100 New Yorkers profiles musicians, painters, photographers, a journalist who donned disguises to get the inside scoop, comedians, crooners, politicians, a clairvoyant—even a pirate—and the places associated with them in the city. It describes affairs and love stories, profound and...

The attractive volumes of this series contain a concise but erudite biography of the featured author by a leading specialist. The text accompanies a rich array of photographs of or about each author, their works, and the people and places...

This volume, which spans the long period from the sixteenth century through the Civil War era, is remarkable for the religious, racial, ethnic, and class diversity of the women it features. Essays on plantation mistresses, overseers' wives, nonslaveholding women from...

The biographical essays in this volume provide new insights into the various ways that South Carolina women asserted themselves in their state and illuminate the tension between tradition and change that defined the South from the Civil War through the...

This collection of first person narratives reflects the diversity of the Filipino immigrant experience and openly addresses issues of changing identity, generational and cultural differences, and the role of community. Included are pre- and post-1965 immigrants, from working students who...

Homosexuality is often seen as a purely urban experience, far removed from rural and small-town life. Farm Boys undermines that cliche by telling the stories of more than three dozen gay men, ranging in age from 24 to 84, who...

In the fifth Deaf Lives volume, Jacobs tells of searching in Australia and Europe for an identity that has yet to be invented, as being neither deaf nor hearing, but an in-between....

Rand is best known for Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, novels framing her Objectivist philosophy of rational self-interest. With many previously unpublished archival images selected from the Ayn Rand Institute in Irvine, CA, the Institute's archivist traces Rand's life (1905-82)...

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The attractive volumes of this series contain a concise but erudite biography of the featured author by a leading specialist. The text accompanies a rich array of photographs of or about each author, their works, and the people and places...