Jason Wallace: 142 books

Little is known about the ancient city of Troy, site of the infamous but largely unhistorical Trojan War. Much more has attention has been focused to finding out about the city-state itself but not much about its alliance and trade systems and from where its original inhabitants may have come. So...

Epidemic and deprivation were widespread among Native American tribes in the nineteenth century. The Ghost Dance asserted that Native Americans were God’s chosen people, attempting to restore Native American pride, dignity, power, and autonomy. The 1870 Ghost Dance was a combination of a curing...

These 2 papers examine some of the ways in which, beginning very early in their interactions with European-Americans, the Cherokee began to adopt white culture and make it their own, modeling much of their way of life on the way of life of their white neighbors, so much so that many of them sided...

Dr. Benjamin Spock will always be remembered by many as the pediatrician who changed the way parents reared their children, by many others as a Vietnam era anti-war activist, and by his wife as a brilliant storyteller whose parenting advice did not carry over to his own life. Few people realize the...

In 1550-51, Bartolomé de las Casas and Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda, in the Valladolid Debate, attempted to settle the issue of whether or not Native Americans should have been enslaved, given sanction by the Pope. Both carefully argued their side, las Casas stating emphatically, through his "Apología,"...

We lost our lands, To unseen hands, To never know again, The life, the love, Of one another, The Earth, the hunt, Our soul, our Mother. Only now, empty man, We wash ourselves, In ancestor's blood, No way back, But now to die, In the white man's flood, And to be buried, In snow and mud.

Based on a sadly true story... Neill cannot live without Maria. Tangled in her web of deceit, he finally gives up, meeting woman after woman that would only break his heart.

Get 7 stories for the price of none! 5 of these are flash fiction (stories written on the spot, based on a picture), while the last 2 are merely additional stories offered, just for you! Get 7 very short stories that are sure to give you something to think about and maybe even a few laughs or sighs....

For my grandfather and all of those who, like him, served bravely in the military, giving their all to fulfill sense of duty.

I could ask you where you’ve beenMy whole lifeUntil this moment, now,But I won’t because I don’tCare – what, where,Or even how that led to thisOr what life used to hold.I could never miss the least of it.I got you for a while, and it’s always fullOf a whole lotta beautiful.

You told me tonight That we really need to talk. I said go ahead. You said hardly anything at all. All you could say to me Is you can't make it work. All I could say was ok. I didn't want to cause you hurt. But I'm the one hurtin' here, The one that was left all alone. Maybe I could've believed in it more. Maybe I could've let my feelings show. Maybe you have someone else.

Poems that are great for drinkin'! Some of them should be made into songs. In fact, several have been. If you just want something to pass some time while having a few, here you go. Poems for almost any occasion of drinking.

Every day is a brand new dayOf so much almost hate.I’m losing my grip on every sense.I can’t even say(What it was that made you go away.)How I would ever bring you back from where you went,Give you back all the time you spent,Trying to convince a man of his worsening ways.I owe you far more than...

We're all just created, debated, chewed up, eaten, spit out, and repeated by the machine that runs the world.