One of the functions of this paper is to tell the story of the La Crosse bridge war.· The other purpose is to try to give La Crosse a place in American railroading history. Railroads played an important part in U.S. history, ...

In the past 500 years the Mexican state of Tlaxcala has gone from a population that spoke exclusively Nahuatl and other indigenous languages to a population where 98% of the population speaks Spanish as their native language. ...

For most people, the problem of adjusting to some foreign way of life is a cultural shock, but the demands on these people to give up their old cultural habits for those of the modern nineteenth century were often ...

The Western world, particularly western Europe has always viewed the Far Eastern regions of Asia through a socially constructed lens that Edward Said coined Orientalism. Yet, this scholarly attribute to the West's view of ...

The letters exchanged between home and the front provide invaluable opportunities to study conceptions of privacy and individuality in relation to the very communal nature of war. The correspondence of Clarence Mueller ...

The underlying assumption of this paper is that the first-hand writings of the colonists and the later academic monographs of the anthropologists and ethnographers are in some way complementary; that both are necessary ...