By emphasizing Indigenous agency in a rapidly changing world, Cherokee Power challenges long-standing ideas about the power and reach of European empires in eighteenth-century North America.
In August 1854, John L. Grattan led a detachment of soldiers to a Lakota encampment near Fort Laramie to arrest a man... Læs mere
Offers a complex and nuanced picture of the Ioways' efforts to retain their tribal identity within the constrictive boundaries of the Great Nemaha Agency.... Læs mere
In this first comprehensive reading of Juvenal's satires in more than fifty years, David H.J. Larmour deftly revises and sharpens our understanding of the second-century Roman writer who stands as the archetype for all later practitioners of the satirist's art.
Between 1536 and 1601, at the request of the colonial administration of New Spain, indigenous artists crafted more than two hundred maps... Læs mere
A generation after the conquest of California, Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo set out to write the story of... Læs mere
In November 1528, almost a century before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, the remnants of a Spanish expedition reached the Gulf Coast of Texas. By... Læs mere
Vicente Podico Lim was once his country's best-known soldier. The first Filipino to graduate from West Point and a... Læs mere
This is a story of extraordinary courage and sacrifice displayed in a series of battles that were fought and won... Læs mere
Art historian Sascha T. Scott examines the ways in which non-Pueblo and Pueblo artists advocated for American Indian cultures by confronting some of the cultural, legal, and political issues of the day.