Founded in 1868, the Overland Monthly was a San Francisco–based literary magazine whose mix of humor, pathos, and romant
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Historian Jonathan Bell chronicles the dramatic story of postwar liberalism in California—moving from early grassroots o
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What does it mean to be a westerner? With all the mythology that has grown up about the American West, is it even possib
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Founded by radicals in 1920, the American Civil Liberties Union experienced several key changes in its formative years.
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Driven by the promise of prosperity and opportunity on the frontier, thousands of men and women traveled west in the mid
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The Plains Across: The Overland Emigrants on the Trans-Mississippi West, 1840–60 is a book on overland travel across the
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In this provocative book, H. W. Brands confronts the vital question of why an ever-increasing number of Americans do not
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Language has long functioned as a signifier of power in the United States. In Texas, as elsewhere in the Southwest, ethn
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In The Unvarnished Doctrine, Steven M. Dworetz addresses two critical issues in contemporary thinking on the American Re
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