The Latino body : crisis identities in American literary and cultural memory / by Lima, Lazaro

Table of Contents: “…"The American Congo" and the national symbolic -- Negotiating cultural memory in the aftermath of the Mexican-American war : nineteenth-century Mexican American testimonials and The squatter and the don -- Reading the corpus delicti : Tom⡳ Rivera's Earth and the Chicano body in the public sphere -- The institutionalization of Latino literature in the academy : Cabeza de Vaca's Castaways and the crisis of legitimation -- Practices of freedom : the body re-membered in contemporary Latino writing -- Democracy's graveyard : dead citizenship and the Latino body.…”

Calypso magnolia : the crosscurrents of Caribbean and Southern literature / by Lowe, John Wharton

Table of Contents: “…Crossing the Caribbean: southerners write the Mexican American War -- Liberating fictions: the Caribbean imaginary in the novels of Lucy Holcombe Pickens and Martin Delany -- Unleashing the loas: the literary legacy of the Haitian revolution in the U.S. …”

Calypso magnolia : the crosscurrents of Caribbean and Southern literature / by Lowe, John Wharton

Table of Contents: “…Crossing the Caribbean: southerners write the Mexican American War -- Liberating fictions: the Caribbean imaginary in the novels of Lucy Holcombe Pickens and Martin Delany -- Unleashing the loas: the literary legacy of the Haitian revolution in the United States South and the Caribbean -- Constance Fenimore Woolson and Lafcadio Hearn: extending the boundaries of the transnational South -- A proper order of attention: McKay and Hurston honor the hardy peasant -- Palette of fire: the aesthetics of propaganda in Black boy and The castle of my skin -- Southern ajiaco: Miami and the generation of Cuban American writing.…”
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Calypso magnolia : the crosscurrents of Caribbean and Southern literature / by Lowe, John Wharton

Table of Contents: “…Crossing the Caribbean: southerners write the Mexican American War -- Liberating fictions: the Caribbean imaginary in the novels of Lucy Holcombe Pickens and Martin Delany -- Unleashing the loas: the literary legacy of the Haitian revolution in the United States South and the Caribbean -- Constance Fenimore Woolson and Lafcadio Hearn: extending the boundaries of the transnational South -- A proper order of attention: McKay and Hurston honor the hardy peasant -- Palette of fire: the aesthetics of propaganda in Black boy and The castle of my skin -- Southern ajiaco: Miami and the generation of Cuban American writing.…”
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Literary culture and U.S. imperialism : from the Revolution to World War II / by Rowe, John Carlos

Table of Contents: “…Literary culture and U.S. imperialism -- The dream of enlightenment and the nightmare of imperialism: Charles Brockden Brown;s Wieland and Edgar Huntly -- Edgar Allan Poe's imperial fantasy and the American frontier -- Melville's Typee: U.S. imperialism at home and abroad -- Highway robbery: "Indian removal," the Mexican American War, and the American identity in John Rollin Ridge's (Yellow Bird) The life and adventures of Joaquin Murieta -- Mark Twain's rediscovery of America in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court -- Race, gender, and imperialism in Stephen Crane: A Monstrous Case -- The Education of Henry Adams and the American empire -- W.E.B. …”
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The enlightened army / by Toscana, David, 1961-

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Holy war : cowboys, Indians, and 9/11s / by Anderson, Mark Cronlund, 1960-

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Death comes for the archbishop / by Cather, Willa, 1873-1947

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Why we fought : America's wars in film and history /

Table of Contents: “…O'Connor -- Reprinting the legend: the Alamo on film / Frank Thompson -- Assessing television's version of history: the Mexican-American war and the KERA documentary series / James Yates -- Ken Burns's rebirth of a nation: The civil war as made-for-television history / Gary R. …”

Why we fought : America's wars in film and history /

Table of Contents: “…O'Connor -- Reprinting the legend: the Alamo on film / Frank Thompson -- Assessing television's version of history: the Mexican-American war and the KERA documentary series / James Yates -- Ken Burns's rebirth of a nation: The civil war as made-for-television history / Gary R. …”
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The Columbia companion to American history on film : how the movies have portrayed the American past /

Table of Contents: “…Eras -- The Puritan Era and the Puritan Mind -- The 1890s -- The 1920s -- The 1930s -- The 1960s -- The 1970s -- The 1980s -- Wars and Other Major Events -- The American Revolution -- The Civil War and Reconstruction -- The Cold War -- The Korean War -- The Mexican-American War and the Spanish-American War -- The Vietnam War -- Westward Expansion and the Indian Wars -- World War I -- World War II: Documentaries -- World War II: Feature Films -- Notable People -- The Antebellum Frontier Hero -- Christopher Columbus -- The Founding Fathers -- Indian Leaders -- The Kennedys -- Abraham Lincoln -- Richard Nixon -- Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt -- Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig -- Harry S. …”
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Why we fought : America's wars in film and history /

Table of Contents: “…O'Connor -- Reprinting the legend: the Alamo on film / Frank Thompson -- Assessing television's version of history: the Mexican-American war and the KERA documentary series / James Yates -- Ken Burns's rebirth of a nation: The civil war as made-for-television history / Gary R. …”
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Old Glory : American war poems from the Revolutionary War to the war on terrorism /

Table of Contents: “…Revolutionary War -- Paul Revere's Ride / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Yankee Doodle / Anonymous -- To His Excellency General Washington / Phillis Wheatley -- Warren's Address to the American Soldiers / John Pierpont -- Song of Marion's Men / William Cullen Bryant -- Black Samson of Brandywine / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- The Yankee Man-of-War / Anonymous -- from The British Prison Ship / Philip Freneau -- To the Memory of the Brave Americans / Philip Freneau -- from The Columbiad / Joel Barlow -- New England's Dead / Isaac McLellan -- Concord Hymn / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- War of 1812 -- from The Battle of Niagara / John Neal -- On the Conflagrations at Washington / Philip Freneau -- The Star-Spangled Banner / Francis Scott Key -- Old Ironsides / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Mexican-American War -- Ode, Inscribed to W.H. Channing / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- The Angels of Buena Vista / John Greenleaf Whittier -- from The Biglow Papers / James Russell Lowell -- When with Pale Cheek and Sunken Eye I Sang / Henry David Thoreau -- Civil War -- In the Defences / Elizabeth Akers Allen -- John Brown's Body / Anonymous -- The March into Virginia / Herman Melville -- A Utilitarian View of the Monitor's Fight / Herman Melville -- The College Colonel / Herman Melville -- Battle Hymn of the Republic / Julia Ward Howe -- Barbara Frietchie / John Greenleaf Whittier -- Fredericksburg / Thomas Bailey Aldrich -- The Dying Words of Stonewall Jackson / Sidney Lanier -- The High Tide at Gettysburg / Will Henry Thompson -- The Battlefield / Lloyd Mifflin -- Corporal / Ambrose Bierce -- Sheridan's Ride / Thomas Buchanan Read -- Cavalry Crossing a Ford / Walt Whitman -- Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night / Walt Whitman -- The Wound-Dresser / Walt Whitman -- My Triumph Lasted Till the Drums / Emily Dickinson -- My Portion Is Defeat Today / Emily Dickinson -- Ode to the Confederate Dead / Allen Tate -- Memorial Wreath / Dudley Randall -- For the Union Dead / Robert Lowell -- Hunting Civil War Relics at Nimblewill Creek / James Dickey -- Indian Wars -- Unknown / William Heyen -- Wildwest / Archibald MacLeish -- A Tribute to Chief Joseph (1840?…”

American war poetry : an anthology /

Table of Contents: “…The War of 1812 -- On the conflagrations at Washington / Philip Freneau -- Defence of Fort McHenry / Francis Scott Key -- The Battle of Niagara, from canto IV / John Neal -- Advice to a raven in Russia / Joel Barlow -- Old Ironsides / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- The Alamo and the Mexican-American War, 1836 and 1846-1848 -- The defense of the Alamo / Joaquin Miller -- The other Alamo / Martín Espada -- Ode, inscribed to W.H. …”