After some 400 years of population decline beginning soon after the arrival of Columbus in the Western Hemisphere, the Native American population north of Mexico began to increase around the turn of ...

In 1928, a forty-one-year-old woman named Adeline Ovitt, née Rivers, drowned in the Schroon River, in upstate New York. The circumstances of her death are largely unknown, but she left behind a ...

The dilemma arose just a few days before the book was set to go to press. Two contributing authors confronted their editor, Larry Gross, an associate professor of race and ethnic studies at University ...