Nordamerika

After the discovery of Alta California, the Spanish Crown charged the first Franciscan friars to enter into the New World through Lower Baja, with a succession of conquistadors, …

Fifty years ago Harry S. Truman pulled off the greatest upset in U.S. political history. With his party split on both the left and the right, and facing a formidable Republican …

If African American experience emerges from the structure of slavery, how does architecture relate to that experience? African Americans have claimed space in unexpected …

Everyone knows about Portland's popular food scene, Midcoast's mouth-watering lobster rolls,and Downeast's wondrous wild blueberry farms, but what about those secret scrumptious …

Over twenty years ago, Sarah Cortez left a flourishing corporate career to strap on agun, and police the streets. Transitioning from designer heels and a high-rise office to a …

Insightful analyses of recent reforms to parliamentary institutions and governance in Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.

When most baseball fans think back to the 1988 World Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Oakland Athletics, they probably remember Kirk Gibson's dramatic home run off Dennis …

Myerhoff's book will be a classic in the anthropology of religion.-Christian Scholar's Review "RamÓn Medina Silva, a Huichol Indian shaman priest or mara'akame, instructed me in …

This sequel to First Person Singular (1980) presents autobiographical sketches of 15 eminent scholars in the language sciences. These personal reminiscences on their careers in …

Winner of the Missouri History Book Award, from the State Historical Society of Missouri Winner of the Arkansiana Award, from the Arkansas Library Association Geologic forces …