Smithsonian Institution Press. Explores the Viking saga between A.D. 750 and 1050, from the combined perspectives of history, archaeology, oral tradition, literature, and natural science. Medieval Icelandic legends about a territory called Vinland were the only sources of information on the Viking presence in North America until the discovery of a site in Newfoundland in 1961, which launched substantial archaeological and scientific research. Generously illustrated, this book portrays a culture much more advanced than the horned-helmeted marauders of popular imagination, and coincides with an exhibition of the same title which opened at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in April and will travel to New York, Los Angeles, Houston, Chicago, and Ottawa.
Racism is an undeniable part of American life.
It is found not only in small pockets of society, but practiced by all Americans, permeating the social fabric of our lives. Racism figures in where we live, the clothes we wear, where we go to school, the people we marry, how we earn a living, and how we raise our children. Provocative and authoritative, this book challenges our complacency about the progress of current race relations, and sketches the path to an antiracist future. Indiana Univ Pr. Touching upon family life, work, resistance, class, education, religion, community, play, inner life, and fashion, the evolution of black women is traced throughout history with over 300 carefully-chosen images accompanied by quotations from letters, diaries, journals, and other sources.