Valerie Sherer Mathes is professor emerita of history at City College of San Francisco. Mathes has written eight books, three with co-authors, and edited four others, all on some aspect of the late nineteenth century Indian reform movement with an … Continue reading From the Desk of Valerie Sherer Mathes: Mary Louise Eldridge and the Navajos
Thomas A. Krainz is an associate professor of history at DePaul University. He is the author of Delivering Aid: Implementing Progressive Era Welfare in the American West. His latest book A Great Many Refugees: Progressive Era Assistance in the American West (Nebraska, … Continue reading Excerpt: A Great Many Refugees
Daniel P. Ott is a historian with the National Park Service in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He previously taught public history at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire and worked at the Minnesota Historical Society. His newest book, Harvesting History: McCormick’s Reaper, Heritage … Continue reading Excerpt: Harvesting History
