http://www.shvoong.com/tags/american/rss.xml Summaries, Abstracts, Synopses Reviews, Notes & Short Essays on American Tue, 30 Aug 2005 14:23:00 GMT Summary for a book by Neil Gaiman - American Gods, Neil Gaiman's best-selling American Gods is a dark fantasy novel about a man known only as Shadow. Shadow is an ex-inmate, released a few days early http://www.shvoong.com/books/2663-american-gods/ support@shvoong.com http://www.shvoong.com/books/2663-american-gods/ Sun, 17 Jul 2005 16:26:00 GMT Summary for an article by Taylor, Alan - American Colonies, AMERICAN COLONIES: THE SETTLING OF NORTH AMERICA - ALAN TAYLOR To write a history of colonial America used to be easier, because the human cast http://www.shvoong.com/f/humanities/h_history/5995-american-colonies/ support@shvoong.com http://www.shvoong.com/f/humanities/h_history/5995-american-colonies/ Tue, 30 Aug 2005 14:23:00 GMT Summary for an article by Linenthal, Edward - History Wars: The Enola Gay And Other Battles For The American Past , The period between 15,000 and 12,000 years ago was an ideal time for a crossing into North America, because the global limate was slowly warming and t http://www.shvoong.com/f/humanities/6331-history-wars-enola-gay-battles/ support@shvoong.com http://www.shvoong.com/f/humanities/6331-history-wars-enola-gay-battles/ Tue, 30 Aug 2005 18:52:00 GMT Summary for an article by Linenthal, Edward - History Wars: The Enola Gay and Other Battles for the American Past, Midwest Book Review American attitudes toward war and historical reporting of facts are revealed in a title which examines historical interpretat http://www.shvoong.com/f/humanities/h_history/6370-history-wars-enola-gay-battles/ support@shvoong.com http://www.shvoong.com/f/humanities/h_history/6370-history-wars-enola-gay-battles/ Tue, 30 Aug 2005 19:28:00 GMT Summary for an article by Frederick Jackson Turner - The Significance of the Frontier in American History, American historian, Frederick Jackson Turner, set the world ablaze as he announced his new theory. With one statement, he began a controversy that wou http://www.shvoong.com/humanities/6535-significance-frontier-american-history/ support@shvoong.com http://www.shvoong.com/humanities/6535-significance-frontier-american-history/ Tue, 30 Aug 2005 22:55:00 GMT Summary for a book by Stephen Schlesinger and Stephen Kinser - Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala, Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala, by Stephen Schlesinger and Stephen Kinser, is the most elaborate and well researched accoun http://www.shvoong.com/books/102725-bitter-fruit-story-american-coup/ support@shvoong.com http://www.shvoong.com/books/102725-bitter-fruit-story-american-coup/ Sun, 08 Jan 2006 18:31:00 GMT Summary for a book by Ann Cook - American Accent Training (American Accent Training), This unusual book and Compact Discs program has special value for foreign-born students and business people who are working, traveling, or going to sc http://www.shvoong.com/f/books/144690-american-accent-training-american-accent/ support@shvoong.com http://www.shvoong.com/f/books/144690-american-accent-training-american-accent/ Sat, 11 Mar 2006 01:46:00 GMT Summary for an article by Turner, Fredrick J. - "The Significance of the Frontier in American History, What Turner wants to point out here is that the American West is the most important feature of American history, and of the development of its society http://www.shvoong.com/humanities/h_history/144996-the-significance-frontier-american-history/ support@shvoong.com http://www.shvoong.com/humanities/h_history/144996-the-significance-frontier-american-history/ Sat, 11 Mar 2006 13:06:00 GMT Summary for a book by A. Robert Lee - Multicultural American Literature: Comparative Black, Native, Latino/A and Asian American Fictions, In the United States, Ishmael Reed, Leslie Marmon Silko, Ralph Ellison, N. Scott Momaday, Toni Morrison, Rudolfo Anaya, Sandra Cisneros, Maxine Hong K http://www.shvoong.com/f/books/218528-multicultural-american-literature-comparative-black/ support@shvoong.com http://www.shvoong.com/f/books/218528-multicultural-american-literature-comparative-black/ Mon, 08 May 2006 02:03:00 GMT Summary for a book by Langston Hughes - Rejecting social norms for the African-American in poetry: I,Too and Dream Variations, Langston Hughes has been described as one of the most influential black poets of the twentieth century. He wrote during an African-American literary r http://www.shvoong.com/books/256730-rejecting-social-norms-african-american/ support@shvoong.com http://www.shvoong.com/books/256730-rejecting-social-norms-african-american/ Mon, 26 Jun 2006 00:48:00 GMT