The Devil’s Own Purgatory is the first complete history of the Union navy’s Mississippi Squadron, a fleet that prowled the Mississippi River and its tributaries during the American Civil War. The squadron battered Confederate forts, participated in combined operations with the army, obliterated the Confederate fleet, protected Union supply lines, fought a river-based counterinsurgency war, raided […]
Griswold, who was born on Oct. 6, 1929, built her life on a simple idea: People flourish when they are welcomed and invited into one another’s lives.
The Women of Antioch is both a biography of four women—Constance, Alice, Constance II, and Maria, all connected through marriage or birth to the crusader principality of Antioch—and an analysis of the political cultures within which they maneuvered, including eleventh-century France, Norman Italy, Antioch and Byzantium. The book’s comparative perspective facilitates the discernment of differences and […]
After a decade under the stewardship of the University of Oklahoma, the Western Historical Quarterly (WHQ), has been placed with a new Institutional Host at Colorado State University. Founded in 1969, the WHQ has been the official journal of the Western History Association (WHA), an organization centered on the study and teaching of the diverse […]
An analysis of American military commitments abroad. A debut poetry collection. A set of micro-essays organized by candy color. These are just a few of the diverse works published this spring by Colorado State University faculty and staff.
Undergraduate Work: Civil War Research How the Pension Bureau Created Opportunity for Black, Immigrant, and Native-Born White Veterans, by Jackson Tucker Carpenter I love Civil War history. My dream is to be a professor of American history with the Civil War being my focus. Needless to say, my hero is Ulysses S. Grant, I’ve read […]
Undergraduate Work: Colorado Coal Mining The Kings of Coal are dying Preservation of Coal Mining history in Colorado Coal mining has played a significant role in shaping the economy and culture of Southern Colorado. The region’s coal mining history dates to the late 19th century, when the discovery of rich coal led to the establishment […]
Thirty-two years ago, CSU alumni Paulo and Peggy Neves and their two teenage sons moved to the United States from Bahia, Brazil, and started roasting coffee beans in a small backyard shed at their home in Fort Collins.
In the southwestern corner of Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, on the border between Arizona and Mexico, one finds Quitobaquito, the second-largest oasis in the Sonoran Desert. There, with some effort, one might also find remnants of once-thriving O’odham communities and their predecessors with roots reaching back at least 12,000 years—along with evidence of their […]
When Vincent Michel started out as a history major in 2018, he didn’t expect to be walking across the stage at commencement with four different majors behind him as he did a few weeks ago in Moby Arena. “I’d like to say there was a masterplan for adding all these [majors], but really it all […]
