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      A Great Disorder

      Richard Slotkin

      The culture wars are pitting us against each other with a vitriol that is fueling outright violence. Slotkin looks to the foundational myths that have shaped American identity-the Frontier, the…

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      The Return of Henry Starr

      Richard Slotkin

      Wild West lore collides with a life of crime in this biographical novel of the legendary Cherokee outlaw.

      Growing up on Indian Territory in Oklahoma, Henry Starr had an illustrious…

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      Greenhorns: Stories

      Richard Slotkin

      The people of Greenhorns reflect the different ways Jewish immigrants took to America in the early 20th century, and how America affected them. A kosher butcher with a gambling problem…

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      The Fatal Environment: The Myth of the Frontier in the Age of Industrialization, 1800-1890

      Richard Slotkin

      In The Fatal Environment, Richard Slotkin demonstrates how the myth of frontier expansion and subjugation of the Indians helped to justify the course of America’s rise to wealth and power…

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      Regeneration Through Violence: The Mythology of the American Frontier 1600-1860

      Richard Slotkin

      Originally published: Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1973.

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      The Long Road to Antietam: How the Civil War Became a Revolution

      Richard Slotkin

      A masterful account of the Civil War’s turning point in the tradition of James McPherson’s Crossroads of Freedom.

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      Lost Battalions: The Great War and the Crisis of American Nationality

      Richard Slotkin

      A work of stunning density and penetrating analysis … Lost Battalions deploys a narrative symmetry of gratifying complexity.–David Levering Lewis, The Nation

      During the bloodiest days of World War I…

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      So Dreadfull a Judgment

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      A classic selection of materials on Philip’s War.

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      The Last of the Mohicans

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      Angered by the values of his materialistic society, Hawk-eye lives apart from the other white men, sharing the solitude and sublimity of the wilderness with his Mohican Indian friend, Chingachgook…

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