Results for keyword: American history
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Pueblo Indian Agriculture
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 -
Restoring a Presence: American Indians and Yellowstone National Park
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 -
Wandering into wolf territory
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 -
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
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