Ergebnis für "The Other Wife" in Geschichte

Originally published in 1899, The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line is a powerful collection of narratives that delves into the profound effects of Jim Crow laws on both African Americans and white Americans in the South. Charles W. Chesnutts characters, often of mixed-race heritage, navigate a world that subjects them to a unique and dehumanizing treatment from both blacks and whites. These poignant stories explore how the legacy of slavery and the tumultuous era of Reconstruction shaped life in the South, revealing the desperate attempts of some to revive the decaying ...

The widow of “American Sniper” Chris Kyle shares their private story: an unforgettable testament to the power of love and faith in the face of war and unimaginable loss--and a moving tribute to a man whose true heroism ran even deeper than the legend In early 2013, Taya Kyle and her husband...

In this indelible memoir that recalls the life of her remarkable ninety-five-year old grandmother, Guardian journalist Aida Edemariam tells the story of modern Ethiopia—a nation that would undergo a tumultuous transformation from feudalism to monarchy to Marxist revolution to democracy, over...