Refocusing on human inhabitants in landscape architecture Landscape architecture is at a crossroads. The ability to draw upon interdisciplinary perspectives and generate insights from the combined vantage points of design, environmental studies, and the social sciences puts it in a prime position to address the most pressing issues of our time, ......
Refocusing on human inhabitants in landscape architecture Landscape architecture is at a crossroads. The ability to draw upon interdisciplinary perspectives and generate insights from the combined vantage points of design, environmental studies, and the social sciences puts it in a prime position to address the most pressing issues of our time, ......
The Contested Expansion of the Early United States
How the contours of the United States took shape-and what they might have been There was nothing predestined about the now-familiar shape of the United States of America. Early visions of what the new country's borders could encompass included Canadian provinces, Caribbean islands, and even Kamchatka in eastern Russia. In Before Manifest ......
The Contested Expansion of the Early United States
How the contours of the United States took shape-and what they might have been There was nothing predestined about the now-familiar shape of the United States of America. Early visions of what the new country's borders could encompass included Canadian provinces, Caribbean islands, and even Kamchatka in eastern Russia. In Before Manifest ......
A Black Woman's Rise from Army Brat to Six Triple Eight Champion
One woman's extraordinary personal journey in the US military and her triumphant effort to honor her predecessors with the Congressional Gold Medal Looking back on her remarkable career, Retired Army Colonel Edna W. Cummings can justly say that "the odds ain't good, but good stuff happens." Her story is as inspiring as it is improbable, but her ......
A long-awaited work by one of the deans of Black studies Reginald Butler, the second director of UVA's Carter G. Woodson Institute, wrote an influential and much-cited but never published dissertation at Johns Hopkins University that focused on community formation among the free Black population of Virginia. His innovative and meticulous ......
A long-awaited work by one of the deans of Black studies Reginald Butler, the second director of UVA's Carter G. Woodson Institute, wrote an influential and much-cited but never published dissertation at Johns Hopkins University that focused on community formation among the free Black population of Virginia. His innovative and meticulous ......
Secret Military Education at Elite Schools, 1815-1945
An expansive study of the brutal rites of initiation at elite institutions that shaped young men into military leaders Informed by his own experience as a cadet at West Point, John Morris offers the first transnational history of student life at elite military preparatory institutions in Europe and America and the unofficial, underground ......
Secret Military Education at Elite Schools, 1815-1945
An expansive study of the brutal rites of initiation at elite institutions that shaped young men into military leaders Informed by his own experience as a cadet at West Point, John Morris offers the first transnational history of student life at elite military preparatory institutions in Europe and America and the unofficial, underground ......