Judith Nies

On page 4, Judith Nies writes “Las Vegas has no real downtown, no civic spaces, no historic buildings, no public parks, and no commemorative plaques—no public history.”

I’m used to people being wrong about Vegas, but for something to be so flagrantly inaccurate to appear on page 4, I had to put the book down. Downtown LV, Springs Preserve (2007), the Las Vegas Post Office and Courthouse (1933, National Historic Register, now houses the Mob Museum), the not one, not two, but seventy freaking five (75!!!) public parks in the care of the City of Las Vegas all beg to differ, Judith.

I’ll concede that Vegas doesn’t necessarily prioritize public history, but to say there’s nothing is brazenly ignorant and does not assure me as a reader that the rest of this "non-fiction" book is in any way factual or well-researched.… (más)

Encyclopedia of Native American history, presented from 28000 BC to the 1900s. The timeline described is divided in these sections: prehistory, Mesoamerica and the Greater Southwest, the Mississippians and Hispaniola, European invasions, ecological revolutions, land cessions, the Reservation system, Indian activism. Includes maps and photographs. Chronicles the cultures and events of Native Americans in relation to world events. Discusses agriculture in Mesopotamia and Mexico, European colonization, expansion, and exploitation, New World medical advances, and Native contributions to the World War II Allied war effort.… (más)