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Offers a guide to census indexes, including federal, state, county, and town records, available in print and online; arranged by year, geographically,...
A New and Up-to-date Reference Work for Home, School and Office...with Fifty Full Page Maps...
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Dallas, Texas, 1843-1920
Those individuals remembered as the "founders" of cities were men, but as Elizabeth York Enstam shows, it was women who played a major role in creatin...
Cesar Chavez and the Two Souls of the United Farm Workers
In its heyday, the United Farm Workers was an embodiment of its slogan "Yes, we can"-in the form "S, Se Puede!"-winning many labor victories, securing...
Cherokee Law from Clan to Court
Volume 133 in The Civilization of the Americas Series This book traces the emergency of the Cherokee system of laws from the ancient spirit decrees to...
A Bibliography of Published Sources
The Genealogy Annual is a comprehensive bibliography of the year's genealogies, handbooks, and source materials. It is divided into three main section...
A Chronicle
When the first European explorers reached the southern shores of North America in the early seventeenth century, they faced a solid forest that stretc...
Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows
The massacre at Mountain Meadows on September 11, 1857, was the single most violent attack on a wagon train in the thirty-year history of the Oregon a...
Sharing Historical Authority in a User-Generated World
Letting Go? investigates path-breaking public history practices at a time when the traditional expertise of museums seems challenged at every turn—b...
Morris provides the first comprehensive examination of the Jackson, Mississippi-based women's organization Womanpower Unlimited. Originally instated i...
Published in association with The Wildlife Society....
Everything you need to know about profitable online publishing and promotion From Stephen King to authors who haven't become household names quite yet...
The Making of a Multiracial Democratic Coalition in the Civil Rights Era
This book is about the other Texas, not the state known for its cowboy conservatism, but a mid-twentieth-century hotbed of community organizing, liber...
A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel
Theatre in London has celebrated a rich and influential history, and in 1976 the first volume of J. P. Wearing’s reference series provided researche...
A History of Queer San Francisco to 1965
Traces the history of gay men and lesbians in San Francisco, from the turn of the century, when queer bars emerged in San Francisco's tourist district...
The Struggle for Self-Rule in European and American Thought
In this magnificent and encyclopedic overview, James T. Kloppenberg presents the history of democracy from the perspective of those who struggled to e...
How a Federal Bureaucrat Created the Modern Global Economy (and Failed to Get the Credit)
The life of a major figure in twentieth‑century economic history whose impact has long been clouded by dubious allegations "Harry Dexter White has a...
Or, A General View of the Rules and Principles Calculated for the Preservation of Health, and the Attainment of Long Life
A Rank-and-File History of the UFW Movement
The past decades have borne witness to the United Farm Workers' (UFW) tenacious hold on the country's imagination. Since 2008, the UFW has lent its ra...
The volumes Advances in Psychological Science are the most timely reviews for a person who wants an up-to-date "state-of-the-art" description of selec...
Exactly where is the common ground between religion and medicine in phenomena described as 'religious healing?' In what sense is the human body a cult...
Girdwood Barracks and the Story of the Peace Process
In the wake of the Good Friday Agreement, the redevelopment of the former Girdwood Army Barracks in North Belfast was hailed as a ‘symbol of hope’...
The US Army and the Downfall of Japan, 1945
From the liberation of the Philippines to the Japanese surrender, the final volume of John C. McManus's trilogy on the US Army in the Pacific War “B...
Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at ... and Rules Announced at ...
Environmental Challenges in the American West
In the West, shortsighted human self-interest has resulted in devastating environmental losses. The fur trade decimated beaver populations, and stream...
The Smithsonian and the Problem of History
When preserving our history, what do we choose to value, why, and who decides? Honorable Mention for the National Council on Public History Book Award...
The Private Lives and Politics of the American Revolutionaries
Surprisingly, no previous book has ever explored how family life shaped the political careers of America’s great Founding Fathers—men like George ...
Religion, Colonialism and Modernity in the Caribbean World
An innovative history of the politics and practice of the Caribbean spiritual healing techniques known as obeah and their place in everyday life in th...
Rosalyn Terborg-Penn draws from original documents to take a comprehensive look at the African American women who fought for the right to vote. She an...
The true history of a legendary American folk hero In the 1820s, a fellow named Sam Patch grew up in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, working there (when he w...
Mountaineers, Liquor Bosses, and Lawmen in the Moonshine Capital of the World
Spirits of Just Men tells the story of moonshine in 1930s America, as seen through the remarkable location of Franklin County, Virginia, a place that ...
Fundamentalism, the Scopes Trial, and the Making of the Antievolution Movement
The current controversy over teaching evolution in the public schools has grabbed front-page headlines and topped news broadcasts all across the Unite...
A Biography of D'Arcy McNickle
One of the foremost Native American intellectuals of his generation (1904-77), D'Arcy McNickleøis best known today for the American Indian history ce...
A collection of original essays based on oral history and archival research, this volume illuminates diverse aspects of southern workers' experience i...
Cell Cycle in the Central Nervous System overviews the changes in cell cycle as they relate to prenatal and post natal brain development, progression ...