Mining the History of Coal in the American West
Thomas Andrews, of Boulder, Colo., might live a mile high, but he delves into the underground history of southern Colorado, which once was occupied by countless miles of active coal mines. His new book describes the Ludlow massacre of 1914 as less a flashpoint of labor strife than the culmination of generations of competing forces that drove workers, consumers, and industrialists.
Changing the Subject
The War of 1812 “looms small in American memory,” writes Alan Taylor in his new book The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, and Indian Allies (Alfred A. Knopf, 2010). “At best,” the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian from the University of California, Davis, continues, “Americans barely recall…a handful of patriotic episodes.”
A Sampling of Books Based on Research in the Collections
Publishing across The Huntington’s Research Institutes.
