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Blueberry Pie
Otis Pease, World War II veteran and retired history professor, offers his own blend of World War II memoir plus analysis of theories about what motivated soldiers to fight the war. The book includes the extensive diary Pease kept, from basic training to fighting from a foxhole on the front lines in Germany, to recovery from wounds (including trench foot) in a military hospital in England, then reassignment to an Air Force B-17 Bomber Base, and finally, his wait for one of the Victory ships to bring him home to pursue his college education courtesy of the GI Bill.
An Alaska Anthology
Alaska, with its Indian, Eskimo, and Aleut heritage, its century of Russian colonization, its peoples’ formidable struggles to wrest a living (or a fortune) from the North’s isolated and harsh environment, and its relatively recent achievement of statehood, has long captured the popular imagination. In An Alaska Anthology, twenty-five contemporary scholars explore the region’s pivotal events, significant themes, and major players, Native, Russian, Canadian, and American. The essays chosen for this anthology represent the very best writing on Alaska, giving great depth to our understanding and appreciation of its history from the days of Russian-American Company domination to the more r...
Winning the West for Christ
As railroads opened the West after the Civil War and new communities sprang up along their tracks, Jackson began proselytizing on the frontier. When Jackson arrived in new towns he single-mindedly solicited members to organize Presbyterian churches. Within a decade he had established almost a hundred churches and missions as well as a number of schools. To sustain and expand his work, he trained and placed missionaries throughout the West.
Alaska
The largest by far of the fifty states, Alaska is also the state of greatest mystery and diversity. And, as Claus-M. Naske and Herman E. Slotnick show in this comprehensive survey, the history of Alaska’s peoples and the development of its economy have matched the diversity of its land- and seascapes. Alaska: A History begins by examining the region’s geography and the Native peoples who inhabited it for thousands of years before the first Europeans arrived. The Russians claimed northern North America by right of discovery in 1741. During their occupation of “Russian America” the region was little more than an outpost for fur hunters and traders. When the czar sold the territory to t...
Alaska's Place in the West
The first comprehensive examination of Alaskan development schemes from 1890 to the present. Focuses on five major conflicts between environmentalists and developers, from reindeer herding to the Trans-Alaska Pipeline. Takes readers behind common and simplistic representations of the state to explore the rich history and extreme diversity of a land that cannot easily be pigeonholed into typical American conceptions about place.
Many Wests
What does it mean to live in the West today? Do people tend to identify with states, with regions, or with the larger West? This book examines the development of regional identity in the American West, demonstrating that it is a regionally diverse entity made up of many different wests—Great Plains, Southwest, Rocky Mountains, and more—in which American regionalism finds its fullest expression. These fourteen original essays tell how a sense of place emerged among residents of various regions and how a sense of those places was developed by people outside of them. Wrobel and Steiner first offer a compelling overview of the West's regional nature; then thirteen other rising or renowned sc...
Pacific Historical Review
Vols. 1- include Proceedings of the 27th- annual meeting of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association.
