over two centuries, and African Americans are still getting a raw deal. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“I don’t always have to eat immigrant dishes, do I? I can enjoy American foods once in a while.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Father of two, Alabama native, and son of a sharecropper, Lester Charles Walker was one of American Street’s very first black residents in 1947. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

One fired at the Americans while the other retreated to a new position and waited. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

As rumors continued to spread that labor unions, churches, and organizations such as the League of Women Voters were under Communist control, the American public became increasingly alarmed. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

I live in an area where Asians, Latinos, and African Americans are the majority. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I’m an American. My folks have some French blood, why I have a nose like this. I’m an American, all right.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The only son of the American Ambassador. He can be here until you are ready to take him. Then I will take him with my first load.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

And the case seemed to have little impact on Southam’s professional standing: soon after the end of his probationary period, Southam was elected president of the American Association for Cancer Research. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I would still be an illegal immigrant, but at least now I was one with an American boyfriend and a high school diploma. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

In American English, to assure is to instill confidence or certainty. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Blake turned around and saw an American officer, spreading word quietly to the other American military men in the church sanctuary. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

We never heard about him again, and he certainly did not win any friends on Robben Island for the American Bar Association. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Is the message to Americans, “Mama, don’t let your kids grow up to be accountants”? I asked. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Most Americans date the end of the Civil War with the rendezvous, two weeks earlier, of Generals Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The imperatives of their collaboration, plus the need to present a united front against the Federalists, took precedence over their incompatible notions of where sovereignty resided in the American republic. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

It is as old as the Scriptures and is as clear as the American Constitution. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“American women? Don’t mess with them! They have little guns in their bags—small guns you can’t see. And if you bother them, they just shoot you.” Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both men also shared a keen sense of the highly fluid and still-fragile character of the recently launched American republic. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Yet the truth of the matter is that the American Medical Association considers lindane vaporizers so dangerous that it conducted an extended campaign against them in its Journal. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

English, North American, French, and Dutch ships competed to supply the Caribbean plantations and buy their sugar. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

It was an injustice too great for the African American witnesses to ignore. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The Americans fired back, but couldn’t see if they were hitting anything. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Most of the American army had managed to survive the Battle of Brooklyn. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

Like me, my American friends are sometimes called upon to defend their country, usually at dinner parties where everyone's had a bit too much to drink. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Americans have since left shall behind and now use tuill almost exclusively. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a girl who could pass as American, with soft blue eyes and fair skin, looks that were traced back to a great-great grandmother from Sweden at every family gathering. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I remember seeing the hawks perched on street lamps, during those last days of the American forests. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her mother had been ostracized because she had married a Native American. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

The American identity is an exact and provable thing. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’d read it right away, the senator said, and set up a public hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee—a dramatic setting in which to unveil the Pentagon Papers to the American people. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Sing Sing is one of those rare American places where enough of the old has been left alone— preserved, incorporated into the present, or simply never swept away—to put one in mind of history. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Together, they amassed one of the great American fortunes of their era. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

At the time he declared this new war, less than 2 percent of the American public viewed drugs as the most important issue facing the nation. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He was only thirty-six when appointed, a onetime academic all- American at Harvard who later played pro basketball in Australia. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“I guess I’m the opposite. I feel like an Indian American here, and when I’m in India, like just an Indian. I see them both as equal and valid for me.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Mrs Wormwood sat munching her meal with her eyes glued to the American soap-opera on the screen. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

An American white ambassador in one African country was Africa’s most respected American ambassador: I’m glad to say that this was told to me by one ranking African leader. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Where she kneels on the sixth floor alone, as a dozen American bombers roar toward her. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He sings these words, too, in his deep American southern accent. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

American forces were inflicting heavy casualties, but the enemy was growing stronger. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I’m an American now, I says, and I want an American name. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Belgians and the Americans who run the rubber plantations and copper mines, I imagine, are using larger sacks. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as if I wouldn’t be American enough. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

That only left two possible slots for Americans in the individual competitions instead of the usual four. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

He’d moved with them to the American army’s winter camp, in Morristown, New Jersey. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

In this same war movie, the American soldier goes home and he falls to his knees asking another girl to marry him. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

An American battery, its slogan offering nine lives. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

As it turns out, the story has some little-appreciated but striking parallels with the American prehistory that we encountered in the preceding chapter. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Congress effectively outlawed their communal property, passing vast acreages into the public domain, tracts which then suddenly wound up in the hands of large American ranching enterprises like the Devine Company. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man with the raised hand demanded, in an accent that sounded Latin American, “How do we get to the Combat Zone?” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“The Star-Spangled Banner” began to play, and the American flag slowly ascended a flagstaff behind the announcement board. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

With the Supreme Court now giving its constitutional blessing to a more visible and protected role for individual victims in the criminal trial process, changes in the American criminal justice process accelerated. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It was, at the time, the classic American canon, but also what Volpe felt like teaching and what he thought we would like. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The promise of the American Revolution, at least as Madison understood it, was falling into enemy hands. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Even as the last Americans were still passing Hitler, the first German athletes began to emerge from the tunnel, dressed in crisp white linen suits and sporting white yachting caps. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He told Rebecca he was going to build a national memorial engraved with the names of all the American casualties of the war right in the center of Washington, DC. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

At Nationals Camp the following January, word spread quickly that Kyla Ross and Elizabeth Price would withdraw from the American Cup in March. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

This year, however, my mom and dad would be cancanning it around Paris instead of listening to the bang of our American drums. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

A group of men in baseball caps in line behind us had grumbled, “There should be a separate line for immigrants,” and “It’s not right Americans gotta wait longer because of these people.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Did she see the ceiling when the black American touched her? Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The pastor shouts, “The fight for freedom and equality for all of our children must continue until every single American is free. Until there is truth and justice for all of God’s children.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The Chinese shattered MacArthur's armies, causing thousands of casualties and forcing the Americans back beyond the 38th parallel in barely more than two weeks. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I appreciated the media interest in my story, because our nation desperately needed to see that Muslims were just as American as anyone else. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

After Mr. Ingman gives us a short lesson on the importance of American literature, the bell rings. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Back then one out of every four Americans lived on a farm. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

They worked hard to buy a place of their own, with everything they needed to raise their American daughters. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

The Americans I’ve befriended don’t hate the United States, they simply prefer France for one reason or another. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

He said he was not just a car, truck, and recreational vehicle salesman—he was selling the American dream. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“You don’t have to march across a freeway to support African Americans. Besides, it’s a school night.” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Like the robin, another American bird seems to be on the verge of extinction. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The Americans took the British insult—and turned it into a battle song. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

Her mother had typed up an explanation of Bengali wedding rituals on the computer and mailed it to all the Americans on the guest list. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

If only she’d see what it was really like here, she wouldn’t mistrust the Americans so much. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Bobby’s remuneration from the American Chess Foundation for his sparkling brilliancy? Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

They helped prove that the real owners and managers of the I’m Alone were American smugglers. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The soldiers’ blue eyes were filled with a bleary civilian curiosity as to why one American would try to murder another one so far from home, and why the victim should laugh. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next to the Englishman was a big American in a loud suit—possibly a commercial traveller. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

The buyers are an American family, the Walkers, a young professor new to the university where her husband used to work, and a wife and daughter. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

And today, a hundred years after his technical emancipation, he remains—with the possible exception of the American Indian—the most despised creature in his country. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Because Ginny was a white girl, and Armpit was older and an African American, she had just assumed he worked for her family. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Who was he more afraid of, the Hessians or the Americans? The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

The same factors that molded Europeans’ encounters with Africans molded their encounters with Native Americans as well. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

For this reason, he had decided to send American soldiers across the border into Cambodia. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

During the time before the Revolution, the American colonies received molasses, which was produced in the Caribbean islands, and then distilled it into rum. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

There’s live music, a pop act that owed June a personal favor, and they’re covering “American Girl” right now, so Alex grabs June’s hand and spins her onto the dance floor. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

French officials warned the Americans that their most secret information, including word-for-word reports on their conversations with Beaumarchais, were showing up in London within days. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

All around Allen was utter chaos as the Americans were picked off by the seasoned NVA troops. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Fake it till you make it” is one of the most American attitudes I can think of. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

American television viewers tuned in religiously to science fiction television programs like Space Patrol and Tales of Tomorrow. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

But its eight-hundred-year existence spanned one of the most exciting times in American history. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Charles Parker did not know much about the American language—but he understood the American dollar very well, and he had used his money and influence to admit his cousin to the asylum without delay. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Without saying goodbye, he left his American wife, Rose Marie, who was in the hospital recovering from surgery. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

They were impossible to get, but everyone wanted them because American rappers wore them. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

One of the ministers, a heavyset African American man dressed in a dark suit with a large cross around his neck, walked over to me. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

A year-old child had been taken by his American parents to live in Venezuela. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I can't forget myself in a story with so many Americans hearing my every breath. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

European horses were eagerly adopted by Native Americans in both North and South America, within a generation of the escape of horses from European settlements. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her parents had told her for her entire life that it was important to be American. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The Americans wanted cheap sugar and to be able to buy it anywhere, but they had no voice in Parliament. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

My father is American, and my mother is Native American. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

In addition to the extra HFCS, Americans are eating more old-fashioned cane sugar too. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

But as Wohlstetter points out, that wasn’t because the American military didn’t know enough about Japan’s intentions. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

There was no suggestion made as to how American slaveowners could obtain the slaves who had taken refuge in Canada. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

English and American troops are already engaged in heavy combat. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

There were bookshelves and a framed picture on the wall of some American country garden. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their story about Mexico seemed unbelievable, and they thought the two were American spies. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

“Eventually,” he said, “one of the people back there is going to start thinking about collecting the twenty-thousand piaster reward and the gold medal the VC gives out for a dead American.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

What American university would bother to give a scholarship to such a loser? Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Walter Fried, the president of the American Chess Foundation, who’d just burst into the room, noticed that Fischer was in absentia and declared Reshevsky the winner of the series. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

And American forces were locked in ferocious battles with Japan all over the Pacific. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

For American twelfth graders, the comparable figure was 54 percent. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Especially since six months had already passed since Hahn’s discovery, and the American president, Franklin Roosevelt, still had no idea that such a thing as fission even existed. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every American was a rifleman by birth, and one American was worth ten or twenty foreigners in a fight. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Liyana had mentioned more than once that she and Rafik would be studying at the American Library in Jerusalem on Saturday. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

She had heard stories about the horrors of slavery, which she passed on to me, and knew something about the slaughter of American Indians. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

The theater was paved with American bodies that nestled like spoons. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though it may have been tempting to commit a felony and covertly check the box that read "American citizen" on the application, my parents knew those financial aid peeps meant serious business. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Using cardboard cutouts of cowboys, Indians, stagecoaches, and horses I’d glued to sticks, I projected a shadow show about a sheriff in the American Wild West who had to protect his town from bandits. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Now, American flags hung from the gate’s cornices in honor of the World’s Fair. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

At its peak, some 20,000 to 30,000 people lived in Palmares, following laws and customs in which beliefs brought over directly from Africa mixed with Native American and European practices. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

He had schooled himself in American evasion techniques—and put them to his own use. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

And Zuppa Guy, who was usually really funny, and pretended to dance romantically with the babushkas so everyone would laugh together in all the languages, said, “This? This is American food.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

All they wanted was the American dream, but things didn't work out that way for them. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

And, at any rate, the price of a share of General Electric didn’t mean a thing to the vast majority of Americans, who owned no stock at all. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

"I wanted to ask you because you were an American," he said. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Her accent is 100 percent American, and she never addresses Didu as "Auntie" or greets us with a Namaste. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He pockets an application for a student American Express card, grateful that his first credit card will not say Gogol in raised letters at the bottom. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The yellow prison building was like a fort, as large and strong as in the days when it was used by the American marines who had built it. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Such letters had an extra advantage: The writer could include false information in case Americans intercepted the letter. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their internment starting in 1942 and spanning the war represented one of the darkest periods in American history. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

One Mexican- American said I was a minority whether I wanted to be or not. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In liberty or bondage, the African could not be separated from the American. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He was saying stuff like how Maddie and I weren’t real Americans and how my parents were fresh off the boat. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

They mimicked what Americans told them: You speak such good English. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The most conspicuous such examples are the failure of both farming and herding to reach Native American California from the U.S. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Dasch had brought three pairs of American shoes to Germany, so he gave one pair away. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

During a parade in Berlin, the Hitler Youth attacked a visiting American student when he failed to salute their banner. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was on its way to the American air base on the Pacific island of Tinian. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The all-important “kill ratio” was the ratio of enemy troops to Americans killed. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

As Snowden anticipated, American law enforcement agencies were eager to arrest the leaker and haul him home to face charges of violating the Espionage Act. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The Americans’ faces were angry and confused, like they were sleepwalking through a very annoying nightmare. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Instead, the reason Native Americans did not domesticate apples lay with the entire suite of wild plant and animal species available to Native Americans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Landless rural residents and impoverished city dwellers lay outside the picture, though they—more likely, their descendants—could work their way into the American citizenry over time. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Lucy Stone thought the group should support the rights of both African Americans and women. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

At two o’clock on American Cities Day Prendergast left his mother’s house and walked to a shoe dealer on Milwaukee Avenue. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

And he told me about the odd feeling of being a minority, not because you were African-American but because you were an American in the wider world. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Officially, four occupying powers divided the city into Soviet, American, British, and French sectors. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

"We grew up in London," my sister says, and she already sounds more American than she had on the plane. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Their fatal encounter represented a momentary breakdown in the dominant pattern of nonviolent conflict within the American revolutionary generation. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

It was about traveling to Rio with all the other American athletes and experiencing the excitement of the Olympic Village. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Not only are African Americans far more likely to be labeled criminals, they are also more strongly affected by the stigma of a criminal record. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He loves the American Wild West, its cowboys, the gunfights, the fistfights. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

And a few nights ago, when they thought I was in bed, I heard my parents talking about him getting “out of control like those American boys.” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

In May 1869, the leadership of the American Equal Rights Association gathered at its annual meeting in New York City. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

One issue, Life magazine’s “The Faces of the American Dead in Vietnam: One Week’s Toll,” with photographs of the 242 men killed the week of May 28 through June 3, 1969, deeply upset him. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Grampa sounded so wrongheaded, I couldn’t believe it Maybe some of what Dad was always spouting about equality and the American dream had rubbed off on me. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

According to the swimmer Iris Cummings, the slavish nationalism was a joke to the Americans, but not to the Germans. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

To me, my losing was only another manifestation of that queer, material way of American living that computed everything in terms of the concrete: weight, color, race, fur coats, radios, electric refrigerators, cars, money ... Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Jefferson saw it, the American Revolution had been merely the opening shot in a global struggle against tyranny that was destined to sweep over the world. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Papa had told Hanako that one of the main purposes of an American consulate was to help and protect Americans in a foreign country. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Everybody is getting excited about the American radio woman’s visit. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

We were building a pile of the pits on a file photo of one of his former subjects, a South American woman with a magnificently crooked nose. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I suppose what I really want to say here is painfully obvious, but I must say it nevertheless: The men of that summer were middle-class Americans. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

We did not go to American movies before because Papá did not understand English. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

These had to be checked to make sure no one was trying to smuggle out American weapons, or drop off spies, or lay mines in American waters. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

With Americans, he matched the faces of the dead with photos on file. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Someone, meanwhile, had dug up my senior thesis from Princeton, written more than two decades earlier—a survey that looked at how African American alumni felt about race and identity after being at Princeton. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The Americans had built ten big forts on Manhattan Island, and six more across the river in Brooklyn. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

“American society had come to resemble a shattered mirror still in its frame.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I hope that every American, regardless of where he lives, will stop and examine his conscience about this and other related incidents. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The large American said that that was “too bad, Ma’am,” and soothingly expressed a hope that the train might make up time. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

They created the American republic, then held it together throughout the volatile and vulnerable early years by sustaining their presence until national habits and customs took root. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

As attorney general and later as a senator, he had supported racial and educational equality—and asked the American people to do the same. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

However, prehistoric South American farmers instead grew the related cotton Gossypium barbadense. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Like millions of Americans, Gold had been laid off from his job. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

To him, only American films were worth watching. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

They had brought along a couple of short-handled trench shovels, a duffel bag packed with American clothes, and a suitcase with money sewn in its lining. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Most of the athletes boarded buses heading west to the new Olympic village in Charlotten- burg, but the American oarsmen climbed onto two buses bound for the little village of Kopenick southeast of Berlin. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“American blood is being spilled. But those people are living up there in peace. Why can’t we leave them the hell alone?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

It was not technically a field—it was more of a lawn, really, and there was a slight grade to it—but that was where Coach Fortes took us to play football/American soccer. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Even though I’m almost in love with Sam Washburn, I can’t resist feeling proud when a Dominican corrects an American’s English. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Initially, President Eisenhower tried to pooh-pooh the Russians’ “small ball in the air” as an insignificant achievement, but the American people would have none of it. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The tabloids—the world—decided to cast Alex as the American equivalent of Prince Henry from day one, since the White House Trio is the closest thing America has to royalty. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I wanted to be careful not to embarrass myself in front of Americans. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

The National American Woman Suffrage Association, led by Carrie Chapman Catt, had about two million women and men eager to work for the amendment, and Alice Paul’s National Woman’s Party had about fifty thousand more. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“You have no idea what you’re talking about. It’s an amazing play. A hallmark of American playwriting. You just don’t have any flair for drama.” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

Why not tell them about my American dream? Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Americans like Jefferson were proud of having fought for their freedom. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

The notion that the cascading events in France bore any relation to the American Revolution struck Adams as outright lunacy. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Legend says that some agents did not take their information directly to the American encampment at Whitemarsh but instead passed it on to a woman known as “Old Mom” Rinker. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Americans did not commemorate the fullest moon of the year, but the Wongs had done so for centuries. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

He spoke the entire evening of the importance of maintaining good relations with the Americans and insisted that they are the key to our future. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were high-school seniors, and the clock was ticking: once out of high school all American males faced two years of compulsory military service. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Academics would have violated their generation’s ideal of openness if they had said that their schools couldn’t accommodate disadvantaged Americans. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here was the American dream built brick by brick, screw by screw, concrete over dirt. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

One in four working Americans—ten million people—had no job and no prospects of finding one, and only a quarter of them were receiving any kind of relief. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

After the Boston Tea Party, in 1773, when the anger of the American colonists against their British rulers began to spill over, dozens of committees and congresses of angry colonists sprang up around New England. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In many respects, the Mutual was the closest thing to a government that the nation of black Americans had at that time. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

And on the other side of the field were thousands of Russians and Poles and Yugoslavians and so on guarded by American soldiers. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Occasionally he spoke of the importance of Palestine as a Jewish homeland, but mostly he was concerned about American Jewry and the need for teachers and rabbis. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

He had seen Tories, but hateful as they were, they were only Americans. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Since Mr. Johnson signed that law, it was like somebody had ripped the side seams out of American life. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your newspaper is an insult to all white Americans who have pledged themselves to purge this menace from our midst. Please cancel my subscription as of this date and send refund immediately.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The farmers most knowledgeable about eastern U.S. domesticates, the region’s Native Americans themselves, passed judgment on them by discarding or deemphasizing them when the Mexican trinity arrived. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I imagine my father standing side by side with American soldiers. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Two decades later, in Batson, the Supreme Court reversed course, a nod to the newly minted public consensus that explicit race discrimination is an affront to American values. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Would her sisters scoff at her for abandoning her Iranian ideals and allowing hair-free Americans to weaken her resolve? Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“American cooking competition shows are nothing like that. They’re all sweaty and, like, dramatic death music and intense camera cuts,” Alex says. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The Americans with the minigun held off until the enemy was close to the wire, then opened up with the weapon, spitting out thousands of rounds per minute. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Chestnut was especially popular—not the imported European chestnut roasted on Manhattan street corners in the fall, but the smaller, soft-shelled, deeply sweet native American chestnut, now almost extinguished by chestnut blight. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

By the way, the pastor is pretty melodramatic, but have you been to an old school American Black church? Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

White, frothy waves began splashing over the small American flag that was flapping wildly out on the foredeck. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Eh, I don’t know,” Tyler Baldwin says one day in American History after they watch a film about the Wabanakis. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

After they moved to Tule Lake, she changed from American school to Japanese school. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She took the SATs at a Lagos center, packed with thousands of people, all bristling with their own American ambitions. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

A Sudanese high official hugged me, “You champion the American black people!” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother, your president, is the warrior and the champion that each and every American deserves for four more years of growth, progress, and prosperity. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Now he was nodding as Shan said, “Europeans are just not as conservative and uptight about relationships as Americans are. In Europe the white men are thinking ‘I just want a hot woman.’ Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Madison possessed the subtlest and most intellectually sophisticated understanding of the choices facing the new American republic of any member of the revolutionary generation. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

As the plane began its descent over Boston Harbor, the pilot announced the weather and time, and that President Nixon had declared a national holiday: two American men had landed on the moon. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Over the entrance, an American flag and a Nazi flag faced each other. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

To the average white American, the word “Indian” conjures up an image of a mounted Plains Indian brandishing a rifle, like the Sioux warriors who annihilated General George Custer’s U.S. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

However, the American worker now faces a much different challenge than that of abuse from greedy owners. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Bobby was fast gaining a reputation as a constant complainer, the Petulant American, a role most of the players found distasteful. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Americans deify democracy in a way that allows for a dim awareness that they have, from time to time, stood in defiance of their God. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I easily recognize them—business-suited in their modern American executive guise, each boss two feet taller than I am and impossible to meet eye to eye. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our leaders were still innocent about how many American lives it would cost to defeat the determined Japanese. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

A loud “Huzzah!” from hundreds of throats came from the Battery as the American flag was pulled down. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

On February 18, weekly US casualty figures hit their highest number ever in the war—a staggering 543 Americans were killed and 2,547 wounded in just seven days of fighting. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“I am American,” Mustafa likes to remind them, whenever they say something like that to him. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

A group of American girls of fourteen or fifteen had dressed up as much younger girls—with pigtails and teddy bears, wearing pajamas and kiddie clothes. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

But after months of fighting, an American bomb dropped near him, and threw a chunk of metal into his pants, hitting him right in the backside. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

For months, Johnson had been assuring Americans that he had no intention of expanding the country’s role in Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

It’s almost Christmas and I am planning to cook a small meal of Haitian and American food. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“But those girls are both American and Korean.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

It’s got an American flag on the front, with white flowers where the stars should be. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The Americans had been drawn into an ambush. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The CIA operated covertly in Vietnam, as it did in many countries, and let the Vietnamese generals know the Americans would turn a blind eye to their plans. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

And all this because you are such a natural American, first thing and last, if something other in between. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is an un-American secret at the heart of American culture: for a long time, it was preoccupied by class. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

We ended up at school with the cream of the American crop, the Hoover girl and the Hanes twins and the Scott girls and the Reese kid who got incredible care packages once a week. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I’d heard rumors about the serious strangeness of Mrs. Morris, the American history teacher, and I can now say that those rumors are fact. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Joseph Stalin, the Soviet premier, called desperately for the Americans and British to launch an invasion of German-held Western Europe. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the dancers had given the American lady her rose, and Mrs. Fanning now tried to stick it in her husband's lapel. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“The American Standard translation orders men to triumph over sin, and you can call sin ignorance. The King James translation makes a promise in ‘Thou shalt,’ meaning that men will surely triumph over sin. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

One afternoon in April 2016, the two of us took a helicopter from the American ambassador’s residence in London to Windsor Castle in the countryside west of the city. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Believing that catching Lincoln’s killer will end the unrest, Secretary of War Stanton spends Saturday expanding the search, making the hunt for Lincoln’s killers the biggest in American history. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

One American soldier warned Alfons that the murder of Jews was a burden that he would never shake off in his lifetime. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

They were all addressed to the same person in Argentina, and they all sounded oddly alike, yet they came from four different American women. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

It fell to Gerald Ford to inform the American people that the country had just lost its first war. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He did this for me, asking an American woman who was a social worker at Kakuma. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

And this is not an argument that affirmative action has made no difference in the lives of poor or working-class African Americans—as some have claimed. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

As excited as I was to have an American family, I had grown used to the idea that Mabinty Suma’s family was mine too. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’ve even gone so far as to point out examples of Bengali men they know who’ve married Americans, marriages that have ended in divorce. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

This is difficult because there exists, all around us, an apparatus urging us to accept American innocence at face value and not to inquire too much. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

About 47 percent of American families say they still eat together every night. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

No one recalls when the gift-giving started, probably in the 1980s, when Central Americans, fleeing war and poverty, began riding the rails north in large numbers. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Down on the mall in front of Buckingham Palace, there’s a mass of people with banners, signs, American flags, Union Jacks, pride pennants streaming over their heads. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The large vehicles weren’t driving very fast, and the children could see the faces of the American soldiers sitting in the backs of the trucks in their green uniforms and hard helmets, holding their rifles. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

An awful lot like most American businesses, actually, though perhaps none more so than McDonald’s. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

This was the decision that caused Hamilton to repeat his earlier characterizations of Burr as the unprincipled American Catiline, which in turn generated the newspaper reports containing the offensive word “despicable.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“When there are threats to national security, foreign or domestic, the government has to do what it feels necessary to make sure Americans are safe,” Jessica said. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Following the tradition established by Roland Hayes and other African American concert vocalists, she concluded each of her programs with a group of spirituals that often moved her audiences to tears. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Is there another word more American than ‘trouper’?” Obinze was laughing. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

By 1967 there were more than a hundred American prisoners held in camps in and around Hanoi. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Prospects for world dominance of sub-Saharan Africans, Aboriginal Australians, and Native Americans remain dim. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You can talk but you can’t read and write well enough. You got to have an education to be a captain. Why don’t you go in the American army?” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

To our delight, an unusually large brood of American Snout butterflies swarmed Eagle Pass by the billions. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Sure. In Pittsburgh. I knew you was an American.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I will seek the mantle of leadership and stand prepared to uphold the Constitution and the American way of life. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Of the five African groups, representatives of many populations of blacks and whites are familiar to Americans and Europeans and need no physical description. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Blue is for the American sky,” Campbell was saying. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

When you consider that more than 100 million Americans live within a day’s drive of the Appalachian Trail, it is hardly surprising that 2,500 sleeping spaces is sometimes not enough. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

When Obinze pronounced “schedule” with the k sound, his mother said, “Ifemelunamma, please tell my son I don’t speak American. Could he say that in English?” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

For black Americans, the four decades between World War II and the crack boom had been marked by steady and often dramatic improvement. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

No one visiting the website would learn that the mass incarceration of African Americans had already eviscerated many of the hard-earned gains it urged its members to protect. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

How could the American “I,” assuredly wearing a hat like the Chinese, have only three strokes, the middle so straight? The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once they arrived, they spent several weeks sightseeing before they were joined by some of the others in the American delegation to the World Anti-Slavery Convention. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

At the time, hardly any Americans knew about the NSA. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

In the American boat, it took a moment for the boys to understand the German announcement. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Indeed, the master narrative led to such surprising conclusions about Native American societies before the arrival of Europeans that it stirred up an intellectual firestorm. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Penkovsky, the most productive spy ever to work for the Americans, was living up to his code name. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

American policemen were stuffing a handcuffed teenaged boy into a police car. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The colonel was surprised “Then it’s un- American, isn’t it?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The steakhouse, beige with red awnings, is in an outdoor mall with all the regular shops: American Eagle, Kayjewelers, and the like. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Throughout the Adams presidency, Jefferson and his Republican followers had been insisting that the French Revolution was the American Revolution on European soil and that France was therefore America’s major international ally. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

It has pushed other plants and animals off the American farm. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Just as American history is the story of how our continent’s expanse became American, Russia’s history is the story of how Russia became Russian. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

But the American taxpayer knows it’s the truth. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wrote down the details of the American ship and the food it carried. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The idea of what it means to be poor changed in the late sixties, when American manufacturers began to import their products from overseas and we began to accumulate “things.” Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

With so few Americans having a favorable opinion of Muslims, Islam had grown to be one of the most stigmatized religions in the country. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I remember that my father worked alongside American soldiers—like friends. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It is a fact that every American Negro bears a name that originally belonged to the white man whose chattel he was. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

He planned to collect new species of birds and other animals for the American Museum of Natural History. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

The only other customers were an older American couple, reviewing the laminated menu through bifocals. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

This was because she couldn’t figure out how the Chinese dates, based on the lunar calendar, translated into American dates. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

In other instances, the words were spoken over images of African American residents wilting in the heat outside the Morial Convention Center or standing on rooftops waving for help. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I told him that I dreamed to see the day when shiploads and planeloads of American Muslims would come to Mecca for the Hajj. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two smartest kids in my kindergarten class were Teddy, a Korean American boy, and Chiaka, an African American girl, who both would remain at the top of the class for years to come. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Numerous black colleges were located in Atlanta, and the city was home to the South’s largest population of college-educated African Americans. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

To improve security, they had given their top South American spies a present—a coding machine called Enigma. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Security is tight, cameras monitor the doors, and if you are working for American Express, you cannot get into the building that is managing services and research for General Electric. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Sitting in Paris and watching my American movies, I think of the man with the transistor radio and feel the exact opposite of homesick. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

On December 22 American soldiers on patrol spotted Honeyman, a big man with a cattle whip in his hand. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

And not only is Mr Farraday a most excellent employer, he is an American gentleman to whom, surely, one has a special duty to show all that is best about service in England. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

A European diplomat described a recent trip to North Vietnam, and the destruction he’d seen from American bombs. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

But he returns to become one of the most remarkable soldiers in American history. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Gazzaley sits at Maverick’s, an upscale eatery serving American comfort food. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Yet the Americans claimed that they needed to resist the tax, or they would be mere slaves. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Most of the residents were Mexican field laborers who were American citizens or had immigrant visas like Papa. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Many of the internationals understand the trauma of trying to get an American visa and that is a good place to start a friendship.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Someday you do like your father. You go make new life, like American way.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The White House butlers who staffed the residence, mostly African American men who were our age or older, stood poised to help us with anything we needed. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Another night, we dined with Pérez at a restaurant rumored to have been one of Ernest Hemingway’s favorites when the American writer lived in Cuba. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

He was American, so my mother was able to bring our family to the United States. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was so determined to cast a negative light on Muslims all over the world, not even a fallen American war hero—Humayun Khan—was spared in Trump’s Twitter tirades. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

There were millions of other Americans who had left their birthplaces in search of a dream. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

It still belonged to Indigenous nations, many of which had allied with the British in order to protect their homelands from land-hungry Americans. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

After four years of eating bug-infested rations, sleeping in cold and damp tents, and slogging night and day through thickets and mud, American men had had enough of rough pursuits. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, I settle on the parrot skirt Mami made me in imitation of the poodle skirt all the American girls are wearing. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

The news of the Soviet nuclear test set off a panic inside the American government. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

How could opposition to such measures be treasonable now when they had been legitimate expressions of American dissent back then? Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

One of the most famous battles of the American Civil War took place in the spring of 1863 in the northern Virginia town of Chancellorsville. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

It's a common mistake for vacationing Americans to assume that everyone around them is French and therefore speaks no English whatsoever. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Remember, Jamaica has sugar plantations, which are very different from the cotton plantations you find in the American South. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

A man in the country club band stepped up to the mike and started shaking those seedpod rattles that mean South American music. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

But now, three years later, tens of thousands of American soldiers had been killed in brutal battles. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

In addition, Native American armies had no animals to oppose to horses, whose value for assaults and fast transport gave Europeans an overwhelming advantage until some Native American societies themselves adopted them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s corned beef so you can make sandwiches for lunch,” Aunty Uju had said, as though those words were perfectly normal and did not require a humorous preamble about how Americans ate bread for lunch. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I am very much concerned that American Negroes achieve their freedom here in the United States. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

American soldiers found Germany’s entire supply of uranium at a nearby farm, freshly plowed under the soil. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had regarded their Federalist programs as a fulfillment, rather than a betrayal, of American independence. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Support for American independence, for example, was always fragile and shifted with each victory or defeat in the field, which was often a matter of pure luck. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“You go live with your daughter. I’ll mail you the money I’ve always sent you. I could get arrested if the Americans knew about you. I’m living like an American.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, the German metalworking and steel industries are equal in productivity to their American counterparts. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Ford warned Weyand not to convey a message of American weakness. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

"Any agreement would hinge on the Americans reimbursing us for the booster," Zhu Tao said, "and the State Council would likely want political favors from the US government." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Charles’s American friend Asa Gray was one of those people who wanted to see God’s hand in the design of flowers, but he also thought that Charles’s argument for natural selection was right. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was during the Red Summer that African Americans began to organize and fight back against white violence and oppression. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The Norfolk teachers’ case was just one of many in their master plan to dismantle the system of apartheid that existed in American schools and workplaces. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Jared: I’m just sick of people suggesting African Americans still have it so hard these days. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

One girl, already in her final year at the University of Ife, got an American visa the first time she tried, and gave a tearful, excited testimony in church. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

But in his speeches, he tried to convince audiences that giving African Americans the rights of citizenship would undermine white society and safety. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

It’s a pretty good testament to the transformative power of rhetoric that Gettysburg remains so hallowed in the annals of American history. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

In a way, it made perfect sense that Jesse had a computer but not a car: Young Americans seem much more in love with their computers these days. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d broken through into a small corner of American success where his race did not curse him. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Equally typical is a tendency to equate the risk from some obscure and exotic malady with the chances of suffering from heart and circulatory disease, from which about 12,000 Americans die each week. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My boys, for example, they will do anything for American action films, especially with that Arnold Whatsanegger—” “The mosque!” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then came Truman’s announcement that the Americans had dropped an atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

They wrestled the Americans toward the shed door affectionately, filling the night with manly blather and brotherly rodomontades. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

We began to develop a taste for the American teenage good life, and soon, Island was old hat, man. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

His former employer described him as "a thoroughly wholesome, typically American boy" with a "modest demeanor." Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

“Americans don’t realize the challenge to the extent that they should.” The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

I wanted what all parents expect for their children: for them to become happy, healthy, educated, productive citizens who contribute to American life in a positive, successful way. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Modern American society and the Fayu differ in the presence or absence of a professional police force, cities, money, distinctions between rich and poor, and many other political, economic, and social institutions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

Breakfast was purely American, though most of their customers were Nikkei. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

This new initiative would be composed of American trailblazers in women’s sports who embody and support the secretary and department’s efforts to empower women and girls globally through sport. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

American military maps showed this region of South Vietnam in different colors: one color for land controlled by the South Vietnamese government, another for territory controlled by the Viet Cong. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

His frustration with some Americans was like that of a disappointed parent. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Otherwise, miles of farmland surrounded Hatfield, even though it was less than an hour away from a major American city. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The decks were empty except for two first-class passengers, American businessmen sharing a nightcap under lap blankets. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The summer of 1919 would see a rise in action by African Americans, fighting for equality in the face of widespread racism. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Knowing our own language and culture could save the lives of Americans we had never met and help defeat enemies who wanted to destroy us. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kissinger defended the attacks, pointing out that American planes were targeting military and industrial targets. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“This action closes a chapter in the American experience.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Official propaganda films like He May Be a Communist warned Americans that their neighbors might have thrown in their lot with the Reds. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

In the long run, the evolution of an independent American nation, gradually developing its political and economic strength over the nineteenth century within the protective constraints of the British Empire, was probably inevitable. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Compton received the green light from Bush and Conant to review and coordinate American research on fission. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He knew all about science, about model rocketry, chemistry sets, baseball cards, about American history. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oh, goodness, the parties, the cars, the music—the whole carefree American way of life. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

In hotel lobbies or airports, in Turkey or Brazil, some Americans will pass, and suddenly I will hear it again—the high sound of American voices. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dogs would get deployed when reporters came to learn about the importance of American trade and exports or, later, to hear Barack speak in favor of Merrick Garland, his pick for the Supreme Court. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Seabiscuit had clocked a new track record that would stand untouched for a decade: a mile and a quarter in 2:01 'A. It was the second-fastest ten furlongs ever run in American racing history. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thirty years later I write this book as a middle-class American man. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the other hand, how is the American Negro now to form himself into a separate nation? The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Although this position would result in a draw in most cases, the two young American colleagues searched for hours for any possibility that Bobby could squeeze out a win when play resumed. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Americans have finally heard about Dresden,” said Rumfoord, twenty-three years after the raid. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when someone hates your guts, truth, justice, and the American way don’t mean all that much. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Was Snowden a hero for blowing the whistle on a perilous threat to the basic liberties guaranteed to all Americans? Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

If you meet an elderly American Black man from Alabama, he probably remembers when he had to step off the curb because a white person was walking past. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Their accents sounded just like the ones Mr. Kapasi heard on American television programs, though not like the ones on Dallas. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Some have slipped out of sight, buying bigger and more lavish homes in neighborhoods increasingly insulated from the rest of Americans. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Or locust. Not sure what American word. Some confusion about that.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Americans are arguably more likely than they were thirty years ago to end up in the class into which they were born. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Safer takes an American Express card out of his back pocket. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

To what extent does his abominable behaviour exemplify the attitude of the present American administration? The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

As the first African American family in the White House, we were being viewed as representatives of our race. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Jackie was one of the only American women to fly military jets and had even been the first woman to break the sound barrier—flying faster than the speed known as Mach 1—in 1953. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Not that I know. It’s possible. I never met my father. I guess my ma would have told me if he was Native American, though. Maybe.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

We continued to study the American Revolution, and learned about the injustices of taxation without representation, and memorized passages from the Declaration of Independence. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The officers of the American Chess Foundation maintained that Reshevsky was the better player, and they arranged to have him prove it. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Ben, getting you a date to prom is so hard that the American government believes the problem cannot be solved with diplomacy, but will instead require force.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

But now the two Syrians had been separated from the Americans, and there was no predicting where this would go. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Together we recited the words “Hello, I am your American mother. Hello, I am your American father. You have three American brothers. Their names are Adam, Erik, and Teddy. Teddy plays the piano.” Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have a God-given, American right to avoid homework if that helps me in the pursuit of happiness. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

An American soldier led me upstairs to a big room filled with bunk beds and told me which one was mine. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe "being American" means you still have room in your heart for other things. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

But at least no one tried to sabotage their planes, and in general they were treated with more gender equality than their American counterparts—possibly because the ATA included both men and women. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

When I first got to Johannesburg I stayed for a brief time with a very nice American couple, the Templetons. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Looking at it one way, each American eats only about a bushel of corn per year. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The verdict was cheered by observers in the courtroom, the crowd outside the courthouse, and most Americans who read about it. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The Americans agreed to halt the bombing of North Vietnam, and in exchange North Vietnamese negotiators agreed to sit down with representatives of the government of South Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Few supported these efforts to put a woman in space, but after American John Glenn orbited the Earth, the Soviets feared the United States was catching up or even surpassing them in the Space Race. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

Why does the First Amendment end at the school door, when many lads, especially geeks, have spent much of their lives in the freest part of American culture— the Internet? Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thus Pizarro’s capture of Atahuallpa illustrates the set of proximate factors that resulted in Europeans’ colonizing the New World instead of Native Americans’ colonizing Europe. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Japanese had waited until we Americans had swarmed up the first slope and were like sitting ducks on the wide plain before the next terrace. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

We can both pronounce the show sound that's difficult for Americans. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In the summer of 1945, as Europeans picked through the rubble of their ruined cities and burned-out farms, Soviet and American soldiers eyed each other warily. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe he didn’t want to mention his new wife, who had answered the phone of our house when I had called for American Father’s Day and she whispered, “Don’t call here again, you dog children.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The trouble with living on the wrong side of the world was that I didn’t feel like a real American. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Arthur Dula, an American lawyer who specializes in laws governing international space-related activities, stated that such discrimination should make Russia's Federal Space Agency ineligible for any more funding from the United States. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

If I can ask only one thing of the American people, it’s this: Please, do not let my actions influence your decision in November. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

It was a big change from the tidy American scene I’d left two days before. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Their only real interaction with American kids came about as a result of a misunderstanding. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

One hundred years after Alice Paul offered her warning to American women, there is no question her words were taken seriously by generations of women who followed her. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Valentine said, “We have a legal right as American citizens to be here.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

And usually these carrion talkers were the same ones who had said one American was worth twenty Germans in a scrap—the same ones. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The vast majority of Americans, in Seattle and elsewhere, did exactly that. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Dear Diary, For the past month, we have been studying different American writers like Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Tho- reau. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Catching a British spy, militiamen grab Major John André, who carries plans for the defense of West Point, given to him by an American traitor. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was on the theme, familiar to me, of “as you sow, so shall you reap,” or how the hypocritical American white man was reaping what he had sowed. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as they could, the Americans took us away from Dachau. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“The Japanese in a predawn surprise attack have destroyed the American fleet at Pearl Harbor. I repeat. The White House has confirmed that the Japanese...” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dasch was an expert on all things American, which was a highly valuable skill set in Nazi Germany. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

I changed my name to Jacob Gruener and took to calling myself Jack, like the American soldiers called me. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

"My father worked with American soldiers in Afghanistan. He was a translator." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I thought about Herbert, about how desperately he wanted the American flag he earned through his military service in Vietnam. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Mr. Heron was supposed to be a Tory; he wasn’t supposed to know where American commissary officers were. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The British navy could blockade and bombard American seaports with impunity, and it did. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Somewhere in there, old Edgar Derby was elected head American. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had always wanted to see an American dollar. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Her father had brought home three American pencils, and he gave them to her to take to class. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Not only is she a great writer, but she’s Korean American, which makes me really happy. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Eating meat used to be a special occasion in most American homes. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Gangsters — known as tsotsis — carrying flick-knives or switchblades were plentiful and prominent; in those days they emulated American movie stars and wore fedoras and double-breasted suits and wide, colorful ties. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

These were the first American combat troops sent to the Vietnam War. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

For so long he was effortlessly Korean, effortlessly American. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

And yet what the Pentagon Papers showed was that each president made decisions to escalate American involvement in Vietnam knowing that what he was doing had little chance of success. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Early Blues singers moulded tunes with African inflexions in them on to chords borrowed from American hymns, parlour, folk and vaudeville songs. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Native Americans were not granted the right to vote until the Indian Citizenship Act was passed in 1924. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

You could say the majority of Americans were always geeks, until we got post-Depression urbanization and illusions of sophistication. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He immediately started looking for American spies in New York. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here, in America, the idea of race emerged as a means of reconciling chattel slavery—as well as the extermination of American Indians—with the ideals of freedom preached by whites in the new colonies. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In 1958 he’d made history as the driving force behind the first ascent of Hidden Peak, a 26,470-foot mountain in the Karakoram Range of Pakistan—the highest first ascent ever achieved by American climbers. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

At the rate of nearly one every other day, the Red Cross estimates, U.S.-bound Central American migrants who ride freight trains lose arms, legs, hands, or feet. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

And the tank that followed them...the tank had an American flag on it. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I said that on the American racial level, we had to approach the black man’s struggle against the white man’s racism as a human problem, that we had to forget hypocritical politics and propaganda. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some African Americans who had been born as slaves were still alive, and could describe how they had lived sixty years earlier. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“There, Nat! Who said England would never accept an American book? I guess the world will believe you now!” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could hear the Great American Gelding snoring away like a planing mill. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most white Americans denied any taint of racism and really believed that in this land we judged every man by his qualities as a human individual. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

We are Americans, all of us, whether black or white, regardless of what the man on the ladder there tells you, Americans. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The notion that African Americans support “get tough” approaches to crime is further complicated by the fact that “crime” is not a generic category. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Neither of them knew it yet, but it was the start of a partnership that would transform their lives—and the future of American code breaking. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

A fearful and delicate problem, which compromises, when it does not corrupt, all the American efforts to build a better world—here, there, or anywhere. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

He even testified before a congressional committee, and later got into a shouting match with an American general who claimed Farmer was “totally out in left field.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Since 1977, an American’s average daily intake of calories has jumped by more than 10 percent. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

At that time our church served as a concert hall, a public auditorium, and the gathering place for most African- American social events. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

And the media didn’t seem to notice, until news hit that the Russian cells had been contaminated by American ones. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Papa told her about this strange neighborhood: how its families had been Americans for more than a hundred years back; how they were mostly Scotch, English and Welsh extraction. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Zeitoun occasionally stopped there for lunch, and was eating there that day when he saw an exceptionally tall African American woman enter. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Knowing Americans felt threatened, he’d been confident Congress would pass his bill. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

He expected all Americans to thank him for saving the nation. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Selma, the president continued, marked a turning point in American race relations and American history. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Americans, with their law and order, with their traffic lights everywhere — how could the Americans of all people do this? Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Indigenous peoples of the North American continent spoke hundreds of languages. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

At that point in American history, no police department fired its guns more than that of Prince George’s County. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

A full-blooded American Indian was invariably appointed a guardian, whereas a mixed-blood person rarely was. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Washington put General Benedict Arnold in command of the American forces that entered Philadelphia after the British left. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could also see that American kids had a hard time understanding that I was American. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

A few days after that, newspapers would appear throughout the world with photographs of the first American soldiers bludgeoning their way into the shattered city through rubble and smoke. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

But if there is indeed an American image built of truth rather than reflecting either hostility or wishful thinking, what is this image? Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The counselor there told them that the recidivism rate for African American boys was seventy-three percent. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

On the inevitability side, it is true there were voices back then urging prospective patriots to regard American independence as an early version of manifest destiny. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

So many foreign students come to do their graduate work here, and so few American students major in mathematics, that in many departments American graduate students are a minority. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

On some flights, they flew in replacement troops, both Vietnamese and American, to the camps. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

To many Americans, this was starting to sound very familiar. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

It’s like she landed at Ellis Island, where immigrants used to enter the United States, and got permanently stuck there—afraid to make her way to solid American ground. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

On February 9, 1864, two African American men carried large bundles of petition rolls into the Senate chamber. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I had never done detention before, but then again I’d never spent time in an American high school. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

We took flyers to the Native American Youth and Family Center, too. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

This, in the case of the Negro, the American republic has never become sufficiently mature to do. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

“I came to this country from Syria nine years ago and have since then earned American citizenship and am assistant manager of the Pizza Pad on Highway 6.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

At the rear of the field, the American boat began to claw its way more slowly back into position. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

That was because workers were clattering in to remake the lower floor for a display of American Indian art, and a Buddhist student group was chanting in the small sanctuary upstairs. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The churning of African Americans in and out of prisons today is hardly surprising, given the strong message that is sent to them that they are not wanted in mainstream society. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I know it’s just a stupid American saying, but I really don’t appreciate being called such an ugly animal. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

I read somewhere how American colleges used to ask applicants for their mother’s surnames, to make sure they weren’t Jewish because they wouldn’t admit Jewish people. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Almost overnight, black men found themselves unnecessary to the American economy and demonized by mainstream society. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The American woods have been unnerving people for 300 years. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Americans don’t think of themselves as corn eaters. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

When Liyana considered the echoes bouncing off the walls of Jerusalem, she felt like the dot on an i in an American alphabet book for babies. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10,000 miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The African American woman in question was Ida Wells-Barnett, who planned to come from Chicago to Washington, DC, to march side by side with her suffrage sisters from Illinois. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Along with promises made by the agents of the northern factory owners, thousands of African Americans were influenced in their decision to migrate by the black press. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was the question that many people had asked themselves, Americans and Japanese and Germans and everybody else in the war. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

On the plains of the American west, where steer 534 was born, bison and the prairie grasses lived together in partnership for thousands of years. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Together, over the next five years, they would remake American foreign policy. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

American spy John Champe swims to a welcoming British patrol boat after out-running pursuing Americans, who think he is a deserter. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hates that his name is both absurd and obscure, that it has nothing to do with who he is, that it is neither Indian nor American but of all things Russian. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

In March, Poppy found three American evangelists lost in the Old City and brought them home for dinner. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“But the Americans love us Brits, they love the accent and the Queen and the double decker,” Emenike said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

That’s the only way the American black man is ever going to get respect. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She goes with another to be at the American hospital. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Women’s rights advocate Frances Dana Barker Gage worried about the status of African American women. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Given that the average American male is five foot nine, that means that CEOs as a group have about three inches on the rest of their sex. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

November 7: The first Palmer raids are carried out in twenty-three American cities. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

She sounded like the African American kids—in other words, the black kids from America. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Some disgruntled American—a retired veteran—referred to me as “a thing that had to be destroyed.” Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“Tell me a bit about yourself,” she said at last, “what was it you were doing in the south of France? Living with some appalling American woman, Maxim said.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Life expectancy has increased overall; but upper-middle-class Americans live longer and in better health than middle-class Americans, who live longer and in better health than those at the bottom. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

If permitted to define a decade somewhat loosely, then the next decade was the most crucial and consequential in American history. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

American strategy in Vietnam was to rely on superior firepower to kill enemy troops faster than they could be replaced. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Some of the American students have been complaining that it doesn’t feel like Thanksgiving when it’s as hot as the Fourth of July. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

He pointed out that it was relatively easy to pronounce, though there was the danger that Americans, obsessed with abbreviation, would truncate it to Nick. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Native Americans ran the continent as they saw fit. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Sanchez spoke very briefly about how glad he was to be an American. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Not all of the children who were silent at American school found voice at Chinese school. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Price says that well over half of Americans know a Maven, or someone close to the Maven’s description. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

About fifty feet away, some overweight middle-aged dudes with American accents were conversing loudly, complaining to each other about the heat. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

As he waddled around, giggling for the American doctor, Farmer’s famous blush spread over his forehead and down his neck, and, I imagined, past his necktie toward his feet. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

So Champe was on his own when he tried to get through American lines then make his way through British lines to get into New York City. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

To some extent, this freedom simply reflected North American Indians’ relatively recent adoption of agriculture. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Undeniably, though, one major draw for black audiences was simply seeing fellow African Americans on stage. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He’d made a point of including the Tuskegee Airmen, the history-making African American pilots and ground crews who fought in World War II, among his guests. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Far from being a worthy goal, however, colorblindness has proved catastrophic for African Americans. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

From Cancún, she’d make her way eventually to the island of Culebra in Puerto Rico, where there were loads of Americans who never showed their passports to anyone. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Only the American white man was so plagued and obsessed with being “hated.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several weeks before the parade, an African American sorority from Howard University asked to march with the college women. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

She came into the room with a flashlight and her American passport. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

He didn’t know about the doubts surrounding the August 4 “attacks” on Americans ships—and McNamara certainly didn’t volunteer that information. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Her father joined the American lady's phony laughter, then stopped abruptly when he noticed Sandi's eyes on him. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

From the moment the several hundred delegates arrived, a profusion of free champagne, partly provided by American dollars, was available to loosen international barriers. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

As Phillip Swagel, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, put it, “We want to give people all the opportunities they want. We want to remove the barriers to upward mobility.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

There was deep disagreement between those who thought class was the governing force in American life and those who deemed it pretty much irrelevant. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The American parts of me are nowhere in sight, so why are they staring? You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Bobby said it was because I was probably one of those people who sue Americans for money and he had to protect himself. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

On the US home front, however, some Americans expressed doubts about Powers's loyalty. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Fadi avoided the plate of mantu and chewed on a piece of tender grilled chicken, watching the American couple awkwardly dunk bread into their eggplant dip. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

To offset the solitude, I joked around with Lorraine, my assistant, a hyperorganized, good-humored African American woman several years my senior who sat just outside my office and answered my phone. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The American Friends Service helped us find a small house in Boyle Heights, another minority ghetto, in downtown Los Angeles, now inhabited briefly by a few hundred Terminal Island refugees. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then we drive through a place called Indian Village, where I finally get to see the beautiful American mansions. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

North Vietnam’s strategy was to keep fighting, to keep absorbing punishment, until the American public tired of war and demanded the withdrawal of American troops. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

In three consecutive trips to Worlds, I’d earned fourteen medals, ten of them gold, which made me the most decorated American female gymnast ever. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Some considered the federal amendment a challenge to states’ rights to make their own choices and laws, and others worried that expanding African American suffrage to include women could threaten white political control. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Maybe everybody needs Russians. I’ll bet even in Russia they need Russians. Maybe they call it Americans.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the little boys ran over to show Eunjoo their haul, Jinjoo wondered why it was she hadn’t been scared by the Americans. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

One of the reasons the South African government was reluctant to grant passports to blacks, I believe, had to do with the nature of the American government. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The space was smaller than many American living rooms, and jammed with double-decker beds and a few clotheslines. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

And here a generality concerning the growth of American cities, seemingly true of all of them I know. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The idea, of course, is to make their American or European customers feel more comfortable. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

To appreciate its absurdity, one can imagine future historians lumping American history with Canadian, Australian, South African, and later South Asian histories, into a conceptual monstrosity called the “Britishistic” period. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

She could not get used to the American custom of receiving compliments with a simple thank you. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

That led Americans to an inaccurate view of how their fellow citizens behaved. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

But race riots, anti-Vietnam War demonstrations, and crime in general were on the rise in American cities, and Ginny and the Warden worried about their children’s safety in Birmingham. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Americans were intensely aware of the power that the sugar lords wielded in London. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Many Americans have heard of the Mercury 7. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

Men burst out of the woods—dozens and dozens of American soldiers running for their lives. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

She was halfway through the assignment when Japanese fighter pilots bombed the American naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Upon this racist fiction rests the entire structure of American democracy. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

After all, it's why he'd left his American wife behind and made the long voyage home to Nazi Germany. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

One day I made note of a New York Times article I’d read that reported widespread fatigue, stress, and unhappiness among American lawyers—most especially female ones. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Billy didn’t spoon syrup on his first day at work, but lots of other Americans did. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

A couple looked Asian American, a couple white. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

It is the way Chinese sounds, chingchong ugly, to American ears, not beautiful like Japanese sayonara words with the consonants and vowels as regular as Italian. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps as a result, every year more than a hundred Americans inadvertently turn their homes into gas chambers and execute themselves and their families by running generators and combustion heaters indoors. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

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

She had an American name that sounded like “Ink” in Chinese. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said he was sure that all the other Americans would do the same. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

But by the time the long war ended, many people were calling themselves Americans. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

International headlines took aim at the United States, with one London newspaper taunting that "the Americans have made fools of themselves." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He said, “Shoot, Kenny, you think I don’t know? Why you think I came back? But remember, you said it’s my turn to be the Americans.” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

In any event, the sloppy and fatuous nature of American good will can never be relied upon to deal with hard problems. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Their assignment was to guard one hundred American prisoners of war, who would work as contract labor. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next afternoon I met a Mexican American crop scientist named Ricardo Salvador, a professor at Iowa State University. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

In 1870, the Fifteenth Amendment was ratified, granting African American men the right to vote. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

On Wednesday during American Poetry for Dummies 101,1 got a text from Augustus: Isaac out of surgery. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

In 1928 a group of thirty or so Native American Indians had been living on one of the large ranches below the St. Francis Dam. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

A contributor to Dunlap's American Daily Advertiser who went by the initials “A. B.” could be seen poking around rainwater barrels in his neighborhood. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

After corn’s arrival in the eastern United States, seven centuries more passed before the development of a corn variety productive in North American climates triggered the Mississippian emergence. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

When a crime is committed by a black man, it’s mentioned in the first breath: “An African American man was arrested today...” Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The original exemplar of American social mobility was almost certainly Benjamin Franklin, one of seventeen children of a candle maker. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

We can identify the chain of proximate factors that enabled Pizarro to capture Atahuallpa, and that operated in European conquests of other Native American societies as well. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Native Americans of the eastern United States domesticated no locally available wild pulse, no fiber crop, no fruit or nut tree. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

She was from Tanzania but had managed to assimilate into American culture, as she had been in the States for about three years. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“My parents are American. They were born in Brooklyn.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the Central Americans go to reunite with a parent, say counselors at a detention center in Texas where the INS houses the largest number of the unaccompanied children it catches. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

A single spy-defector had opened Americans' eyes to the new threat to their way of life. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

A onetime spy for the revolutionary leaders in Mexico, Wren was a rarity in the bureau: an American Indian. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Two days later they struck another American base, killing ten more. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

She remembers a story she read once about Guam, about how brown snakes were introduced by Americans. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t wind up going back to Miami after the war, instead staying with my mother and attending the American School of Kinshasa. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a traditional Native American food,” I say excitedly. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

At his words, there was an immediate clamor of loud voices arguing for and against the likelihood of a swift and easy Communist defeat in the hands of American military might. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Don’t American laws apply in the Delta? What R.C. and those two men did was wrong, Grampa. It makes me sick just to think about it.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Iceland is split down the middle, which makes it tectonically half American and half European. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The strike was nationwide, and all her friends were home, even Kayode was home, back on holiday from his American university. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Throughout the first half of the 1790s, the closest approximation to a self-evident truth in American politics was George Washington. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“It was his opinion,” recalled Truman, “that such an invasion would cost at a minimum a quarter of a million American casualties.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

But shut up anyway, especially if you need a job/favor from the American in question. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

If Soviets were prepared to move on from the atomic to the Super on their own, they might well beat the Americans to the prize. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

When we performed with the American kids, audiences were wowed. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Almost banning the death penalty through a popular referendum in an American state would have been unimaginable just a few years earlier. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The melodic, swooping movement of her Jamaican patois was quickly replaced by the more stable cadences of American English. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

But Native Americans figured out a way to turn them into a rich food by grinding, soaking, and roasting them. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

But the face of an American missionary lady bent over her and smiled, talking to her in a soothing language she did not understand. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Racial terror and the constant threat created by violently enforced racial hierarchy were profoundly traumatizing for African Americans. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Not everyone is pleased that such a significant fraction of Americans, especially black Americans, live behind bars. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

There was no way for the Americans to know. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

American colonists used molasses not only to produce rum but to make beer as well. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

They’d put the bad mouth on their aunt’s first American day; you had to sweeten their noisy barbarous mouths. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Take for example, the forty-two-year-old African American man who applied for public housing for himself and his three children who were living with him at the time. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In 1923 she became the first black concert artist to record Negro spirituals for a major American recording company, the Victor Talking Machine Company. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

But Coleridge-Taylor had previous experience of adapting African- American folk times. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I paid close attention because I was interested and because I wanted Miss Kellog and my classmates to think I was an American citizen. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Fischer was the only American, and to many he was the tournament’s dark knight. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed so American to her, flossing, that mechanical sliding of a string between teeth, inelegant and functional. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

With the win at Gliders, that goal seemed within reach, because my score had qualified me to compete in the American Classic at the Karolyi Ranch on July 1. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

In fact, surveys consistently show that African Americans are generally less supportive of harsh criminal justice policies than whites, even though blacks are far more likely to be victims of crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

This tax, the successor to one enacted in 1969 to make sure the wealthiest Americans could not use legal loopholes to live tax-free, has never been adjusted for inflation. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

On top of that a group of high-minded ladies in the town demanded that dens of vice must close to protect young American manhood. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All of the American leaders have committed treason against the King. You cannot deny that. Treason is the highest offense under English law, worse than murder. And what is the punishment for treason, my friends?” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Hub is marked by an American flag fluttering fifty feet up in the air, and large black plastic letters above the door: MOBIUS. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Percentage of incarcerated youths who are African American: 41. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

In the close quarters of an American nuclear family, their mother's prodigious energy was becoming a real drain on their self-determination. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

But an American is inclined to stay upbeat. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The bombings marked the eighth anniversary of American troops arriving in Saudi Arabia. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Perhaps they will truly become American and create a nobler basis for their myths. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The FBI begins to round up members of the Japanese American communities on the West Coast. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

But over time my eyes and ears adjusted, so that I began to feel at home with those fragments of my people’s history: stories of pioneers, my ancestors, striking out across the American wilderness. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It is broadcast for all you American fighting men in the Pacific, particularly those standing off the shores of Okinawa because many of you will never hear another program. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is frequently argued in defense of mass incarceration that African Americans want more police and more prisons because crime is so bad in some ghetto communities. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“My dad was the only Asian in like a hundred-mile radius. The next town over was like ninety-six percent African American, so I saw nonwhite people all the time, but I was definitely an anomaly.” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

They waited until dark, then hurried down to the beach and tried to get a boat out to the big American ships. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Her braces have come off her teeth, revealing a confident, frequent, American smile. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The American, Mr. Pomodoro, is tall and linky with a rubbery face that moves his cheeks and nose and eyes when he talks and even when he doesn’t talk. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

On July 4, 1942, while most Americans were celebrating Independence Day, the Nazi saboteurs were transferred to a jail in Washington, DC, under the custody of the army. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Mandela’s mother, Beatrice, wouldn’t allow him to grow his hair long; that wasn’t acceptable for young men in Africa, and she didn’t care what the American boys did. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Then, seeing that the men were Americans, he shrugged that off as a joke. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Mrs. Miller’s class we make goody bags for American soldiers in the war and it is very important that I help as much as I can to prove whose side I’m on. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

From the perspective south of the Potomac, of course, these were the institutions and symbols the American Revolution had supposedly repudiated forever. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

An extraordinary percentage of black men in the United States are legally barred from voting today, just as they have been throughout most of American history. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Later research would show that Jackie’s views are consistent with the perspective of the majority of American parents, according to a survey published by the Center on Media and Human Development at Northwestern University. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The sound of it—the tinkle of joy in the midst of our bleak American winter—was startling. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Jinjoo caught them just as the first American trucks rolled up. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

After Yardley’s sellout, the American military brass worried a great deal about the loyalty of their code breakers. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Catch up tonight, okay? Chapter twenty-seven in your American history book talks about how churches were bombed, houses were burned, people were lynched. History MADE.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“You rely on the intuition—what the Americans call the hunch?” said Dr. Constantine. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is a long article about middle school soccer and a “Looking Back” feature about Betty Bright at the Pan American Games. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

So there you have it: Hamilton safely buried and assuming legendary proportions as a martyr; Burr slipping out of town, eventually headed toward bizarre adventures in the American West, but already consigned to political oblivion. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

In the American South during that same period, it would have been highly unusual for a white landowner to have such a public relationship with a slave. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“Yes, well, in that respect and many others, American high schools do rather resemble prisons.” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

This woman was the giver of American names, a powerful namer, though it was American names; my parents gave the Chinese names. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Jefferson had understood from the moment Washington stepped down, the American president must forever after be the head of a political party. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

But three American militiamen stopped him on the road. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He continued to insist that she and her team focus on the dwindling South American spy intercepts, which provided little useful intelligence. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Normally, part of Ellsberg’s job would be to monitor the American strikes. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The hitch was we couldn't buy from the same supplier because, as Rik revealed, they had paid the Moroccans in counterfeit American cash and didn't want to risk dealing with them again. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

She said this with all of the odd poise and direction that the great American injury demands of you. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

He assured his audience that as soon as the enemy sanctuaries had been eliminated and NVA military supplies destroyed, American troops would be withdrawn. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The Dinka admired him as much as any American sports fans look up to an athlete who scores a touchdown or hits a home run. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

August 17 American Chicken Most food our cowboy brings is wrapped in plastic or pushed into cans, while chicken and beef are chopped and frozen. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Two American military policemen ran toward the explosion and opened fire on the figures climbing through a three-foot hole in the wall. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

And to begin the work of restructuring American schools—barely changed in generations despite the ongoing Information Revolution—and their frequently warped structures, procedures, and value systems. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Is it any wonder Americans suffer from so many eating disorders? The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He had to go anyway to attend a meeting of the directors of the American Institute of Architects and planned afterward to take a train to Atlanta to inspect one of the firm’s buildings. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Marina was such an international celebrity that her obituary and photograph even made front-page news in some American papers. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

She had worked with the American Woman Suffrage Association, and she knew Susan B. Anthony, calling her “a great and noble woman.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Dad was watching a debate about whether or not Britain should have American cruise missiles on its soil. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“With racism plaguing America like an incurable cancer, the so-called ‘Christian’ white American heart should be more receptive to a proven solution to such a destructive problem. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ben adjusts and makes a circle overlapping the circles for New Yorkers and Americans. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

It didn’t stop with mistaken identification by other Americans. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

More African American adults are under correctional control today—in prison or jail, on probation or parole—than were enslaved in 1850, a decade before the Civil War began. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The white man was barred from attendance—the first time the American black man had ever dreamed of such a thing. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The best young Americans were going to war or going to jail. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“I don’t believe they will attack now that the rains have started. We will have the snow soon. What about your countrymen? Will there be other Americans besides yourself?” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

She was sensible enough to sit out jitterbug numbers and avoid music with a South American taint, and Henry said when she learned to talk and dance at the same time she’d be a hit. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Even more striking, in the general American population, 3.9 percent of adult men are six foot two or taller. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Critics of the Constitution, then and now, have condemned it as a betrayal of the core principles of the American Revolution, an American version of France’s Thermidorian reaction. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

And last year when Rafey was sick with pneumonia, and Mama and I took him to the urgent care clinic, a white doctor told us he only treated Americans. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

And if you think having Problems in American Democracy is a fun way to end the day, you need a snug-fitting straitjacket. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Upon reflection, it is relatively easy to understand how Americans come to deny the evils of mass incarceration. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Once again, he soberly addressed Americans in a televised speech. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

One of these fellows was known as Bogart, after the American tough-guy movie actor. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

This house is the one my mother and I prayed for every night, every morning, and during every ceremony: 8800 American Street. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Americans who might have been philosophically inclined to embrace the Klan had now been given all sorts of caution against doing so. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

The Japanese often attacked American convoys with airplanes sent out from their aircraft carriers. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a large, pale American man who bought the store’s cheap-style clothes and sent them overseas. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Five months later, when asked to complete a short profile for a Who’s Who of notable American women, Elizebeth sent back a long letter. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

But class is still a powerful force in American life. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The amiable, decent American was in all his features. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Recently he had a chance meeting with a first-generation Vietnamese American engineer. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Johnson authorized U.S. planes to hit targets in the North, the first American air strikes since the August 5 raids the year before. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Leah, for your information I am proud to be an American.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Europeans had no such connections to North American lands. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Selling junk for petty cash, our menial jobs, our grimy apartment—the American ver­sion of a hut; maybe in America, when Baba looked at me, he saw a little bit of Hassan. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Harry said nothing but suddenly, beaming, he began rummaging around in a box, pulled out a large American flag, tacked it on the wall above the radio, and stood back to admire it. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Very soon you will start to adopt an American accent, because you don’t want customer service people on the phone to keep asking you ‘What? Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The American soldiers stationed with us came in and sat down with us. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The American boys would have a day off. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Tall and lean with salt-and-pepper hair and a handlebar mustache, at first glance forty-eight-year-old Cherrie didn’t necessarily look like someone who had spent the last twenty-five years in the South American wilderness. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Lacking a consensus on what the American Revolution had intended and what the Constitution had settled, Federalists and Republicans alike were afloat in a sea of mutual accusations and partisan interpretations. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

I paused at a yellowed photograph of a pair of Native American kids, one sitting on Ishtar's lap, staring blank-eyed at the camera. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

By the end of the week I’d managed to squeeze into introductory courses in English, American history, music and religion, but I was stuck in a junior-level course on art in Western civilization. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

All the uncomfortable and vicious fights I'd witnessed between my American friends and their parents suddenly seemed like child's play. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The Daughters of the American Revolution will be sponsoring a blanket drive, a bake sale, a letter-writing campaign, and much more. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Perhaps this is all for show, and doesn’t reflect what the average Egyptian really thinks of Americans. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

At the height of the American chestnut blight, every woodland breeze would lose spores in uncountable trillions to drift in a pretty, lethal haze on to neighboring hillsides. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

One hundred years after the Red Summer, and despite significant gains made by African Americans in the past century, serious racial issues continue to plague the United States. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

What if among the Central Americans there were dangerous criminals fleeing prosecution in their own countries? Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

She has been waiting expectantly since after lunch, tidying up the patch of garden this American woman will be able to see from the galeria. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The yacht had been sold to MoMo B. ChaCha through various channels because it was a symbol of wicked American excess, which The Peacock publicly disdained. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

For the first time, the American public’s approval of Johnson’s handling of the war slipped below 50 percent. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Odile had been very shocked when Max introduced me to her on my first day in Cambridge and afterwards had told Francis that a bald American was coming to work in the lab. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Sohrab and I sat on the black leather sofa across the reception desk, next to a tall American flag. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

This last remark, while vintage Adams-Rush banter, also exposed the painfully egotistical motives lurking beneath the entire Adams campaign for a more realistic, nonmythologized version of the American Revolution. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, we could call it the World’s Greatest Dinosaur War Ever,” I said, “but I get to be the Americans.” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He held an American flag in one hand. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t find the words to thank the uniformed American who escorted them to their gate. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

You have to come to this side because this new family of mine is both familiar and strange—just like how I am American by birth and Haitian by blood, bones, and tears. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

American radio — she kept her Philco in the corner of the living room nearest the bedroom, so she could listen nonstop. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

There had been the same frequent trips to Calcutta, being plucked out of their American lives for months at a time. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The first race took place August 11 in the lagoon, with Zulus swimming against South American Indians. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I argue that the shame and stigma of the “prison label” are, in many respects, more damaging to the African American community than the shame and stigma associated with Jim Crow. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Most Americans are nice, and good,” I continue. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Hamilton was hardly unique in his recognition that the vast resources of the North American continent constituted a repository of riches that, once unlocked, offered prospects of unparalleled prosperity and national destiny. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The hotel brought a breakfast to our room that, much to my delight, featured deli meat among many other denials of American breakfast constructions. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Finally one of the highest-ranking black officers in the American military, Brigadier General George Price, spoke. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The way African American women wear their hair has often been about much more than vanity. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

She had grown up singing the old slave songs called spirituals, the hymns she had learned in church, and songs by popular American composers, such as Stephen Foster. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

“Maybe they won’t let you in with your shtetl talk, but when I speak English, I sound like a cultured American.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Roy was still thinking about Beatrice when he sat down in American history. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only affluent Baldwin County to the south, with its beautiful Gulf of Mexico beaches, was atypical, with an African American population of just 9 percent. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

As noted earlier, many whites during the Jim Crow era sincerely believed that African Americans were inferior, and that segregation was a sensible system for managing a society comprised of fundamentally different and unequal people. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Millions of lives, Japanese and American, would be lost in a full-scale invasion. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a movement in which African Americans seized upon their first chances for group expression and self-determination. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The Republicans had been the first to grasp this elemental fact of American political culture in the 1790s. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Why do we always have to do what the Americans want?” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He wondered whether employers could smell his America-pining on his breath, or sense how obsessively he still looked at the websites of American universities. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The Molasses Act accomplished nothing except to make Americans better smugglers. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Johnson wanted to know if American planes from nearby aircraft carriers were in the air supporting the ships. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I said that I preferred not to elaborate upon our differences, in the interests of preserving the American black man’s unity. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the winner’s stand, which was swathed in a huge American flag and crammed with suited dignitaries, Marcela smiled demurely for the lieutenant governor, who extended a huge silver loving cup. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many of the Americans learned to jump and liked it as much as the “Saws.” Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

“God Save the King,” the American national anthem and the Russian “Internationale” were played. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

But Mami says how is she supposed to remember all the crazy ways the Americans have changed Spanish around. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

The question was to name the tribe associated with each of the following Native American leaders and name a major accomplishment of one. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Like most Americans I am no lover of cops, and the consistent investigation of city forces for bribery, brutality, and a long and picturesque list of malfeasances is not designed to reassure me. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shooter was in a gang of American kids; Tito and his fellow Liberians, who identified themselves as members of a gang called the Africans, were walking on the wrong turf. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Only an American would give such an order. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

We heard the names of islands thousands of miles away where the Japanese were attacking American and Allied bases in the Pacific. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew what the American Revolution had promised, that slavery violated that promise, and that Franklin had gone to his Maker reminding all concerned that silence was a betrayal of the revolutionary legacy. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Its Chapter 14, called “Accidental Conquerors,” sought to understand the outcome of the encounter between Europeans and Native Americans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

With its purification rituals and its imperial roots, sumo is sacrosanct in a way that American sports will never be. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

They are legally denied the ability to obtain employment, housing, and public benefits—much as African Americans were once forced into a segregated, second-class citizenship in the Jim Crow era. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

That way, American men could be freed up for combat work. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I understand that in many American homes, this is called 'the mother-in-law suite,’ and that is where an au pair would normally sleep. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Washington even suggested that Hunter tell his British case officer that he got the information because American officers “are very incautious in speaking of the strength of their regiments.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe he’d end up working in Africa or an American inner city, he said, but Ophelia was betting it would be Haiti. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

It’s important to stress the difference between Soviet and American chess teams at that time. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

When the American colonists declared independence the following year, it would be hailed as a victory for an entire nation. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This one,” one of the guests remarks, “this one is the true American.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Nonetheless, ecologists and archaeologists increasingly agree that the destruction of Native Americans also destroyed the ecosystems they managed. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Like the American women, the Soviet women underwent extensive tests, including both physical examinations and centrifuge testing. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe the American army will be there to protect them,” the vice-consul said. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

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

As far as biological prerequisites for apple domestication were concerned, North American Indian farmers were like Eurasian farmers, and North American wild apples were like Eurasian wild apples. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Indian fire had its greatest impact in the middle of the continent, which Native Americans transformed into a prodigious game farm. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

His bed was a mattress on the floor, the American flag draped over it for a coverlet, which even as a non-native, I thought most disrespectful. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“And I’m British on one half, and American on the other!” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Douglas Massey and Nancy Denton’s book, American Apartheid, documents how racially segregated ghettos were deliberately created by federal policy, not impersonal market forces or private housing choices. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The college boy was a national hero, and collegiate was the most complimentary adjective in the American vocabulary. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How did you learn all that? It isn’t even in American!” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

The Manhattan’s crew had trained floodlights on the enormous white Olympic flag flying from the after mast, on the American flag on the foremast, and on the ship’s red, white, and blue funnels. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

A tall American draped with cameras approached and asked us in his accented Spanish what our feelings were today. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

President Ronald Reagan signed tax bills that benefited the wealthiest Americans and also gave tax breaks to the working poor. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

There was a rumor among the Americans that Vietnamese wearing black clothing were Viet Cong, and those that wore white were loyal to South Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“You know the border’s closed now, for Americans? Now let’s refocus our attention.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

What happened next has become part of historical legend, a tale told to every American schoolchild. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But first, they hastily changed out of their grayish-brown military uniforms and into their American clothes. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

“You don’t have to be Native American or First Nation. Anybody can love, forgive, and heal. Nobody has a corner on that market.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The Americans marched fairly stylishly out of the British compound. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Washington was the core of gravity that prevented the American Revolution from flying off into random orbits, the stable center around which the revolutionary energies formed. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Few Americans today recognize mass incarceration for what it is: a new caste system thinly veiled by the cloak of colorblindness. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Finally, there is Hamilton’s enshrinement of the urban elite—the merchants, bankers, and business leaders—as the central figures in the emergent American society. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

This visit, the first by an American president, led to a thaw in the years of icy hostility between two of the world’s most powerful nations. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

American government officials, the press, and the public expressed their disappointment with the delays, many impugning the agency’s judgment and competence. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Though advisors had died already in Vietnam, sending in combat troops meant many more Americans would be killed. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“I, Mademoiselle? Why, to minister to the American lady.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Woman operator in Bangalore after walking an American through a computer glitch: “Not a problem, Mr. Jassup. Thank you for your time. Take care. Bye-bye.” The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Our research shows that Americans say they want healthy snacks, but they won’t eat healthy snacks. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

My first words to a real live American were “What fruit's that?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The meat industry does not want Americans to know what happens in a slaughterhouse. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z