This Side of Hell, by Brett Cogburn, is a Western novel that takes place in the California area of the Sonoran Desert, where a treasure…
The US Census provides not only interesting demographic statistics. It is of historical importance in itself: the questions asked reflect the social concerns that loom…
The meat of the United States Census, taken every ten years, is the body of statistics drawn up on the people questioned. Yet the questions…
Marta Elva, author of American Tumbleweeds, guest posts on the soldaderas, the women who traveled with the armies of the Mexican Revolution. The image of my…
A 32-page book written and published by the Arizona Territory Legislature in 1871 begins: “It is customary and generally considered to be to the interest…
My father was deployed in Viet Nam when I was a little kid. I missed Dad more than anything and prayed hard every night that he…