It was on the frontier, where “civilized” men and women confronted the “wilderness,” that Europeans
first became Americans—or so authorities from Frederick Jackson Turner to Theodore Roosevelt claimed. But as the frontier disappeared, Americans believed they needed a new mechanism ...
In their efforts to convert indigenous peoples, Franciscan friars brought the Spanish Inquisition to early-sixteenth-century
Mexico. Patricia Lopes Don now investigates these trials to offer an inside look at this brief but consequential episode of Spanish methods of colonization, providing ...
The combined British Expeditionary Force and American II Corps successfully pierced the Hindenburg Line during
the Hundred Days Campaign of World War I, an offensive that hastened the war’s end. Yet despite the importance of this effort, the training and ...
African American leaders such as Frederick Douglass long advocated military service as an avenue to
equal citizenship for black Americans. Yet segregation in the U.S. armed forces did not officially end until President Harry Truman issued an executive order in ...
Tribal histories suggest that Indigenous peoples from many different nations continually allied themselves for purposes
of fortitude, mental and physical health, and creative affiliations. Such alliance building, Molly McGlennen tells us, continues in the poetry of Indigenous women, who use ...
After the Civil War, four geological and geographical surveys, later called the Great Surveys, Undertook
the massive task of finding out what lay west of the hundredth meridian in the vast American wilderness. Parties led by Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, medical ...
History begins with Herodotus (485–425 b.c.e.). Born in Halikarnassos, a gateway between the Greek and
Persian worlds, Herodotus in his Histories narrates the great historical struggle between the Persian Empire and the Greek-speaking city-states at the dawn of the classical ...
A collection of hunting adventure stories by American sportsmen and naturalists--among them John Steinbeck and
Teddy Roosevelt's son, Kermit--selected for their literary merit, accurate descriptions of the game and its habitat, and portrayal of people and customs. Annotation c. Book ...