Oklahoma was in the throes of the Great Depression when Preston George acquired a cheap Kodak fol...

The U.S. Senate is so sharply polarized along partisan and ideological lines today that it’s easy...

A thoroughgoing look into a rare case where the eugenics movement 'failed' in spite of its power ...

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From the Gulf Coastal Plain home to alligators and palmettos in the southeastern corner of the st...

The U.S. Senate is so sharply polarized along partisan and ideological lines today that it’s easy...

Emerging technologies—from AI and robotics to digital gaming—are transforming the role of the hum...

George Armstrong Custer, one of the most familiar figures of nineteenth-century American history,...

At the end of World War II, the top ten college football teams were largely the same as they are ...

They call it Sooner Nation because 'fanbase' doesn't even begin to cover it.

You might not know the names of Boudleaux and Felice Bryant, but you know their music. Arriving i...

One of America’s most beloved folk singers, Arlo Guthrie was at the pinnacle of his fame in the l...

Most people are familiar with the landmark 1954 Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Educatio...

Stories have the power to unify, challenge, and heal. All too often, though, the stories of margi...

Among their celebrated achievements, the ancient Maya are renowned for developing a highly sophis...

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) has been widely and effectively used across colleges and univ...

For a half century, John Ellis Wool (1784–1869) was one of America’s most illustrious figures—mos...

Written in the fourth century BCE, Philebus is likely one of Plato’s last Socratic dialogues. It ...

Communities of color have long been subject to extreme policing and surveillance in Texas. Despit...

Although his poems survived the Middle Ages in only a single copy, Catullus has become a canonica...

For centuries Mexican people of the plains—or los Llaneros—have inhabited and embodied the border...

From the Mexican American War and through the Civil War Era, Mexican and US social hierarchies co...

Next to a golf course, in a busy Phoenix neighborhood, a terracotta-colored condo complex of unus...

When the Vietnam War punctured the myth of American military invincibility, Hollywood needed a ne...

Mountain Men were the principal figures of the fur trade era, one of the most interesting, dramat...

When William F. Cody introduced his Wild West exhibition to European audiences in 1887, the show ...

An Irish officer in the British Army, Major General Robert Ross (1766–1814) was a charismatic lea...

Indigenous journalism has proliferated in Indigenous communities for almost 200 years. But it has...

With a career spanning multiple decades—from the Civil War and Reconstruction to the Gilded Age a...

With campuses seeing greater numbers of neurodivergent students, and neurodivergence becoming a l...

This first full account of Amelia Stone Quinton (1833–1926) and the organization she cofounded, t...

For two centuries the question has persisted: Was Meriwether Lewis's death a suicide, an accident...

Ancient petroglyphs and paintings on rocky cliffs and cave walls preserve the symbols and ideas o...

The Conquest of America is a fascinating study of cultural confrontation in the New World, with i...

With abundant photographs, more than 160 in color, Native North America illustrates tribal life, ...

For twenty years after World War II, the United States was in the grips of its second and most op...

The skills of the ancient Egyptians in preserving bodies through mummification are well known, bu...

'The indefatigable T. Lindsay Baker has now turned his enormous mental and physical energies to t...

Some of the legendary gunmen of the Old West were lawmen, but more, like Billy the Kid and Jesse ...

A good guitar repairman is hard to find, and when found, a long waiting list seems inevitable. Th...

'This is it, the book that stands as the most readable and thorough account of oil development in...

Ever since the Custer massacres on June 25, 1876, the question has been asked: What happened - wh...

In The West of Billy the Kid, renowned authority Frederick Nolan has assembled a comprehensive ph...

Of all firsthand accounts of lawlessness in the old Southwest, none is more fascinating than Pat ...

In Cooperation with the National Cowboy and Western Heritage MuseumA cowboy's life is more than s...

A companion volume to his 'Ghost Towns of Texas, More Ghost Towns of Texas' provides readers with...

This book, the first of its kind, teaches the rudiments of Cherokee, which is the native tongue o...

This is not your grandfather’s history of Texas. Portraying nineteenth-century Texas as a cauldro...