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Before the West Was West
Critical Essays on Pre-1800 Literature of the American Frontiers
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Before the West Was West examines the extent to which scholars have engaged in-depth with pre-1800 “western” texts and asks what we mean by “western” American literature in the first place and when that designation originated.
Calling into question the implicit temporal boundaries of...
No Place I Would Rather Be
Roger Angell and a Life in Baseball Writing
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
Legendary New Yorker writer and editor Roger Angell is considered to be among the greatest baseball writers*.* He brings a fan’s love, a fiction writer’s eye, and an essayist’s sensibility to the game. No other baseball writer has a through line quite like Angell’s: born in 1920, he was an...
Rivers of Sand
Creek Indian Emigration, Relocation, and Ethnic Cleansing in the American South
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
2017 James F. Sulzby Book Award from the Alabama Historical Association
At its height the Creek Nation comprised a collection of multiethnic towns and villages stretching across large parts of Alabama, Georgia, and Florida. By the 1830s, however, the Creeks had lost almost all this territory...
Choctaw Resurgence in Mississippi
Race, Class, and Nation Building in the Jim Crow South, 1830-1977
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
When the Choctaws were removed from their Mississippi homeland to Indian Territory in 1830, several thousand remained behind, planning to take advantage of Article 14 in the removal treaty, which promised that any Choctaws who wished to remain in Mississippi could apply for allotments of land. When...
Education beyond the Mesas
Hopi Students at Sherman Institute, 1902-1929
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Education beyond the Mesas is the fascinating story of how generations of Hopi schoolchildren from northeastern Arizona “turned the power” by using compulsory federal education to affirm their way of life and better their community. Sherman Institute in Riverside, California, one of the largest...
Gifts from the Thunder Beings
Indigenous Archery and European Firearms in the Northern Plains and Central Subarctic, 1670-1870
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Gifts from the Thunder Beings examines North American Aboriginal peoples’ use of Indigenous and European distance weapons in big-game hunting and combat. Beyond the capabilities of European weapons, Aboriginal peoples’ ways of adapting and using this technology in combination with Indigenous weaponry...
Coming of Age in Chicago
The 1893 World's Fair and the Coalescence of American Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Coming of Age in Chicago explores a watershed moment in American anthropology, when an unprecedented number of historians and anthropologists of all subfields gathered on the 1893 Chicago Columbian Exposition fairgrounds, drawn together by the fair’s focus on indigenous peoples. Participants included...
by Brandi Denison
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Ute Land Religion in the American West, 1879–2009 is a narrative of American religion and how it intersected with land in the American West. Prior to 1881, Utes lived on the largest reservation in North America—twelve million acres of western Colorado. Brandi Denison takes a broad look at the...
How Was It Possible?
A Holocaust Reader
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
As the Holocaust passes out of living memory, future generations will no longer come face-to-face with Holocaust survivors. But the lessons of that terrible period in history are too important to let slip past. How Was It Possible?, edited and introduced by Peter Hayes, provides teachers and students...
Home Team
The Turbulent History of the San Francisco Giants
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
In 1957 Horace Stoneham took his Giants of New York baseball team and headed west, starting a gold rush with bats and balls rather than pans and mines. But San Francisco already had a team, the Seals of the Pacific Coast League, and West Coast fans did not immediately embrace the newcomers.
Starting...
Race Experts
Sculpture, Anthropology, and the American Public in Malvina Hoffman's Races of Mankind
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
2019 Finalist for the Charles Rufus Morey Book Award from the CAA
In *Race Experts *Linda Kim examines the complicated and ambivalent role played by sculptor Malvina Hoffman in *The *Races of Mankind series created for the Chicago Field Museum in 1930. Although Hoffman had training...
by Tim Grove
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
For more than twenty years, Tim Grove has worked at the most popular history museums in the United States, helping millions of people get acquainted with the past. This book translates that experience into an insider’s tour of some of the most interesting moments in American history. Grove’s stories...
City Indian
Native American Activism in Chicago, 1893-1934
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
In City Indian, Rosalyn R. LaPier and David R. M. Beck tell the engaging story of American Indian men and women who migrated to Chicago from across America. From the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition to the 1934 Century of Progress Fair, American Indians in Chicago voiced their opinions about political,...
Macho Row
The 1993 Phillies and Baseball's Unwritten Code
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Colorful, shaggy, and unkempt, misfits and outlaws, the 1993 Phillies played hard and partied hard. Led by Darren Daulton, John Kruk, Lenny Dykstra, and Mitch Williams, it was a team the fans loved and continue to love today. Focusing on six key members of the team, Macho Row follows the remarkable...