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  • The Courthouse Square in Texas

    by Robert E. Veselka ...
    Series series Clifton and Shirley Caldwell Texas Heritage Series
    With its dignified courthouse set among shade trees and lawns dotted with monuments to prominent citizens and fallen veterans, the courthouse square remains the civic center in a majority of the county seats of Texas. Yet the squares themselves vary in form and layout, reflecting the different town-planning traditions that settlers brought from Europe, Mexico, and the United States. In fact, one ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

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  • Trace

    Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape

    by Lauret Savoy ...
    **Winner of the American Book AwardPEN Literary Award FinalistThese essays blending memoir, history, and landscape “will create seismic shifts in readers’ perspectives on race, gender, and nature” as they explore how America’s ideas of ‘race’ have marked its people and the land (BuzzFeed).**Sand and stone are Earth’s fragmented memory. Each of us, too, is a landscape inscribed by memory and loss. ... Read more

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  • Trip of the Tongue

    Cross-Country Travels in Search of America's Languages

    by Elizabeth Little ...
    Though we speak English as a nation, it's no secret that America is far from uniform. Spanish, in particular, has long been touted as the language that will figure into our national future; much has been written about the need to recognize it in our laws and schools.Yet billing America as a bilingual country is a gross misrepresentation. They speak Basque in Nevada, Hindi in San Jose, and Gullah ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Making of America's Culture Regions

    by Richard L. Nostrand ...
    This outstanding text provides students with the essential foundation in the historical geography of the United States. Distinguished scholar Richard L. Nostrand skillfully synthesizes decades of historical geography research in an engaging and thought-provoking overview. His regional geography framework emphasizes the three themes central to cultural geography—cultural ecology, cultural diffusion ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Fair America

    World's Fairs in the United States

    by Robert W. Rydell, John E. Findling, Kimberly Pelle ...
    Since their inception with New York's Crystal Palace Exhibition in the mid-nineteenth century, world's fairs have introduced Americans to “exotic” pleasures such as belly dancing and the Ferris Wheel; pathbreaking technologies such as telephones and X rays; and futuristic architectural, landscaping, and transportation schemes. Billed by their promoters as “encyclopedias of civilization,” the ... Read more

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  • 50 Great American Places

    Essential Historic Sites Across the U.S.

    by Brent D. Glass ...
    A one-of-a-kind guide to fifty of the most important cultural and historic sites in the United States guaranteed to fascinate, educate, and entertain—selected and described by the former director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.From Massachusetts to Florida to Washington to California, 50 Great American Places takes you on a journey through our nation’s history. Sharing ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Memorial Mania

    Public Feeling in America

    by Erika Doss ...
    In the past few decades, thousands of new memorials to executed witches, victims of terrorism, and dead astronauts, along with those that pay tribute to civil rights, organ donors, and the end of Communism have dotted the American landscape. Equally ubiquitous, though until now less the subject of serious inquiry, are temporary memorials: spontaneous offerings of flowers and candles that ... Read more

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  • In Search of the Racial Frontier

    African Americans in the American West 1528-1990

    by Quintard Taylor ...
    "An enthralling work that will be essential reading for years to come." —David Nicholson, Washington PostA landmark history of African Americans in the West, In Search of the Racial Frontier rescues the collective American consciousness from thinking solely of European pioneers when considering the exploration, settling, and conquest of the territory west of the Mississippi. From its surprising ... Read more

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  • Malinche, Pocahontas, and Sacagawea

    Indian Women as Cultural Intermediaries and National Symbols

    by Rebecca Kay Jager, Ph.D. ...
    The first Europeans to arrive in North America’s various regions relied on Native women to help them navigate unfamiliar customs and places. This study of three well-known and legendary female cultural intermediaries, Malinche, Pocahontas, and Sacagawea, examines their initial contact with Euro-Americans, their negotiation of multinational frontiers, and their symbolic representation over time ... Read more

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  • From Greenwich Village to Taos

    Primitivism and Place at Mabel Dodge Luhan's

    by Flannery Burke ...
    Series series CultureAmerica
    Winner: Ralph Emerson Twitchell AwardThey all came to Taos: Georgia O’Keefe, D. H. Lawrence, Carl Van Vechten, and other expatriates of New York City. Fleeing urban ugliness, they moved west between 1917 and 1929 to join the community that art patron Mabel Dodge created in her Taos salon and to draw inspiration from New Mexico's mountain desert and “primitive” peoples. As they settled, their quest ... Read more

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  • American Trails Revisited-Texas' Old San Antonio Road

    by Lyn Wilkerson ...
    The Old San Antonio Road was, for two centuries, the main artery of travel between San Antonio and Nacogdoches. Religion was the strongest influence during the era of the rule of Spain (1519-1821). Missions and presidios were built at strategic locations, and the homes of the settlers, usually of palings or stone, clustered near their walls. Beside the El Camino Real (The King's Highway), the ... Read more

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