BROWSE - SUBJECTS - History
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The McCarthy Era at the University of Nevada
by J. Dee Kille
The "Red scare" of the 1950s created a national crisis that challenged concepts of loyalty and freedom of speech in every corner of American society....
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Decline in Western Resource Towns
The process of a mining camp’s decline is examined through the histories of two Western towns that were reinvented as tourist attractions following their days of boom and bust....
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The Invention of a Myth
Americans have chosen to invest one small part of their history, the settlement of the western wilderness, with extraordinary significance....
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Basques in the New World
With a new preface by William A. Douglass
A classic study of the Basque diaspora now available in paperback....
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The tragic saga of the Donner Party has inspired both legend and scholarship ever since the survivors were rescued from the High Sierra snows in the spring of 1847....
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An Ethnohistory of Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation
New afterword by Martha C. Knack.
The history of the Northern Paiutes of Pyramid Lake in northwestern Nevada is one fraught with the conflicts and tensions of the modern West—relentless encroachment by non-Indians into Indian lands;...
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Cartoonists Confront the Nuclear World
The advent of the Atomic Age challenged purveyors of popular culture to explain to the general public the complex scientific and social issues of atomic power....
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