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The Indian War of 1865
The year 1865 was bloody on the Plains as various Indian tribes, including the Southern Cheyenne and the Southern Sioux, joined with their northern re...
Film Noir, the Blacklist, and Zulu
Cy Endfield (1914-1995) was a filmmaker (Try and Get Me!, Hell Drivers, Zulu) with interests in close-up magic, science, and invention. The director o...
Handout
Examines the evolution of range-finding and target acquisition, and the development of Field Artillery Observation Battalions within the U.S. Army....
John L. Handcox, the Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union, and the African American Song Tradition
Folk singer and labor organizer John Handcox was born to illiterate sharecroppers, but went on to become one of the most beloved folk singers of the p...
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African American Troops of the 93rd Infantry Division in World War II and Postwar America
Integrating social history and civil rights movement studies, Fighting for Hope examines the ways in which political meaning and identity were reflect...
Four Years in the Iron Brigade
On Many a Bloody Field follows one of the Civil War's most famous combat organizations - Company B, 19th Indiana Volunteers of the Iron Brigade, in a ...
The Evolution of Canada’s Army, 1950-2000
Canadians consider the period between the Second World War and the unification of the armed services in 1968 as a “golden age,” a time when their ...
A History and Guide to the Union and Confederate Field Hospitals at Gettysburg, July 1–November 20, 1863
“An extremely detailed history of 160 hospital sites that formed to care for soldiers who were wounded at the Battle of Gettysburg.” —Civil War ...
The Political Economy of Marketwomen in Peru, Revised Edition
From reviews of the first edition: "The book has a clear and readable style, moving easily between vignettes of marketwomen's lives, descriptions of t...
In the fifth volume in the Studies in American Sociology Series, Stanford M. Lyman offers commentaries on and critiques of postmodernism, poststructur...
The Ghost Dance, Peyote, and Christianity
Framed by theories of syncretism and revitalization, Religious Revitalization among the Kiowas examines changes in Kiowa belief and ritual in the fina...
Men, Emotions, and the Crisis in American Farming
In Oklahoma in the 1980s and 1990s, suicide—not accident as previously assumed—was the leading cause of agricultural fatalities among farmers. Men...
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Barbara McClintock's search for the patterns of genetic control
This biographical study illuminates the important yet misunderstood figure of Barbara McClintock, the Nobel Prize winning geneticist. Comfort replaces...
The Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences, comprising of seven volumes, now in its fourth edition, compiles the contributions of major rese...
Including the Remarkable Life and Confessions of the Late Mormon Bishop, John D. Lee
A Documentary History of the Utah War to 1858
The Utah War of 1857–58, the unprecedented armed confrontation between Mormon Utah Territory and the U.S. government, was the most extensive America...
The Gifford Lectures--An Extended Edition
The Struggles of the Pecos River
Rising at 11,750 feet in the Sangre de Cristo range and snaking 926 miles through New Mexico and Texas to the Rio Grande, the Pecos River is one of th...
Richmond, Virginia and Its People
A study of nearly four hundred years in the history of Richmond, Virginia, ranges from the first encounters between English colonists and Powhatan to ...
Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920
Glenda Gilmore recovers the rich nuances of southern political history by placing black women at its center. She explores the pivotal and interconnect...
This classic work helps recover the central role of black women in the political history of the Jim Crow era. Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore explores the pi...
Secularization in Statistical Context
Counting Religion in Britain, 1970-2020, the fourth volume in the author's chronological history of British secularization, sheds significant new ligh...
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...
Mario Savio and the Radical Legacy of the 1960s
Here is the first biography of Mario Savio, the brilliant leader of Berkeley's Free Speech Movement, the largest and most disruptive student rebellion...
Research Labs, Start-up Companies, and the Rise of MOS Technology
The metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) transistor is the fundamental element of digital electronics. The tens of millions of transistors in a typical hom...
Proceedings and Debates of the ... Congress
Third-Party Politics in America
More Americans now identify as political independents than as either Democrats or Republicans. Tired of the two-party gridlock, the pandering, and the...
Journal of Literature, Science, the Fine Arts, Music and the Drama
God's Word for Life in a Broken World
What role does Scripture play in counseling? Today, we face a weakening of confidence in the Bible. This is just as true for the pastor offering couns...
The History of a Dangerous Idea
Transhumanism is a recent movement that extols man’s right to shape his own evolution, by maximizing the use of scientific technologies, to enhance ...