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• 	Columbus: A Brand New World by SageParsley In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue. After 33 long days at sea, his three small ships, a minuscule Spanish Armada, hit land on an island in the West Indies . The world would never be the same. Christopher Columbus thought he had found a new trade route to the profitable ports of Asia , famed for...	Ranking: We want you to rate, but you have to be a member first. Please click here to join or here to sign in.
  	11-10-2007 5:22 PM by SageParsley Categories & Keywords: Miscellaneous, history, America, discovery, New World, exploration, Columbus Day

• 	Organizing the Lakota by SageParsley This book examines the impact of the Indian Reorganization Act on two Lakota reservations in South Dakota – the so-called “Indian New Deal,” which was the brainchild of Indian Commissioner John Collier – and it reveals that, in keeping with previous policies, the United States government offered only...	Ranking: We want you to rate, but you have to be a member first. Please click here to join or here to sign in.
  	11-11-2007 8:25 AM by SageParsley Categories & Keywords: Books, native, history, Reviews, stories, lakota, americans

• 	Horse History by SageParsley When the horse was reintroduced into North America by the Spanish, and especially following the wide spread of the animal following the Pueblo Revolt, the impact was so intense that it not only altered the landscape, it literally led to the creation of entirely new cultures and unique lifeways, some...	Ranking: We want you to rate, but you have to be a member first. Please click here to join or here to sign in.
  	11-12-2007 10:32 AM by SageParsley Categories & Keywords: Sports & Outdoors, history, riding, Horses, north america, tradition, lifeways

• 	Environment and History by SageParsley Historians often look at rise of slavery in the antebellum South as a product of economic realities in conjunction with the right kind of social and cultural alchemy. But scholars tend to ignore the critical role played by the land. The ecosystems of the South dictated the sorts of agricultural endeavors...	Ranking: We want you to rate, but you have to be a member first. Please click here to join or here to sign in.
  	11-08-2007 9:15 AM by SageParsley Categories & Keywords: Politics & History, history, America, change, climate, environment, adaption

• 	American Parks by SageParsley Humans have an affinity towards the monumental. We seek to erect (and examine) massive mileposts that mark the ostensibly forward progress of civilization: the Pyramids, the Great Wall of China, Europe’s many castles, the massive obelisk called the Washington Monument . Such landmarks allow human cultures...	Ranking: We want you to rate, but you have to be a member first. Please click here to join or here to sign in.
  	11-12-2007 1:31 PM by SageParsley Categories & Keywords: Travel, history, style, Book Reviews, life, parks, outdoor

• 	A Forest of Time by SageParsley Historians can be just as myopic and exclusionary as everybody else, and not just in the subjects they choose to study. The rules of good history demand linear thinking, not to mention a coherent view of the universe that can be conveyed with written language. But because scholars tend to ignore non...	Ranking: We want you to rate, but you have to be a member first. Please click here to join or here to sign in.
  	11-10-2007 7:59 AM by SageParsley Categories & Keywords: Books, history, culture, nabokov, time, indian life, America

• 	One Vast Winter Count by SageParsley In the popular American imagination, the West opened up when Lewis and Clark first entered the region and began recording what they encountered. From that point on, in the common (mis)conception, the West is a history of expansion, of American culture spreading out over a blank canvas. For the native...	Ranking: We want you to rate, but you have to be a member first. Please click here to join or here to sign in.
  	11-10-2007 3:36 PM by SageParsley Categories & Keywords: Travel, american, clark, native, buffalo, history, lewis