米国

1975年4月30日。かつて「アメリカ史上最長の戦争」だったヴェトナム戦争が、大きな挫折に終わった日から50年。その一部は新たな「最長の戦争」となったアフガン戦争終結までの日々とも重なる。

二〇二一年初の米国連邦議会襲撃事件．憲法修正第二条を盾に武装した人民（ミリシア）と対峙する連邦キャピトル警察・州軍（ミリシア）が繰り広げる異様な光景が意味するものは何か．

「奴隷解放の父」として，史上最も尊敬を集めてきた大統領であるエイブラハム・リンカン(一八〇九―六五)．

“Literary Legend” (New York) Gay Talese retraces his pioneering career, marked by his fascination with the world's hidden characters. In the concluding act of this ""incomparable"" (Air Mail) capstone book, Talese introduces readers to one final unforgettable story: the strange and riveting...

This is the book the CIA does not want you to read. For the last 60 years, the CIA has maintained a formidable reputation in spite of its terrible record, never disclosing its blunders....

The inner workings of a writer’s life, the interplay between experience and writing, are brilliantly recounted by a master of the art. Gay Talese now focuses on his own life—the zeal for the truth, the narrative edge, the sometimes startling precision, that won accolades for his journalism...

The term Mexican Drug War misleads. It implies that the ongoing bloodbath, which has now killed well over 100,000 people, is an internal Mexican affair....

In this groundbreaking classic essay collection, Alice Walker speaks out as a Black woman, writer, mother, and feminist on topics ranging from the personal to the political. Originally published forty years ago, Alice Walker’s first collection of nonfiction is a dazzling compendium that...

The story of the American West is the story of a relentless quest for a precious resource: water. It is a tale of rivers diverted and dammed, of political corruptions and intrigue....

As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science....

From his beginnings as a journalist at age 16 to his retirement from public affairs at 82, there was no break in Benjamin Franklin's activity and accomplishments....

Homesteading Space, by two of Skylab’s own astronauts and a NASA journalist, tells the dramatic story of America’s first space station from beginning to fiery end....

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In Teaching Critical Thinking, renowned cultural critic and progressive educator Bell Hooks addresses some of the most compelling issues facing teachers in and out of the classroom today.

A NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER "A must-read…Phoebe Robinson discusses race and feminism in such a funny, real, and specific way, it penetrates your brain and stays with you." –Ilana Glazer, co-creator and co-star of Broad City A hilarious and timely essay collection about race, gender...

In Long Island, a farmer found a duck pond turned red with blood....

On October 4, 1957, a time of Cold War paranoia, the Soviet Union secretly launched the Earth's first artificial moon....

人種主義とは，時代・社会に呼応しながらたえず創り出されていく制度だ．アメリカ合衆国の歴史においては，黒人への差別が「人種」という分類概念を生み，その概念がさらなる抑圧を生み出してきた．

Revealing how Canada’s first Prime Minister used a policy of starvation against Indigenous people to clear the way for settlement, the multiple award-winning Clearing the Plains sparked widespread debate about genocide in Canada....

This essay by Thoreau first published in 1849, argues that individuals should not permit governments to overrule their consciences....