America's Most Famous Natural Wonders: The History of the Grand Canyon, Niagara Falls, Yellowstone National Park, and Yosemite National Park

America's Most Famous Natural Wonders: The History of the Grand Canyon, Niagara Falls, Yellowstone National Park, and Yosemite National Park*Includes pictures*Includes contemporary accounts and descriptions of the natural wonders*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further readingEven for those who have never seen it, the Grand Canyon is perhaps the most appreciated and remarkable feature of the American landscape. Indeed, the Grand Canyon has been amazing Americans since explorers first started venturing into the area in the mid 19th century. On one expedition, May Humphreys

Cahir McKenzie

but it doesn't include worrying about the future

In the tradition of Marlo Thomas's "The Right Words at the Right Time

She has no idea how she's going to explain this to her dad

there is nowhere to go but church

and evokes a landscape in which the NAACP investigated the crimes when the state would not and a time when white citizens baked pies and flocked to see Black corpses while Black people fought to make their lives—and their mourning—matter

whose existence could spell catastrophe for humanity

For two students

Drawing on a rich array of sources--from nineteenth-century slavery court cases and historical vignettes to writings by Toni Morrison and Audre Lorde and art by Kara Walker and Wangechi Mutu--Perry shows how the figure of the patriarch emerged as part and parcel of modernity

Because they fear her gift for speaking truth to power

After causing major trouble in a lower-level security prison

the workers she has always valued