History Nebraska

Reducere. Standing Bear was a chieftain of the Ponca Indian tribe, which farmed and hunted peacefully along the Niobrara River in northeastern Nebraska. In 1...

Reducere. How can we learn more about Native women's lives in North America in earlier centuries? This question is answered by this landmark anthology, an es...

Reducere. Tells the triumphant and moving story of a Lakota-Northern Cheyenne family.

Reducere. Considered a classic study of southeastern Indians, Powhatan's Mantle demonstrates how ethnohistory, demography, archaeology, anthropology, and car...

Reducere. The northern plains are often ignored by the rest of the nation or, if not, are mentioned in the context of the weather, Mount Rushmore, or the Bla...

Reducere. After Ross Benes left Nebraska for New York, he witnessed his polite home state become synonymous with "Trump country." Long dismissed as "flyover"...

Reducere. Winner of the 2020 Catholic Press Association Book Award in History Apostles of Empire is a revisionist history of the French Jesuit mission to Ind...

This volume emphasizes theory schools, institutional connections, social networks, and collaborative research with Indigenous communities in North ...

Reducere. After Mexico gained its independence from Spain in 1821, it began the work of forging its identity as an independent nation, a process that would e...

Reducere. This in-depth narrative history of the interactions between English settlers and American Indians during the Virginia colony's first century explai...

Reducere. For Lt. Gen. George S. Patton, Jr., the battle for Lorraine during the fall and winter of 1944 was a frustrating and grueling experience of static ...

Reducere. Descending 1, 885 miles straight down the center of the United States from Westhope, North Dakota, to Brownsville, Texas, is U.S. 83, one of the ol...

DescriptionFrom the late nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth century, Mexico experienced major transformations influenced by a global...

Publisher: University of Nebraska PressAuthor(s): Matthew G. StanardIllustration(s): 10 photographs, 1 chartNumber of pages: 406Publication date: 2...

Reducere. Boarding School Seasons offers a revealing look at the strong emotional history of Indian boarding school experiences in the first half of the twen...

This volume introduces the oral literature of Native American peoples in Puget Salish speaking areas of western Washington. Seven stories told by L...

Reducere. Eighty-five percent of Italy's Jews survived World War II. Nevertheless, more than six thousand Italian Jews were destroyed in the Holocaust and th...

Reducere. Just as a sculptor chips away each piece of stone to uncover a work of art, author Greg Harm has been chipping away at Lee Lawrie's catalog raisonn...

Reducere. A vivid journey through California's vast rural interior, The Heart of California weaves the story of historian Frank Latta's forgotten 1938 boat t...

Reducere. On the cold, dark night of March 9, 1916, Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa-el jaguar-and his band of marauders crossed the border and raided the ...

These essays cast new light on Paleoindians, the first settlers of North America. Recent research strongly suggests that big-game hunting was but o...

Reducere. Red Power is a classic documentary history of the American Indian activist movement. This landmark second edition considerably expands and updates ...

DescriptionFriday, December 19, 1777, dawned cold and windy. Fourteen thousand Continental Army soldiers tramped from dawn to dusk along the rutted...

Reducere. The Middle Five, first published in 1900, is an account of Francis La Flesche's life as a student in a Presbyterian mission school in northeastern ...

Reducere. "Frenchmen were far ahead of Englishmen in the early Far West, not only prior in time but greater in numbers and in historical importance, " writes...

Reducere. In the Year 1096 presents a clear, highly readable chronicle of the events of 1096. Noted teacher and historian Robert Chazan brings readers to cri...

Through an analysis of criminal case files, administrative records, and prisoner biographies, this book reconstructs life in the penal colonies and...

Reducere. Biographer and historian Stephen B. Oates tells the story of the coming of the American Civil War through the voices and perspectives of thirteen p...

Reducere. The Black Populations of France is a study of Black peoples and their history in France and the French Empire during the modern era, from the eight...

Reducere. Apollo 15 command module pilot Al Worden was one of the highest-profile personalities among the Apollo astronauts, renowned for his outspokenness a...

Reducere. Fusing myriad primary and secondary sources, historian Larry Cebula offers a compelling master narrative of the impact of Christianity on the Colum...

Reducere. During World War II, thousands of Axis prisoners of war were held throughout Nebraska in base camps that included Fort Robinson, Camp Scottsbluff a...

Reducere. The occupation of Alcatraz Island by American Indians from November 20, 1969, through June 11, 1971, focused the attention of the world on Native A...

Reducere. A few years after its invention by James Naismith, basketball became the primary sport in the crowded streets of the Jewish neighborhood on New Yor...

Reducere. Joseph Hillaire (Lummi, 1894-1967) is recognized as one of the great Coast Salish artists, carvers, and tradition-bearers of the twentieth century....

Reducere. John Jacob Astor's dream of empire took shape as the American Fur Company. At Astor's retirement in 1834, this corporate monopoly reached westward ...

The natural wealth of the Amazon and Andes has long attracted fortune seekers, from explorers, farmers, and gold panners to multimillion-dollar min...

During the 1930s Mexico was undergoing a healing process after three decades of revolutionary turmoil and reform. In this climate, the coming of Wo...

Reducere. The Lavi fighter program, the largest weapons-development effort ever undertaken by the State of Israel, envisioned a new generation of high-perfor...

Reducere. This compact and accessible biography critically assesses the life and career of Dean Acheson, one of America's foremost diplomats and strategists....

The book covers the author's time reporting from the former Soviet Union not long after the fall of communism.

Reducere. In 1967 the National Hockey League decided to double its size from six teams to twelve. This expansion was the first of its kind, and Minnesota, wi...

Deza and Its Moriscos addresses an incongruity in early modern Spanish historiography: a growing awareness of the importance played by Moriscos in ...

Reducere. "We pray the God of mercy to deliver us from our present Calamity, " wrote Patrick Breen on the first day of 1847 as he and others in the Donner pa...

Reducere. In this innovative, performative approach to the expressive culture of the Yaqui (Yoeme) peoples of the Sonora and Arizona borderlands, David Delga...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Winter counts--pictorial calendars by which Plains Indians kept track of their past--marked each year with a picture of a memorable event. The Lako...

Provides a comprehensive overview of the pronunciamiento practice following the Plan of Iguala. This fourth and final instalment in, and culminatio...

Reducere. Mimi Schwartz's father was born Jewish in a tiny German village thirty years before the advent of Hitler when, as he'd tell her, "We all got along....

Reducere. Bike racers were America's media darlings less than a century ago--dashing, eccentric, and very rich daredevils. Until the 1920s bike races drew la...

Reducere. First published in 1926 and respected ever since for its measured view of the most famous battle in the American West, The Story of the Little Big ...

Reducere. ``I am an old man, and soon my spirit must leave this earth to join the spirit of my fathers. Therefore, I shall speak only the truth in telling wh...

Reducere. The Menominee Indians, or "wild rice people, " have lived for thousands of years in the region that is now called Wisconsin and are the oldest Nati...

In Mexico environmental struggles have been fought since the nineteenth century in such places as Zacatecas, where United States and European minin...

Reducere. In From Back Alley to the Border, Alicia Gutierrez-Romine examines the history of criminal abortion in California and the role abortion providers p...

Reducere. In Grasslands Grown Molly P. Rozum explores the two related concepts of regional identity and sense of place by examining a single North American e...

Reducere. In Grasslands Grown Molly P. Rozum explores the two related concepts of regional identity and sense of place by examining a single North American e...

French Canadian workers who paddled canoes, transported goods, and staffed the interior posts of the northern North American fur trade became popul...

Reducere. Sovereignty Matters investigates the multiple perspectives that exist within indigenous communities regarding the significance of sovereignty as a ...

DescriptionAs deputy to the U.S. ambassador in Rwanda, Joyce E. Leader witnessed the tumultuous prelude to genocide--a period of political wranglin...

Reducere. Walks on the Ground is a record of Louis V. Headman's personal study of the Southern Ponca people, spanning seven decades beginning with the histor...

Reducere. The Bents might be the most famous family in the history of the American West. From the 1820s to 1920 they participated in many of the major events...

Reducere. Revered as the most prestigious tournament in golf, the Masters commands international attention, even among nongolfers. The first and second editi...

Reducere. World War I prompted the first massive organized propaganda campaign of the twentieth century. Posters, pamphlets, and other media spread fear abou...

Reducere. The Ohio Country in the eighteenth century was a zone of international strife, and the Delawares, Shawnees, Iroquois, and other natives who had tak...

Reducere. Deerskins and Duffels documents the trading relationship in the eighteenth century between the Creek Indians and the Anglo-American peoples who set...

DescriptionOn Tuesday, November 17, 1942, aircraft CNAC No. 60 climbed slowly toward the Himalayas, growing smaller and smaller until it finally fa...

From the eighth century through the Middle Ages feudalism determined the nature of European warfare. Medieval Warfare is full of recreations of fam...

Reducere. More than one million Indian soldiers were deployed during World War I, serving in the Indian Army as part of Britain's imperial war effort. These ...

Reducere. Nations are made and unmade at their borders, and the forty-ninth parallel separating Montana and Alberta in the late nineteenth century was a pivo...