Product Description: “Thompson’s book provides not only a powerfully written history of a Mexican American who symbolizes ‘resistance to oppression and intolerance,’ but also a clear, cogent explanation of the relationship between the United States and Mexico as they face each other across the Texas border...read more

Product Description: Jerry Thompson has been photographing on the streets of New York City since the early 1970s, when he worked as Walker Evans' assistant. He has been called "one of the great classical American portrait photographers of this era" by the photo historian Michael Lesy...read more

Celebrates Oakland, California's contribution to the national stage in terms of music, dance, visual arts, and literature over the past half century through vintage images, from the early days of Slim Jenkins's nightclub to the changing styles of Esther's Orbit Room and the Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts. Original.

Product Description: Robert E. Lee in Texas introduces a little known phase of the great General’s career—his service in Texas during the four turbulent years just preceding the Civil War. In this account Carl Coke Rister takes us with Lee to his lonely posts on the border, and we share with him the hazardous and often fruitless chases after bands of American Indians and Mexicans...read more

Presents field reports by Army officers Joseph E. Johnston and Joseph Mansfield, which analyzed the physical and psychological condition of the Texas and New Mexico Army departments as they prepared for the impending Civil War. (view table of contents)

A full account by the first journalist to infiltrate the KKK and discover the true nature and aims of the secret society and its covert operations