Daniel J Cobb

Cobb's Ordeal: The Diaries of a Virginia Farmer

Daniel W. Cobb, a farmer and small slaveholder from Virginia's rural tidewater, was unhappily married, resentful of his prosperous in-laws, and terribly lonely. His closest friend was the diary he kept for more than thirty momentous years in American history, from 1842 until his death at age sixty-o...

The War on Poverty: A New Grassroots History, 1964-1980

Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty has long been portrayed as the most potent symbol of all that is wrong with big government. Conservatives deride the War on Poverty for corruption and the creation of “poverty pimps,” and even liberals carefully distance themselves from it. Examining the long War on P...

American Indians: Fourth Edition (The Chicago History of American Civilization)

William Hagan’s classic American Indians has become standard reading in the field of Native American history. Daniel M. Cobb has taken over the task of updating and revising the material, allowing the book to respond to the times. Spanning the arrival of white settlers in the Americas through the tw...

Native Activism in Cold War America: The Struggle for Sovereignty

The heyday of American Indian activism is generally seen as bracketed by the occupation of Alcatraz in 1969 and the Longest Walk in 1978; yet Native Americans had long struggled against federal policies that threatened to undermine tribal sovereignty and self-determination. This is the first book-le...

Say We Are Nations: Documents of Politics and Protest in Indigenous America since 1887 (H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Series)

In this wide-ranging and carefully curated anthology, Daniel M. Cobb presents the words of Indigenous people who have shaped Native American rights movements from the late nineteenth century through the present day. Presenting essays, letters, interviews, speeches, government documents, and other te...

Memory Matters: Proceedings from the 2010 Conference Hosted by the Humanities Center, Miami University of Ohio (Suny Scholarly Conferences)

Explores how the process of memorialization keeps the past alive in the present and shapes the way we imagine our possible futures.

Cobb's Ordeal: The Diaries of a Virginia Farmer, 1842-1872

Beyond Red Power: American Indian Politics and Activism Since 1900