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Jim Miller

Drift

Exposes the hollowness of a city's boom years Joe Blake is searching for something real in a seemingly depthless world. An alienated, underemployed professor and aspiring poet, Joe roams San Diego in his …

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Teresa Miller

Means of Transit

For the longest time, Teresa Miller wanted to get as far from Oklahoma as possible-to escape from her distant father and abusive stepmother, from the ache of her mother's death, and from the small-town in…

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Michael M. Miller

XIT

The Texas state constitution of 1876 set aside three million acres of public land in the Texas Panhandle in exchange for construction of the state's monumental red-granite capitol in Austin. That land bec…

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Todd Allin Mormon

Many Nations Under Many Gods

The lands the United States claims sovereignty over by right of the Doctrine of Discovery are home to more than five hundred Indian nations, each with its own distinct culture, religion, language, and his…

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Marilyn B. Ogilvie

For the Birds

A first-rate ornithologist, Margaret Morse Nice (1883-1974) pioneered field studies on song sparrows and advocated for women's active role in the sciences. Yet her nontraditional path toward scientific pr…

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Mark Owens

Battle for the Heart of Texas

Texas is a solid red state. Or trending purple. Or soon to be blue. One thing is certain: as Texas looms ever larger in national politics, the makeup of its electorate increasingly matters. At a critical …

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Steven Peach

Rivers of Power

Although the Creeks belong to a full-fledged nation today, the concept of the "nation" meant little to their ancestors in the Native South. Rather, as Steven Peach contends in Rivers of Power, in early Am…

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Armando José Prats

Hollywood's Imperial Wars

When the Vietnam War punctured the myth of American military invincibility, Hollywood needed a new kind of war movie. The familiar triumphal narrative was relegated to history and, with it, the heroic leg…

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Sergio Quezada

Maya Lords and Lordship

When the Spanish arrived in Yucatán in 1526, they found an established political system based on lordship, a system the Spanish initially integrated into their colonial rule, but ultimately dismantled. In…

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Kristofer Ray

Cherokee Power

New Directions in Native American Studies Series -Band 22

In 1754 South Carolina governor James Glen observed that the Tennessee River "has its rise in the Cherokee Nation and runs a great way through it." While noting the "prodigious" extent of the corridor con…

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Kristofer Ray

Cherokee Power

New Directions in Native American Studies Series -Band 22

In 1754 South Carolina governor James Glen observed that the Tennessee River "has its rise in the Cherokee Nation and runs a great way through it." While noting the "prodigious" extent of the corridor con…

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Hannah M. Roisman

Euripides' Hippolytus

Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture -Band 64

Euripides' Hippolytus is a fascinating play about passion, innocence, rejection, betrayal, and the tragic breakdown of a family. This commentary, designed for intermediate and advanced students of ancient…

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Joseph P. Sanchez

Between Two Rivers

Located in Albuquerque's south valley, Atrisco is a vibrant community that predates the city, harking back to a land grant awarded in 1692. Joseph P. Sánchez explores the evolution of this parcel over the…

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Gary Scharnhorst

Owen Wister and the West

The Oklahoma Western Biographies -Band 30

Westerns are rarely only about the West. From the works of James Fenimore Cooper to Gary Cooper, stories set in the American West have served as vehicles for topical commentary. More than any other pionee…

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Jeffrey B Schmidt

Here Today

Whether visiting ghost towns or small towns that still draw on the power of rural resilience to survive and even thrive, Here Today offers a rare chance to travel through the state's history before its re…

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William B. Secrest

The Man from the Rio Grande

Like some mysterious Paladin, Harry Love seemed to suddenly appear on the California landscape at a time when he was particularly needed. As captain of the California Rangers, Love pursued Joaquin Murriet…

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Thomas Ty Smith

The Garza War in South Texas

South Texas and northern Mexico formed a seedbed of revolt in the late nineteenth century. In the 1890s, two decades after he had launched his own successful revolution from South Texas, Mexican president…

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Steven S. Smith

The Senate Syndrome

The Julian J. Rothbaum Distinguished Lecture Series -Band 12

With its rock-bottom approval ratings, acrimonious partisan battles, and apparent inability to do its legislative business, the U.S. Senate might easily be deemed unworthy of attention, if not downright i…

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Catherine Holder Spude

Saloons, Prostitutes, and Temperance in Alaska Territory

Prostitution, gambling, and saloons were a vital, if not universally welcome, part of life in frontier boomtowns. In Saloons, Prostitutes, and Temperance in Alaska Territory, Catherine Holder Spude explor…

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Nancy J. Taniguchi

Dirty Deeds

The California gold rush of 1849 created fortunes for San Francisco merchants, whose wealth depended on control of the city's docks. But ownership of waterfront property was hotly contested. In an 1856 di…

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