From the youngest living recipient of the Medal of Honor, an extraordinary inspirational memoir that will change the life of every reader.“Kyle displayed a heroism in the blink of an eye that will inspire for generations” —President Barack Obama, at Kyle Carpenter's Medal of Honor ceremonyI want my story to help others see what’s extraordinary in themselves. —Kyle CarpenterOn November 21, 2010, U.S. Marine Lance Corporal Kyle Carpenter was ...

Often obscured in the history of the nineteenth-century US-Mexico borderlands, European-born entrepreneurs played a definitive role in pushing the Rio Grande borderlands into Atlantic markets. These borderlands entrepreneurs tried to transform the Lower Rio Grande and its surroundings from a regional crossroads of trade to a hub of the Atlantic economy. Though they were often stymied by mismanagement, notions of ethnic and cultural superiority, and eruptions of violence, these entrepreneur...