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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,
Jun 25, 2007
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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,
Apr 30, 2007
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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,
Mar 05, 2007
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In Pueblo Indian Agriculture, James A.
Vlasich explores the American Indian farms along New Mexico’s
Rio Grande, delving into their difficult history and their current
modest revival
by Staff,
Jul 25, 2005
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In Restoring a Presence, Peter Nabokov
and Lawrence Loendorf shine a light on Yellowstone’s largely
forgotten American Indian heritage
by Staff,
Jun 13, 2005
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In his book Vicious: Wolves and Men in America, Jon T.
Coleman explores the history of how the wolf was slowly transformed
from vermin to be cruelly slaughtered into a noble calendar
pinup
by Michelle Nijhuis,
Oct 11, 2004
