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Celeste Holm Syndrome is a series of essays about character actors, both the famous and lesser known, from Hollywood's Golden Age.

Sports Journalism tells the full story of American sports journalism and the notable changes in technology that have dramatically changed how Americans consumed it.

The pioneering essays in Teaching Western American Literature give instructors entree into the classrooms, syllabi, and assignments of leading scholars in the field.

An anthology of editorials, articles, and essays written and published by Indigenous students at boarding schools around the turn of the twentieth century.

Helga Baitenmann offers an original interpretation of Mexico's revolutionary agrarian reform, an unconstitutional takeover by the executive of the judiciary's authority over contentious land matters, and examines villagers' role in shaping the postrevolutionary state by siding with one branch of government over another.

Landscapes of Inequity examines a range of environmental justice issues in the Andes and western Amazon basin from the perspectives of indigenous peoples and economic development in a global economy.

Women and Community in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia draws on recent research to underscore the various ways Iberian women influenced and contributed to their communities, engaging with a broader academic discussion of women's agency and cultural impact in the Iberian peninsula.

Adrienne Edgar and Benjamin Frommer bring together an international and interdisciplinary team of scholars to analyze interethnic and interracial marriage in Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, and Central Asia.

During much of the nineteenth century, paintings functioned as the Plains Indians¿ equivalent to written records. The majority of their paintings documented warfare, focusing on specific war deeds. These pictorial narratives¿appearing on hide robes, war shirts, tipi liners, and tipi covers¿were maintained by the several dozen Plains Indians tribes, and they continue to expand historical knowledge of a people and place in transition.War Paintings of the Tsuu T¿ina Nation is a study of several important war paintings and artifact collections of the Tsuu T¿ina (Sarcee) that provides insight into the changing relations between the Tsuu T¿ina, other plains tribes, and non-Native communities during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Arni Brownstone has meticulously created renderings of the paintings that invite readers to explore them more fully. All known Tsuu T¿ina paintings are considered in the study, as are several important collections of Tsuu T¿ina artifacts, with particular emphasis on five key works. Brownstone¿s analysis furthers our understanding of Tsuu T¿ina pictographic war paintings in relation to the social, historical, and artistic forces that influenced them and provides a broader understanding of pictographic painting, one of the richest and most important Native American artistic and literary genres.

Offers a sequence of contemplative prose observations about nature, place, and time arranged according to the calendar year. Written by one of America's most beloved poets, this book is published in the year in which Ted Kooser turns seventy-five, with sixty years of workbooks stretching behind him.

Heart of Lions recounts the development of bicycle racing in the United States, explains why its popularity faded, and profiles major American cyclists from the past through the 2016 Rio Olympics.

Chad L. Anderson offers a significant contribution to understanding colonialism, intercultural conflict, and intercultural interpretations of the Iroquoian landscape during the late seventeenth, eighteenth, and early nineteenth centuries in central and western New York, the traditional Haudenosaunee homeland.

Different Strokes closely examines how Black Americans are collectively faring in tennis, on the court and off.

Offers a multifaceted study of the race toward space in the first half of the twentieth century, examining how the Russian, European, and American pioneers competed against one another in the early years to acquire the fundamentals of rocket science, engineer simple rockets, and ultimately prepare the path for human spaceflight.

Joseph Hillaire (Lummi, 1894-1967) is recognized as one of the great Coast Salish artists, carvers, and tradition-bearers of the twentieth century. In A Totem Pole History, his daughter Pauline Hillaire, who is herself a well-known cultural historian and conservator, tells the story of her father's life and the traditional and contemporary Lummi narratives that influenced his work.

Features a bittersweet cross-cultural friendship and the richness and melancholy of modern Cheyenne life. This book tells of the author's relationship and friendship with Cheyenne elder Henry Tall Bull, which was punctuated by both insight and misunderstanding, and ultimately ended in tragedy.

A complex and fascinating picture of a woman questioning the cultural and gender expectations of nineteenth-century America while insightfully portraying rapidly changing reservation life.

Follow Sue William Silverman, a one-woman cultural mash-up, on her exploration of identity among the mishmash of American idols and ideals that confuse most of us - or should. This searching, bracing, hilarious and moving book tries to make sense of that most troubling American condition: belonging, but to what?

For nearly half a century, Jared Carter has been quietly mapping the American heartland. In this title, in poems selected from his first five books, is the summer-long buzz of the cicada and the crack of the cue ball, the young rebel on his big Harley, and the YMCA secretary who backstrokes her way across the indoor pool.

Twenty-seven years in the making (1940-67), this tapestry of nearly two hundred American popular and protest songs was created by three giants of performance and musical research: Alan Lomax, indefatigable collector and preserver; Woody Guthrie, performer and prolific balladeer; and Pete Seeger, entertainer and educator who has introduced three generations of Americans to their musical heritage.

Coyote Anthropology shatters anthropologyOCOs vaunted theories of practice and offers a radical and comprehensive alternative for the new century. Building on his seminal contributions to symbolic analysis, Roy Wagner repositions anthropology at the heart of the creation of meaningOCoin terms of what anthropology perceives, how it goes about representing its subjects, and how it understands and legitimizes itself. Of particular concern is that meaning is comprehended and created through a complex and continually unfolding process predicated on what is not thereOCothe unspoken, the unheard, the unknownOCoas much as on what is there. Such powerful absences, described by Wagner as OC anti-twins, OCO are crucial for the invention of cultures and any discipline that proposes to study them.As revealed through conversations between Wagner and Coyote, Wagner's anti-twin, a coyote anthropology should be as much concerned with absence as with presence if it is to depict accurately the dynamic and creative worlds of others. Furthermore, Wagner suggests that anthropologists not only be aware of what informs and conditions their discipline but also understand the range of necessary exclusions that permit anthropology to do what it does. Sly and enticing, probing and startling, Coyote Anthropology beckons anthropologists to draw closer to the center of all things, known and unknown

In these thematically linked pieces, Sue William Silverman explores the fear of death, and her desire to survive it, through gallows humor, realism, and speculation. Although defeating death is physically impossible, language, commemoration, and metaphor can offer slivers of transcendent immortality.

Russell Cobb's The Great Oklahoma Swindle is a rousing and incisive examination of the regional culture and history of "Flyover Country" that demystifies the political conditions of the American Heartland.