A rush to judgment

The trial and conviction of Louis Riel has been the subject of historical comment and criticism for over one hundred years. A Rush to Judgment challenges the view held by some historians that Riel received a fair trial.

American zion

American Zion is the story of the Bundys, a Mormon family famous for their armed conflicts on western public lands.

How a mountain was made

I've been here all the while

Perhaps no other symbol has more resonance in African American history than that of "40 acres and a mule"—the lost promise of Black reparations for slavery after the Civil War. In I've Been Here All the While, we meet the Black people who actually received this mythic 40 acres, the American settl...

Lenape country

A sweeping narrative history of Lenape Indian encounters with European settlers in the Delaware Valley in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, reissued with a new preface that discusses the complicated legacy of the nation’s founding at its 250th anniversary for the Indigenous peoples ...

Native america

An epic deep history of the Indigenous peoples of North America, covering more than 20,000 years of astonishing diversity, adaptation, resilience, and continuityNative America presents an infinitely surprising and fascinating deep history of the continent’s Indigenous peoples. Kenneth Feder, a le...

Our voices

Our Voices: Indigeneity and Architecture is an exciting advance in the field of architecture offering multiple indigenous perspectives on architecture and design theory and practice.

Perversions of justice

Examines the faulty "reasoning" employed to legislate colonial control over North America's indigenous peoples and their lands.

Re-bisoning the west

Award–winning journalist Kurt Repanshek explores the past, present, and uncertain future of bison, the keystone species of the Great Plains.

Speculation nation

During the first quarter-century after its founding, the United States was swept by a wave of land speculation so unprecedented in intensity and scale that contemporaries and historians alike have dubbed it a “mania.” In Speculation Nation, Michael A. Blaakman uncovers the revolutionary origins o...

Standoff

This compelling analysis of belief and legal systems undergirding the Bundys and Native Americans illuminates cultural battles of our age.

Struggle for the land

Landmark work illustrates the history of North American indigenous resistance and the struggle for land rights.

The banker and the blackfoot

THE BANKER AND THE BLACKFOOT tells the colorful and compelling story of a real Western town in the foothills of the Rockies in the late 1800s and highlights the unusual friendships and trust that developed there between Indians and newcomers--before the government broke its Treaty promises to the...

The four heavens

“An extraordinary recovery of a lost world.”—Peter Brown, author of The World of Late AntiquityFrom the world-leading expert on the Maya, a monumental history of a flourishing civilization across three millenniaThe Four Heavens brings to life the cultural and visual splendor of the ancient Maya, ...

The girl in the middle

Shortlisted for the Cundill History PrizeA haunting image of an unnamed Native child and a recovered story of the American WestIn 1868, celebrated Civil War photographer Alexander Gardner traveled to Fort Laramie to document the federal government’s treaty negotiations with the Lakota and other t...