History: Specific Events & Topics

This book shows through historical data, diagrams and drawings, the design system of an Italian historic center, that of Vicenza, Italy. Vicenza is...

This memoir chronicles the journey of an academic, tracing a path from primary school in Zambia to a career in higher education as a mathematician ...

Is it possible, in the complex modern world, to have a government by the people? Does, for example, digital technology help us to bring the reality...

Beginning with Number 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, the most comprehensi...

The moment to savor [Mary Sully]. . . has arrived. New York TimesDakota Sioux artist Mary Sully was the great-granddaughter of respected nineteenth...

Winner of the Labriola Center American Indian National Book Award 2017 Mohawk midwife Katsi Cook lives in Akwesasne, an indigenous community in ups...

The 1992 Los Angeles rebellion, also known as the Rodney King riots, followed the acquittal of four police officers who had been charged with assau...

Throughout the 1800s, opium and cocaine could be easily obtained to treat a range of ailments in Canada. Dependency, when it occurred, was consider...

In early modern Italy, letters were not only written and read but, in some cases, sung. Musical settings of love letters rekindled a complex kind o...

In early modern Italy, letters were not only written and read but, in some cases, sung. Musical settings of love letters rekindled a complex kind o...

Interweaving a social history of string playing with a collective biography of its participants, this book identifies and maps the rapid nationwide...