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Days of Darkness: The Wichitas in Indian Territory and Kansas, 1859-1867
(2019-12-13)
Most of what is known about the history of the Wichita peoples is scattered throughout the works of historians Earl H. Elam and F. Todd Smith, as well as anthropologist W. W. Newcomb, Jr., leaving this historiography of ...
Joining Up with the Union: California's Place in the Nation and the Meaning of Military Service in the Civil War
(2020-05-08)
Prior to the start of the Civil War, California had been a state for less than a dozen years and was populated by a diverse group of people from around globe, many of whom had been lured to the state by the call of gold. ...
Diego Rivera as a Jewish Root-Seeker: Art, Identity Politics, and the "Downtrodden Masses"
(2022-05-14)
The Mexican muralist Diego Rivera (1886-1957) was Jewish in his imagination only.
During the 1930s, the artist invented a noble Sephardi lineage dating back to the seventeenth-century philosopher, Uriel Acosta (1585-1640). ...
A history of Blaine County
(1929)
“I don’t smell chemicals, I smell money:” the effects of federal policy and the chemical industry on human health and the environment in the Kanawha River Valley
(2023-12-15)
Federal policy and the need for American produced chemicals saw a need for a domestic chemical industry to be erected in the Kanawha Valley of West Virginia during World War I. Following the war, federal policy continued ...
Glory and Empire: The London Society for Promoting Christianity amongst the Jews and the Road to the Balfour Declaration
(2016-05)
The Balfour Declaration has often been seen as the culmination of the restorationist tradition and Christian Zionism in Britain. The London Society for Promoting Christianity amongst the Jews was an Evangelical mission ...
"It's Not A Treaty, It's A Legal Binding Agreement": Fort Lawton, Red Power, and the Struggle for Indigenous Land Reclamation
(2023-05-12)
In 1970, over one hundred Native American activists occupied the Fort Lawton military base in Seattle, Washington. The protestors, disgruntled over the federal government’s termination of tribal lands and lack of support ...
Pacifying the Tepehuanes from 1590 to 1642
(2017-12-15)
In the sixteenth century, Spanish missionaries entered the northern frontier of Mexico in hopes of converting the “barbarous” native peoples of the Sierra Madre Occidental. Upon their arrival, they found a population of ...