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  • A brief, interpretive look at the Indian Wars

    Michael Blake’s new nonfiction book, Indian Yell, fails to live up to its ambitious subtitle, “The Heart of an American Insurgency,” with its quick tour of 12 battles between the U.S. Cavalry and American Indians.

    by Jared Blackley, Apr 30, 2007

  • A geography of the imagination

    In Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape, edited by Barry Lopez and Debra Gwartney, 45 diverse writers define unusual geographical terms used across the country.

    by Eliza Murphy, Mar 05, 2007

  • Big dams, big deal

    Big Dams of the New Deal Era: A Confluence of Engineering and Politics is as deep and erudite a tome as it sounds, and yet also a surprisingly good read

    by Laura Paskus, Jun 25, 2007

  • Die with me

    Three new books about the West’s Indian wars – Ned Blackhawk’s Violence Over the Land, Kingsley Bray’s Crazy Horse: A Lakota Life, and Robert W. Larson’s Gall: Lakota War Chief – seem to romanticize a violent past.

    by Annie Dawid, Feb 04, 2008
  • For many Americans, voting this November will be historic

    For many Americans, voting this November will be historic

    Reliving the civil rights movement through the eyes of a man who worked to register black voters.

    by Alan Kesselheim, Oct 15, 2008

  • How the West was really won

    Paul VanDevelder digs into the rotten core of the American experience in his new book, Savages & Scoundrels: The Untold Story of America's Road to Empire through Indian Territory.

    by Debra Utacia Krol, Jan 31, 2010
  • I think we're all anchor babies on this bus

    I think we're all anchor babies on this bus

    If we're no longer considered U.S. citizens by birthright, then how do we know we're citizens at all?

    by Diane Sylvain, Sep 13, 2010

  • Journey of Rediscovery: The living, breathing natives who made Lewis and Clark

    For all the heroism of their achievement, Lewis and Clark would not have survived without the help of the many Indian peoples they encountered across the West

    by Dayton Duncan, Aug 16, 2004

  • My Sensitive Man meets culture shock on the range

    A sensitive male from Vermont comes face-to-face with Western violence at the movies

    by Lisa Jones, Oct 27, 2003

  • Of populists and political fusion

    The last time the Democratic Party held its national convention in Denver was 100 years ago, when the Democratic presidential candidate was well-known Populist William Jennings Bryan.

    by Ed Quillen, Aug 18, 2008
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