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Native Americans who populated the various ranchos of Mexican California as laborers are people frequently lost to history. The "rancho period" was a critical t

Lightfoot examines the interactions between Native American communities in California & the earliest colonial settlements, those of Russian pioneers & Francisca

Ten leading scholars of early American social history here examine the nature of work and labor in America from 1614 to 1820. The authors scrutinize work diarie

The history of the United States is often told as a movement westward, beginning at the Atlantic coast and following farmers across the continent. But cities pl

In a dynamic near half-century career of insight, engagement, and instruction, Kent G. Lightfoot transformed North American archaeology through his innovative i