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Inventing Los Alamos
The Growth of an Atomic Community
A social history of New Mexico’s “Atomic City” Los Alamos, New Mexico, birthplace of the Atomic Age, is the community that revolutionized modern weaponry and science. An...
The Angry Genie
One Man’s Walk Through the Nuclear Age
Karl Z. Morgan was a physicist at the Manhattan Project and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where he was director of health physics from the late 1940s until his retirement in 1972. He collaborated...
Facing West
The Metaphysics of Indian-Hating and Empire-Building
American expansion, says Richard Drinnon, is characterized by repression and racism. In his reinterpretation of "winning" the West, Drinnon links racism with colonialism and traces this interrelationship...
Ozark Baptizings, Hangings, and Other Diversions
Theatrical Folkways of Rural Missouri, 1885–1910
Ozark Baptizings, Hangings, and Other Diversions is about the people of a unique corner of America and how they entertained themselves at the turn of the century. In the years...

Inventing Los Alamos
The Growth of an Atomic Community
A social history of New Mexico’s “Atomic City” Los Alamos, New Mexico, birthplace of the Atomic Age, is the community that revolutionized modern weaponry and science. An...
The Angry Genie
One Man’s Walk Through the Nuclear Age
Karl Z. Morgan was a physicist at the Manhattan Project and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where he was director of health physics from the late 1940s until his retirement in 1972. He collaborated...
Facing West
The Metaphysics of Indian-Hating and Empire-Building
American expansion, says Richard Drinnon, is characterized by repression and racism. In his reinterpretation of "winning" the West, Drinnon links racism with colonialism and traces this interrelationship...
Ozark Baptizings, Hangings, and Other Diversions
Theatrical Folkways of Rural Missouri, 1885–1910
Ozark Baptizings, Hangings, and Other Diversions is about the people of a unique corner of America and how they entertained themselves at the turn of the century. In the years...