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Lakota America
The first comprehensive history of the Lakota Indians and their profound role in shaping America’s history Named One of the New York Times Critics’ Top Books of 2019 • Named One …
War of a Thousand Deserts
An award-winning look at how Apaches, Navajos, Kiowas, and especially Comanches played a decisive role in America’s watershed victory over Mexico"An engaging book that enlivens the …
The Jeffersons at Shadwell
An original study of Shadwell, Thomas Jefferson's boyhood home, providing new insights into the founding father’s formative years Merging archaeology, material culture, and social …
Print the Legend
A compelling story of how the new medium of photography and the new American frontier came of age together—illustrated with scores of stunning images This prize-winning book tells …
Legal Codes and Talking Trees
Katrina Jagodinsky’s enlightening history is the first to focus on indigenous women of the Southwest and Pacific Northwest and the ways they dealt with the challenges posed by the …
The American West
A fully revised and updated new edition of the classic history of western America “A classic for the twenty-first century, The American West stands as the best one volume …
Before L.A.
David Torres-Rouff significantly expands borderlands history by examining the past and original urban infrastructure of one of America’s most prominent cities; its social, spatial, …
William Clark's World
William Clark, co-captain of the famous Lewis and Clark Expedition, devoted his adult life to describing the American West. But this task raised a daunting challenge: how best to …
Borderlines in Borderlands
In examining how the United States gained control over the northern borderlands of Spanish America, this work reassesses the diplomacy of President James Madison. Historians have …
Dear Brother
Over the course of his career, American explorer William Clark (1770–1838) wrote at least forty-five letters to his older brother Jonathan, including six that were written during …
Gathering Together
Weaving Indian and Euro-American histories together in this groundbreaking book, Sami Lakomäki places the Shawnee people, and Native peoples in general, firmly at the center of …
Sovereignty for Survival
In the years following World War II many multi-national energy firms, bolstered by outdated U.S. federal laws, turned their attention to the abundant resources buried beneath …