Books in the Bibliographies and Indexes in American History series

Entries include both scholarly works and works written by journalists during the two decades from 1970 to 1990. The volume is divided into five major sections (1) General Works and Philosophy, (2) The Team, Players, and Coaches, (3) The Game, Competition, and Contestants, (4) Sport and Society, and (5) Reference Works.

The largest religion begun, organized, and directed by and for Native Americans, Peyotism includes the use of peyote in its ceremonies. This bibliography provides a useful guide for scholars, students, and Native Americans who want to research Peyotism. The bibliography includes books and book chapters, master's theses, Ph.D.

A companion volume to Books on Early American History and Culture, 1991-1995, this work covers scholarship on early American history, including North America and the Caribbean from 1492 to 1815. This useful guide organizes the recent explosion of scholarly literature on pre-colonial, colonial, and early Republican America.

The first in a series of annotated bibliographies covering half a century of scholarship on pre-Colonial, Colonial, and early Republican America, this carefully researched volume surveys nearly 1,000 English-language monographs, essay collections, exhibition catalogs, and reference works published between 1991 and 1995.

The American Settlement Movement was an influential part of the social reforms of the Progressive era. Arranged into six categories, this select bibliography covers titles providing an introduction and overview of the American Settlement Movement.

Following a chapter listing general works, the book is arranged into four chronological chapters, a chapter on the frontier West, a chapter on anti-lynching, and chapters on literature and art. The book opens with a chapter devoted to general works.

For more than a decade scholars have debated the question of whether American Indian confederacies, primarily the Iroquois, helped influence the formation of U.S. basic law.

Benjamin Rush (1746-1813) exerted a remarkably wide-ranging influence on the medical, political, and social life of the emerging American nation.

This text is the result of a project to locate the surviving documentation of the Turner movement, a secular organization in German immigrant communities in America, from the mid-19th century to World War I. It shows the extent of the movement and the range of its interests and activities.

This bibliography provides references to New England and New Englanders in US government publications issued from 1789 to 1849. It traces the origin of many of the social, fiscal, and foreign policies that were instrumental in the development of the country.

The 1960s were a particularly turbulent period, and the events of those years continue to interest and influence American society.

This bibliography organises and describes citations to the historical literature on the "ordinary" life experiences of Americans, such as marriage, childbearing, health, migration and ethnicity and how these phenomena have been interconnected with the events of "headline" history.

The chapters cover books, chapters in books, dissertations and theses, periodical articles, writings for young readers, fiction, songs, poetry, films, recordings, and computer software.

Shamanism is part of the spiritual life of nearly all Native North Americans. The books covered compare practices from tribe to tribe, make distinctions between witchcraft or sorcery and shamanism, and discuss the artifacts and tools of the trade.