Erika M. Bsumek

World History

This Day In History

Nov. 25 – In 1986, the Iran-Contra affair erupted as President Reagan and Attorney General Edwin Meese…
Nov. 26 – In 1942, President Roosevelt ordered…
Nov. 27 – In 1973, the Senate voted 92-3 to confirm Gerald R. Ford as vice president, succeeding Spiro T. Agnew, who’d resigned.
Nov. 28 – In 1943, President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin met in Tehran during World War II…
Nov. 18 – In 1976, Spain’s parliament approved a bill to establish a democracy after 37 years of dictatorship.
Nov. 19 – In 1863, President Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address as he dedicated a national cemetery at the site of the Civil War battlefield in Pennsylvania.
Nov. 20 – In 1945, 24 Nazi leaders went on trial before an international war crimes tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany….
Nov. 21 – n 1995, the presidents of three rival Balkan states agreed to make peace in Bosnia, ending nearly four years of terror and ethnic bloodletting that have left a quarter of a million people dead in the worst war in Europe since World War II…
Nov. 22 – In 1963, President Kennedy was assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas…
Nov. 24 – In 1963, Jack Ruby shot and mortally wounded…

Professor Bsumek's current research explores the impact that large construction projects (dams, highways, cities and suburbs) had on the American West. She is currently working on a book titled The Concrete West: Engineering Society and Culture in the Arid West, 1900-1970. Courses taught: Native American history, U.S. West history, Environmental history. Publications: Her first book, Indian-made: Navajo Culture in the Marketplace, 1880-1940, explored the intersection of consumerism and ethnic identity construction.

Indian-Made

December 04, 2012

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5576162-indian-made Indian-Made: Navajo Culture in the Marketplace, 1868-1940 by Erika Marie Bsumek CAJUNCREOLE.COM/RVC/ In works of…

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