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Palmento
A Sicilian Wine Odyssey
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Inspired by a deep passion for wine, an Italian heritage, and a desire for a land somewhat wilder than his home in southern France, Robert V. Camuto set out to explore Sicily’s emerging wine scene. What he discovered during more than a year of traveling the region, however, was far more than a fascinating...
Welcome to the Oglala Nation
A Documentary Reader in Oglala Lakota Political History
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Popular culture largely perceives the tragedy at Wounded Knee in 1890 as the end of Native American resistance in the West, and for many years historians viewed this event as the end of Indian history altogether. The Dawes Act of 1887 and the reservation system dramatically changed daily life and...
Phog
The Most Influential Man in Basketball
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Remembered in name but underappreciated in legacy, Forrest “Phog” Allen arguably influenced the game of basketball more than anyone else.
In the first half of the twentieth century Allen took basketball from a gentlemanly, indoor recreation to the competitive game that would become a...
Before Jackie Robinson
The Transcendent Role of Black Sporting Pioneers
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
While the accomplishments and influence of Jack Johnson, Joe Louis, Jesse Owens, Jackie Robinson, and Muhammad Ali are doubtless impressive solely on their merits, these luminaries of the black sporting experience did not emerge spontaneously. Their rise was part of a gradual evolution in social...
Remembering America
How We Have Told Our Past
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
American history is ubiquitous, underscoring everything from food to travel to architecture and design. It is also emotionally charged, frequently crossing paths with political and legal issues. In Remembering America, Lawrence R. Samuel examines the place that American history has occupied within...
Civil War Washington
History, Place, and Digital Scholarship
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
While it is impossible to re-create the tumultuous Washington DC of the Civil War, Civil War Washington sets out to examine the nation’s capital during the Civil War along with the digital platform (civilwardc.org) that reimagines it during those turbulent years.
Among the many topics covered...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Modern antisemitism and the modern discipline of sociology not only emerged in the same period, but—antagonism and hostility between the two discourses notwithstanding—also overlapped and complemented each other. Sociology emerged in a society where modernization was often perceived as destroying...
The Chosen Game
A Jewish Basketball History
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
A few years after its invention by James Naismith, basketball became the primary sport in the crowded streets of the Jewish neighborhood on New York’s Lower East Side. Participating in the new game was a quick and enjoyable way to become Americanized. Jews not only dominated the sport for the next...
Sugar
Micheal Ray Richardson, Eighties Excess, and the NBA
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
The 1980s were arguably the NBA’s best decade, giving rise to Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, and Michael Jordan. They were among the game’s greatest players who brought pro basketball out of its 1970s funk and made it faster, more fluid, and more exciting. Off the court the game was changing rapidly...
Sunflower Justice
A New History of the Kansas Supreme Court
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Until recently, American legal historiography focused almost solely on national government. Although much of Kansas law reflects U.S. law, the state court’s arbitrary powers over labor-management conflicts, yellow dog contracts, civil rights, gender issues, and domestic relations set precedents...
Blood Will Tell
Native Americans and Assimilation Policy
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Blood Will Tell reveals the underlying centrality of “blood” that shaped official ideas about who was eligible to be defined as Indian by the General Allotment Act in the United States. Katherine Ellinghaus traces the idea of blood quantum and how the concept came to dominate Native identity...
The Eighth Wonder of the World
The Life of Houston's Iconic Astrodome
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
When it opened in 1965, the Houston Astrodome, nicknamed the Eighth Wonder of the World, captured the attention of an entire nation, bringing pride to the city and enhancing its reputation nationwide. It was a Texas-sized vision of the future, an unthinkable feat of engineering with premium luxury...
American Agriculture and the Problem of Monopoly
The Political Economy of Grain Belt Farming, 1953-1980
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
The breathtaking number of mergers and joint ventures among agribusiness firms has left independent American farmers facing the power of an increasingly concentrated buying sector. The origin of farmers’ concern with such economic concentration dates back to protests against meatpackers and railroads...
The Native South
New Histories and Enduring Legacies
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
In The Native South, Tim Alan Garrison and Greg O’Brien assemble contributions from leading ethnohistorians of the American South in a state-of-the-field volume of Native American history from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century. Spanning such subjects as Seminole–African American kinship...