"For the first time in print, rich, provocative first-hand stories of life in the Bronx in the twentieth century. In Bronx Faces and Voices, sixteen men and women tell their personal, uncensored stori
Horse and Rider takes its title from a passage in the book of Exodus: “Sing unto the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously; horse and rider he has cast into the sea.” Melissa Range’s poems explore vio
“In the mid-1700s, in the tiny villa of San Fernando de Bexar, on the northern fringes of the Spanish Empire in North America, Hispanic women had legal rights that would have astonished their British
Conrad’s life and fiction are often read through the lens of Freudian thought, though Conrad understood his own health from a pre-Freudian perspective. Joseph Conrad and Psychological Medicine recover
?He got as close as he could to observe the spectacle; his eyes could hardly believe what he saw. Circled around the huge bonfire were many witches dancing and making all kinds of gestures amidst laug
Picturing a Different West addresses Willa Cather and Mary Austin as central figures in a women’s tradition of the pictured West. Both Cather and Austin moved west in their youth and spent much of the
"Food, Control, and Resistance is a comparative research study from the nineteenth and twentieth century that displays food rationing and its cultural impact between the Pawnees and Osages in Nebraska
Urban Villages and Local Identities examines immigration to the Great Plains by surveying the experiences of three divergent ethnic groups?Volga Germans, Omaha Indians, and Vietnamese?that settled in
Ernesto Cardenal, widely acknowledged as Latin America's greatest living poet, continues to craft works of striking beauty, as demonstrated in this collection’s title poem, an exquisite meditation on
At one time America’s silk industry was the largest in the world. Silk was late to be industrialized, well after cotton and wool. Nonetheless, nineteenth-century American entrepreneurs rapidly built a
As millennium approaches, interpreters of eighteenth-century literature have turned to various versions of cultural poetics, which view texts through lenses of class, race, gender and sexual orientati
Niven (1850-1937) was a prominent mineralogist whose expedition to Mexico under the auspices of the American Museum of Natural History in the 1890s led to many important archaeological discoveries, wh
While baseball may have long been considered an all-American sport in which a melting pot could celebrate ethnic heroes like Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig, Hank Greenberg, Connie Mack, and Stan Musial, rac
Marcia Kaylakie traveled Texas for more than a decade, visiting museums and quilt shops from the Panhandle to Big Bend country, from the Piney Woods to the Gulf, discovering thousands of quilts in to
An ADST-DACOR Diplomats and Diplomacy BookRobert Hopkins Miller spent nearly one-third of his forty-year Foreign Service career on America’s unsuccessful Vietnam venture—from 1962 to the end of the wa
The Great Plains of North America stretch from Texas to Alberta. The region’s history is rich and its population diverse. But throughout this huge area, one issue has dominated culture and politics si
A microcosm of the significance of sport to community history anywhere Although the Latino/a population of the United States has exploded since the 1960s, an analysis of its place in the history of A
From 1894 to 1934, a span of forty years that saw its parent company go from coal mining to oil drilling, the Texas Pacific Mercantile and Manufacturing Company operated and managed the various commer
The first book-length study to specifically examine the many intersections in the works of Robert Louis Stevenson and Joseph Conrad, this volume extends the focus of current debate beyond the writers
Frieda Harms was born into a farming family in Indian Territory in 1906. Widowed at thirty and left with three children in the midst of the Great Depression, she worked as a farmer, a railroad cook, a
When Markku Henriksson was growing up in Finland, the song “(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66” was one of only two he could recognize—in English or Finnish. It was not until 1989 that Henriksson would catc
In 1894, George Isaacs, the penniless black sheep of his family, was running with the worst of the outlaws in the Oklahoma Territory. There, a get-rich-quick scheme that seemed foolproof was hatched u
"The memoir of Tran Ngoc Chau, one of the few Vietnamese Army officers who also saw service in Ho Chi Minh's National Liberation Army"--Provided by publisher.
Flip on the entertainment news, open an issue of a popular magazine, or step into any department store—and you’ll appreciate the impact of the multibillion-dollar fashion industry on American culture.
Its strains may be haunting, but western swing is alive and on the upswing, enjoying a renaissance among musicians too young to recall or even comprehend its heyday. For them, the term may evoke the n
The "honor defense" in six celebrated murder trials, 1896-1977From the 1880s until after World War I, Texas prosecutions for adultery, fornication, rape, seduction, and sodomy were many, but formal p
Celebrity biographies, with their stories of scandal, never fail to titillate. In fact, one would be hard pressed to find record of the best-seller list they didn't punctuate. But delving into profess
"The diary of Kitty Anderson, daughter of Charles Anderson, during the Civil War in Texas, in 1861, includes commentary by author"--Provided by publisher.
"The narrative non-fiction account of two attempts to set the endurance shooting world record, the first by Adolph Toepperwein in 1907 and the second by Tom Frye in 1959; the circumstances surrounding
Myth and government clash and collaborate in one of America’s largest and most remote canyonlands Owyhee County, Idaho, also known as the ?Big Quiet,” is the largest and least inhabited area in the l
In Depression-era Dallas, Elsie Frankfurt and Edna Frankfurt Ravkind raised five hundred dollars and launched a daring new enterprise, Page Boy Maternity Clothing--the first to engineer elegance in co
A dramatic response to American racism occurred in Los Angeles during 1855 when a brilliant eighteen-year-old Mexican-American, Francisco P. Ramirez, published a Spanish-language newspaper, El Clamor
