Winner, Friends of the Dallas Public Library Award from the Texas Institute of Letters, 2003Antip...

'I will make bold to say that Bowden is America's most alarming writer. Just when you think you'v...

This study of the Guatemalan legal system during the regimes of two of Latin America's most repre...

Numbering between 25 and 35 million worldwide, the Kurds are among the largest culturally and eth...

Robert E. Howard (1906–1936) is most widely known today as the creator of Conan the Cimmerian, mo...

In late summer 1923, legal hangings in Texas came to an end, and the electric chair replaced the ...

When the Spanish began colonizing the Americas in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the...

Robert Finn's translation of Turkish author Nazli Eray's Orphée makes available to the English-la...

Magical realism has become almost synonymous with Latin American fiction, but this way of represe...

Anthropologists have a long tradition of prescient diagnoses of world events. Possessing a knowle...

Between AD 900-1600, the native peoples of the Mississippi River Valley and other areas of the Ea...

On August 26, 1960, twenty-three-year-old Danish cyclist Knud Jensen, competing in that year's Ro...