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A Handbook of Thousands of Facts and Figures on Libraries / Librarians, Books / Newspapers, Publishers / Booksellers
The first edition of this work, which was included in Eugene Sheehy's Guide to Reference Books (10th ed.), became an indispensable snapshot of the sta...
Science and the Politics of National Park Management
Yellowstone National Park looks like a pristine western landscape populated by its wild inhabitants: bison, grizzly bears, and wolves. But the bison d...
Critical Perspectives on the City
His assessment of the historical conditions and institutions that protect class and racial privileges makes it clear why people in cities rebel and wh...
A Planned Black Community in Dallas
In Hamilton Park, William Wilson brings to light the history of how both black and white citizens of Dallas worked together to create a thriving Afric...
What is this book about? Access 2002 is the core database application within the Office XP suite. Using VBA (Visual Basic for Applications), the user ...
Eugenics and Society in Virginia
"Blending social, intellectual, legal, medical, gender, and cultural history, Segregation's Science: Eugenics and Society in Virginia examines how eug...
Set against the backdrop of the black struggle in society, Slow Fade to Black is the definitive history of African-American accomplishment in film--bo...
A Political History
The former executive director of the Texas GOP offers a “granular blow-by-blow account” of his party from Reconstruction to the 21st century (Publ...
Australia and the East Timor Crisis of 1999
East Timor's violent transition to independence, which began early in 1999, presented the Australian Government with a significant foreign policy cris...
General Lorenzo Thomas and the United States Colored Troops in the Civil War
Historians have often marginalized the effect of African American troops on the outcome of the Civil War. While many histories briefly mention the ser...
The Hmong, the Americans, and the Secret Wars for Laos, 1942-1992
Tragic Mountains tells the story of the Hmong's struggle for freedom and survival in Laos from 1942 through 1992. During those years, most Hmong sided...
Citizens, Unions and the Corporations
The attitudes of citizen groups, unions, and corporations reflect not only their stake in protecting particular interests, but also the limits of thei...
Playing Monopoly with Real Money
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A Peer Reviewed Journal for SOF Medical Professionals
Fifty Years of Public Perception
Winner of the Mormon History Association Best Book Award What do Americans really think about Mormons, and why? Through a fascinating survey of Mormon...
The Revolutionary Communist Party and its Curious Afterlives, 1976-2020
This book employs a history of ideas approach to trace the complex journey of the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) and its afterlives. Although the...
Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom Struggle
In Subversive Habits, Shannen Dee Williams provides the first full history of Black Catholic nuns in the United States, hailing them as the forgotten ...
A Moral Panic in the 1980s
A brilliant, disturbing portrait of the dawn of the culture wars, when America started to tear itself apart with doubts, wild allegations, and an unfo...
Billy Graham and the Shaping of a Nation
Examines the life of Billy Graham and how he impacted American culture by successfully tapping into broader cultural trends....
Art, Land, and Urban Renewal in the City by the Bay
A major urban history of the design and development of postwar San Francisco Designing San Francisco is the untold story of the formative postwar deca...
The Mennonite History of C. Henry Smith
What does it mean to be Mennonite in the modern world? And what is the witness of a peace church that is always at risk of splintering? C. Henry Smith...
The Political Economy of North/Asian Networks
Global Establishment applies the theory of establishmentism to international political economy. After the 1930-80 period, which greatly damaged the in...
A Social History
In this important study, Dave Russell explores a wide range of Victorian and Edwardian musical life including brass bands, choral societies, music hal...
Michigan's Rise as a Conservation Leader
A history of Michigan's conservation efforts...
Violent Legality and the Politics of Rights
In Struggles for the Human, Lara Montesinos Coleman blends ethnography, political philosophy, and critical theory to reorient debates on human rights ...
A Reader
Women have been pivotal in the country music scene since its inception, as Charles K. Wolfe and James E. Akenson make clear in The Women of Country Mu...
To borrow words from Stan “The Record Man” Lewis, Shreveport, Louisiana, is one of this nation's most important “regional-sound cities.” Its m...
Power, Purpose, and American Higher Education
Few North Carolinians have been as well known or as widely respected as William Friday (1920-2012). The former president of the University of North Ca...
For over a century, Chicago has played soccer. This work explains the early history of the game in the Second City, beginning with the 1887 formation ...
This reader of public press articles discusses race and ehnicity in the American legal tradition; immigration and the American experience; indigenous ...
Inside the Alternative Energy Battle
"Rody Johnson presents a compelling narrative of how, beginning in 2005, the proposed construction of a wind farm along mountain ridges in Greenbrier ...
General George C. Kenney and the War in the Southwest Pacific
A fighter pilot who flew 75 combat missions in World War I, George C. Kenney was a charismatic leader who established himself as an innovative advocat...
The Summer of 1944--The American War from the Normandy Beaches to Falaise
In The Americans at D-Day, the first volume of this series, John C. McManus showed us the American experience in Operation Overlord. Now, in this succ...
Issues, Institutions, Traditions
Manitoba has always been a province in the middle, geographically, economically, and culturally. Lacking Quebec’s cultural distinctiveness, Ontario�...
Contemporary Sport Management, Fifth, provides students with an overview of sport management by presenting extensive discussions of the foundational a...
A fascinating history of the Casualty Actuarial Association, by and for the members, from 1914 to 2014!...
The 'Warthog' Ground Attack Aircraft
A comprehensive account of the origins, design, and history of the A-10A Warthog: “Highly recommended.” —AMPS Indianapolis Includes photos The F...
Affirming Indigenous Literary Sovereignty
Postindian Aesthetics is a collection of critical, cutting-edge essays on a new generation of Indigenous writers who are creatively and powerfully con...
An Afropessimist Approach to Urban History
A history of racism and segregation in twentieth-century Houston and beyond....