SAME HORSE, NEW WAGON TRADITION AND ASSIMILATION AMONG THE JEWS OF WICHITA, 1865,1930

Despite the emphasis on ethnicity and crosscultural contact that permeates the New Western History, western historians have neglected the Jews of the American West. Often mislabeled as German ethnics because of their surnames or ignored altogether, Jews of the interior West in particular have been left out of the intellectual revolution sweeping the field. Their modern demographic distribution in coastal and urban areas has been mistaken for their historic presence, and their contribution to local and regional culture has been overlooked. As a result, the Jews of large urban areas in the West have received the vast majority of scholarly attention. In existing historical treatments, Jews of the interior West were transient people of commerce and little else

Tourism, Recreation, and the Fate of Local Communities: A Mixed Bag

14 pages. Contains 6 pages of references

In-Home Coal and Wood Use and Lung Cancer Risk: A Pooled Analysis of the International Lung Cancer Consortium

10.1289/ehp.1002217Environmental Health Perspectives118121743-174

A Test of Adversity and Strength: Wildland Fire in the National Park System

yA report on the role of fire in the National Parks Systems divided into two parts. The first focuses on the early era of the National Parks when the policy was to supress and put out all fires. The second half of the report focuses on how fire has been reintroduced into the Park System, both policy-wise and legislatively, as well as practically