Mark Twain's life as told by more than 200 contemporaries including Teddy Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Charles Darwin, and many more. A master storyteller, Mark Twain inspired his friends, family, fellow authors, and others to reminisce about him at every stage of his life and everywhere he lived. In Mark Twain Remembered: An Anecdotal ......
A deft history and analysis of John Sayles' 1996 cinematic masterpiece. Alison Fields places Lone Star in a western film framework and emphasizes Lone Star's ability to highlight the conflicts between socially entrenched borderlands history and its multifaceted reality. Filmmaker John Sayles has been a key voice in independent cinema since the ......
One of the most important archaeological discoveries of the last century, which rocked the field of archaeology and fundamentally shifted our collective knowledge of human occupation in the Americas. On a warm winter day in 2005, while mending fences in the backcountry of White Sands National Park, David F. Bustos, the park's biologist turned ......
Malcolm W. Browne, Thich Quang Duc, and the News Photograph That Stunned the World
The Ultimate Protest: Malcolm W. Browne, Thich Quang Duc, and the News Photograph That Stunned the World examines how the most unlikely of war correspondents, Malcolm W. Browne, became the only Western reporter to capture Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc's horrific self-immolation on June 11, 1963. Quang Duc made his ultimate sacrifice to protest the ......
Komal Hok, O'odham Teachings, and an Earth-Based Sense of Time
A major contribution to O'odham studies and Southwest history, Martinez offers a new perspective on the life and knowledge of Komal Hok, an important Akimel O'odham storyteller also known as "Thin Leather." The Maze of History refers to the man-in-the-maze symbol that has adorned O'odham baskets for generations. According to O'odham oral ......
Komal Hok, O'odham Teachings, and an Earth-Based Sense of Time
A major contribution to O'odham studies and Southwest history, Martinez offers a new perspective on the life and knowledge of Komal Hok, an important Akimel O'odham storyteller also known as "Thin Leather." The Maze of History refers to the man-in-the-maze symbol that has adorned O'odham baskets for generations. According to O'odham oral ......
Mark Twain's life as told by more than 200 contemporaries including Teddy Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Charles Darwin, and many more. A master storyteller, Mark Twain inspired his friends, family, fellow authors, and others to reminisce about him at every stage of his life and everywhere he lived. In Mark Twain Remembered: An Anecdotal ......
A groundbreaking reassessment of the relationship between Federico Garcia Lorca and American poet Philip Cummings and its impact on the poems in Lorca's landmark collection, Poet in New York. Lorca in Vermont tells the story of two young lovers with mismatched goals and expectations: Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca, already well established in ......
In the face of clashing family backgrounds and sexual abuse as a child, Marcos's extraordinary memoir maps his journey through self-discovery, from his Salvadoran-Appalachian parentage to his success as a writer, his mental illness, and his healing in an extraordinary memoir. In Speak of It, Marcos McPeek Villatoro explores how he channeled ......
