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Puts black people back into the picture and dispels cherished myths about California's racial history. Reaching from the Spanish era to the valley's emergence as a center of the high-tech industry, this is the first comprehensive history of the African American experience in the Santa Clara Valley.

This is the tale of Hannali Innominee, a "Mingo" or natural lord of the 19th-century Choctaw Indian, and a fictionalized epic history of his people in the 19th-century.

Set against the tragic events of the Cherokee's removal from their traditional lands in North Carolina to Indian Territory between 1835 and 1838, this is the tale of Waguli and Oconeechee, a young Cherokee man and woman separated by the Trail of Tears just as they are about to be married.

Growing up, Jerry Thompson knew only that his grandfather was a gritty, "mixed-blood" Cherokee cowboy named Joe Lynch Davis. That was all anyone cared to say about the man. But after Thompson's mother died, the historian discovered a shoebox full of letters that held the key to a long-lost family history of passion, violence, and despair.

Reveals the amazing accomplishments of John J. Montgomery, a prolific inventor who piloted the glider he designed in 1883 in the first controlled flights of a heavier-than-air craft in the Western Hemisphere. Re-examining the history of American aviation, Craig Harwood and Gary Fogel present the story of human efforts to take to the skies.

How is it that nearly 90 percent of the Texan population currently lives in metropolitan regions, but many Texans still embrace and promote a vision of their state's nineteenth-century rural identity? This is one of the questions the editors and contributors to Lone Star Suburbs confront.

Presenting a more complex picture of the ways difference came to be defined in colonial Mexico, this book exposes important tensions within Spanish colonialism and the developing social order. It affords a significant new view of the development and social experience of race--in early colonial Mexico and afterward.

The personal story of an Oklahoma woman, Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher, whose fight to gain an education formed an important episode in the civil rights movement. This study also incorporates the history of family and community life in a small southern US town during years of legal segregation.

The Nim (North Fork Mono) Indians have lived for centuries in a remote region of California's Sierra Nevada. In this memoir, Gaylen D. Lee recounts the story of his Nim family across six generations. Drawing from the recollections of his grandparents, mother, and other relatives, Lee provides a deeply personal account of his people's history and culture.In keeping with the Nim's traditional life-style, Lee's memoir takes us through their annual seasonal cycle. He describes communal activities, such as food gathering, hunting and fishing, the processing of acorn (the Nim's staple food), basketmaking, and ceremonies and games. Family photographs, some dating to the beginning of this century, enliven Lee's descriptions.Woven into the seasonal account is the disturbing story of Hispanic and white encroachment into the Nim world. Lee shows how the Mexican presence in the early nineteenth century, the Gold Rush, the Protestant conversion movement, and, more recently, the establishment of a national forest on traditional land have contributed to the erosion of Nim culture.Walking Where We Lived is a bittersweet chronicle, revealing the persecution and hardships suffered by the Nim, but emphasizing their survival. Although many young Nim have little knowledge of the old ways and although the Nim are a minority in the land of their ancestors, the words of Lee's grandmother remain a source of strength: "Ashupá. Don't worry. It's okay."

During the 1960s, American Indian youth were swept up in a movement called Red Power--a civil rights struggle fueled by intertribal activism. While some define the movement as militant and others see it as peaceful, there is one common assumption about its history: Red Power began with the Indian takeover of Alcatraz in 1969. Or did it?

"A complete English translation from the original manuscript of Don Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl's History of the Chichimeca Nation, with introduction and notes outlining the author's historiographical legacy"--

Looks anew at the scope of the reconstruction narrative and offers a unique perspective on the history of the Latter-day Saints. Contributors explore why the federal government wanted to reconstruct Latter-day Saints, when such efforts began, and how the initiatives compare with what happened with white Southerners and American Indians.

In The Civil War Years in Utah, the first full account of the events that occurred in Utah Territory during that war, John Gary Maxwell contradicts the patriotic mythology of Mormon leaders' version of this dark chapter in Utah history.

Although Vernon Duke has entered the canon of American standards, little is known about the composer with two personas. Taking a Chance on Love brings the intriguing double life of Dukelsky/Duke back into the spotlight, restoring a chapter to the history of the Great American Songbook and to the story of twentieth-century music.

Seeking justice for the Holocaust had not been an automatic - or an obvious - mission for the Allies to pursue in the atermath of World War II. In this book, Graham Cox recounts the remarkable negotiations and calculations that brought the United States and its allies to this point.

In 1911 Dr Philip King Brown opened the Arequipa Sanatorium in Marin County. Together, Brown and his all-female staff gave new life to hundreds of working-class women suffering from tuberculosis in early-twentieth-century California. This book tells a vivid story of the sanatorium, Brown and his talented team of Progressive women.

Through letters, personal accounts of the men, and other sources, author Joseph C. Fitzharris recounts how the Third Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, prisoners of war, broken in spirit and morale, went home and found redemption and renewed purpose fighting the Dakota Indians.

One of the most colourful characters in the Napoleonic pantheon, Gebhard Leberecht von Blucher is best known as the Prussian general who, with the Duke of Wellington, defeated Napoleon at Waterloo. This biography by Michael Leggiere is the first scholarly book in English to explore Blucher's life and military career - and his impact on Napoleon.

By considering social justice efforts in western cities and states, this book integrates the West into the historical narrative of black Americans' struggle for civil rights. From Iowa to the Pacific Northwest, and from Texas to the Dakotas, black westerners initiated a wide array of civil rights activities in the early to late twentieth century.

When Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Bilingual Education Act of 1968, language learning became a touchstone in the emerging culture wars. Nowhere was this more apparent than in Los Angeles. The city is the ideal locus for Zevi Gutfreund's study of how language instruction informed the social construction of American citizenship.

As governor of New Mexico from 1778 to 1788, Juan Bautista de Anza enacted a series of changes in the colony's governance that helped preserve it as a Spanish territory. This book, the first comprehensive biography of Anza, shows his historical importance as a soldier and administrator in the history of North America.