The fall of Saigon in 1975 marked the end of the Vietnam War-more than fifty years later, its memory is already fading, although its cultural impact remains. Beginning in the mid-1950s with the Republic of South Vietnam in a civil war with North Vietnam over communism, the United States's military commitment rose to half a million soldiers, ......
Tactical Radio Intelligence in World War II: Silent Warriors in Europe fills a unique void in United States military and intelligence histories by providing exceptional insight into the contributions made by a very select group of veterans: the US Army Signal Corps Radio and Signal Intelligence soldiers. During World War II, thousands of young ......
Compassion Fatigue in the Veterinary Profession, Revised Edition
"Compassion fatigue is a very real problem in veterinary medicine-and in any profession in which caregivers face repeated, long-term exposure to the suffering and loss of others," writes Kathleen Ayl, PsyD. "When left unaddressed, the condition can lead to career dissatisfaction, high employee turnover rates, and even substance abuse or suicide." ......
"Anyone can take responsibility for a place," Simon Roosevelt, great-great grandson of the avid conservationist President Theodore Roosevelt, writes in his foreword. "How persistently and well a conservationist pursues responsibility, connection, and the imperatives of use and care is as much a record of a conservation commitment as is the ......
Running a broad gamut, from elucidating the linguistics of "The National Verb of Texas" to listing the attractions of the Grayson County community formerly known as Toadsuck, W. F. Strong's radio program, Stories from Texas, continues to entertain listeners from Amarillo to Zapata. Now, drawing from his two previous written collections and other ......
Since the first Paleoamerican Odyssey conference, new research has deepened our understanding of the peopling of the Americas. Revolutionary genetic methodologies, combined with developments in archaeology, geology, and paleoecology, have generated new insights into the timing and patterns of early dispersal events and the technologies and ......
In the mid-nineteenth century, a strange new fire swept across the American landscape. It was Spiritualism: the radical belief that the living could-and should-commune with the dead. While historians have long looked to the North for the heart of this movement, John Benedict Buescher reveals a darker, wilder, and distinctly Texan story. Lone ......
Hill Country Ball traces the vibrant emergence of baseball in a unique corner of the American West, where German settlers transformed the national pastime into a Sunday tradition. From the post-Civil War era through the trials of the Great Depression, town ball flourished in communities like Fredericksburg, Boerne, Kerrville, and Comfort, creating ......
While Holocaust education is a staple of American schooling, it is rarely studied as a product of the political machine. We often focus on what happens in the classroom, yet the path to those lessons begins years earlier in state legislatures and governors' offices. This essential volume explores the development of Holocaust education in America ......
