“I want buildings that will be exciting seventy-five years from now,” financier Howard Ahmanson told visual artist Millard Sheets, offering him complete control of design, subject, decor
Author Adam Arenson presents students, academics, researchers, and general interest readers with an examination of the pivotal role played by St. Louis during the U.S. Civil War. The author has organi
The Civil War Revealed what united as well as what divided Americans in the nineteenth century---not only in its deadly military conflict, but also in the broader battle of ideas, dueling moral syste
This innovative study presents a new, integrated view of the Civil War and Reconstruction and the history of the western United States.Award-winning historians such as Steven Hahn, Martha Sandweiss, W
This innovative study presents a new, integrated view of the Civil War and Reconstruction and the history of the western United States.Award-winning historians such as Steven Hahn, Martha Sandweiss, W
Macau, New Orleans, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, and San Francisco. All of these metropolitan centers were once frontier cities, urban areas irrevocably shaped by cross-cultural borderland beginnings. Spann
