Examines the art, film, literature, music, and popular culture that has shaped the myth of the American West and includes a collection of over 100 photographs, movie stills, documentary images, and paintings.
Demonstrates how both physical and human characteristics work together to form the many complex regions of the planet, profiling diverse regions such as the Mediterranean Sea Region, the Aral Sea, the Sun Belt, and the Rust Belt.
A reinterpretation of the origins of the Civil War, focusing on the debate over disunion which escalated in the 1840s and 1850s to the point at which war seemed the only way to resolve the question of whether the United States could survive intact.
Presents volume five of an eight-volume collection on regional cultures of America and examines the traditions and history of the Southwest through narratives on Native Americans, architecture, Spanish influence, border music, and other areas that define the Southwestern states.
Presents volume eight of an eight-volume collection on regional cultures of America and examines the traditions and history of the Pacific states through narratives on Native Americans, westward expansion, music, fashion, and tourism, and other areas that define the Pacific states.
Presents volume seven of an eight-volume collection on regional cultures of America and examines the traditions and history of the Rocky Mountain states through narratives on Native Americans and folk tales, cowboy poetry, shamanistic practices, and other areas that define the Rocky Mountain states.