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Cherokee Nation Citizenship is Kushner’s exploration of legal citizenship in the Cherokee Nation, how the law has developed and changed over time, and what lessons this living idea and its history hold for Americans, Native and non-Native alike. The first political history of Cherokee Nation citizenship laws, Kushner’s book challenges American presumptions about Indigenous politics and historical development, even as it encourages a rethinking of what citizenship is and does.
 

Chief Daniel Bread (1800-1873) played a key role in establishing the Oneida Indians’ presence in Wisconsin after their removal from New York, yet no monument commemorates his deeds as the community’s founder. Laurence M. Hauptman and L. Gordon McLester, III, redress that historical oversight, connecting Bread’s life story with the nineteenth-century history of the Oneida Nation.

Drawing on his expertise as an American historian and his extensive knowledge of the university’s history, Levy identifies and explains in ample footnotes the numerous people and places mentioned by the letter writers. In so doing, he ties the experience of everyday Oklahomans to a global conflict that changed the course of history.

As the recollections of two people whose lives played out against a world panorama, Fanny and William’s memoirs together provide a rare opportunity to examine events of frontier military life from both male and female perspectives.

Justice for All chronicles the life of Dick T. Morgan, a founding father of Oklahoma known for his commitment to fairness in a deeply divided Gilded Age America. Arriving in Oklahoma’s Unassigned Lands with the first wave of settlers in 1889, Morgan gained a reputation as a leading lawyer in land disputes, built a real estate business, and promoted church-building across Oklahoma Territory. Serving in Congress from 1909 to 1920, he helped establish key Progressive Era institutions like the Federal Reserve, Federal Trade Commission, and Federal Farm Credit System. His ability to work across party lines offers a valuable lesson for today’s polarized politics. Morgan’s great-grandsons, David and Kenyon, spearheaded this biography, retracing his legacy and bringing his contributions to light, revealing a man deeply committed to public service, education, and the values of home, church, and school.

In Low April Sun, acclaimed author Contance Squires has written the first novel to explore the enduring impact of the Oklahoma City bombing. While masterfully weaving a spellbinding mystery, Squires ultimately offers us a moving meditation on grief and forgiveness.
 

Because Martin’s life was entwined with many luminaries of the stage, this biography offers rich insights into theater history, including accounts of how various productions were developed. No other book tells her story in such detail—it is must reading for fans and an essential resource for theater aficionados everywhere.

Army surgeon, ethnographer, and writer William Henry Corbusier (1844–1930) witnessed the transformation of the United States from young republic to world power. In Soldier, Surgeon, Scholar, the retired army officer and surgeon recounts his experiences, which include a New York City childhood, adolescence in gold-rush California, and army life from the wilds of Arizona to the jungles of the occupied Philippines.