The Casas Grandes World focuses on a remarkable prehistoric culture that extended through parts of present-day Chihuahua, Sonora, New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona, centering on the large Mexican site of Casas Grandes. The thousands of prehistoric sites in this vast area have only recently been considered related to each other, yet it now appears ......
In 1932, unemployment in Utah was about 34 percent. Nearly every state west of the Mississippi River was struggling not only with unemployment but also with drought, erosion, and overgrazing. To solve these serious difficulties, President Franklin D. Roosevelt launched what would become arguably the most popular of his New Deal programs-the ......
A young man plants a tree that will grow alongside of his new baby boy, but the boy grows to adulthood before the tree is big enough to climb in. Will the tree ever enjoy children climbing in its branches? The author loved small children, especially infants, and one night when she was eight years old, Erin announced at the dinner table that she ......
Executive Order 9066. In February 1942, ten weeks after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt put his signature to a piece of paper that allowed the forced removal of Americans of Japanese ancestry from their West Coast homes, and their incarceration in makeshift camps. Those are the facts. But two faces emerge from ......
The United States Indian Service and the Making of Federal Indian Policy, 1824 to 2017
Although federal Indian policies are largely determined by Congress and the executive branch, it is the commissioner and assistant secretary of Indian Affairs who must implement them. Over the past two centuries, the overarching goals of federal Indian policy have been the social and political integration and assimilation of Native Americans and ......
The United States Indian Service and the Making of Federal Indian Policy, 1824 to 2017
Although federal Indian policies are largely determined by Congress and the executive branch, it is the commissioner and assistant secretary of Indian Affairs who must implement them. Over the past two centuries, the overarching goals of federal Indian policy have been the social and political integration and assimilation of Native Americans and ......
The only book you'll need to learn how to become financially free and independence.This book is a step by step guide written for the average person on how to achieve financial independence and freedom. This book is written in a concise, but indispensable manner. This guide is ideal for anyone who wants to get out of debt, develop financial ......
The Remarkable Odyssey of the 1931 Claflin-Emerson Expedition
The first full account of the journey and discoveries of an archaeological expedition into the rugged American Southwest. In 1931 a group from Harvard University's Peabody Museum accomplished something that had never been attempted in the history of American archaeology-a six-week, four-hundred-mile horseback survey of prehistoric sites through ......
From the Time of the Fourth Crusade to the Capture of Constantinople
First published in 1903 under the title "The Destruction of the Greek Empire and the Story of the Capture of Constantinople by the Turks," this book dramatically tells the story of the 250 years preceding the fall of Constantinople and the destruction of the Byzantine Empire by the Ottoman Turks. Drawing upon original sources and classical ......
