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Academic Freedom Imperiled
The McCarthy Era at the University of Nevada
by J. Dee Kille
The University before and during World War II was a small (fewer than 2,000 students) school offering basic programs to a largely Nevada-based student body in the nation’s least-populated state.... more

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After the Boom in Tombstone and Jerome, Arizona
Decline in Western Resource Towns
by Eric L. Clements
Focusing on two Arizona towns that had their origins in mining bonanzas—Tombstone and Jerome—historian Eric L.... more

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The American West
The Invention of a Myth
by David Hamilton Murdoch
Americans have chosen to invest one small part of their history, the settlement of the western wilderness, with extraordinary significance.... more

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Amerikanuak
Basques in the New World
by William A. Douglass, Jon Bilbao
This work, by William Douglass (who helped initiate the Basque Studies Program at the University of Nevada, Reno) and Jon Bilbao (author of several Basque reference works), is the most accessible overview of the Basque diaspora in the Western Hemisphere.... more

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The Archaeology of the Donner Party
by Donald L. Hardesty
The tragic saga of the Donner Party has inspired both legend and scholarship ever since the survivors were rescued from the High Sierra snows in the spring of 1847.... more

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As Long as the River Shall Run
An Ethnohistory of Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation
by Martha C. Knack, Omer C. Stewart
The history of the Northern Paiutes of Pyramid Lake in northwestern Nevada is one fraught with the conflicts and tensions of the modern West—relentless encroachment by non-Indians into Indian lands;... more

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Atomic Comics
Cartoonists Confront the Nuclear World
by Ferenc Morton Szasz
The advent of the Atomic Age challenged purveyors of popular culture to explain to the general public the complex scientific and social issues of atomic power.... more

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Basques in the Philippines
by Marciano R. de Borja
The Basques played a remarkably influential role in the creation and maintenance of Spain’s colonial establishment in the Philippines.... more