When TV celebrity Dinah Shore sang" See the USA in your Chevrolet," 1950s America took
her to heart. Every summer, parents piled the kids in the back seat, threw the luggage in the …

For a generation, scholarship on the Reconstruction era has rightly focused on the struggles
of the recently emancipated for a meaningful freedom and defined its success or failure …

In the early nineteenth century, critics like Zebulon Pike and Washington Irving viewed the
West as a “dum** ground” for free blacks and Native Americans, a place where they could …

On October 3, 1873, the US Army hanged four Modoc headmen at Oregon's Fort Klamath.
The condemned had supposedly murdered the only US Army general to die during the …

Cities rather than individual pioneers have been the driving force in the settlement and
economic development of the western half of North America. Throughout the seventeenth …

“Nothing defines California and our nation's heritage as significantly or emotionally,” says
the California Mission Foundation,“as do the twenty-one missions that were founded along …

Visitors to Colorado's famous ski resorts embrace alpine adventures, luxurious amenities,
and a glamorous nightlife, all against a backdrop of towering mountains and high-drifted …

The natural beauty of Austin, Texas, has always been central to the city's identity. From the
beginning, city leaders, residents, planners, and employers consistently imagined Austin as …

A growing number of scholars have documented how social identities defined by an
attachment to place influence individuals' understandings about political power and …

Power and Control in the Imperial Valley examines the evolution of irrigated farming in the
Imperial-Mexicali Valley, an arid desert straddling the California–Baja California border …