Rasmussen, R. Kent

A guide to American Indian tribes, providing essays on each of the ten North American culture areas, including Arctic, California, Great Basin, Northeast, Northwest Coast, Plains, Plateau, Southeast, Southwest, and Subarctic; and featuring 307 alphabetically arranged articles on individual tribes and prehistoric culture traditions.

Contains nearly two thousand alphabetically arranged entries that provide information on aspects of African American life, covering people, places, events, cultural movements, family life, politics, and many other topics, and includes photographs, a comprehensive index, and research resources.

Describes the construction of and culture behind the Southwest Native Americans' pueblo buildings, and includes instructions for making a model pueblo.

Provides a collection of critical essays on Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

Explores the history of World War I, with twenty-one activities for children.

Contains alphabetically arranged articles on 1,304 literary works selected from the 1996 revised second edition of "Masterplots" that lend themselves to discussion of place as a literary device, including novels, plays, and poetry, and includes a pronunciation key, and title, author, and place indexes.

Discusses the history of the struggle against segregation, which until the 1960s dictated where African-Americans could live, study, work, play, worship, travel and lodge, and even be buried.