Regional Jewish history at its best. This book is an anthology of essays designed to introduce readers to key issues in this growing field of scholarship and to encourage further study.

Cherokee identity as revealed in fishing methods and materials.

Video and computer games in their cultural contexts

The authoritative compendium of facts, statistics, photographs, and analysis that defines baseball in its formative first decades

Emerging from a School of American Research, this work reviews the general status of archaeological knowledge in 9 key regions of the Southwest to examine broader questions of cultural development, which affected the Southwest as a whole, and to consider an overall conceptual model of the prehistoric Southwest after the advent of sedentism.

The eight case studies in this book -- each a synthesis of available knowledge about the origins of agriculture in a specific region of the globe -- enable scholars in diverse disciplines to examine humanity's transition to agricultural societies.

Elizabeth Tyler Coleman was a great-granddaughter of President John Tyler and a graduate of the University of Alabama and of Swarthmore College. She was the first female faculty member in the English Department at the University of Alabama, where she taught from 1927 to 1962.

Nine essays that attempt to answer some of the questions that continually surface when Oglethorpe's name is mentioned.

Hymns and hymnbooks as American historical and cultural icons.

The basic account of the evolution of public works policy in the early years of the Depression. Listed as a "TVA Cultural Resource" by the TVA itself in their official bibliography of TVA history.

Born into landed Prussian nobility, Werner H. Von Rosenstiel lived the largely predictable life of his class until two great changes intersected to forever alter his worldview:  he attended college in Ohio for a year, and the Nazis came to power in Germany.  Von Rosenstiel was drafted into the Wehrmacht, the German army, and had finished his legal education when tthe rising tide of Nazi madness and his affection for an American girl in Cincinnati brought him to resolve to leave Gernmany and return to the United States.

A critical reassessment of the life’s work of a major American poet.

Hydroplane is a story collection filled with the urgency of erotic obsession. Its breathless voices, palpable in their desire, are propelled by monomania, rushing from one preoccupation into another: a garage, a painting class, a basketball game, boys. Their words take on kinetic force, an almost headlong momentum, as though, while reading, one were picking up speed, veering out of control. The past returns. Rumination are continuous. A stranger at a bus stop is indistinguishable from the narrator's deceased grandfather; party guests turn ghoulish, festivities merge with nightmares.

A study of realism and folk literature and of the sources and techniques of story-telling