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Historians have long considered the Battle of Monmouth one of the most complicated engagements of the American Revolution. Viewing the political and military aspects of the campaign as inextricably entwined, this book offers a fresh perspective on Washington's role in it.

In this richly nuanced portrayal of poet and journalist Magda Portal, historian Myrna Ivonne Wallace Fuentes chronicles the dramatic rise and fall of this prominent twentieth-century revolutionary within the broader history of leftist movements, gender politics, and literary modernism in Latin America.

Focuses on the nineteenth- and twentieth-century experiences of the Eastern Shawnee Tribe, presenting a new brand of tribal history made possible by the emergence of tribal communities' own research centres and the resources afforded by the digital age.

Between 1880 and 1940, Navajo and Ute families and westward-trending Anglos met in the "bullpens" of southwestern trading posts to barter for material goods. Robert McPherson reveals the ways that Navajo tradition fundamentally reshaped and defined trading practices in the Four Corners area of southeastern Utah and southwestern Colorado.

In 1903 the famed "Cowboy Artist," Charles M. Russell, presented his nephew Austin with a copy of the boy's adventure book Frank on the Prairie with a series of original illustrations added. This new facsimile edition of that copy, among the rarest of rare books, features little-known works of art by the artist.

By comparing competing martial cultures and examining violence in the Southwest, Wars for Empire provides a new understanding of critical decades of American imperial expansion and a moment in the history of settler colonialism with worldwide significance.

Through official state and federal publications, newspapers, novels, poetry, autobiographies, and magazines, Kim Engel-Pearson examines narratives of Arizona that reflect both a century of Euro-American dominance and a diverse and multilayered cultural landscape.

James Madison presented his most celebrated and studied political ideas in his contributions to The Federalist. As Jack N. Rakove shows in A Politician Thinking, however, those essays do not illustrate the full complexity and vigour of Madison's thinking.

An ode to both southwestern Oklahoma and rock music, Live from Medicine Park is a bittersweet reflection on the search for identity and purpose amid tragedy. As the novel reaches its climax, the central character sets out on one last adventure to set things right. Redemption may be possible - but only on its own terms.

In this new book about Ernest Haycox's literary career, Richard Etulain tells the engrossing story of his rise through the ranks of popular magazine and serial fiction to become one of the Western's most successful creators.

Historians have long debated the circumstances surrounding the Mountain Meadows Massacre, one of the most disturbing and controversial events in American history. This invaluable, exhaustively researched collection allows readers the opportunity to form their own conclusions about the forces behind this dark moment in western US history.

Historians have long debated the circumstances surrounding the Mountain Meadows Massacre, one of the most disturbing and controversial events in American history. This invaluable, exhaustively researched collection allows readers the opportunity to form their own conclusions about the forces behind this dark moment in western US history.

In the first book on this major American artist in over thirty years, readers will encounter the full range of Paul Pletka's oeuvre through more than eighty colour reproductions of his best-known and most influential works.

Emory Upton (1839-1881) is widely recognized as one of America's most influential military thinkers. Yet as David Fitzpatrick contends, Upton is also misunderstood as an antidemocratic militaristic zealot. In biography, Fitzpatrick, the leading authority on Upton, radically revises our view of this important figure in American military thought.

A large-scale landmark account of Mexican American culture, Mestizos Come Home! shows that mestizos are essential to US national culture. As an argument for social justice and a renewal of America's democratic ideals, this book marks a historic cultural homecoming.

What is now called JCPenney, a fixture of suburban shopping malls, started out as a small-town Main Street store that fused its founder's interests in agriculture, retail business, religion, and philanthropy. This book brings to light the little-known agrarian roots of an American department store chain.

Spotlighting ordinary men who usually appear on the margins of history, the biographical essays collected in this volume tell the stories of soldiers in the complex world of the Southwest after the US-Mexican War.

When gold fever struck in 1849, John S. Darcy - prominent physician, general, and president of the New Jersey Railroad - assembled a company to travel overland to California. In Jersey Gold, Margaret Casterline Bowen and Gwendolyn Joslin Hiles tell the story of that colourful company of some thirty stalwarts and adventurers.

In this biography of Joaquin de Arredondo, historian Bradley Folsom brings to life one of the most influential and ruthless leaders in North American history. Arredondo (1776-1837) was a Bourbon loyalist who governed Texas and the other interior provinces of northeastern New Spain during the Mexican War of Independence.

Reconstructs the lost world of a sailor's daily life in World War II. This moving work poignantly confronts the horrors of war, giving voice to a young sailor, the country he served, the family and friends he left behind, and the hope that has sustained them.

Renowned as one of the most important architects of the twentieth century, Bruce Goff (1904-1982) defied expectations, not only as a designer of innovative buildings but also as an educator and painter. This volume, featuring more than 150 photographs, drawings, and plates, explores the multitude of ideas and themes that influenced Goff's work.

Written by Tin Pan Alley songsters in the era before radio, the first popular cowboy and Indian songs circulated as piano sheet music and as cylinder and disc recordings played on wind-up talking machines. Gorgeously illustrated throughout, this book offers the first comprehensive account of popular western recorded music in its earliest form.

This book, edited by Philip B. Welch, is compiled from tapes recorded with Goff's permission by Welch, who was one of Goff's students, a longtime friend, and himself a prominent teacher of architecture. Goff on Goff embodies some of the architect's most stimulating lectures and conversations. They have never before been available to readers.

The modern effort to locate American liberties, it turns out, began in the mud at the bottom of Baltimore harbour. Diminishing the Bill of Rights examines the backstory and context of a decision that was a turning point in the development of our current conception of individual rights.

Focuses on the people who lived alongside notable Cheyennes such as Dull Knife, Little Wolf, Little Chief, and Two Moons to reveal the central role of kinship in the Cheyennes' navigation of US colonial policy during removal and the early reservation period.

Canadian-born flying ace Raymond Collishaw (1893-1976) served in Britain's air forces for twenty-eight years. Flying to Victory examines Collishaw's contribution to the British system of tactical air support - a pattern of operations that eventually became standard in the Allied air forces and proved to be a key factor in the Allied victory.

The first Europeans to arrive in North America relied on Native women to help them navigate unfamiliar customs and places. This study of three well-known and legendary female cultural intermediaries examines their initial contact with Euro-Americans, their negotiation of multinational frontiers, and their symbolic representation over time.

A democracy falters when most of its citizens are uninformed or misinformed, when misinformation affects political decisions and actions, or when political actors foment misinformation - the state of affairs the United States faces today, as this timely book makes painfully clear.

Crow Christianity speaks in many voices, and in the pages of Crow Jesus, these voices tell a complex story of Christian faith and Native tradition combining and reshaping each other to create a new and richly varied religious identity.

For over fifty years, Bill Malone has researched and written about the history of country music. Today he is celebrated as the foremost authority on this distinctly American genre. This new collection brings together his significant article-length work from a variety of sources, including essays, book chapters, and record liner notes.