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Scots in the North American West, 1790–1917
Although Scots have never been an exceptionally large immigrant group in North America, their presence to the West proved significant in a variety of arenas. In this unique and engaging new...
Seeking Justice for the Holocaust
Herbert C. Pell, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and the Limits of International Law
With its broad new examination of the background and context of the Nuremberg trials, and its expanded view of the roles played by Roosevelt and his unlikely deputy Pell, Seeking Justice for the Holocaust offers a deeper and more nuanced understanding of how the Allies came to hold Nazis accountable for their crimes against humanity.
Diplomacy Shot Down
The U-2 Crisis and Eisenhower's Aborted Mission to Moscow, 1959–1960
The history of the Cold War is littered with what-ifs, and in Diplomacy Shot Down, E. Bruce Geelhoed explores one of the most intriguing: What if the Soviets had not shot down the American U-2 spy plane and President Dwight D. Eisenhower had visited Moscow in 1960 as planned?
American Dude Ranch
A Touch of the Cowboy and the Thrill of the West
However contested and complicated in reality, western history is one of America’s national origin stories that we turn to in times of cultural upheaval. Dude ranches provide a tangible link to the real and imagined past; their persistence and popularity demonstrate how significant this link remains. This book tells their story—in all its familiar, eccentric, and often surprising detail.
American Citizenship and Constitutionalism in Principle and Practice
By articulating notions of citizenship and constitutionalism that are both achievable and capable of fostering solidarity and a common sense of purpose, this timely volume drafts a blueprint for the building of a genuinely shared political future.
The Mound Builder Myth
Fake History and the Hunt for a "Lost White Race"
Built upon primary sources and first-person accounts, the story that The Mound Builder Myth tells is a forgotten chapter of American history—but one that reads like the Da Vinci Code as it plays out at the upper reaches of government, religion, and science.
Agnes Lake Hickok
Queen of the Circus, Wife of a Legend
The first woman in America to own and operate a circus, Agnes Lake spent thirty years under the Big Top before becoming the wife of Wild Bill Hickok—a mere five months before he was killed. Although books abound on the famous lawman, Agnes’s life has remained obscured by circus myth and legend. This account of a remarkable life cuts through fictions about Agnes’s life, including her own embellishments, to uncover her true story. Numerous illustrations, including rare photographs and circus memorabilia, bring Agnes’s world to life.
Common and Contested Ground
A Human and Environmental History of the Northwestern Plains
Drawing on a wide range of sources, Binnema examines the impact of technology on the peoples of the northern plains, beginning with the bow-and-arrow and continuing through the arrival of the horse, European weapons, Old World diseases, and Euroamerican traders.
Women of Empire
Nineteenth-Century Army Officers' Wives in India and the U.S. West
Women of Empire adds a previously unexplored dimension to our understanding of the connections between gender and imperialism in the nineteenth century. McInnis examines the intersections of class, race, and gender to reveal social spaces where female identity and power were both contested and constructed.
From Praha to Prague
Czechs in an Oklahoma Farm Town
In From Praha to Prague, Philip D. Smith examines how the Czechs who founded and settled in Prague, Oklahoma, embraced the economic and cultural activities of their American hometown while maintaining their ethnic identity.

Scots in the North American West, 1790–1917
Seeking Justice for the Holocaust
Herbert C. Pell, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and the Limits of International Law
Diplomacy Shot Down
The U-2 Crisis and Eisenhower's Aborted Mission to Moscow, 1959–1960
American Dude Ranch
A Touch of the Cowboy and the Thrill of the West
American Citizenship and Constitutionalism in Principle and Practice
The Mound Builder Myth
Fake History and the Hunt for a "Lost White Race"
Agnes Lake Hickok
Queen of the Circus, Wife of a Legend
Common and Contested Ground
A Human and Environmental History of the Northwestern Plains
Drawing on a wide range of sources, Binnema examines the impact of technology on the peoples of the northern plains, beginning with the bow-and-arrow and continuing through the arrival of the horse, European weapons, Old World diseases, and Euroamerican traders.