In December 1883, five outlaws attempted to rob the A.A. Castaneda Mercantile in the fledgling mining town of Bisbee in the Arizona Territory. The robbery was a disaster: four citizens…

We are naturally thin. For 1.8 million years prehistoric man hunted and gathered proteins and fats, and no one was overweight. Then, 10,000 years ago, with the agricultural revolution, historic…

This book is the most up to date and thorough account of the natural history of the plants that comprise the most important food crop on Earth, the grasses and…

Features a great American poem. This book includes an afterword by Whitman authority David Reynolds, in which he discusses the 1855 edition, in its social and cultural contexts. It also…

In medieval and early modern Britain, people would refer to their local district as their ‘country,’ a term now largely forgotten but still used up until the First World War…

In 1912 local education leaders in Iowa attempted to implement a new model of rural education that seeked to combine the advantages of both city and country, the initially successful…