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A biography of the first civil rights activist in Los Angeles, a brilliant eighteen-year-old Mexican-American, Francisco P. Ramírez, published a Spanish-language newspaper, El Clamor Público, from 1855 to 1859.

Carr spent her childhood next to a Japanese relocation camp in Wyoming in the 1940s, grew up to pass for black in 1950s Texas, and started teaching college in the Jim Crow South of the 1960s. In a series of single-page episodes, she distills glimpses of the people, places, and moments that provided the fabric and fuel of her writing.

During its long withdrawal from South Vietnam, the US military experienced a serious crisis in morale. Chronic indiscipline, illegal drug use, and racial militancy all contributed to trouble within the ranks. This drills down to the core of the soldier's mindset, bringing to light a little understood aspect of military experience.

Starting with popular objections to America's entry into World War I and ending with recent academic debates between Christopher Browning and Daniel Goldhagen over the legacy and meaning of the Holocaust, this provides readers with a longer historical context and a deeper study of the Holocaust's reception and place in American historiography.

He was the top male box office attraction at the movies, one of the most widely read newspaper columnists in America, a radio commentator with an audience of more than 60 million, and a globetrotting speaker who filled lecture halls across the land. But how did humorist Will Rogers also become one of the most powerful political figures of his day? From just before World War I, through the Roaring Twenties, Prohibition, and the Great Depression, Rogers provided a refreshing yet sobering appraisal of current events and public policy. Through him, millions formed their opinion of President Wilson's quest for a League of Nations, debated freedom of speech and religion during the Scopes Monkey Trial, questioned the success of several disarmament conferences, took pity upon the sufferers of the Great Flood of 1927, and tried to grasp the awful reality of the Great Depression. Rogers visited Washington often to attend congressional sessions and official receptions, testify at hearings, meet with cabinet officers, and speak at the exclusive Gridiron and Alfalfa Clubs. His open access to the Oval Office, the Senate cloakroom, and other inner sancta of national power was unmatched for someone not holding public office. In this groundbreaking biography Richard D. White argues that the nation's most popular entertainer was not only an incisive political commentator but also a significant influence upon national leaders and their decisions.

Author Mari Sandoz was as passionate about Plains peoples as she was about language and literary acclaim. That the mastery of Crazy Horse's biographer spilled into her zealous advocacy for Native Americans is scarcely surprising. An avid letter writer, Sandoz kept carbons of everything. Fortunately these came into the Sandoz Collection at the University of Nebraska Archives.

Pervasive and fashionable throughout westward expansion in the United States, the sunbonnet endures as work dress in some regions and as icon just about everywhere - on quilts, dolls, and children's clothing. This study focuses on why this particular working-dress accessory persisted long after it passed out of nineteenth-century fashion.

It's 1918. A war of nations is ending and a worldwide flu epidemic just heating up, but to 13-year-old Hellie, the only battle that counts is her own survival. An orphan by four, a beggar by six, Hellie - as apprentice pickpocket to her brother Harry - is now 'the best dang cannon of moveable property between Satan's Circus and Hell's Kitchen'.

Presents stories that look at the external landscape, the world around us, asking hard questions about the capacity to destroy what we love best. This book features stories that turn inward, into the human heart, perhaps searching for an answer there.

Considering Robert Louis Stevenson and Joseph Conrad's shared literary history and experience of Victorian London, this title examines their convergence of styles in the emergent modernism of the fin de siecle, their romance and adventure modes, their fictions of duality, and their exploration of the human psyche.

Laws passed by politicians in far-off Austin meant little to Westerners living on the Texas frontier. This title presents the evidence that shows how easy some folks found it to evade justice in the frontier West.

Hannah followed Nick's gaze to gray stone walls. In the corner, the highest point on the horizon, stood a chapel with a bell tower topped with a cross. It was Presidio La Bahia. They were headed back to the fort in Goliad. On the top of the wall, seven soldiers aimed muskets toward the prairie and hills.

Includes poems that focus on the hard subjects: a child's life-threatening illness, a mothers struggle with the serious illnesses of all her children, the ends of marriages, the deaths of lovers, the slow demise of parents, ones own mortality, humanity's physical and emotional frailties.

Confronting the paradox of a faith that seals loved ones as families for eternity but casts them as outlaws in the here and now, this title traces the events that culminated in the author's father's 1977 assassination, a tragedy that rocked all Utah.

From the Panhandle canyonlands to the islands of South Texas, from the eastern Pineywoods to the farthest reaches of the arid Trans-Pecos, some 5,000 species of wildflowers dot Texas' 268,820 square miles. This title reveals the science, ecology, and rich lore of Texas flowers with nearly 500 full-color flower photographs.

Implementing many of the trends in contemporary indigenous studies, this title includes seventeen original essays that tackle indigenous identity, cultural perseverance, economic development, and urbanization in a wide array of American Indian and First Nations populations.

In the 1870s young Nez Perce John Seton struggles to determine whether Coyotes message is a gift or a trick. His quest to find a place in the clash of cultures is a magical saga, a search for meaning in the fabled Tricksters message. This title presents the events to which Seton is an eyewitness such as the Nez Perce march of 1877.

Before playwright Charles Gordone (19251995) became a Texan, he became the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, for ""No Place to Be Somebody"", in 1970. This title covers the years prior to this geographical and psychological journey, the childhood and youth that deeply informed Gordones pilgrimage.

With references to his work appearing everywhere from the New Yorker to The Simpsons, Joseph Conrad remains one of the twentieth century's most widely discussed literary figures. This title analyzes both conrad's early and major works, including ""The Nigger of the Narcissus"", ""Heart of Darkness"", ""Lord Jim"", and ""Nostromo"".

Collects eighteen stories that cover several generations of Scottish West Texans.

On September 27, 1939, after the Nazi invasion, Poland ceased to exist as a nation. Ten-year-old Hanna Davidson's father, Simon, and older brother, Kazik, had been drafted to defend Warsaw. Hanna and her mother, Sofia, found themselves subjected to Hitlers efforts to dehumanize Poland's Jewish population. This title tells their story.

On a horrific night in October 1975, Erwin Simants brutally murdered six members of the Henry Kellie family in tiny Sutherland, Nebraska. This title tells the story of the complex legal battles set in motion that tragic night on the western Nebraska plains.

Nick is on a mission. Deeply troubled by the loss of a young friend at the Battle of San Jacinto, he wants desperately to return to the scene of the battle - to alter history. But when he furtively opens the mysterious trunk, now in Mr Barrington's attic, he is transported instead to Gonzales, Texas, in 1835.

Southeastern Arizona is a tinderbox. Down Under Copper's plans to explore for minerals pit landowners, worried about their water supply and land values, against those hoping to profit from the mining venture. Someone snaps.

While ascending the Missouri in 1804, Lewis and Clark met trader Jean Valle, who had wintered in Cheyenne camps near the Black Hills and who recounted extensive horse-raiding upon Spanish settlements. This novel depicts such a raid through Cheyenne eyes.

Both Willa Cather and Mary Austin moved west in their youth and spent much of their lives there. Cather lived on the Great Plains, while Austin resided in California and the Southwest. This title addresses Willa Cather and Mary Austin as central figures in a womens tradition of the pictured West.

Presents the tales of sorcerers, fiendish witches, La Llorona, the vanishing hitchhiker, ghostly apparitions, and balls of fire that demonstrate how the magical world of witchcraft and the supernatural connects Spain to Latin America and Latin America to North America.

Texas shows its best moves in dance halls that dot its landscape. Wherever they've found fiddlers and dance floors, Texans have been tickled into motion. And for a century and a half, they've been kicking up dust in dance halls across the state. This title celebrates how these halls bring people together and foster joy.