Nina Berman, as an American photographer looking at America, delivers a caustic and surreal vision of the United States during the Bush years in Homeland. A product of seven years work, with images from across America, Berman gives us a peek into the bizarre manifestations of the homeland security state and the ideologies that have reshaped post 9/11 America.

"Explores the ongoing debates throughout history between the fight for individual rights and the community as a whole, from discussions that took place at the Constitutional Convention, through the Civil War, all the way up to the modern Tea Party, "--NoveList.

"In Harvesting Pa Chay's Wheat, Keith Quincy exposes, with damning clarity, what has been long excluded from the official record of America's military involvement in Southeast Asia: the secret war in Laos and its tragic consequences for the Hmong people and their culture. Exploited for the geographical location of their ancestral lands by the French, Americans, Vietnamese, and Chinese; callously manipulated by the same groups because of the non-aggressive,...

"For more than two centuries men, women, and children escaped from slavery and made the Southern wilderness their home. They hid in the mountains of Virginia and the low swamps of South Carolina; they stayed in the neighborhood or paddled their way to secluded places; they buried themselves underground or built comfortable settlements. Known as maroons, they lived on their own or set up communities in swamps or other areas where they were not likely...

Discusses the history of thought and creativity in the U.S., from Thomas Paine to Herman Melville, Thomas Jefferson, and William James, examining the influx of ideas, particularly from 1776-1900, as the nation began to establish its cultural identity.

Varying from the rich heartland rock of songs like Best Shirt On, to the building drum machine of Marathon and all the way back to stripped back words and guitar of Nixonland and Get Off the Stage, Chuck Prophet's work defies classification.