Airing today on public televisions nationwide (check local listings), streaming on PBS.org and the PBS App, is the new documentary From Rails to Trails based on Peter Harnik’s 2021 book, From Rails to Trails: The Making of America’s Active Transportation … Continue reading New PBS Documentary From Rails to Trails Airs October 15
David Yee is an assistant professor of history at Metropolitan State University of Denver. His latest book Informal Metropolis: Life on the Edge of Mexico City, 1940–1976 (Nebraska, 2024) was published in November as part of the Confluencias series. In … Continue reading Excerpt: Informal Metropolis
Greg Gordon is a professor of environmental studies at Gonzaga University. He is the author of When Money Grew on Trees: A. B. Hammond and the Age of the Timber Baron and The Landscape of Desire: Identity and Nature in … Continue reading From the Desk of Greg Gordon: Fly-Fishing on the Urban Frontier
Books A Pictographic History of the Oglala Sioux, 50th Anniversary Edition Drawings by Amos Bad Heart Bull Text by Helen H. Blish Featured in the Lincoln Journal Star: “…retain[s] the status of the “A Pictographic History of the Oglala Sioux” as … Continue reading News and Reviews
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