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It's easy to get nostalgic about American life 100 years ago -- unless you think about what life was like back then, especially for women.
by Rich Wandschneider,
Feb 05, 2010
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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,
Feb 01, 2010
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New York City is really the West, buried under time's wrapping.
by Tom Zoellner,
Nov 20, 2009
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A family trip out West in 1959, when he was 9 years old, inspired Dayton Duncan to make a new documentary series with Ken Burns, called The National Parks: America’s Best Idea.
by Ray Ring ,
Sep 14, 2009
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Reliving the civil rights movement through the eyes of a man who worked to register black voters.
by Alan Kesselheim,
Oct 15, 2008
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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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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,
Jul 16, 2008
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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,
Jul 16, 2008
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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,
Jul 16, 2008
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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,
Jul 16, 2008
