His first book ... The Hollowing Out of the American Mind. This is a well-written critique of the decline of “shared purpose – the systematic dismantling of the West – that has left us ...

A conversation with Greg Grandin about his groundbreaking new book America, América: A New History of the New World.

Uncertain times can have negative impacts on our outlooks toward unique American experiences, but these narratives of cowboys ...

As Mr. Fuller, a professor of American literature at the University of Kansas, informs us, Margaret Fuller grew up reading the classics in Italian, Spanish and French; Elizabeth Peabody knew as ...

The new novel by Black 47 frontman Larry Kirwan, offers a searing, unfiltered portrait of Irish immigrant life in the Bronx ...

Although the school did not explicitly link the rise to U.S. political developments, it confirmed that the number of American applicants is notably higher than in previous years. Similarly ...

The Odessa American is the leading source of local news, information, entertainment and sports for the Permian Basin.

The fantastical 1872 painting American Progress, commissioned to boost travel to the West, depicts the frontier ... He never wrote it down in book form or even in academic articles.

F Scott Fitzgerald’s novel chronicled the rise and fall of Jay Gatsby, a self-made millionaire grasping at The American Dream — the pursuit of wealth and status. Born to poor farmers in North Dakota, ...

As Jerald Underwood, a historian of the American West, wrote in the 2001 book Vaqueros, Cowboys, and Buckaroos: “This space and the horse culture allowed men the opportunity to achieve the ...