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Experiencing War Memorials

Environment, Affect, and Public Memory

by Jennifer K. Ladino, Roger C. Aden, Corbin Allardice, English Brooks, Rodrigo Del Río, Jamie L. Downing, Susan L. Eastman, Allison S. Finkelstein, Erik J. Freeman, Koji Fuse0, Ryan Hediger1, Chaney Hill2, Svitlana Kot3, Alina Mozolevska4, James E. Mueller5, Jessy Ohl6, Olha Polishchuk7, Sarah Senk8, Lisa Silvestri9, Marek Steedman0, Ici Vanwesenbeeck1 ...

Series series War, Memory, and Culture
Examines the emotional, formal, and environmental dimensions of war commemorationExperiencing War Memorials is a compelling edited collection of essays that examines how war is commemorated through public memorials and the powerful emotions and ideologies these sites generate. Drawing on fields such as war studies, affect studies, public memory studies, and the environmental humanities, the volume ... Read more

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Examines the emotional, formal, and environmental dimensions of war commemorationExperiencing War Memorials is a compelling edited collection of essays that examines how war is commemorated through public memorials and the powerful emotions and ideologies these sites generate. Drawing on fields such as war studies, affect studies, public memory studies, and the environmental humanities, the volume
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Preaching Black Lives (Matter)

by Paul Roberts Abernathy, Jennifer Amuzie, Antonio J. Baxter, Nathan Baxter, Temple D. Beaman, Walter Brownbridge, Mariann Edgar Budde, Kevin Burdet, Staci Burkey, Nicole D., Laura Evans, Marlene E. Forrest, Wilda C. Gafney, Morgan G. Harding, James C. Harrington, Vincent P. Harris, MaryBeth Ingram, F. Willis Johnson, Virginia Klein, Steve Lawler, Charles Michael Livingston Jr, Monai Lowe, Rebecca S. Myers, Sandra T. Montes, Deniray Mueller, Kevin C. Pinckney, Judith Rhedin, Glenice Robinson-Como, Gene Robinson, Cara Rockhill, Jamie Samilio, Ruth Skjerseth, Carolyne Starek, Rebecca Stelle, Rob Stephens, Frank A. Thomas, Kwasi A. Thornell, Shayna Watson, Alisa Williams, Jennifer Baskerville-Burrows, Kelly Brown Douglas, Charles D. Fowler III, Claudia M. Allen ...

An anthology that asks, “What does it mean to be church where Black lives matter?”Prophetic imagination would have us see a future in which all Christians would be free of the soul-warping belief and practice of racism. This collection of reflections is an incisive look into that future today. It explains why preaching about race is important in the elimination of racism in the church and society, ... Read more

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An anthology that asks, “What does it mean to be church where Black lives matter?”Prophetic imagination would have us see a future in which all Christians would be free of the soul-warping belief and practice of racism. This collection of reflections is an incisive look into that future today. It explains why preaching about race is important in the elimination of racism in the church and society,
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Ambitious Honor

George Armstrong Custer's Life of Service and Lust for Fame

by James E. Mueller ...

George Armstrong Custer, one of the most familiar figures of nineteenth-century American history, is known almost exclusively as a soldier, his brilliant military career culminating in catastrophe at Little Bighorn. But Custer, author James E. Mueller suggests, had the soul of an artist, not of a soldier. Ambitious Honor elaborates this radically new perspective, arguing that an artistic passion ... Read more

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George Armstrong Custer, one of the most familiar figures of nineteenth-century American history, is known almost exclusively as a soldier, his brilliant military career culminating in catastrophe at Little Bighorn. But Custer, author James E. Mueller suggests, had the soul of an artist, not of a soldier. Ambitious Honor elaborates this radically new perspective, arguing that an artistic passion
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Texans on the Brink

Threatened and Endangered Animals

by David Ford, Jeremy D. Maikoetter, Timothy H. Bonner, Chad W Hargrave, David S. Ruppel, Nicky M. Hahn, Robert J. Edwards, Paige Najvar, William Godwin, Mary Jones, David J. Berg, Ned E. Strenth, Jerry L. Cook, Benjamin T. Hutchins, Anthony A. Echelle, Alice F. Echelle, J. Curtis Creighton, D. Craig Rudolph, Josh Pierce, Loren K. Ammerman, Christopher E. Comer, Michael E. Tewes, Julia Buck, Mary Kay Skoruppa, Kim Withers, Andrew C. Kasner, John Karges, Timothy Brush, Clifford E. Shackelford, Heather A. Mathewson, David Cimprich, James M Mueller, Robert Allen, Karl Berg, Philip Matich, Donna J. Shaver, Mary M Streitch, Bernd Würsig, Dr. Neil B. Ford ...

Series series Integrative Natural History Series, sponsored by Texas Research Institute for Environmental Studies, Sam Houston State University
What good is a rattlesnake? What purpose do animals serve? All species play a vital role in their biological communities, and the removal of just one can have a noticeable and catastrophic ripple effect.Yet social and political pressures frequently pit species conservation against economic progress and prosperity, and scientists fear that we may be in the midst of a mass extinction event. Brian R. ... Read more

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What good is a rattlesnake? What purpose do animals serve? All species play a vital role in their biological communities, and the removal of just one can have a noticeable and catastrophic ripple effect.Yet social and political pressures frequently pit species conservation against economic progress and prosperity, and scientists fear that we may be in the midst of a mass extinction event. Brian R.
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Shooting Arrows and Slinging Mud

Custer, the Press, and the Little Bighorn

by James E. Mueller ...

The defeat of George Armstrong Custer and the Seventh Cavalry at the Battle of the Little Bighorn was big news in 1876. Newspaper coverage of the battle initiated hot debates about whether the U.S. government should change its policy toward American Indians and who was to blame for the army’s loss—the latter, an argument that ignites passion to this day. In Shooting Arrows and Slinging Mud, James ... Read more

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The defeat of George Armstrong Custer and the Seventh Cavalry at the Battle of the Little Bighorn was big news in 1876. Newspaper coverage of the battle initiated hot debates about whether the U.S. government should change its policy toward American Indians and who was to blame for the army’s loss—the latter, an argument that ignites passion to this day. In Shooting Arrows and Slinging Mud, James
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Promoting Social Justice through the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

by Alyssa Dunn, David Alm, Athina Chartelain, Maxine Atkinson, Nicole Battaglia, Carole Bennett, Brian Stevens, Patricia E. Calderwood, Jennifer Campbell, Tiffany Chenneville, Sarah D. Croft, Brooke D'Aloisio, James M. DeVita, Emma Sheeran, Erin E. Peters-Burton, Susan L. Filler, Melissa Garno, Lisa Garoutte, Phillis L. George, Daniel J. Glisczinski, Scott T. Grether, Tiffany Hoyt, Jo An Zimmermann, Diane Kayongo-Male, Giuseppina Kysar Mattietti, Robert Lake, Alejandro Leguizamo, Lonell Moeller, Yongmei Lu, Gloria P. Martinez-Ramos, Mary R. Moeller, MaryJo Benton Lee, Jacquelyn Dosch McDonald, Karen S. Meaney, Anja Mueller, Kent Rittschof, Sabrina N. Ross, Scott D. Farver, Stephanie Burrell Storms, Alma D. Stevenson, Thomas M. Grund, Annemarie Vaccaro, Cathy Willermet ...

Series series Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
How can education become a transformative experience for all learners and teachers? The contributors to this volume contend that the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) can provide a strong foundation for the role of education in promoting social justice. The collection features contributions by an array of educators and scholars, highlighting the various ways that learners and teachers ... Read more

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How can education become a transformative experience for all learners and teachers? The contributors to this volume contend that the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) can provide a strong foundation for the role of education in promoting social justice. The collection features contributions by an array of educators and scholars, highlighting the various ways that learners and teachers
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Custer's Trials (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

A Life on the Frontier of a New America

by T.J. Stiles ...

Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for HistoryFrom the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes and a National Book Award, a brilliant biography of Gen. George Armstrong Custer that radically changes our view of the man and his turbulent times.In this magisterial biography, T. J. Stiles paints a portrait of Custer both deeply personal and sweeping in scope, proving how much of Custer’s legacy has been ignored ... Read more

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Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for HistoryFrom the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes and a National Book Award, a brilliant biography of Gen. George Armstrong Custer that radically changes our view of the man and his turbulent times.In this magisterial biography, T. J. Stiles paints a portrait of Custer both deeply personal and sweeping in scope, proving how much of Custer’s legacy has been ignored
... Read more
The Last Campaign

Sherman, Geronimo and the War for America

by H. W. Brands ...

**Bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands follows the lives of General William Tecumseh Sherman and Apache war leader Geronimo to tell the story of the Indian Wars and the final fight for control of the American continent."Gripping...Brands’ writing style and his mastery of history make the book an excellent introduction to the time period for newcomers, and a fresh ... Read more

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**Bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands follows the lives of General William Tecumseh Sherman and Apache war leader Geronimo to tell the story of the Indian Wars and the final fight for control of the American continent."Gripping...Brands’ writing style and his mastery of history make the book an excellent introduction to the time period for newcomers, and a fresh
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Thunder in the Mountains

Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard, and the Nez Perce War

by Daniel J. Sharfstein ...

“Beautifully wrought and impossible to put down, Daniel Sharfstein’s Thunder in the Mountains chronicles with compassion and grace that resonant past we should never forget.”—Brenda Wineapple, author of Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848–1877After the Civil War and Reconstruction, a new struggle raged in the Northern Rockies. In the summer of 1877, General Oliver Otis Howard ... Read more

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“Beautifully wrought and impossible to put down, Daniel Sharfstein’s Thunder in the Mountains chronicles with compassion and grace that resonant past we should never forget.”—Brenda Wineapple, author of Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848–1877After the Civil War and Reconstruction, a new struggle raged in the Northern Rockies. In the summer of 1877, General Oliver Otis Howard
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Civil War West

by Duane Shaw ...

D U A N E is an amateur photographer who still prefers a fi lm camera over a digital one when he takes pictures of American Civil War reenactments. He lives in El Paso with his wife Vinita, and they have six children. He enjoys reading, history and organizing material for a book. He likes to travel, take photos and read about El Paso politics Civil War West is Shaws second book. His fi rst book ... Read more

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D U A N E is an amateur photographer who still prefers a fi lm camera over a digital one when he takes pictures of American Civil War reenactments. He lives in El Paso with his wife Vinita, and they have six children. He enjoys reading, history and organizing material for a book. He likes to travel, take photos and read about El Paso politics Civil War West is Shaws second book. His fi rst book
... Read more
Chief Left Hand: Southern Arapaho

Southern Arapaho

by Margaret Coel ...

Series series The Civilization of the American Indian Series
This is the first biography of Chief Left Hand, diplomat, linguist, and legendary of the Plains Indians. Working from government reports, manuscripts, and the diaries and letters of those persons—both white and Indian—who knew him, Margaret Coel has developed an unusually readable, interesting, and closely documented account of his life and the life of his tribe during the fateful years of the mid ... Read more

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This is the first biography of Chief Left Hand, diplomat, linguist, and legendary of the Plains Indians. Working from government reports, manuscripts, and the diaries and letters of those persons—both white and Indian—who knew him, Margaret Coel has developed an unusually readable, interesting, and closely documented account of his life and the life of his tribe during the fateful years of the mid
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Ned Wynkoop and the Lonely Road from Sand Creek

by Louis Kraft ...

When Edward W. Wynkoop arrived in Colorado Territory during the 1858 gold rush, he was one of many ambitious newcomers seeking wealth in a promising land mostly inhabited by American Indians. After he worked as a miner, sheriff, bartender, and land speculator, Wynkoop’s life drastically changed after he joined the First Colorado Volunteers to fight for the Union during the Civil War. This ... Read more

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When Edward W. Wynkoop arrived in Colorado Territory during the 1858 gold rush, he was one of many ambitious newcomers seeking wealth in a promising land mostly inhabited by American Indians. After he worked as a miner, sheriff, bartender, and land speculator, Wynkoop’s life drastically changed after he joined the First Colorado Volunteers to fight for the Union during the Civil War. This
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