The History of the Death Penalty in Colorado

Democracy and the Death Penalty

Democracy is usually a good thing, but there are all sorts of examples in American life where we have a long way to go to make things more democratic. Democracy is usually a good thing, but there are all sorts of examples in American life where we have...

Growing the Taraco Peninsula

Indigenous Agricultural Landscapes “An indispensable resource for anyone conducting archaeological, ethnobotanical, or archaeo-ethnobotanical research in the Andes.” —Mary J. Weismantel, Northwestern University “An excellent, and often neglected,...

Birds of the Seward Peninsula - Alaska

To the Chukchi Peninsula and the Tlingit Indians 1881-1882

Journals and Letters by Aurel and Arthur Krause Rasmuson Library Historical Translation Series, vol. VIII To the Chukchi Peninsula and to the Tlingit Indians 1881/1882, originally published in German by Dietrich Reimer Verlag (1984), consists not only...

Opening Windows

Embracing New Perspectives and Practices in Natural Resource Social Sciences Society and Natural Resources Book Series Copublished with the Society and Natural Resources Press “It is common to make the conjecture that science is the predominant factor...

Soundbites from Dialogues with Michael Spooner, Part I: A Happened, Happening, Then Retrospective on a Career in Publishing, Writing, Reading, and Responding

The editors of Writing Center Journal honor Michael Spooner’s work with writing center scholars on the occasion of his retirement from Utah State University Press. The tribute below is published in the 2017 Writing Center Journal, issue 36(2). The...

Diversity in Open-Air Site Structure across the Pleistocene / Holocene Boundary

English Composition as a Happening

Soundbites from Dialogues with Michael Spooner, Part II: A Happened, Happening, Then Retrospective on a Career in Publishing, Writing, Reading, and Responding

Part II of the Writing Center Journal tribute to Michael Spooner. Below is Part II of the tribute published in the 2017 Writing Center Journal, issue 36(2). The editors welcomed the opportunity to honor Michael Spooner’s work with writing center...

Shamanism and Vulnerability on the North and South American Great Plains

What Happens to a Holiday When It Becomes Dislocated from Its Seasonal Anchor?

I experienced just that recently on a vacation in Australia over the Thanksgiving (in the USA) holiday. First, Thanksgiving didn’t exist, and even more confusing was the feast of gratitude’s calendrical anchor: was it appropriate to give thanks on the...