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Subject Guide
Africa 7, 30
African American Studies 32
American Studies 24, 58, 60, 62
American West 18, 20, 22, 24, 51, 65
Anthropology 45–49, 52–56, 58
Art 4, 39, 63
Asia 31, 33–34
Autobiography 52
Bible/Bible Studies 38
Biography 4–5, 15, 28, 33, 42, 47
Birds 19
Canada 49, 51
Civil War 32
Cultural Criticism 62
Early Modern Studies 66
Education 36
Environment 7, 18–19, 59
Fiction 6
Gender Studies 23, 67
Great Plains 60, 69
Health and Fitness 36
History/American 4, 10, 13–14, 17, 21, 26, 28, 31, 33, 40, 42, 59, 61, 64, 68–69
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History/American West 18, 23, 26–27, 28, 40, 59, 64
History/World 31, 33–34, 55–57, 63, 67
History of Science 47
Holocaust 57
Immigration 33
Jewish Studies and Culture 38–39
Language Arts and Disciplines 45, 50–51
Latin American History 66
LGBTQ+ Studies 23, 43
Literary Criticism 1, 65
Literary Essays 2–3, 5, 25
Media Studies 60, 62
Memoir 2–3, 5, 12, 24–25, 28, 30, 32, 37, 41, 69
Mental Health 41
Mexico 67
Middle East 35
Midwest 60
Military History/Studies 27, 30–33
Latter-day Saints 26–27
Native Studies 41, 45–46, 49–54, 68–69
Natural History 18–19
Northeastern U.S. 17, 58
Poetry 7–9
Political Science 41, 61
Psychology 36
Ranching 20
Religion 26–27, 38–39, 59
Spaceflight 13
Spirituality 38
Sports 11–17, 42–43, 53
Southeastern U.S 54
Transportation 24
Travel 22, 37
True Crime 21
Western Literature 25
Wine 37
Women, Gender, and Sexuality 4
Women in the West 20
World and National Affairs 30, 34–36, 41
World War II 33–34, 57
Too Good to Be Altogether Lost Rediscovering Laura
Ingalls Wilder’s Little House Books
PAMELA SMITH HILL
Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the well-known Little House series, wrote stories from her childhood because they were “too good to be altogether lost.” And those stories seemed far from being lost during the remainder of her lifetime and through most of the twentieth century. They were translated into dozens of languages; generations of children read them at school; and dedicated readers made pilgrimages to the settings of the Little House books. With the release of NBC’s Little House on the Prairie series in 1974, Wilder was well on her way to becoming an international literary superstar. Simultaneously, however, the novels themselves began to slip from view, replaced by an onslaught of assumptions and questions about Wilder’s values and politics and even about the books’ authenticity. From the 1980s, a slow but steady critical crescendo began to erode Wilder’s literary reputation. In Too Good to Be Altogether Lost, Wilder expert Pamela Smith Hill dives back into the Little House books, closely examining Wilder’s text, her characters, and their stories. Hill reveals that these gritty, emotionally complex novels depict a realistic coming of age for a girl in the American West. This realism in Wilder’s novels, once perceived as a fatal flaw, can lead to essential discussions not only about the past but about the present—and the underlying racism young people encounter when reading today. Hill’s fresh approach to Wilder’s books, including surprising revelations about Wilder’s novel The First Four Years , shows how this author forever changed the literary landscape of children’s and young adult literature in ways that remain vital and relevant today.
“In her third major study of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s work, Pamela Smith Hill distinguishes herself as the preeminent Wilder scholar of this generation. Eminently readable, meticulously researched, without catering to passion or prejudice, Too Good to Be Altogether Lost places Wilder and the Little House books firmly in the pantheon of American literature.”—Eric A. Kimmel, winner of the Sydney Taylor Award for Lifetime Achievement and the Regina Medal
“As one of Wilder’s chief biographers, with a near-lifetime of researching, teaching, and writing about the author of the Little House books, Pamela Smith Hill proves that there is more to say about the creation of the books and how they resonate in current American culture. . . . Hill also creates a case for the Little House canon as a valid source for future reading, assessment, and appreciation. This is a welcome and recommended book indeed.”—William Anderson, editor of The Selected Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder
Pamela Smith Hill is a New York Times best-selling editor, author, educator, and expert on Laura Ingalls Wilder. She has taught young adult literature and creative and professional writing at universities in Washington, Oregon, and Colorado, as well as classes on Laura Ingalls Wilder through Missouri State University. Hill has been interviewed for multiple documentaries on Wilder and has appeared on C-SPAN, NPR, PBS, and the BBC for her expertise. As well as three novels for young adults, her books include Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography and Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Writer’s Life
JULY
344 pp. • 6 x 9 • 17 photographs, 10 illustrations, index
$36.95T • hardcover • 978-1-4962-2788-1
$50.00 Canadian / £32.00 UK
ALSO OF INTEREST
Great Plains Literature
Linda Ray Pratt
$16.95 • paperback • 978-0-8032-9070-9
Michael Dowdy is a professor of English at Villanova University. He is the author or editor of several books, including Urbilly: Poems and American Poets in the 21st Century: The Poetics of Social Engagement , coedited with Claudia Rankine.
MARCH
192 pp. • 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 • 2 photographs, 6 illustrations
$21.95T • paperback • 978-1-4962-4050-7
$30.00 Canadian / £18.99 UK
American Lives
Tobias Wolff, series editor
ALSO OF INTEREST Where Are You From Letters to My Son
Tomás Q. Morín
$19.95 • paperback • 978-1-4962-3776-7
Tell Me about Your Bad Guys Fathering in Anxious Times
MICHAEL DOWDY
Michael Dowdy perceives the world as a poet, one with an anxiety disorder. As a result he has rarely experienced fathering or his relationship with his daughter, A, as a linear narrative. Rather, his impressions of fathering coalesce in encounters with the conditions of our time, producing intense flashes of awareness and emotion. Critiquing his own fathering practices, Dowdy’s essays move between simplicity—being present for his daughter—and complexity— considering the harrowing present of entrenched misogyny, school shootings, climate change, and other threats to childing and fathering with love, optimism, and joy.
The essays in Tell Me about Your Bad Guys do not provide easy answers. They follow instead an interrogative mode, guided by A’s unruly questions and Dowdy’s desire to avoid fatherhood literature’s traps: false modesty, antic ineptitude, and defensive clowning. This means understanding fathering not as an ironclad identity or a cohesive story but as a process of trial and error, self-reflection, and radical openness. With measures of dark humor, the essays take seriously the literary, material, and political stakes of fathering and in doing so challenge patriarchal norms and one-dimensional accounts of fatherhood.
“In Michael Dowdy’s superb essay collection, a father thinks through what it means to raise a child while reckoning with all that is terrifying and broken in this world. . . . These agile, moving investigations of how to love and think are a must-read for anyone trying to care for another in a violent world, which is to say, everyone.”
—Tessa Fontaine, author of The Red Grove
“Through an intricate weaving of poetry, literary sleuthing, personal history, and ecocriticism, Michael Dowdy ingeniously extends genre boundaries to allow us to see how, in the right hands, poignant discussions of vulnerability, money, race, economics, and our very own survival can all come together as art to ask the most difficult questions about who we are and how we live in a world that is always destroying itself.”—Daniel Borzutzky, National Book Award–winning author of The Performance of Becoming Human
Thank You for Staying with Me Essays
BAILEY GAYLIN MOORE
Urgent, meditative, and searching, Thank You for Staying with Me is a collection of essays that navigates the complexities of home, the vulnerability of being a woman, mother-daughter relationships, and young motherhood in the conservative and religious landscape of the Ozarks. Using cosmology as a foil to discuss human issues, Bailey Gaylin Moore describes praying to the sky during moments of despondency, observing a solar eclipse while reflecting on what it means to be in the penumbra of society, and using galaxy identification to understand herself. During a collision of women’s rights, gun policy, and racial tension, Thank You for Staying with Me is a frank and intimate rumination on how national policy and social attitudes affect both the individual and the public sphere, especially in such a conservative part of the United States.
“Thank You for Staying with Me isn’t just a great book; it is a necessary one. Bailey Gaylin Moore’s writing is as powerful as writing the hard truth gets.”—Abigail Thomas, New York Times best-selling author of What Comes Next and How to Like It
“A breathlessly beautiful, exhilarating collection throbbing with power and life. Bailey Gaylin Moore writes with impressive wit, shattering tenderness, and aching vulnerability. Mother-daughter relationships, selfhood, systemic injustice, and reckoning with the past are all delivered with stunning insight and love.”—Jennifer Maritza McCauley, author of When Trying to Return Home
“Thank You for Staying with Me is meta, metal, and metaphysical. With a lens that encompasses the astronomical and the microscopic . . . this book takes the reader on a thrilling journey of the detours and digressions of a mind coming to terms with a world in flux.”
—Phong Nguyen, author of Bronze Drum and Roundabout
Bailey Gaylin Moore is an Ozarks-based writer who lives with her husband and son in the heart of Missouri, where she is amassing a plant collection for her cat to shamelessly destroy. She serves as the editor in chief for the online nonfiction series Past Ten, which asks contributors to consider where and who they were ten years ago. Her work has appeared in AGNI Magazine , Pleiades , Wigleaf , Willow Springs , Hayden’s Ferry Review , and other journals. Thank You for Staying with Me is her debut essay collection.
MARCH
226 pp. • 6 x 9
$21.95T • paperback • 978-1-4962-4193-1
$30.00 Canadian / £18.99 UK
American Lives
Tobias Wolff, series editor
ALSO OF INTEREST
Homing
Instincts of a Rustbelt Feminist Sherrie Flick
$19.95 • paperback • 978-1-4962-3854-2
Liza Bennett is a full-time writer and former advertising executive. She has published ten novels, including Local Knowledge , So Near , A Place for Us , and Bleeding Heart under the name Liza Gyllenhaal. She divides her time between New York City and the Berkshire Hills in Massachusetts.
MAY
216 pp. • 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
$24.95T • paperback • 978-1-4962-4279-2
$34.00 Canadian / £21.99 UK
ALSO OF INTEREST
Grit and Ghosts
Following the Trail of Eight Tenacious Women across a Century
Robin Foster
$26.95 • paperback • 978-1-4962-3846-7
Georgia and Anita The Lifelong Friendship of Georgia O’Keeffe and Anita Pollitzer
LIZA BENNETT
Georgia O’Keeffe knew as soon as she met Anita Pollitzer that they had nothing in common. Anita looked like a china doll, small boned and delicate, and obviously wellto-do in her fashionable tunics and hobble skirts. She had the kind of mouth that settled naturally into a smile, which irritated O’Keeffe, who had no time for dewy-eyed girls. Yet this first impression was the beginning of a lifelong friendship that had a tremendous impact on both women and on twentieth-century America.
In Georgia and Anita Liza Bennett tells the little-known story of their enduring friendship and its ultimately tragic arc. It was Pollitzer who first showed O’Keeffe’s work to family friend and mentor Alfred Stieglitz, the worldfamous photographer whose 291 gallery in New York City was the epicenter of the modern art world. While O’Keeffe, Stieglitz, and their circle of friends were at the forefront of American modernism, Pollitzer became a leader of the National Woman’s Party and was instrumental in the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, guaranteeing women the right to vote. Based on extensive research, including their fifty-year correspondence, Georgia and Anita casts light on the friendship of these two women who, in different ways, helped to modernize the world and women’s roles in it.
“By turns funny, inspiring, and poignant, this is the true story of two American women—one famous, one little known today—who changed the world. A narrative of friendship, devotion, and, ultimately, betrayal.”—Kevin Baker, author of Dreamland
“An important contribution to the literature on women’s friendship. . . . Riveting.”—Ellen Feldman, author of Lucy and Terrible Virtue
“An exquisitely told story of love, art, feminism, family, and the making of the modern age, propelled by the deep and turbulent current of a decades-long friendship between two extraordinary women.”
—Frederick E. Allen, former editor at American Heritage and New York magazines
How to Change History A Salvage Project
ROBIN HEMLEY
In How to Change History Robin Hemley grapples with the individual’s navigation of history and the conflict between personal and public histories. In an attempt to restore, resurrect, and reclaim what might otherwise be lost, Hemley meditates and speculates on photography, scrapbooks, historical markers, travelogues, TV shows, real estate comeons, washed up rock stars, incontinent dachshunds, stalkers, skeletons in the closet, and literature. He also examines his parents’ lives as writers, documenting their under-seen influence on the art movements of the day.
In one essay, he writes about his mother’s first cousin, Roy, a survivor of Pearl Harbor whose troubled daughter murdered him. The essay “Jim’s Corner” examines the notion of memorial plaques and how they often highlight erasure rather than forestall it. Hemley writes about a stranger whose World War II experiences were chronicled in a scrapbook Hemley bought at an estate sale. In this book about reconstruction, Hemley posits that while we cannot change events once they have passed, we can return to those events to learn and sometimes perhaps change our understanding of them.
“An entirely fresh way of approaching memoir. . . . This is a beautiful collection and pushes both the essay and memoir in new and necessary directions.”—Lia Purpura, author of All the Fierce Tethers
“As a brilliant chronicler of both time and space, Robin Hemley’s incursions into the past are about awareness. . . . The past is its own country, and, unlike geographical countries, it shifts unexpectedly, so we never know when we might again cross its border—as Hemley so insightfully does.”—Sue William Silverman, author of Acetylene Torch Songs
“The thing about Robin Hemley is the thing about all great essayists: subject matter is secondary; the writer is the draw.”—Patrick Madden, author of Disparates and Sublime Physick
Robin Hemley is the author or editor of sixteen books, including Oblivion: An After Autobiography , The Art and Craft of Asian Stories: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology (with Xu Xi), and Borderline Citizen: Dispatches from the Outskirts of Nationhood (Nebraska, 2020). An innovator of the contemporary essay, Hemley has won numerous fellowships, residencies, awards, and Pushcart Prizes. He is the founder of the international nonfiction conference NonfictioNOW.
MARCH
188 pp. • 6 x 9 • 6 photographs
$21.95T • paperback • 978-1-4962-4032-3
$30.00 Canadian / £18.99 UK
ALSO OF INTEREST
Borderline Citizen
Dispatches from the Outskirts of Nationhood
Robin Hemley
$21.95 • paperback • 978-1-4962-2041-7
Tristan Garcia is a rising star of the French intellectual and literary world, having published several books of philosophy— including the influential Form and Object —as well as eight works of fiction. His first novel won the Prix Flore and was translated into English as Hate: A Romance . Garcia is on the philosophy faculty at the Jean Moulin University, Lyon 3. Christopher Beach is the co-translator of Annie Ernaux’s Do What They Say or Else (Nebraska, 2022). He is an independent scholar, editor, and translator.
MAY
272 pp. • 6 x 9
$24.95T • paperback • 978-1-4962-3853-5
$34.00 Canadian / £21.99 UK
ALSO OF INTEREST Do What They Say or Else
Annie Ernaux
Translated by Christopher Beach and Carrie Noland
$17.95 • paperback • 978-1-4962-2800-0
Memories from the Jungle
TRISTAN GARCIA
TRANSLATED BY CHRISTOPHER BEACH
Memories from the Jungle is set in an unspecified future in which Earth has been rendered uninhabitable by pollution and war. Most humans live in orbital stations surrounding the globe, while only animals still survive on the African continent, along with a few scientists who study them in a kind of zoo and experimental laboratory. Doogie, a chimpanzee, has been raised as a human by a zoological researcher, Gardner Evans, and his daughter Janet.
Doogie is no ordinary chimpanzee: gifted with an exceptional intelligence (perhaps the result of a scientific experiment), he has been taught a fairly sophisticated version of the human language, is capable of human emotions such as love and jealousy, and has a highly developed understanding of human behavior. After an accident to the spacecraft that was bringing him back to Earth from an orbital station, Doogie finds himself alone in the jungle. In order to survive, he must rediscover the very animal nature he has been trained to reject.
“Embedded within this whimsical wild ride to a speculative future is a sendup of B. F. Skinner’s theory of behaviorism. In Christopher Beach’s adept translation, Tristan Garcia’s language play brings across the sympathetic and humanlike chimpanzee Doogie and his quest for a middle ground between nature and nurture.”—Elizabeth Kadetsky, author of On the Island at the Center of the Center of the World
When We Only Have the Earth
ABDOURAHMAN A. WABERI TRANSLATED BY NANCY NAOMI CARLSON
In this ode to the earth and all its living creatures, French Djiboutian poet, novelist, and essayist Abdourahman A. Waberi sounds the alarm about our imperiled planet, where “the Sahel rises in you, in me / the Red Sea boils in you, in me / Nunvut is melting in you, in me.” This translation by Nancy Naomi Carlson preserves the rich musicality of the original French, as well as its frequent use of wordplay and often unusual word choice.
Waberi, a nomad at heart, takes us on a whirlwind tour across North America, Africa, and Europe, daring us to love the earth “beyond all rational thought” and to “turn into earth, both literally and figuratively,” as we “turn from vanity, fears and other pointless rustling.” These lyrical, playful, and moving poems urge us to look for the truth and beauty hidden in our daily lives, singing of Waberi’s own enduring love for our endangered planet and also, more forcefully, exhorting us to join him in the collective fight to save our planet from destruction.
“In this wonderful collection we encounter a poet who moves deftly from the political to the intimate with an impressive sense of play. There is a tone to the work, carried over into this remarkable translation, of the studied, sharp, witty, and yet poignant ways in which French language writers approach the world. From Derrida (yes, I think of him as a poet) to the engagement of Nganang, we see a lineage and skill and craft that make for the uniqueness of this tradition, and certainly of the lyric work in this collection. Abdourahman Waberi invites us into a deeply felt and artfully wrought collection. We are enriched for reading it.”—Chris Abani, author of Smoking the Bible and Sanctificum
Afterword
Whenever we only have the earth, we have to learn to love it.
Dare to love it beyond all rational thought
Turn into earth both literally and figuratively
Disappear into and with sand, clay, the thousand names for the essential.
Turn from vanity, fears, and other pointless rustling.
Let’s moor the Earth, hang on to the permanent, we’re already in peril!
And you my sister, you my brother, you the stranger who shares my language, hear my prayer. Spread it if you like it!
Abdourahman A. Waberi is a poet, novelist, and essayist. He was born in what is now known as the Republic of Djibouti and is a major voice in African postcolonial studies. Waberi is the author of the novel In the United States of Africa (Bison Books, 2009) and has received a multitude of awards and honors, including a PEN France prize and, most recently, a medal from the French Academy. He is an associate professor of French at George Washington University. Nancy Naomi Carlson is a poet, translator, and essayist. She is the recipient of two translation grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the winner of the 2022 OxfordWeidenfeld Translation Prize. She is the author or translator of fifteen books, including her poetry collection Piano in the Dark and her translation of Samira Negrouche’s poetry collection Solio
MARCH
66 pp. • 6 x 9
$17.95T • paperback • 978-1-4962-4135-1
$24.00 Canadian / £14.99 UK
African Poetry Book
Kwame Dawes, series editor
ALSO OF INTEREST
In the United States of Africa
Abdourahman A. Waberi
$19.95 • paperback • 978-0-8032-2262-5
R. F. McEwen was born in Chicago, Illinois. Since 1962 he has been a professional logger and tree trimmer, and he has taught English in Chadron, Nebraska, since 1972. McEwen is the author of several books, most recently The Big Sandy , Bill’s Boys and Other Poems , and And There’s Been Talk . . .
MARCH
128 pp. • 6 x 9
$19.95T • paperback • 978-1-4962-4189-4
$27.00 Canadian / £16.99 UK
Ted Kooser Contemporary Poetry
Ted Kooser, series editor
ALSO OF INTEREST
Produce Wagon
New and Selected Poems
Roy Scheele
Introduction by Ted Kooser
$19.95 • paperback • 978-1-4962-3057-7
Old Rags and Iron New and Selected Poems
R.
F. MCEWEN
INTRODUCTION BY TED KOOSER
Old Rags and Iron is a collection of narrative poems about the life experiences of working-class people with whom the author, R. F. McEwen, is not only acquainted but whose lives he has shared. McEwen supplemented his income as a teacher while working as a professional logger and tree trimmer, and he writes with great love and respect for blue-collar families.
Set primarily in the back-of-the-yard neighborhood of South Side Chicago, where McEwen grew up, as well as Pine Ridge, South Dakota, western Nebraska, Ireland, and elsewhere, the poems celebrate many voices and stories. Utilizing tree-trimming as a central metaphor, these poems of blank verse fictions reverberate like truth.
“Meticulously conducted and finely detailed in language, image, and emotional intensity, these are brawny poems that we shall not easily forget. They take root in the mind, reminding us, through the moving voices and histories of the characters we meet in them, of the terrible and terrifying adventure of human community, of the triumph and torment that, in all its extraordinary diversity, unites us all.”—Stephen Behrendt, George Holmes Distinguished Professor of English emeritus at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln
“These poems thrust us up and out of the page a while, then bring us back down firmly on Earth, good both going and coming, unsettling and exhilarating in the same sweep.”—Matt Evertson, professor of English at Western Colorado University
“In finely crafted narrative poems, R. F. McEwen gives eloquent and tender voice to the human and nonhuman worlds that harbor his subjects. He reminds us that wherever there are people, there are animals and trees, all contending with or enjoying the seasons in Nebraska, Illinois, Iowa, and Ireland. Both mythic figures like Lonesome Frank in ‘Hammer Ring’ and an old aunt in ‘A Strong Wind Clear and Keen’ . . . come vibrantly alive in the distinctive, sparkling, and wonderful poems that compose this collection.”—Eamonn Wall, author of My Aunts at Twilight Poker
Locomotive Cathedral
BRANDEL FRANCE DE BRAVO
With wit and vulnerability, Brandel France de Bravo explores resilience in the face of climate change and a global pandemic, race, and the concept of a self, all while celebrating the power of breath as “baptism on repeat.” Whether her inspiration is twelfth-century Buddhist mind-training slogans or the one-footed crow who visits her daily, France de Bravo mines the tension between the human desire for permanence and control, and life’s fluid, ungraspable nature. Poem by poem, essay by essay, she builds a temple to the perpetual motion of transformation, the wondrous churn of change and exchange that defines companionship, marriage, and ceding our place on Earth: “not dying, but molting.”
“Kinetic and spectral, wise and suspicious of wisdom, Brandel France de Bravo’s Locomotive Cathedral chugs into an expansive, vaulted space. . . . I love her parables breathing contemporary life into twelfth-century Tibetan Buddhist slogans on mind training—‘And then, there was the time I drove a dangerous highway, / thumb-drive buried in my bun . . . files and poems bobby-pinned / to my skull.’ I love the poems on flood and fire and plague, on dryer lint and home improvement, on the subject/object conundrum, on the woman, a mature, exhilarative presence, and on the one-legged crow, who has the first word, and the last.”—Diane Seuss, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of frank: sonnets and Modern Poetry
“The muse of this collection is a one-legged crow, and crow it does, with an insinuating, insistent music and a wily, restless aesthetic that hops from brilliant image to sly aphorism to tender insight. These poems are luminously dark, keenly observant, and endlessly curious about the whole symphony of existence.”—Michael Bazzett, author of The Echo Chamber
“Brandel France de Bravo’s Locomotive Cathedral is a panoramic meditation ushering us into stillness. With grace and humility, in a skillful range of forms, France de Bravo sings a praise song to surrender. When living means ‘cycling through the stink and stain,’ France de Bravo celebrates the sacred pause, reminding us that ‘any raised surface can be an altar, a place to kneel.’”—Rage Hezekiah, author of Yearn
Brandel France de Bravo is the author of the poetry collections Provenance and Mother, Loose and the editor of Mexican Poetry Today: 20/20 Voices . Her poems have appeared in Best American Poetry 2024 , 32 Poems , Barrow Street , Conduit , Diode , Salamander , Southern Humanities Review , and elsewhere.
MARCH
94 pp. • 6 x 9
$17.95T • paperback • 978-1-4962-4008-8
$24.00 Canadian / £14.99 UK
The Backwaters Prize in Poetry Honorable Mention
ALSO OF INTEREST
Antillia
Henrietta Goodman
$17.95 • paperback • 978-1-4962-3608-1
John Youskauskas is a commercial pilot for a major fractional jet operator with more than thirty years of experience in flight operations, aviation safety, and maintenance. Melvin Croft has more than forty years of experience as a professional geologist and is a longtime supporter of the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation. Youskauskas and Croft are coauthors of Come Fly with Us: NASA’s Payload Specialist Program (Nebraska, 2024) and contributors to Footprints in the Dust: The Epic Voyages of Apollo, 1969–1975 (Nebraska, 2010). Jerry Ross is a former NASA astronaut who flew on seven space shuttle missions. He is the author of Spacewalker: My Journey in Space and Faith as NASA’s Record-Setting Frequent Flyer
MAY
376 pp. • 6 x 9 • 35 photographs, index
$39.95T • hardcover • 978-1-4962-2412-5
$54.00 Canadian / £36.00 UK
Outward Odyssey: A People’s History of Spaceflight
Colin
Burgess, series editor
Into the Void Adventures of the Spacewalkers
JOHN YOUSKAUSKAS AND MELVIN CROFT
FOREWORD BY JERRY ROSS
The world had been fascinated with astronauts and spaceflight since well before the first crewed launches in 1961, when Yuri Gagarin, Alan Shepard, and John Glenn became household names. But when Alexei Leonov of the Soviet Union exited his spacecraft in March of 1965, a new era in spaceflight began. And when Ed White, clad in his gleaming space suit with a large American flag on his left shoulder, eased himself outside his Gemini spacecraft later that year, Americans too had a new space hero. They also learned a new acronym: EVA, short for extravehicular activity, more commonly known as “spacewalking.”
Though few understood the tremendous risks White was taking in his twenty-two-minute space walk, Americans watched with immense pride and patriotism as White, tethered to Gemini 4 , propelled himself around the spacecraft with a pressurized oxygen-fueled zip gun. But White’s struggle to fit his space-suited body back inside the claustrophobic Gemini spacecraft and close the hatch confirmed what NASA should have known: spacewalking wasn’t easy.
More than fifty years and hundreds of space walks later, the art of EVA has evolved. The first space walks, preparation for walking on the moon, intended to prove that humans could function in raw space inside their own miniature spacecraft—a space suit. After the end of the lunar program, both the Americans and Soviets turned their focus to long-duration flights on space stations in low Earth orbit, and space walks were crucial to the success of these missions. The construction of the International Space Station—the most sophisticated spacecraft to date— required hundreds of hours of work by spacewalkers from many countries.
In Into the Void John Youskauskas and Melvin Croft tell the unique story of those who have ventured outside the spacecraft into the unforgiving vacuum of space as we set our sights on the moon, Mars, and beyond.
“Working in a space suit in hard vacuum is likely the most demanding test of an astronaut’s physical skills and mental concentration. Into the Void reveals in fascinating detail how spacewalkers, flight controllers, and suit engineers mastered this difficult art to explore the moon, recover crippled spacecraft, and build an expansive space station on the high frontier.”—Tom Jones, veteran spacewalker and astronaut and author of Space Shuttle Stories
“Into the Void helps us experience the high-stakes, awe-inspiring, and pressure-laden realm of space walks, where intrepid humans dare to leave behind the safety of their spacecraft for critical work that can only be accomplished in the unforgiving void.”—Jonathan H. Ward, coauthor of Through the Glass Ceiling to the Stars
Baseball before We Knew It A Search for the Roots of the Game
Twentieth Anniversary Edition
DAVID BLOCK
FOREWORD BY TIM WILES
WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY JOHN THORN
• Winner of the Seymour Medal from the Society for American Baseball Research
• Winner of the North American Society for Sport History Book Award
• A Choice Outstanding Ac ademic Title
When Baseball before We Knew It was first published in 2005, it shattered many long-held assumptions about the pastime’s origins. No, baseball was not original to America. No, baseball did not come from the English game rounders. Yes, of course, the Doubleday story was in fact a myth, but for the first time its secret backstory had been revealed. Beyond all its myth busting, Baseball before We Knew It traveled back in time to uncover the true roots of the sport, exploring the many antecedent ball games from Britain and elsewhere that contributed bits of themselves to baseball’s evolution. Now, in this twentieth anniversary edition of his classic work, David Block fills in more of baseball’s origin story by summarizing the discoveries and advancements he and his fellow historians have accomplished over the past two decades. Other new contributions also appear for the first time in this 2025 edition, including a new foreword by John Thorn, the official historian of Major League Baseball; an expanded annotated bibliography of books relating to baseball’s origins from before the Civil War; and two new essays from the author. Baseball before We Knew It is a comprehensive, reliable, and readable account of baseball’s history before it became America’s national pastime.
“A landmark study that has transformed the way we think about baseball’s origins. Thanks to Baseball before We Knew It, the game’s once-obscure beginnings are now within our sight.”—Peter Morris, author of A Game of Inches
“A deliciously researched feast. . . . Block’s book is a perfect delight.”
—Charles Hirshberg, Sports Illustrated
“Authoritative and entertaining.”—Ron Rapoport, Chicago Sun-Times
David Block is a baseball historian and antiquarian. He is the author of Pastime Lost: The Humble, Original, and Now Completely Forgotten Game of English Baseball (Nebraska, 2019). Tim Wiles is the former director of research for the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum and a coauthor of Baseball’s Greatest Hit: The Story of “Take Me Out to the Ball Game.” John Thorn is the official historian of Major League Baseball and the author of Baseball in the Garden of Eden
APRIL
416 pp. • 6 x 9 • 33 illustrations, 7 appendixes, index $29.95T • paperback • 978-1-4962-4269-3
$41.00 Canadian / £25.99 UK
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Pastime Lost
The Humble, Original, and Now Completely Forgotten Game of English Baseball
David Block
$29.95 • hardcover • 978-1-4962-0851-4
Alan D. Gaff is an independent scholar and the author of many books, including Lou Gehrig: The Lost Memoir , Bayonets in the Wilderness , Blood in the Argonne , and On Many a Bloody Field . He lives in Indiana.
MAY
240 pp. • 6 x 9 • 25 photographs, 3 illustrations
$32.95T • hardcover • 978-1-4962-4327-0
$45.00 Canadian / £27.99 UK
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The Untold Journey of a Yankees Hero Waite Hoyt with Tim Manners Foreword by Bob Costas
$34.95 • hardcover • 978-1-4962-3679-1
Baseball’s First Superstar
The Lost Life Story of Christy Mathewson
ALAN D. GAFF
If there was a first face of baseball, it was arguably Christopher “Christy” Mathewson. At the opening of the twentieth century, baseball was considered an undignified game played by ruffians for gamblers’ benefit. Mathewson changed all that. When he signed with the Giants in 1900, his contract stated he wouldn’t pitch on Sundays, and he was known for his honesty, integrity, and good looks. In his first fourteen seasons, as a pitcher for the Giants, Mathewson never won fewer than twenty games in a season, and he almost single-handedly won the 1905 World Series. In 1918, though age thirty-eight and exempt from military service, he enlisted for World War I, where he exposed himself to nearly lethal amounts of mustard gas as he taught soldiers how to put on gas masks. When he returned home, he was diagnosed with lung problems and tuberculosis, which led to his untimely death at the age of forty-five.
After Mathewson’s death, his eulogies were many, but it was impossible to catch the essence of his life in a single newspaper column. Jane Mathewson, his widow, was determined to provide the reading public with a more intimate portrait of her husband and approached prominent sportswriter Bozeman Bulger, who had known Mathewson for twenty years. Bulger wrote a series of articles titled “The Life Story of Christy Mathewson.” His portraits about the player were amplified by original accounts from Jane, and several unpublished chapters from Mathewson himself, which had been discovered among his papers. These combined accounts allow readers to hear from Mathewson and those who knew him best.
A superstar long before that term was coined, Mathewson became an icon of sportsmanship. He was posthumously elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame at its first induction ceremony in 1936. In Baseball’s First Superstar Alan D. Gaff brings Mathewson to life through Mathewson’s own writings and those of others, largely lost to history until now.
“If Christy Mathewson didn’t exist, baseball would have had to invent him. The game had matured to the point where genuine heroes were needed. Alan Gaff’s well researched book gives us a fresh look at Matty, just in time for the centennial of his passing.”—Marty Appel, a New York Yankees historian and author of Pinstripe Empire and Casey Stengel
“Through deep research into baseball’s early years and into Christy Mathewson’s own career, this must-read book celebrates the history of baseball, the way the game was reported, and the life of one of the greatest players of all time.”—Paul Semendinger, author of The Least among Them
The Whiz Kids
How the 1950 Phillies Took the Pennant, Lost the World Series, and Changed Philadelphia Baseball Forever
DENNIS SNELLING
Before the 1950 World Series, the Philadelphia Phillies were infamous for a record-breaking lack of achievement that dated from their conception in 1883 through the 1940s. When twenty-eight-year-old Robert Carpenter Jr. took over in 1944, the Phillies had won only a single National League title in more than sixty years. For the next five years, Carpenter and the newly hired general manager, Herb Pennock, would overhaul the team’s operations, building a farm system from scratch and spending a fortune on young talent to build a team that would gain immense popularity and finally bring a National League pennant in 1950.
Nicknamed the “Whiz Kids” because they had so many players under thirty, the team caught lightning in a bottle for one season. Although they lost the World Series to the New York Yankees, the team became legendary in Philadelphia and beyond. The Whiz Kids is about a team that shocked everyone by winning, and then shocked everyone by never winning again. It includes a cast of characters and unusual storylines: a first baseman targeted for murder by a woman he had never met; a young catcher from Nebraska, Richie Ashburn, who became a Hall of Fame center fielder and later voice of the team for nearly three decades; a left fielder who lived and played in the shadow of his legendary father, then inspired Ernest Hemingway with the most legendary swing of a bat in franchise history; and a thirty-three-year-old bespectacled relief pitcher who won the Most Valuable Player Award with an undertaker as his personal pitching coach. The team succeeded under the watchful eye of its young owner, whose father handed him the team, and a college professor manager, only to see it slowly crumble as the slowest in the National League to integrate.
The Whiz Kids recounts the history of a team that, though hand-built to be champions, fell short—yet remains legendary anyway.
“The ‘fuzzy-cheeked’ Whiz Kids captured the imagination of the country with their run to the 1950 National League pennant. But, alas, the magic was gone after that season. Dennis Snelling’s thorough research and smooth writing style bring the Whiz Kids to life for a new generation as he also explores why the team failed to continue its success. It’s an entertaining and enlightening read about one of the most memorable yet most overlooked teams of the last century.”
—C. Paul Rogers III, baseball historian and coauthor, with Robin Roberts, of The Whiz Kids and the 1950 Pennant
“Philly loved the Whiz Kids, and this book tells you why. Dennis Snelling tells their story in a fast-paced and insightful manner, using anecdote-filled prose that makes the players come alive in their amazing and improbable journey to the National League championship. Other books have been written about the Whiz Kids, but you won’t know the team’s full story until you read this one.”
—Robert D. Warrington, Philadelphia baseball historian and author
Dennis Snelling is a member of the Society for American Baseball Research and the Pacific Coast League Historical Society. He is the author of Lefty O’Doul: Baseball’s Forgotten Ambassador (Nebraska, 2017), Johnny Evers: A Baseball Life , and The Greatest Minor League: A History of the Pacific Coast League, 1903–1957 .
JUNE
328 pp. • 6 x 9 • 36 photographs, index
$36.95T • hardcover • 978-1-4962-4268-6
$50.00 Canadian / £32.00 UK
ALSO OF INTEREST
Lefty O’Doul
Baseball’s Forgotten Ambassador
Dennis Snelling
With a new epilogue by the author
$24.95 • paperback • 978-1-4962-3475-9
David Krell is the author of 1962: Baseball and America in the Time of JFK (Nebraska, 2021), Do You Believe in Magic? Baseball and America in the Groundbreaking Year of 1966 , and The Fenway Effect: A Cultural History of the Boston Red Sox (Nebraska, 2024).
APRIL
216 pp. • 6 x 9 • Index
$34.95T • hardcover • 978-1-4962-3960-0
$47.00 Canadian / £29.99 UK
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The Fenway Effect
A Cultural History of the Boston Red Sox
David Krell
$34.95 • hardcover • 978-1-4962-3233-5
1978
Baseball and America in the Disco Era
DAVID KRELL
Americans struggled to find their footing in the late 1970s. The Vietnam War ended with more than fifty-eight thousand American soldiers’ deaths; the public’s trust in politicians plummeted amid the Watergate scandal. As deadly blizzards ripped through the Midwest and Northeast in early 1978 and caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damages, Americans turned to baseball for the welcome distraction and promise of a new season.
From spring training to the World Series, 1978 gave baseball fans one of the sport’s greatest seasons, full of legendary moments like the battle between the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox for the American League East pennant, Gaylord Perry’s three thousandth strikeout, Tom Seaver’s only career no-hitter, Willie McCovey’s five hundredth home run, and Pete Rose’s marathon forty-four-game hitting streak. The 1978 season played out against a backdrop of disco music, bell-bottom pants, and gas-guzzling cars, while Hollywood answered a desperate longing for a simpler time with nostalgic offerings such as Grease , The Buddy Holly Story , American Hot Wax , Animal House , and Superman . Robin Williams became a household name with a guest appearance on the popular TV show Happy Days , Atlantic City debuted its first casino, and Jill Clayburgh symbolized the emerging independence of women in An Unmarried Woman
In a memorable end to the baseball season, Reggie Jackson and Bucky Dent led the Yankees to their second consecutive World Series over the Dodgers after losing the first two games, then winning four in a row. With a monthby-month approach, David Krell breaks down major events in both baseball and American culture at large in 1978, chronicling in novelistic detail the notable achievements of some of the greatest players of the era, along with some of the national pastime’s quirkiest moments, to capture an extraordinary year in baseball.
“This was the year of baseball’s explosive pennant race, climaxed by the greatest playoff game ever and the most improbable game-winning home run of all time. Red Sox, Yankees, Tom Lasorda ranting, John Travolta dancing, Happy Days, the Sex Pistols, and Bucky effing Dent—David Krell captures it all brilliantly in 1978.” —Jerry Grillo, author of Big Cat: The Life of Baseball Hall of Famer Johnny Mize
Big Loosh The Unruly Life of Umpire Ron Luciano
JIM LEEKE
Ron Luciano was a college football star, baseball umpire, TV broadcaster, and best-selling author. He barged through the world with an outsized personality, entertaining many, offending a few, and hiding behind a cheerful and outrageous persona until life somehow proved unbearable. Everyone knew him, but nobody really did.
Once an All-American tackle at Syracuse University, Luciano turned to umpiring after an injury derailed his professional football career, and he quickly moved up the Minor League ladder to reach the Majors in 1969. As a big, likable loser—Oliver Hardy in blue—he became a fan favorite in the American League, “shooting” runners with his forefinger, conducting a legendary feud with Baltimore Orioles manager Earl Weaver, and entertaining writers with outlandish baseball stories—some of which were even true. Even as he added years to his umpiring career and was considered among the game’s best, some players and managers thought his showmanship detracted from his abilities. He later became a baseball color analyst on national TV before coauthoring a series of rollicking best-selling sports books. Away from the game, he loved Shakespeare and birdwatching. But his upbeat public face was at odds with his private struggle with depression. His suicide at age fifty-seven shocked and puzzled friends, fans, and readers alike.
In Big Loosh Jim Leeke recounts Luciano’s unlikely career, detailing his life as athlete, arbiter, sportscaster, writer, and mythmaker while separating fact from fiction amid the fanciful stories he loved to spin. As a friend said of Luciano, “If you didn’t like this man, you didn’t like people.”
“Ron Luciano was big. He was loud. He was gregarious. He was also prone to depression and struggled to find a way beyond the caricature his life became. This multifaceted book is a must-read for anyone interested in baseball or how long-term celebrity can affect mental health.”—Lee Kluck, author of Leave While the Party’s Good: The Life and Legacy of Baseball Executive Harry Dalton
“We all knew Ron Luciano. Until we didn’t. Until the jolly giant took his own life. Through meticulous research and superb writing, Jim Leeke tells the riveting, often humorous, always poignant and captivating story of a deceptively complex man. Be ready to turn pages and stay up past your bedtime.”—Jan Finkel, 2012 recipient of SABR’s Bob Davids Award
Jim Leeke is a former journalist, copywriter, and retired creative director. He interviewed Ron Luciano during Luciano’s first book tour in 1982. Leeke is the author of several books, including The Gas and Flame Men: Baseball and the Chemical Warfare Service during World War I (Potomac, 2024) and From the Dugouts to the Trenches: Baseball during the Great War (Nebraska, 2017), winner of the SABR Larry Ritter Award. He lives in Columbus, Ohio.
JULY
216 pp. • 6 x 9 • 9 photographs, index
$32.95T • hardcover • 978-1-4962-3766-8
$45.00 Canadian / £27.99 UK
ALSO OF INTEREST
The Gas and Flame Men
Baseball and the Chemical Warfare Service during World War I
Jim Leeke
$32.95 • hardcover • 978-1-64012-605-3
Doug Feldmann is a professor in the College of Education at Northern Kentucky University and a former scout for the Cincinnati Reds, Seattle Mariners, and San Diego Padres. He is the author of fifteen books on the St. Louis Cardinals and other teams and personalities from sports history, including Whitey Herzog Builds a Winner: The St. Louis Cardinals, 1979–1982 and Miracle Collapse: The 1969 Chicago Cubs (Nebraska, 2009). He lives in the Cincinnati area with his wife, Angie, their son, John, and their dog, Sparky. Ricky Horton is a broadcaster for the St. Louis Cardinals, director of the St. Louis Fellowship of Christian Athletes, and a former professional baseball pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals, Chicago White Sox, and Los Angeles Dodgers.
APRIL
216 pp. • 6 x 9 • 13 photographs, 1 table, index
$34.95T • hardcover • 978-1-4962-4140-5
$47.00 Canadian / £29.99 UK
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Lefty and Tim
How Steve Carlton and Tim McCarver
Became Baseball’s Best Battery
William C. Kashatus
Foreword by Larry Christenson
$34.95 • hardcover • 978-1-4962-2667-9
One More for the White Rat
The 1987 St. Louis Cardinals Chase the Pennant
DOUG FELDMANN
FOREWORD BY
RICKY HORTON
Despite being picked to finish dead last in the National League’s Eastern Division, the 1985 St. Louis Cardinals astounded the sports world by winning 101 regular-season games, capturing the pennant, and playing in the World Series. With expectations greatly elevated going forward, manager Whitey Herzog and his team subsequently endured a rash of injuries and poor performances from key players that sent the 1986 season into a tailspin. The veteran skipper had never seen the likes of it before in his professional baseball career, and he even considered tendering his resignation midyear to team owner August A. Busch Jr. Herzog was uncertain which version of the ball club would surface entering 1987, as their clash for divisional honors with the New York Mets was rekindled once again.
Though observers at the start of the 1987 season once again gave them no chance to win their division, the Cardinals chased victory. Herzog’s style of play, nicknamed “Whiteyball,” terrorized opponents with its daring baserunning led by Vince Coleman and Ozzie Smith. Veteran players and newcomers, including Jack Clark and Tony Peña, returned the Cardinals to contention.
One More for the White Rat features contemporary interviews with members of the 1987 Cardinals and compelling stories and colorful insights into that incredible summer. Veteran Cardinals author Doug Feldmann takes the reader inside the St. Louis locker room and onto the field for the daily struggles and triumphs that made the 1987 baseball season unlike any other.
“The Running Redbirds of ’87 were the most entertaining team in baseball, with captivating defense and electrifying speed. When those two were in motion, you could not look away. What a privilege it was to see it up close.”—Joe Magrane, former pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals
“Our rivalry with the Cardinals was one that defined National League East baseball in the mid-1980s. The Cards were the top dogs, and to win the division, you had to go through them. At the end of the day there was mutual respect between the two teams, but on game day, there was also an unadulterated hatred.”—Roger McDowell, former pitcher for the New York Mets
Get Your Tokens Ready The Late 1990s Road to the Subway Series
CHRIS DONNELLY
Starting with the first ever regular season matchup between the Mets and Yankees and ending with the last out of the 2000 Subway Series, Get Your Tokens Ready provides the most in-depth look ever published at both teams during the late 1990s and the 2000 season.
The 1996 season ended with the Yankees winning their first World Series championship in eighteen years and receiving a grand parade through the streets of the city. The Mets exited the season still struggling to maintain managers and quality players and battling controversy in the clubhouse and off-field.
By 2000, the Yankees, amid baseball’s first dynasty in a generation, appeared the undisputed kings of New York with three World Series titles in four seasons. The Mets, however, after years of irrelevance, had rebuilt their team not only to be competitive but to create one dramatic moment after another. Adding to the story were several people who had played or managed for both teams during their careers, most notably Darryl Strawberry, Dwight Gooden, David Cone, and Joe Torre. The result was a golden age of baseball for the city, culminating at long last in the two teams finally battling for New York’s baseball soul in the new millennium during the 2000 World Series.
Detailing the moments you remember and some you may have forgotten—from fake mustaches to all-out melees, from wild pitch endings to thrown bat insanity, from heartache to celebration— Get Your Tokens Ready covers it all.
“Many of us of a certain age believed we’d never see a Subway Series as our fathers and grandfathers had, and then, amazingly, we did. In the final piece of Chris Donnelly’s lyrical trilogy detailing New York’s late-century baseball renaissance, he brings us back to those wonderful years when the dream became, first, possible and, ultimately, real. In his hands Get Your Tokens Ready is a masterful story told by a master storyteller.”—Mike Vaccaro, sports columnist for the New York Post and author of 1941—The Greatest Year in Sports
“When George Steinbrenner, sports talk radio, and the back pages were king, baseball was at its best. Chris Donnelly masterfully transports us back to one of the wildest rides in the sport’s history, when the Mets and Yankees shaped a generation of fans at the center of the baseball universe.”—Evan Drellich, senior writer for The Athletic and author of Winning Fixes Everything: How Baseball’s Brightest Minds Created Sports’ Biggest Mess
Chris Donnelly is the author of two previous books that take a detailed look at New York City baseball in the late twentieth century: Doc, Donnie, the Kid, and Billy Brawl: How the 1985 Mets and Yankees Fought for New York’s Baseball Soul (Nebraska, 2019) and Road to Nowhere: The Early 1990s Collapse and Rebuild of New York City Baseball (Nebraska, 2023).
MAY
336 pp. • 6 x 9 • Index
$34.95T • hardcover • 978-1-4962-3080-5
$47.00 Canadian / £29.99 UK
ALSO OF INTEREST
Doc, Donnie, the Kid, and Billy Brawl
How the 1985 Mets and Yankees Fought for New York’s Baseball Soul
Chris Donnelly
$24.95 • paperback • 978-1-4962-4100-9
Sue Consolo-Murphy is retired from Grand Teton National Park and John D. Rockefeller Jr. Memorial Parkway, where she worked as chief of science and resource management from 2003 to 2019, after decades with the National Park Service at various locations. She was the 2013 recipient of the National Park Service Director’s Award for Excellence in Natural Resource Management and was a 2008 honoree of the Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee’s award for significant contributions to grizzly bear recovery.
APRIL
286 pp. • 6 x 9 • 18 photographs, 2 illustrations, 4 maps, 3 tables, index
$26.95T • paperback • 978-1-4962-3627-2
$36.00 Canadian / £22.99 UK
America’s Public Lands
Char Miller, series editor
ALSO OF INTEREST
The Bear Doesn’t Know Life and Wonder in Bear Country
Paul Schullery
$21.95 • paperback • 978-1-4962-2606-8
The Bears of Grand Teton A Natural and Cultural History
SUE CONSOLO-MURPHY
The Bears of Grand Teton is the first comprehensive history of bears, black and grizzly, and their interactions with people in Grand Teton National Park and the surrounding area of Jackson Hole, Wyoming. It is also a personal account by Sue Consolo-Murphy, who spent thirty years as a wildlife manager for the National Park Service.
Consolo-Murphy focuses on the natural, cultural, and administrative histories of bears in and around Grand Teton National Park and the nearby John D. Rockefeller Jr. Memorial Parkway, paying particular attention to bears’ interactions with livestock. Entertaining and educational, The Bears of Grand Teton also explores the phenomenon of social media celebrity bears—such as Grizzly 399, the world’s most famous bear—and the challenges of listing and removing grizzly bears from Endangered Species Act protection.
“A masterpiece of well-researched history, colorful lore, pioneering science, and the savvy of personal experience. Sue Consolo-Murphy, uniquely qualified to write this book by virtue of her decades of productive work on behalf of the region’s bears, has given us the authoritative and richly textured tale we’ve long needed. From here on out, anyone hoping to come to terms with Teton bears should start by reading this book.”—Paul Schullery, author of The Bear Doesn’t Know
“This book is a delight to read. . . . It is a story of bears and people and how we can live with them.”—Christopher Servheen, retired grizzly bear recovery coordinator for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
“A wonderful look at the black and grizzly bears of Grand Teton National Park. It is a fascinating story of expansion and change, with grizzlies such as famous 399 and her offspring going south to colonize new lands.”—Robert W. Righter, author of Crucible for Conservation: The Struggle for Grand Teton National Park
Starlings
The Curious Odyssey of a Most Hated Bird
MIKE STARK
Has there ever been a more hated bird than the European starling? Let loose in New York City’s Central Park by a misguided aristocrat, the starlings were supposed to help curb insect outbreaks and add to the tuneful choir of other songbirds. Rather than staying put, the dark and speckled starlings marched across the continent like a conquering army. In less than sixty years, they were in every state in the contiguous United States and their numbers topped two hundred million. Cities came under siege; crops buckled beneath their weight. Public sentiment quickly soured.
A bitter, baffling, and sometimes comical war on starlings ensued. Weapons included dynamite, guns, bounties, fake owls, real owls, rubber snakes, balloons, itching powder, and greased building ledges. Still, artists and scientists marveled at their undulating aerial formations, which seemed equal parts poetry and mathematics. Keen listeners recognized the starling as one of the world’s great vocal mimics, imitating everything from fellow birds and cell phones to barking dogs, car alarms, and TV commercials. And then there were their undeniable skills of adaptation and survival. What if there was more to these stubborn villains than once thought?
Mike Stark’s Starlings is a first-of-its-kind history of starlings in America, an oddball, love-hate story at the intersection of human folly, ornithology, and one bird’s tenacious will to endure.
“Starlings is a smart, entertaining parable about human foolishness, avian ingenuity, and the unintended consequences of ecological meddling. With wit and verve, Mike Stark tells the epic story of the plucky starling—a bird that enchanted Mozart, exasperated farmers, and ultimately conquered America.”—Ben Goldfarb, author of Crossings and Eager
“Balanced, whimsical, and deeply researched, Starlings tells the story of how they became the bird we love to hate, and in doing so, illuminates our own contradictory human nature.”—Melissa L. Sevigny, author of Brave the Wild River
“A fascinating story about human folly, animal smarts, and the value of life on Earth. You’ll never look at a starling the same way again.” —Michelle Nijhuis, author of Beloved Beasts
Mike Stark is a longtime journalist and author. His previous nonfiction books include the award-winning Chasing the Ghost Bear: On the Trail of America’s Lost Super Beast (Bison Books, 2022) and Wrecked in Yellowstone: Greed, Obsession, and the Untold Story of Yellowstone’s Most Infamous Shipwreck . His first novel, The Derelict Light (Bison Books), was published in 2023. He is the creative director for the Center for Biological Diversity and lives in Tucson, Arizona.
MARCH
248 pp. • 6 x 9 • 11 photographs, 7 illustrations
$24.95T • paperback • 978-1-4962-4202-0
$34.00 Canadian / £21.99 UK
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Chasing the Ghost Bear
On the Trail of America’s Lost Super Beast
Mike Stark
$24.95 • paperback • 978-1-4962-2902-1
Donna L. Erickson is a consultant on openspace conservation in the Rocky Mountain West and was an associate professor of landscape architecture and planning at the University of Michigan for sixteen years. Erickson has published extensively in design, planning, and conservation journals and is the author of MetroGreen: Connecting Open Space in North American Cities
APRIL
248 pp. • 6 x 9 • 21 photographs, 21 illustrations, 9 maps
$24.95T • paperback • 978-1-4962-4043-9
$34.00 Canadian / £21.99 UK
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Dodge County, Incorporated
Big Ag and the Undoing of Rural America
Sonja Trom Eayrs
With assistance by Katherine Don
$24.95 • paperback • 978-1-4962-3499-5
Rooted at the Edge Ranching
Where the Old West and New West Collide
DONNA L. ERICKSON
Rooted at the Edge paints a portrait of a ranching community in a threatened landscape steeped in history, conflict, and beauty. In this narrative nonfiction work, Donna L. Erickson explores the hilly skirt of ground at the northern boundary of Missoula, Montana, separating the town from the wilderness beyond. The North Hills region represents the critical—and often highly personal—issues at play at the edge of many western towns.
The urban-rural fringe is both valuable and vulnerable. Across the West rural lifestyles are increasingly compromised by suburbanization, economic hardship, and family dynamics; a way of life and a way of work are vanishing. Ranchland may be simultaneously cherished by a family for the life its members have made there and coveted by urban neighbors for open space. Community residents may love a place for its scenery and wildlife habitat while others wish it converted to a commercial parking lot. Complex ecological relationships can be bulldozed in a single afternoon. And the threats of climate change and shifting populations compromise the edge even more.
In the tension between love and loss, Erickson wrote this story of a landscape’s soft contours, piney ridges, shady draws, and grassy slopes, and its potential disappearance under an expanding city. Rooted at the Edge conveys, in a way that statistics cannot, what’s at stake when ranches at the urban fringe are threatened.
“Elegant and gripping.”—Daniel Kemmis, former Speaker of the Montana House of Representatives and former mayor of Missoula
“Part loving memorial of Donna Erickson’s girlhood on Montana’s Skyline Ranch, part warning of damages to the land through the forces of development, Rooted at the Edge concludes with a feather of hope for western Montana’s landscape.”—Mary Clearman Blew, author of Think of Horses
“Rich, multilayered, meticulously researched, and lovingly portrayed, Rooted at the Edge is essential reading for mending fences and opening hearts.”—Marina Richie, author of Halcyon Journey: In Search of the Belted Kingfisher
Mrs. Cook and the Klan Booze, Bloodshed, and Bigotry in America’s
Heartland
TOM CHORNEAU
On the day she was murdered, Myrtle Underwood Cook boasted to local authorities about new evidence of a major bootlegging ring operating out of the Rock Island train depot behind her house in a small farming town in eastern Iowa. Then, as she sat at her parlor window sewing, she took a single slug through the heart. She was president of the local temperance union; her killing made the front page of the New York Times . The next day her funeral made national news as well, due to the eerie presence of a small army from the Ku Klux Klan, its members, donned in full regalia, drawn from three surrounding states. It was September 1925, and Al Capone had just taken over the Chicago Outfit, evangelist Billy Sunday was converting thousands to temperance, and the KKK had just marched on Washington, DC. During its first half century of statehood, Iowa lurched from wet to dry and back eight times before Prohibition was ratified in 1919. And back when Iowa was still a territory, its Black Codes imprinted generations with a legacy of intolerance and racism. Mrs. Cook and the Klan is a true crime investigation that not only sheds new light on Myrtle Underwood Cook’s unsolved killing but also explores the confluence of the social, political, and economic forces that brought the Klan, lawless street gangs, a local mob boss, and the temperance movement together in a small American town.
“Booze, law, politics, temperance, racism, and organized crime all converged one hundred years ago in Iowa. Tom Chorneau uncovers the origins of how each of these components became engrained in society, making a small Iowa town a microcosm of the broader country, and dooming Mrs. Cook.”—Brian Haara, author of Bourbon Justice
“Tom Chorneau’s account of a century-old murder mystery also tells an exceptional history of Iowa and the nation emerging around it.”
—Laura and James Wasserman, authors of Who Saved the Redwoods?
“Deeply researched. . . . This is a rich and entertaining history that is essential reading.”—Ray Locker, author of Haig’s Coup
Tom Chorneau spent nearly thirty years as a journalist, including more than a decade as an investigative reporter for the Associated Press and the San Francisco Chronicle . He is the author of three works of fiction, including Victim Eleven
MARCH
272 pp. • 6 x 9 • 17 photographs, 2 illustrations, index
$24.95T • paperback • 978-1-4962-3584-8
$34.00 Canadian / £21.99 UK
ALSO OF INTEREST
A Second Reckoning Race, Injustice, and the Last Hanging in Annapolis
Scott D. Seligman
$32.95 • hardcover • 978-1-64012-465-3
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919), twenty-sixth president of the United States, won the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1906 for mediating an end to the Russo-Japanese War (1904–5). His three dozen books include The Wilderness Hunter , The Rough Riders (Bison Books, 1998), Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail (Bison Books, 1983), and A Book-Lover’s Holiday in the Open . Paul Schullery is the author, coauthor, or editor of more than fifty books on history, nature, and outdoor sport, including The Bear Doesn’t Know: Life and Wonder in Bear Country (Bison Books, 2021) and Searching for Yellowstone: Ecology and Wonder in the Last Wilderness
MAY
218 pp. • 6 x 9 • 2 illustrations, 1 map
$21.95T • paperback • 978-1-4962-4052-1
$30.00 Canadian / £18.99 UK
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Theodore Roosevelt, Naturalist in the Arena
Edited by Char Miller and Clay S. Jenkinson
$24.95 • paperback • 978-1-4962-1314-3
Theodore Roosevelt’s Wilderness Writings
New Edition
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
EDITED AND WITH AN INTRODUCTION
BY PAUL SCHULLERY
Theodore Roosevelt, the twenty-sixth president of the United States, was not only the most famous hunter of his generation of Americans, but he was also among its bestinformed and most popular outdoor writers. Edmund Heller, the well-known Smithsonian biologist who accompanied Roosevelt on his famous African expedition, said that the former president was the world’s foremost authority on large mammals. He was also an avid bibliophile and had what may have been the finest large mammal library in North America in the early 1900s. Roosevelt communicated with authorities—both sportsmen and scientists—in all parts of the world. From his lifelong study and enthusiasm for outdoor adventure came a host of durable writings, gathered together here in a collection that celebrates the natural world.
Roosevelt’s commitment to saving wild places is one of his most lasting contributions as a U.S. president. This collection combines classic hunting and nature narratives with his equally durable advocacy of wilderness protection for the sake of personal and national character. This new edition features an introduction by Paul Schullery that provides historical and ecological context.
“All [the] compartments and chapters of [Theodore Roosevelt’s] life are memorable, but it is likely that none of them approach the historical significance of yet another of his passions: everything to do with the natural world. Any summary of his unique achievements as a sportsman-naturalist-conservationist almost has to begin with a recitation of the lands he set aside in one form or another during his presidency, more than 230 million acres including 150 national forests (creating the now-venerable U.S. Forest Service in the process), 5 national parks, 18 national monuments, and 55 other bird and game preserves.”—from Paul Schullery’s introduction
Frontier Comrades
From the Fur Trade to the Ford Car
JIM WILKE
Frontier Comrades examines six accounts of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender lives on the frontier of the American West. Each account interprets this history through experiences that take place in different parts of the West, moving chronologically from the fur trade era to the dawn of the automobile age.
Jim Wilke provides the first comprehensive accounts of figures such as transgender stage driver Charley Parkhurst; transgender Seventh Cavalry laundress Mrs. Noonan (also known as Mrs. Nash); and the extraordinary Clara Dietrich and Ora Chatfield, known by the contemporary press as “lady lovers.” Frontier Comrades also offers glimpses of individual personalities: the cool and detached grandeur of William Stewart as he traversed the West during the fur trade era; the stubborn determination of Charley Parkhurst after California’s gold rush; the careful, giddy energy of Mrs. Noonan; the hidden passions of Tombstone sheriff William Breakenridge for a Vanderbilt and a local rustler; the desperate bravery of Dietrich and Chatfield as they sought to elope from Victorian Aspen; and the masculine, matterof-fact comradeship of loggers and miners as they worked the distant Sierras.
The maelstrom of opportunities and conflicts that made up the West affected lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender westerners in intrinsically personal ways. The accounts in Frontier Comrades provide an intimate yet expansive view of the American West.
“Frontier Comrades places the life stories of six LGBTQ individuals squarely at the center of the history of the American frontier, bringing to life the times and places where these different individuals found opportunities in the West to live on their own terms.”—Carolyn Brucken, senior curator at the Autry Museum of the American West
“Jim Wilke’s vividly drawn histories evoke sexual and cultural borderlands. . . . Readers will encounter here a West that is both familiar from countless frontier narratives and yet unfamiliar in its well-documented accounts of LGBTQ stories. Together these portraits reinstate complexity and humanity to storied times and places—gay, lesbian, and transgender lives that were there all along.”—Josh Garrett-Davis, H. Russell Smith Foundation Curator of Western American History at the Huntington
“With engaging prose Frontier Comrades helps paint a much more detailed portrait of desire and identity in American history than previously seen.”—Rebecca Scofield, associate professor of American history at the University of Idaho
Jim Wilke is a former curator of technology at the Autry Museum of the American West and is a consulting historian on railroad and Western history for numerous organizations. He is the coauthor of Stagecoach! The Romantic Western Vehicle
AUGUST
304 pp. • 6 x 9 • 7 photographs, index
$27.95T • paperback • 978-1-4962-4222-8
$38.00 Canadian / £23.99 UK
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Men in Eden
William Drummond Stewart and Same-Sex Desire in the Rocky Mountain Fur Trade
William Benemann
$29.95 • paperback • 978-0-8032-3778-0
Fred Haefele is a writer, teacher, and retired arborist. He is the author of the award-winning motorcycle memoir Rebuilding the Indian (Bison Books, 2005) and the nonfiction collection Extremophilia . Haefele’s work has appeared in Outside , Wired , the New York Times Magazine , Salon.com, Montana Magazine , and other venues, and he has written documentaries for the PBS American Experience series. He lives in Missoula, Montana, with his wife, Caroline Patterson.
MAY
212 pp. • 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 • 8 photographs
$21.95T • paperback • 978-1-4962-4228-0
$30.00 Canadian / £18.99 UK
ALSO OF INTEREST Rebuilding the Indian A Memoir
Fred Haefele
With a new afterword by the author
$19.95 • paperback • 978-0-8032-7358-0
The Essential Book of Pickup Trucks
FRED HAEFELE
Of the sixty million pickups on U.S. highways today, just one in eight was bought for work purposes. The remaining fifty-four million are what truck dealers call “lifestyle purchases.” Does the pickup impulse spring from some deep, organic longing? For agrarian roots, for simpler times, for a driving experience larger than life?
The Essential Book of Pickup Trucks is a memoir about the complex role pickups have played in Fred Haefele’s life and in American culture at large. Growing up near the GM truck plant in Flint, Michigan, young Haefele was delighted by these centaur-like vehicles. In his adult life as an arborist, teacher, and father, pickups bore him through hard times and disaster, high adventure, triumph, and love. Through his tenure with twelve trucks, Haefele recounts his experiences with tree climbing and academia, masculinity and motor culture.
For Haefele, pickup trucks hold a unique place in the American psyche—equal parts fantasy steed and dray horse, they’re avatars of the American spirit. The Essential Book of Pickup Trucks is, like his trucks, uniquely free-spirited: love story, blue-collar writer’s tale, and motor-head memoir.
“What better way than a memoir about pickup trucks to forge from steel, rubber, and enamel paint a rumbling portrait of an individual American life. . . . [This is] a brilliant, compelling, and wryly humorous road trip through the motorized heart of the American soul.”
—Peter Stark, author of Astoria and Gallop toward the Sun
“Haefele delivers a three-quarter-ton load of nontoxic masculinity that smashes expectations to reveal something universal, let’s call it the soul: soaring, striving, suffering. What a joy to ride along with a master at the height of his powers.”—Mark Sundeen, author of The Man Who Quit Money and Delusions and Grandeur
“A cultural history of a writer, a state, and the wheels that got him around. . . . You won’t be let down.”—Steven Rinella, author, podcast host, and founder of MeatEater
At the Corner of Past and Future A
Collection of Life Stories
PAMELA CARTER JOERN
With keen observation and deep reflection, Pamela Carter Joern probes her life. No topic is too small or too sacred, from gutting chickens to Gaudí’s cathedral. Through a range of experiences—growing up in rural Nebraska, raising children, surviving cancer, becoming a writer—she explores the tenuous link between memory and truth. Joern displays a gift for mining wisdom through surprising connections, juxtaposing her father’s life to the discoveries of Isaac Newton or the writer’s task to the ancient art of alchemy. She weds philosophical insight and spiritual imagination and laces this amalgam with candor and wit, resulting in a work that is engaging, intimate, and illuminating.
“The Nebraska voice of Pamela Carter Joern shines like the stars in the vast dome of her natal sky, at once lyrical and straightforward. With sharp observation, tenderness, and wry humor, her collected stories and essays carry us irresistibly. . . . It’s a wonder and a gift.”
—Gayla Marty, author of Memory of Trees: A Daughter’s Story of a Family Farm
“Pamela Carter Joern delivers what I want from a well-crafted memoir in essays: emotional honesty, unstinting candor, lyrical writing, artful storytelling, attention to context, and a deep and fearless questioning of what she knows, or thinks she knows, about herself and her place in the world.”—Lisa Knopp, author of What the River Carries and The Nature of Home
“Pamela Carter Joern shows us the big sky in this affective and eloquently written collection. . . . These heartrending essays about place, personhood, and the passage of time invite us to bask in all our big skies of troubled and ecstatic living.”—Barrie Jean Borich, author of Body Geographic and Apocalypse, Darling
Pamela Carter Joern is the author of four works of fiction: Toby’s Last Resort , In Reach , The Plain Sense of Things , and The Floor of the Sky , all published by the University of Nebraska Press. She has written six plays that have been produced in the Twin Cities of Minnesota and taught writing at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis for ten years.
JUNE
132 pp. • 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
$17.95T • paperback • 978-1-4962-4278-5
$24.00 Canadian / £14.99 UK
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Toby’s Last Resort
Pamela Carter Joern
$21.95 • paperback • 978-1-4962-3269-4
Fred E. Woods is a professor of religious education at Brigham Young University. He is the author or coauthor of many books, including most recently Bright Lights in the Desert: The Latter-day Saints of Las Vegas and (with Malcolm Adcock) The Latter-day Saint Image in the British Mind
MARCH
320 pp. • 6 x 9 • 34 photographs, 9 illustrations, 1 appendix, index
$24.95T • paperback • 978-1-4962-3070-6
$34.00 Canadian / £21.99 UK
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The Gathering of Zion
The Story of the Mormon Trail
Wallace Stegner
$22.95 • paperback • 978-0-8032-9213-0
Ports to Posts Latter-day Saint Gathering in the Nineteenth Century
FRED E. WOODS
Ports to Posts is the result of more than a quarter century of research in Latter-day Saint migration narratives from the nineteenth century. Fred E. Woods takes the reader from early church beginnings in upstate New York to ecclesiastical gathering places in Kirtland, Ohio, and Jackson County, Missouri. The journey then incorporates international European ports to Latter-day Saint gathering locations in Nauvoo, Illinois, and later in the Salt Lake Valley during the peak of this emigrant era.
Through these stories, the reader will learn about the missionary proselyting process and how it led converts to Liverpool, the primary place of embarkation, across the Atlantic, and into harbors at New Orleans, Philadelphia, Boston, and New York. Authentic voices describe the challenges church members faced as they left their homelands and endured storms and the efforts of enemies who tried to dissuade them from their destinations. Ports to Posts captures not only the emigrants’ journeys but also how Americans perceived these often unwanted pilgrims. Woods’s research reveals the purpose and process by which Latter-day Saints gathered to create their American Zion and converts’ solemn obligation to assemble in American gathering places.
“Decades in the making, this book knits together the labor of a life’s work. Having literally visited every pertinent seaport, outfitting post, and repository in quest of the Mormon maritime past, Fred Woods has filled a void in Mormon emigration history.”—Melvin Bashore, retired curator of historic sites for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
“Fred E. Woods’s Ports to Posts incorporates first-person accounts to examine the international emigration of one hundred thousand Latter-day Saints to Utah Territory between 1847 and 1900. He expertly chronicles how emigrants overcame considerable challenges to gather to Zion by sail, trail, and rail.”—Jay H. Buckley, author of Great Plains Forts and William Clark: Indian Diplomat
On the Overland Trails with William Clark A
Teamster’s Utah War, 1857–1858
EDITED BY WILLIAM P. MACKINNON AND KENNETH L. ALFORD
FOREWORD BY HOWARD R. LAMAR
The Utah War remains an understudied but important moment in western history as the United States wrestled with its political future. There are few primary accounts from this war, but one of the best comes from William Clark, a young teamster hired by Russell, Majors and Waddell, the West’s greatest freighters. Clark’s narrative, “A Trip Across the Plains in 1857,” was not published until 1922 and only then in an obscure journal with little annotation, so for the last hundred years, this work has been a valuable but obscure document.
In On the Overland Trails with William Clark William P. MacKinnon and Kenneth L. Alford have remedied this historiographical oversight by providing material entirely missing from the original printing, including an explanation of the Utah War’s origins and prosecution; maps by which to chart Clark’s travels; illustrations to enliven major players; and annotations to clarify the sometimes arcane people, places, incidents, and issues mentioned. Also included for the first time is an account of the manuscript’s colorful provenance.
“William Clark’s compelling account of having survived hardship and danger on the western trails is here brought out of obscurity and expertly contextualized by two of the foremost authorities on the Utah War of 1857–58. The book is a model of careful editing, sensitive handling, and informed research.”—Charles E. Rankin, editor of Toward a More Perfect Union: The Civil War Letters of Frederic and Elizabeth Lockley
“[MacKinnon and Alford] guide us to a fuller understanding of nineteenth-century commercial freighting on the plains, the intricacies of the Utah Expedition, and the precariousness of life in the Mountain West.”—George A. Miles, retired William Robertson Coe Curator of the Yale Collection of Western Americana
“MacKinnon and Alford have transformed an already wonderful account of an intriguing adventure in the antebellum West into a scholarly gem that paints the strange Utah War episode with all its color and accompanying grit.”—Gene A. Sessions, coauthor of Camp Floyd and the Mormons: The Utah War
William P. MacKinnon is an independent historian and management consultant. He is a retired vice president of General Motors. Kenneth L. Alford is professor of church history and doctrine at Brigham Young University and a retired colonel in the U.S. Army. MacKinnon and Alford are coeditors of Fact, Fiction, and Polygamy: A Tale of Utah War Intrigue, 1857–1858—A. G. Browne’s “The Ward of the Three Guardians ”
MARCH
236 pp. • 6 x 9 • 9 photographs, 17 illustrations, 2 maps, 4 appendixes, index
$26.95T • paperback • 978-1-4962-3750-7
$36.00 Canadian / £22.99 UK
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Recollections of a Handcart Pioneer of 1860 A Woman’s Life on the Mormon Frontier
Mary Ann Hafen
Introduction by Donna Toland Smart
$11.95 • paperback • 978-0-8032-7340-5
Louisa M. Frederici Cody (1844–1921) was the wife of William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody. They married on March 6, 1866, and remained in a contentious relationship until Cody’s death in 1917. Courtney Ryley Cooper (1886–1940) was a press agent for Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West Show, as well as a Marine, crime reporter, screenwriter, and the author of Annie Oakley’s first biography. Sherry L. Smith is University Distinguished Professor of History (Emerita) at Southern Methodist University. She is the author of Reimagining Indians: Native Americans through Anglo Eyes, 1880–1940 , among other books.
MAY
340 pp. • 6 x 9 • 3 appendixes, index
$26.95T • paperback • 978-1-4962-4258-7
$36.00 Canadian / £22.99 UK
The Papers of William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody
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Buffalo Bill and the Mormons
Brent M. Rogers
$29.95 • paperback • 978-1-4962-1318-1
Memories of Buffalo Bill
LOUISA
FREDERICI CODY IN COLLABORATION WITH COURTNEY RYLEY COOPER WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SHERRY L. SMITH
Written with the help of Courtney Ryley Cooper, Memories of Buffalo Bill offers an idealized account of William F. Cody’s life from the perspective of his wife, Louisa. True to its origins, this account offers many more details about Cody’s domestic life, including his children, than any other preceding work. Although William and Louisa’s real-life marriage was marred by some high-profile scandals, it endured until her husband’s death in 1917.
Memories of Buffalo Bill , the first biography of William F. Cody to appear after his death, strikes a celebratory tone in narrating highlights of his life and enterprises. Through its introduction, notes, and appendixes, this edition offers a broader context for the Codys’ marriage, evidencing its private realities and the collaboration required to preserve the Buffalo Bill image in the public eye. Out of print since its first publication, Louisa Cody’s memoir highlights the processes involved in crafting and preserving a national myth. Both for what it does and does not say, it was the first step in laying a foundation for the enduring legacy of Buffalo Bill as an American icon.
“Louisa Cody’s biography Memories of Buffalo Bill, written in collaboration with press agent Courtney Ryley Cooper, reads like fiction—and some of it is. Sherry L. Smith’s carefully researched and written introduction to this edition reveals some of the truths Louisa Cody conveniently left out. With Smith’s interpretations, this book offers a fresh and entertaining look at relationships in the Cody family.”—Steve Friesen, author of Galloping Gourmet: Eating and Drinking with Buffalo Bill
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Buffalo Bill from Prairie to Palace
John M. Burke
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Steve Friesen
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William F. Cody
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William F. Cody
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Charles Eldridge Griffin
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Helen Cody Wetmore and Zane Grey
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Edward H. Carpenter is a retired lieutenant colonel, a veteran of America’s “Long Wars,” who served in the U.S. Army and Marines for a total of twenty-nine years, from Afghanistan to Japan, Indonesia to Saudi Arabia. He has written for the Washington Post and is the author of Steven Pressfield’s “The Warrior Ethos”: One Marine Officer’s Critique and Counterpoint . Carpenter is the founder of the nonprofit organization World Without War, to which he is donating his royalties from Blue Helmet .
MARCH
384 pp. • 6 x 9 • 20 photographs, 4 maps, 3 appendixes, index
$34.95T • hardcover • 978-1-64012-599-5
$47.00 Canadian / £29.99 UK
Blue Helmet
My Year as a UN Peacekeeper in South Sudan
EDWARD H. CARPENTER
FOREWORD BY A. K. BARDALAI
Blue Helmet: My Year as a UN Peacekeeper in South Sudan tells the story of a country, a conflict, and the institution of peacekeeping through the eyes of a senior American military officer working on the ground in one of the most dangerous countries on the planet. South Sudan is rich in natural resources, and its fertile soil could make it the breadbasket of East Africa. Yet it remains the poorest and most corrupt country in the region, plagued by disease, famine, and ethnic strife. Abductions, sexual violence, death, and displacement affect tens of thousands of people each year.
Edward H. Carpenter pulls readers into his world, allowing them to experience the powerful, poignant realities of being a peacekeeper in South Sudan. In the process, the author reveals how the United Nations really conducts its missions: what it tolerates and how it often falls short of achieving the aims of its charter—equal rights, justice, and economic advancement for all people—with the use of armed forces limited to serving those common interests by keeping the peace and preventing the scourge of war. It is a story that is eye-opening, unsettling, and always compelling. Global leaders may fairly claim that they have done everything they can to help South Sudan help itself: they’ve dispatched thousands of peacekeepers and provided billions of dollars in aid. So why is the UN still struggling to fulfill its mandate to protect civilians and safeguard the delivery of humanitarian assistance? What could be done better? Bringing the reader to the forefront of action, Blue Helmet answers these questions and raises others about how modern peacekeeping missions are organized and overseen, shedding light on some of the contradictions at the heart of peacekeeping.
“Blue Helmet reveals the inside story of the challenges of protecting civilians in conflict. . . . If you are passionate about the protection of civilians, this book will prove an invaluable resource—because Carpenter doesn’t just show what is wrong with existing civilian protection measures; he offers practical advice on how to fix them.”
—Marc Garlasco, division chief for the U.S. Department of Defense Civilian Protection Center of Excellence
“Edward Carpenter’s Blue Helmet is an insider’s story about a world that most of us will never know. He has written a shocking, informative, at times hard, and yet very entertaining memoir: a human-sized portrait of a UN peacekeeper in South Sudan.”
—Elisabeth Sharp McKetta, author of Awake with Asashoryu and Other Essays
Fuji Fire Sifting Ashes of a Forgotten U.S. Marine Corps Tragedy
CHAS HENRY
On October 19, 1979, the largest, most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded propelled 5,500 gallons of gasoline into corrugated steel huts filled with U.S. Marines. The gas ignited, injuring seventy-three people, thirteen of them fatally. The Marine Corps commandant, a veteran of combat in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam, was stunned as he met scores of horribly burned survivors. “Having witnessed a lot of bad things, ugly things,” the general declared, “none can compare to that experience.” And yet this 1979 catastrophe on the slopes of Japan’s iconic Mount Fuji remains all but forgotten except by those directly affected.
Now, the fruits of Chas Henry’s exhaustive four-year, two-continent investigation provide insight into what many have called the U.S. Marine Corps’ worst-ever peacetime disaster. Fuji Fire shares the compelling and intimate stories of heartbreak and inspiration forged by these events while bringing to light new, critical analysis of the incident’s causes and effects.
“Poignant and gripping. . . . This is the classic manifestation of Semper Fidelis.”—Capt. Dale Dye, U.S. Marine Corps (Ret.), author, filmmaker, and military adviser
“Impeccably researched. . . . Chas Henry has written a fine book and created a worthy memorial to the living and the lost.”—Ralph Peters, author of Beyond Terror
“A story of sacrifice and heroism. . . . One of the best books I have ever read.”—Charles W. Henderson, author of Marine Sniper: 93 Confirmed Kills
“A triumph of deep research and expert storytelling that conveys a tragic and yet ultimately heroic and inspiring tale.”—Michael Mazarr, RAND senior political scientist
“The Fuji fire is worth remembering not only for honoring those who died or were seriously injured but also for the insights this account offers into the culture of the Marine Corps.”—Richard B. Meixsel, historian and author of Frustrated Ambition: General Vicente Lim and the Philippine Military Experience, 1910–1944
Chas Henry served as an active-duty U.S. Marine from 1976 to 1996, rising in rank from private to captain. He trained at Camp Fuji nineteen months before the Fuji fire and was decorated for his actions in combat during the 1991 Gulf War. After military service he embarked on an award-winning career in international journalism, reporting on matters of global security, intelligence, and military veterans.
JUNE
320 pp. • 6 x 9 • 20 photographs, 4 maps
$36.95T • hardcover • 978-1-64012-645-9
$50.00 Canadian / £32.00 UK
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The Search for the Japanese Fleet USS Nautilus and the Battle of Midway
David W. Jourdan
Foreword by Philip G. Renaud
$29.95 • hardcover • 978-1-61234-716-5
James Robbins Jewell is a professor of history at North Idaho College. He is the author of Agents of Empire: The First Oregon Cavalry and the Opening of the Interior Pacific Northwest during the Civil War (Nebraska, 2023) and On Duty in the Pacific Northwest during the Civil War: Correspondence and Reminiscences of the First Oregon Cavalry Regiment Eugene S. Van Sickle is a professor of history at the University of North Georgia.
APRIL
384 pp. • 6 x 9 • 8 photographs, 7 illustrations, index
$39.95T • hardcover • 978-1-64012-644-2
$54.00 Canadian / £36.00 UK
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Buffalo Soldiers in California
Charles Young and the Ninth Cavalry, 1902–1904
Brian G. Shellum
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Waging War for Freedom with the 54th Massachusetts
The Civil War Memoir of John W. M. Appleton
EDITED BY JAMES ROBBINS JEWELL AND EUGENE S. VAN SICKLE
Late in 1862, amid the horrors of the U.S. Civil War, Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, with President Lincoln’s approval, authorized the recruitment of Black soldiers for the Union cause. In January of 1863, the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry was born. On February 7, 1863, Massachusetts governor John Andrew commissioned Boston-bred John W. M. Appleton the first of the white officers in the most famous Civil War regiment of Black soldiers. Appleton immediately began recruiting enlisted soldiers for the company he would command, Company A. Waging War for Freedom with the 54th Massachusetts is a fresh look at the service of this famed regiment as told through Appleton’s memoir—the most complete firstperson account available about the service of the men in the 54th Massachusetts regiment. Appleton wrote candidly about his own experiences and the men who served with and under him, including troop punishments, combat, and combat injuries, including his own. He also described in detail the weather, climate, southern geography, and his interaction with civilians. Appleton served with the regiment from February 1863 through August 1864, when severe injuries forced him home a second time. Taking Appleton’s memoir as their foundation, the editors thoroughly contextualize the service of the 54th through its disbanding in 1865, providing a fresh perspective on the men and the regiment as they fought to abolish slavery in the United States.
“John Appleton’s memoir takes readers inside one of the most famous Civil War regiments, the 54th Massachusetts. With meticulous editorial work by James Robbins Jewell and Eugene S. Van Sickle, including a thorough introduction and helpful maps and images, this outstanding book finally brings Appleton’s writing to the public’s attention. It is a must-read for anyone interested in emancipation and the American Civil War.”—Jason Phillips, Eberly Family Professor of Civil War Studies at West Virginia University
“John W. M. Appleton knew he was making history as an officer of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteers, and he wrote a steady stream of alert, perceptive, candid letters that provided the basis for a gripping day-to-day chronicle of the regiment’s experience. James Robbins Jewell and Eugene S. Van Sickle perform a great service to Civil War readers by making this fascinating document accessible with an expert editorial framework.”—Thomas J. Brown, professor of history at the University of South Carolina
Victory in Shanghai
A Korean American Family’s Journey to the CIA and the Army Special Forces
ROBERT S. KIM
Victory in Shanghai tells the long-hidden story of a family from Korea that struggled for three decades to become Americans and ultimately fought their way to the United States through heroic actions with the U.S. Army during World War II. Among the first families from Korea to migrate to the United States in the early twentieth century, the Kim family was forced into exile in Shanghai in the mid-1920s after a new U.S. immigration law in 1924 excluded Asians. Two decades later, the family’s four sons—raised as Americans in the expatriate community of Shanghai—voluntarily stepped forward during World War II to defend the nation they considered theirs.
From both sides of the Pacific, the Kim brothers served in uniform with the U.S. Army and in the underground U.S. intelligence network in Shanghai. At the end of the war the eldest son led the liberation of seven thousand American and Allied civilians held in Japanese internment camps in Shanghai. His actions and the support of the leading generals of the U.S. Army in China led to three special acts of Congress that granted him U.S. citizenship and admitted the entire Kim family into the United States. Four Kim brothers became some of the earliest intelligence officers of the nascent U.S. intelligence community, and three of them ascended to leadership positions in the CIA and the Army Special Forces.
Victory in Shanghai tells two intertwined American origin stories: a Korean family’s struggle to become Americans during the World War II era and the contributions of Korean Americans to the creation of modern U.S. intelligence and special operations. Withheld from the public until recently due to the secrecy surrounding their actions during World War II and the Cold War, the history of the Kim family is one of the great stories of coming to America and defending and strengthening it in the process.
“Robert Kim’s fascinating Victory in Shanghai breaks new ground, shedding much-needed light on the story of a remarkable family in extraordinary times.”—Charlotte Brooks, author of American Exodus: Second-Generation Chinese Americans in China, 1901–1949
“Victory in Shanghai reveals the long-hidden story of an entire family of Korean American heroes of the Second World War who went on to become pioneers in the intelligence community and special operations forces of the United States.”—Ambassador Greta Holtz (Ret.), former U.S. ambassador to Oman and senior foreign policy advisor to U.S. Special Operations Command
Robert S. Kim (unrelated to the Kim family in this book) is a lawyer and author who has served in the war in Iraq as the deputy treasury attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad and worked for the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Securities and Exchange Commission. Victory in Shanghai is his third book related to World War II.
JUNE
272 pp. • 6 x 9 • 30 photographs, index
$32.95T • hardcover • 978-1-64012-632-9
$45.00 Canadian / £27.99 UK
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Robert S. Kim
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BIOGRAPHY / WORLD
Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs is a professor of medicine emerita at Stanford University. She is the author of two critically acclaimed books, Jonas Salk: A Life and Henry Kaplan and the Story of Hodgkin’s Disease
JUNE
352 pp. • 6 x 9 • 19 photos, 1 map, index
$36.95T • hardcover • 978-1-64012-630-5
$50.00 Canadian / £32.00 UK
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D. M. Giangreco
Foreword by John T. Kuehn
$34.95 • hardcover • 978-1-64012-073-0
90 Seconds to Midnight A Hiroshima Survivor’s Nuclear Odyssey
CHARLOTTE DECROES JACOBS
90 Seconds to Midnight tells the gripping and thoughtprovoking story of Setsuko Nakamura Thurlow, a thirteenyear-old girl living in Hiroshima in 1945, when the city was annihilated by an atomic bomb. Struggling with grief and anger, Thurlow set out to warn the world about the horrors of a nuclear attack in a crusade that has lasted seven decades.
In 2015 Thurlow sparked a rallying cry for activists when she proclaimed at the United Nations, “Humanity and nuclear weapons cannot coexist.” With that, she shifted the global discussion from nuclear deterrence to humanitarian consequences, the key in crafting the landmark Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Regarded as the conscience of the antinuclear movement, Thurlow accepted the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. With the fate of humanity at stake and with the resolve of her samurai ancestors, Thurlow challenged leaders of the nuclear-armed states. On January 22, 2021, the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons went into effect, banning nuclear weapons under international law.
Critical historical events need a personal narrative, and Thurlow is such a storyteller for Hiroshima. 90 Seconds to Midnight recounts Thurlow’s ascent from the netherworld where she saw, heard, and smelled death and her relentless efforts to protect the world from an unspeakable fate. Knowing she would have to live with those nightmares, Thurlow turned them into a force to impel people across the globe to learn from Hiroshima, to admit that yes, it could happen again—and then to take action.
“Charlotte Jacobs has a most compelling story to tell—the biography of Setsuko Nakamura Thurlow, a survivor of Hiroshima. Only biography has the power to convey what happened at the dawn of the nuclear age.”—Kai Bird, coauthor of American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, winner of the Pulitzer Prize
“Setsuko Nakamura Thurlow’s life story captures the horror of nuclear weapons. That a survivor could transcend her experience into a lifetime of activism that has made the world safer is so inspiring. I’ve loved Jacobs’s previous biographical works; in 90 Seconds to Midnight her skill reaches new heights.”—Abraham Verghese, author of The Covenant of Water, an Oprah’s Book Club selection
“Setsuko Nakamura Thurlow’s story is inspiring, heroic, and profoundly important. This is a remarkable book about a truly remarkable woman.”—Eric Schlosser, author of Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety, a Pulitzer Prize finalist
Crisis and Crossfire
The
United States and the Middle East Since 1945 New Edition
PETER L. HAHN
Crisis and Crossfire traces the origins of the contemporary challenges facing the United States in the Middle East by analyzing the broad contours of U.S. policy in the region since the government’s first involvement there in the 1940s. Peter L. Hahn evaluates U.S. policy in the context of such global phenomena as the Cold War and the multipolar international order that emerged in the early 2000s. He explains how the United States has tried, with varying degrees of success, to curtail, modify, and channel Arab and Iranian nationalist movements to serve U.S. interests.
Crisis and Crossfire examines the U.S. approach to the Arab-Israeli conflict through eight decades, exploring the interstate wars of the 1940s–1980s, the quests to make peace in the 1970s–2010s, and the enduring strife between Israel and Palestine. Hahn details how the United States has assumed growing responsibility for regional stability and security in the Middle East since World War II, culminating in involvement in the Gulf War to liberate Kuwait and the invasions and occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq. This new edition provides an objective explanation of the IsraeliPalestinian Gaza War; the U.S. stand-off with Iran; the proxy wars in Lebanon, Yemen, Libya, and Syria; the threat of terrorism; and related topics.
“Crisis and Crossfire is a balanced and measured tour through the U.S. encounter with the Middle East since 1945. A survey with a point of view, it is interpretive without being polemical. The new chapters are marked by comprehensive coverage, evenhandedness, and true insight into both regional actors and U.S. policymakers.”
—Mary Ann Heiss, author of Fulfilling the Sacred Trust
“[Crisis and Crossfire provides] near-encyclopedic details about the U.S. involvement in the Middle East in the past eighty years. With evenhanded analysis, Hahn lets readers draw their own conclusions. This is just the kind of book we need right now.”—Douglas Little, author of American Orientalism: The United States and the Middle East since 1945
Peter L. Hahn is Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of History at The Ohio State University. He is the author of seven books on the history of U.S. diplomacy in the Middle East, including Missions Accomplished? The United States and Iraq since World War I .
APRIL
340 pp. • 6 x 9 • 27 photographs, 3 maps, index
$29.95T • paperback • 978-1-64012-577-3
$41.00 Canadian / £25.99 UK
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Pakistan and American Diplomacy
Insights from 9/11 to the Afghanistan Endgame
Ted Craig
$34.95 • hardcover • 978-1-64012-600-8
Ted Carter is president of The Ohio State University and former president of the University of Nebraska. He is a former superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy and former president of the U.S. Naval War College. Carter graduated from the Navy Fighter Weapons School (Top Gun) in 1985. As a U.S. Navy vice admiral, he commanded vessels deployed to combat operations in Afghanistan and the Arabian Gulf. Jack Stark is a performance psychologist and the founder and director of the National Center for Coaches. He is a former director of medical psychology at Physicians Clinic in Omaha, Nebraska, and a former director of family rehabilitation and former faculty member of pediatrics and psychiatry at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.
AUGUST
256 pp. • 6 x 9 • 22 photographs, 30 figures, 1 appendix, index
$34.95T • hardcover • 978-1-64012-623-7
$47.00 Canadian / £29.99 UK
Top Gun Performance From the Cockpit to the Boardroom
TED CARTER AND JACK STARK
Top Gun Performance can help readers learn to achieve happiness, success, and health in school, sports, work, and life. Ted Carter, a Top Gun graduate, and Jack Stark, a performance psychologist and psychotherapist, have observed, commanded, and treated the behaviors of thousands of individuals. Both understand the need to pursue a specific lifestyle to perform at the very top. Both are tuned in to what people want out of life, what is getting in their way, and what they can do to overcome the mental and physical obstacles keeping them from achieving a Top Gun performance in all areas of their lives.
Carter and Stark use their personal and professional histories to teach readers the psychological and mental performance tools they can use on a daily basis to meet the challenges they face. The authors share behind-the-scenes stories, techniques, and analysis to provide readers with a blueprint for building their own exceptional performance. Reviewing their careers in helping other people obtain successful outcomes, Carter and Stark offer a program readers can use in their own lives.
“I’ve known Ted Carter as a driven midshipman with an awesome sense of humor, an exceptional F-14 radar intercept officer and airborne tactician, and a leader without peer during his time as the superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy. Top Gun Performance deftly captures his unique experiences and translates them into actionable guidance for individuals or organizations looking to achieve their best. Add Jack Stark’s inputs and you have a one-ofa-kind book with amazing takeaways on every page.”—Ward Carroll, veteran F-14 Tomcat radar intercept officer, military commentator, and author of the Punk trilogy
“Ted Carter is an accomplished naval flight officer who holds our navy’s carrier aviation record for most carrier arrested landings. His life lessons are invaluable, having led the U.S. Naval Academy and now leading as the president of Ohio State University. He is a wonderful and gifted leader!”—John Dalton, seventieth secretary of the U.S. Navy and author of At the Helm
“Our Nebraska football team had been winning many games in the early 1990s, but it seemed that something was missing. I contacted Jack Stark, and he recommended several things that were helpful in building team unity and a stronger culture. . . . Stark is very innovative, and his advice can help almost any individual or organization get to a higher level of proficiency.”—Tom Osborne, former Husker head football coach, University of Nebraska athletic director, and U.S. congressman
Crush My Year as an Apprentice Winemaker
NICHOLAS O’CONNELL
In Crush Nicholas O’Connell provides a behind-the-scenes look at the daily operations of some of the world’s most prestigious wineries on the West Coast. This insider’s view of the wine world includes the intense competition for the best grapes, the bizarre lingo of the tasting rooms, and the visionary winemakers who magically transform grapes into high-end wine. It is a world that includes not only romance and refinement but long hours, back-breaking labor, mind-numbing repetition, and fanatical dedication to quality. Such devotion resulted in the 1973 Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars Cabernet that won the best red wine at the 1976 Judgment of Paris and transformed the U.S. wine industry.
O’Connell’s quest to master the art of winemaking begins in his garage. From there he embarks on an apprenticeship at Betz and DeLille Cellar and other great wineries in California, Oregon, and Washington. He provides a first-person, ground-up view of a business not yet fully explored despite record interest in wine. O’Connell also includes conversations with some of the world’s most gifted vintners, including Warren Winiarski, former owner of Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars.
Wine is surrounded by a seemingly impenetrable cloud of descriptors—“wet dog,” “kumquats,” “cat pee”—and a fog of pretention. Crush pierces this fog with colorful, concrete storytelling, in-depth portraits of famous winemakers, and a lively, down-to-earth description of the process by which wine is made: not in the critic’s mind but in the winery and vineyard.
“Nicholas O’Connell’s Crush is a lively, personal tour through the joys— and travails—of making wine and is also packed with information and insights about wine in general. It’s an engaging read for anyone who starts feeling that crazy itch that they’d like, someday, to make their own wine—or for anyone who loves wine.”—Ray Isle, executive wine editor of Food & Wine and wine and spirits editor for Travel + Leisure
“Nicholas O’Connell’s level of experience is phenomenal: his decades of making wine, his writing style, and his obsession with making wine. This feels like once-in-a-lifetime work because it includes twenty-plus years of living, social drinking, and learning about wine. It is a memoir mirrored by winemaking. It is humble and humorous. Nothing else touches it.”—Mike Medberry, author of The Dark Side of the Moon and viticulturist at Frog’s Tooth Winery
Nicholas O’Connell is based in Washington State and is the founder of the Writer’s Workshop. He contributes to media outlets such as Newsweek , Food & Wine , the New York Times , the Wall Street Journal , and National Geographic Adventure . O’Connell is the author of five books, including The Storms of Denali: A Novel and On Sacred Ground: The Spirit of Place in Pacific Northwest Literature .
JULY
232 pp. • 6 x 9 • 18 color plates, index
$32.95T • hardcover • 978-1-64012-631-2
$45.00 Canadian / £27.99 UK
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Chasing Cynthiana
My Search for America’s Native Wines
Lynn Hamilton
$29.95 • hardcover • 978-1-64012-617-6
Yiscah Smith is a thought leader and spiritual activist committed to empowering and ennobling others in the spiritual practice of encountering the Divine spark within and beyond. She teaches Jewish contemplative practice and spiritual texts at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem and for the online platform Applied Jewish Spirituality. She is the author of Forty Years in the Wilderness: My Journey to Authentic Living and founder of Conscious Community Nachlaot, an alternative prayer space in Jerusalem. Her Authentic Jewish Living with Yiscah podcast episodes are available on platforms such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
JUNE
354 pp. • 6 x 9
$24.95T • paperback • 978-0-8276-1571-7
$34.00 Canadian / £21.99 UK
ALSO OF INTEREST
A New Hasidism: Branches
Edited by Arthur Green and Ariel Evan Mayse
$29.95 • paperback • 978-0-8276-1307-2
Planting Seeds of the Divine Torah Commentaries to Cultivate Your
Spiritual Practice
YISCAH SMITH
Experiencing deep personal fulfillment, happiness, and sustenance comes from feeling connected to our authentic selves, which involves building an ongoing relationship with the Divine Presence within us, says author Yiscah Smith. Quite organically, then, we may begin sensing the Divine in our interactions with other people. This is because, for each of us, “our essence, as a creation by God, is God.”
Planting Seeds of the Divine elucidates how Judaism’s sacred texts can provide the foundation for the “end destination” of experiencing intimate encounters with the Divine Presence within—the God-consciousness that so many of us find elusive. Imagining ourselves as spiritual gardeners, we can cultivate our unique gardens with seeds centered on middot (emotional dispositions, character traits, spiritual sensitivities). Each seed corresponds to an aspirational Torah commentary, consisting of a selected Torah verse linked to one of the middot, a summary of the biblical text preceding the verse, classical commentaries, teachings of Hasidic and Neo-Hasidic masters and the author, and step-by-step experiential practices to help us internalize the middot and encounter the Divine.
Each seed contributes to the garden’s beauty—the beauty of the self in God-consciousness—which hopefully blossoms into a magnificent garden of the soul.
“Yiscah Smith has done a remarkable job of painting a wonderfully textured method of reading the Torah as a guide for spiritual development.”—Ariel Evan Mayse, assistant professor of religious studies at Stanford University and coeditor of A New Hasidism: Roots and A New Hasidism: Branches
“An important contribution to this emerging school of Torah commentary that is smart and intellectually sophisticated while also embodied and psychologically and spiritually informed.”—Rabbi Josh Feigelson, president and CEO of the Institute for Jewish Spirituality
Ketubah Renaissance
The Artful Modern Revival of the Jewish Marriage Contract
MICHAEL SHAPIRO
FOREWORD BY SHALOM SABAR
Illuminating the contemporary revival of the Jewish marriage contract, Ketubah Renaissance relays the storied history of this beloved document (known in Hebrew as a ketubah) through the present day and showcases sixty of the most innovative and beautiful ketubot of the last half century.
Originally created 2,500 years ago as a unilateral marriage contract stating what a groom would provide for his bride, the ketubah evolved from the tenth century onward into a richly decorated expression of love and commitment. Starting in the late 1960s a modern sensibility took root. Influenced by Jewish life and North American society at large, hundreds of artists and calligraphers began to imprint their unique aesthetic onto each ketubah design—a movement Judaica scholar Shalom Sabar calls “a veritable renaissance of the illuminated ketubbah”—while also updating the original Aramaic text to express contemporary values.
Couples and families with upcoming weddings as well as officiating clergy, educators, aficionados of Jewish culture, scholars, and others will discover the evolving history of the ketubah in all its facets: its artforms, texts, scripts, iconography, production processes, and technological innovations. A curated, chronological ketubah gallery brings readers up close to sixty influential ketubot and the artists who created them—a colorful cornucopia of breakthroughs that epitomize the ketubah renaissance.
“Thoughtful, inspiring, ingenious, inventive, playful, profound. . . . Adjectives fail me. Ketubah Renaissance is a gorgeous testament to the creative, aesthetic, and spiritual health of Jewish life in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. The images summon the ‘mazal tovs’ of weddings past, present, and future.”
—Anita Diamant, author of twelve books, including The Red Tent and The Jewish Wedding Now
“Offers a bird’s-eye view into the fascinating journey of one of Judaism’s oldest forms of visual culture. Through careful selection, ancient and modern patterns emerge in the development of a veritable contemporary Ketubah Renaissance.”—Francesco Spagnolo, curator of the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life and associate adjunct professor of Music and Jewish Studies at the University of California, Berkeley
Michael Shapiro is the founder and CEO of Ketubah. com, the world’s leading publisher of artistic Jewish wedding contracts, and a worldwide lecturer on historical and contemporary ketubot. For nearly three decades he has helped shape the development of contemporary ketubah art by guiding both influential and emerging contemporary ketubah artists and by freeing a wider range of artists of the need to master the text themselves. His ketubah publishing innovations include cutting-edge archival quality printing, laser cutting on demand, and an online tool to submit and verify all Hebrew names on the contract. Shalom Sabar is professor emeritus of Jewish art and folklore at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the author of more than 265 publications exploring Jewish art and the material culture of Jewish communities in Europe and the Islamic East, including The Art of the Ketubbah: Marriage Contracts from the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary .
AUGUST
200 pp. • 10 x 10 • 1 color photograph, 137 color illustrations, 1 appendix
$39.95T • hardcover • 978-0-8276-1562-5
$54.00 Canadian / £36.00 UK
Elliott West is Alumni Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Arkansas. He is the author of numerous books, including The Last Indian War: The Nez Perce Story and The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, and the Rush to Colorado .
JULY
704 pp. • 6 x 9 • 23 photographs, 27 illustrations, 10 maps, index
$29.95T • paperback • 978-1-4962-4301-0
$41.00 Canadian / £25.99 UK
History of the American West
Richard W. Etulain, series editor
Continental Reckoning The
American West in the Age of Expansion
ELLIOTT WEST
• Finalist for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in History
• Winner of the 2024 Bancroft Prize in American History
• Winner of the 2024 Caughey Western History Prize
• Winner of the 2024 Spur Award
• Named a Best Civil War Book of 2023 by Civil War Monito r
In Continental Reckoning renowned historian Elliott West presents a sweeping narrative of the American West and its vital role in the transformation of the nation. In the 1840s, by which time the United States had expanded to the Pacific, what would become the West was home to numerous vibrant Native cultures and vague claims by other nations. Thirty years later it was organized into states and territories and bound into the nation and world by an infrastructure of rails, telegraph wires, and roads and by a racial and ethnic order, with its Indigenous peoples largely dispossessed and confined to reservations. Continental Reckoning argues that these changes should be given equal billing with the Civil War in this crucial transition of national life.
As the American West was acquired, integrated into the nation, and made over physically and culturally, the United States shifted onto a course of accelerated economic growth, a racial reordering and redefinition of citizenship, engagement with global revolutions of science and technology, and invigorated involvement with the larger world. The creation of the West and the emergence of modern America were intimately related. Neither can be understood without the other. With masterful prose and a critical eye, Continental Reckoning presents a fresh approach to the dawn of the American West, one of the most pivotal periods of American history.
“A comprehensive, lucid, and often surprising history of western settlement in America.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review
“With its scope, sophistication, and engaging prose, this marvelous book deserves wide readership.”—Sherry L. Smith, South Dakota History
“By the final chapter of Continental Reckoning, the reader should pause and realize they have read one of the most important contributions to the American historiography published in the past half century.”—Stuart Rosebrook, True West
Disruption Inside the Largest Counterterrorism Investigation in History
AKI J. PERITZ
• Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year
• Neave Book Prize shortlist
Al-Qaeda did not stop after 9/11. Its reign of terror continued with bombings and mayhem across Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. But its frustration grew as the group failed to fundamentally undermine America and its allies. Five years later the time was ripe for another spectacular mega-plot. Fresh from masterminding the London Underground carnage, one veteran operative set in motion a new operation to destroy passenger aircraft over the Atlantic Ocean—and kill thousands of people in the process. Disruption tells the story of that conspiracy and the heroic efforts by the intelligence services of the United States, Great Britain, and Pakistan to uncover and crush it. From the streets of London to the training camps of Pakistan to the corridors of power in Washington DC, the story unfolds with murders, double-crosses, probes, jailbreaks, and explosions. Former counterterrorism analyst Aki J. Peritz brings the story to life with vivid imagery, interviews with top intelligence officials, and never-before-seen declassified documents. Disruption is the not-to-be-missed account of the race to stop a terrorist conspiracy that would have remade our world—forever.
Aki J. Peritz is the coauthor of Find, Fix, Finish: Inside the Counterterrorism Campaigns That Killed Bin Laden and Devastated Al-Qaeda . He is a frequent commentator on national security issues for CNN, Fox, MSNBC, and NPR and has published in the Atlantic , the New York Times , the Washington Post , Foreign Policy , and Politico
“[A] gripping account of a complex and ultimately successful counterterrorism investigation.”—Lawrence D. Freedman, Foreign Affairs
APRIL
408 pp. • 6 x 9 • 20 photographs, 2 maps, index
$26.95T • paperback • 978-1-64012-646-6
$36.00 Canadian / £22.99 UK North America and UK rights only
Out of the Crazywoods
CHERYL SAVAGEAU
Out of the Crazywoods is the riveting and insightful story of Abenaki poet Cheryl Savageau’s late-life diagnosis of bipolar disorder. Without sensationalizing, she takes the reader inside the experience of a rapid-cycling variant of the disorder, providing a lens through which to understand it and a road map for navigating the illness. The structure of her story—impressionistic, fragmented—is an embodiment of the bipolar experience and a way of perceiving the world.
Out of the Crazywoods takes the reader into the euphoria of mania as well as its ugly, agitated rage and into “the lying down of desire” that is depression. Savageau articulates the joy of being consort to a god and the terror of being chased by witchcraft, the sound of voices that are always chattering in your head, the smell of wet ashes that invades your home, the perception that people are moving in slow motion and that death lurks at every turnpike, and the feeling of being loved by the universe and despised by everyone you’ve ever known.
Central to the journey in Out of the Crazywoods is the sensitive child who becomes a poet and the writer who finds clarity in her art and a reason to heal in her grandchildren. Savageau’s journey reveals the stigma and the social, personal, and economic consequences of the illness but reminds us that the disease is not the person. Grounded in Abenaki culture, Savageau questions cultural definitions of madness and charts a path to recovery through a combination of medications, psychotherapy, and ceremony.
Cheryl Savageau teaches at Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College. She is the author of the poetry collections Home Country , Dirt Road Home , and Mother/Land . She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Artists Foundation.
JUNE
264 pp. • 6 x 9
$24.95T • paperback • 978-1-4962-4339-3
$34.00 Canadian / £21.99 UK
American Indian Lives
Kimberly Blaeser, Brenda J. Child, R. David Edmunds, and Tsianina K. Lomawaima, series editors
Dave Parker played nineteen seasons in the Major Leagues and was the first million-dollarper-year player. He lives in Ohio, where he has created the Dave Parker 39 Foundation, an organization focused on finding a cure for Parkinson’s disease. Dave Jordan is a writer and filmmaker living in New Jersey. He has written for Sporting News , SB Nation , and the Hardball Times , and he is the coauthor (with John D’Acquisto) of Fastball John
APRIL
480 pp. • 6 x 9 • 29 photographs
$29.95T • paperback • 978-1-4962-4099-6
$41.00 Canadian / £25.99 UK
Cobra A Life of Baseball and Brotherhood
DAVE PARKER AND DAVE JORDAN
Dave Parker was one of the biggest and most badass baseball players of the late twentieth century. He was a seven-time All-Star, a two-time batting champion, a threetime Gold Glove winner, the 1978 National League MVP, and a World Series champion with both the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Oakland A’s. Here the great Dave Parker delivers his wild and long-awaited autobiography—an authoritative account of Black baseball during its heyday as seen through the eyes of none other than the Cobra.
Cobra is the story of a Black athlete making his way through the game during a time of major social and cultural transformation. From the racially integrated playing fields of his high school days to the cookie-cutter cathedrals of his prime alongside all the midseason and late-night theatrics that accompany an athlete’s life on the road—Parker offers readers a glimpse of all that and everything in between.
Parker recounts the triumphant victories and the heartbreaking defeats, both on and off the field. He recalls the complicated politics of spring training, the early stages of the free agency era, and the notorious 1985 drug trials. Paying tribute to the enduring power of relationships between players, Parker tells an epic tale of friendship, success, indulgence, and redemption, but most of all, family. Cobra is the unforgettable story of a million-dollar athlete just before baseball became a billion-dollar game.
“One of the most gripping and revealing baseball memoirs I’ve ever read.”—Tyler Kepner, New York Times
“[Dave Parker was] impossibly charismatic, remarkably candid, and as cool as his nickname Cobra. . . . [Cobra is] mesmerizing, powerful, and right on the money.”—Chad Finn, sportswriter for the Boston Globe
“A highly readable and, more importantly, well-contextualized work.” —Jorge Iber, Nine: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture
“For that period of time, he was the greatest player of my generation.”—Keith Hernandez
The Umpire Is Out Calling the Game and
Living My True Self
DALE SCOTT WITH ROB NEYER
FOREWORD BY BILLY BEAN
Dale Scott’s career as a professional baseball umpire spanned nearly forty years, including thirty-three in the Major Leagues, from 1985 to 2017. He worked exactly a thousand games behind the plate, calling balls and strikes at the pinnacle of his profession, interacting with dozens of other top-flight umpires, colorful managers, and hundreds of players. Scott has enough stories about his career on the field to fill a dozen books, but what makes Scott’s book truly different is his unique perspective as the only umpire in the history of professional baseball to come out as gay during his career, after decades of maintaining a public facade of straightness. He navigated this obstacle course at a time when his MLB career was just taking off—and when North America was consumed by the AIDS epidemic.
Scott’s story isn’t only about leading a double life, then opening himself up to the world and discovering a new generosity of spirit. It’s also a baseball story, filled with insights and memorable anecdotes that come so naturally from someone who spent decades among the world’s greatest baseball players, managers, and games. Scott’s story is fascinating both for his umpiring career and for his being a pioneer for LGBTQ people within baseball and across sports.
Dale Scott ’s career as a Major League umpire included 3 World Series, 3 All-Star Games, 6 League Championship Series, 12 Division Series, and more than 90 postseason games. He lives in Palm Springs, California, with Michael, his husband, and their yellow Lab, Wylie. Rob Neyer serves as commissioner of the West Coast League and has written or cowritten seven books, including Power Ball: Anatomy of a Modern Baseball Game Billy Bean (1964–2024) was vice president and special assistant to the commissioner of Major League Baseball.
APRIL
312 pp. • 6 x 9 • 25 photographs, 1 appendix, index
$24.95T • paperback • 978-1-4962-4335-5
$34.00 Canadian / £21.99 UK
Life in the G Minor League Basketball and the Relentless Pursuit of the NBA
ALEX SQUADRON
FOREWORD BY ANDRE INGRAM
Welcome to the G League, the official minor league of the National Basketball Association. Life in the G is about the arduous quest to achieve an improbable goal: making it to the NBA. Zeroing in on the Birmingham Squadron and four of its players—Jared Harper, Joe Young, Zylan Cheatham, and Malcolm Hill—Alex Squadron details the pursuit of a dream in what turned out to be the most remarkable season in the history of minor league sports.
Life in the G League is far from glamorous. Players make enormous sacrifices in the hope that someone in the NBA will give them a chance. To this day, very few fans—even the most passionate followers of the NBA—know much about the G League. Beginning in the fall of 2021, the Birmingham Squadron granted author Alex Squadron complete access to the team to capture the experience of playing in the league. That season, with hundreds of NBA players sidelined by the highly contagious Omicron variant of COVID-19, the G League saw a record number of call-ups. Sports Illustrated labeled it “the year of the NBA replacement player.” Many of those players stayed in the NBA, earning life-changing contracts and taking on significant roles for their new teams. In addition to recounting the organization’s inaugural season, Squadron’s access to the Birmingham Squadron enabled him to document the incredible journeys of G League players and to tell the larger story of life in the G.
Alex Squadron is a sports journalist who has worked as an associate editor for SLAM, producing cover stories on NBA stars and reporting on marquee events such as the NBA Finals, NBA All-Star Weekend, and FIBA World Cup in China. Andre Ingram is a professional basketball player who has spent fourteen years in the G League. He also serves as president of the G League’s union.
MAY
288 pp. • 6 x 9 • 19 photographs
$24.95T • paperback • 978-1-4962-4336-2
$34.00 Canadian / £21.99 UK
SCHOLARLY BOOKS
Rising Above Language Revitalization in the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians
BENJAMIN E. FREY
Today there are roughly two hundred first-language Cherokee speakers among the seventeen thousand citizens of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in North Carolina. In 2019 the United Keetoowah Band, the Cherokee Nation, and the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians declared a state of emergency for the Cherokee language.
In Rising Above Eastern Band Cherokee citizen Benjamin E. Frey chronicles his odyssey of being introduced to the Cherokee language with trepidation as a young adult and his eventual work revitalizing the Cherokee language in a Cherokee way. In the first book to examine the process of language shift and revitalization among this band, Frey explores the institutional, economic, and social factors that drove the language shift from Cherokee to English, interpreted through the lens of a member of the Eastern Band Cherokee community in conversation with other community members. Rising Above navigates Frey’s upbringing, the intricacies of language and relationships, the impact of trauma, and the quest for joy and healing within the community.
In addition to language documentation and preservation, Rising Above explores how to breathe new life into the language and community, using storytelling to discuss the Cherokee language, its grammatical components, and its embedded cultural ideologies alongside its interactions with broader American society.
“Rising Above unearths the systemic roots of language endangerment and plants the seeds of language persistence. Benjamin E. Frey illustrates dozens of ways to fearlessly use Cherokee as he generously shares his extensive knowledge of the language. Engaging and beautifully written, Rising Above is a must-read for language teachers and learners, scholars of Cherokee, and anyone seeking connections between Cherokee language and lifeways.”—Ellen Cushman, Cherokee Nation citizen and author of The Cherokee Syllabary: Writing the People’s Perseverance
“Benjamin Frey is an excellent teacher and storyteller. Rising Above will make an important contribution to the cultural sovereignty of the Cherokee people and to the study of language shift, Native studies, cultural studies, and modern Indigenous history. Rising Above makes a powerful argument that will change lives.”—Gregory D. Smithers, author of Reclaiming Two-Spirits: Sexuality, Spiritual Renewal, and Sovereignty in Native America
Benjamin E. Frey (Eastern Band Cherokee) is an assistant professor of Cherokee language and culture at the University of North Carolina–Asheville. He is the coauthor, with John D. Loftin, of People of Kituwah: The Old Ways of the Eastern Cherokees
JULY
240 pp. • 6 x 9 • 7 photographs, 1 illustration, 3 tables, 2 appendixes, index
$60.00S • hardcover • 978-1-4962-3570-1
$81.00 Canadian / £54.00 UK
Many Wests
Thomas G. Andrews, Ari Kelman, Amy Lonetree, Mary E. Mendoza, and Christina Snyder, series editors
Nathan Sowry is a reference archivist at the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution.
APRIL
338 pp. • 6 x 9 • 13 photographs, index
$65.00S • hardcover • 978-1-4962-4192-4
$88.00 Canadian / £58.00 UK
Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology
Regna Darnell and Robert Oppenheim, series editors
ALSO OF INTEREST
Franz Boas
The Emergence of the Anthropologist
Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt
$34.95 • hardcover • 978-1-4962-1554-3
Turning the Power
Indian Boarding Schools, Native American Anthropologists, and the Race to Preserve Indigenous Cultures
NATHAN SOWRY
In Turning the Power Nathan Sowry examines how some Native American students from the boarding school system, with its forced assimilationist education, became key cultural informants for anthropologists conducting fieldwork during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Salvage anthropologists of this era relied on Native informants to accomplish their mission of “saving” Native American cultures and ultimately turned many informants into anthropologists after years of fieldwork experience. Sowry investigates ten relatively unknown Native American anthropologists and collaborators who, from 1878 to 1930, attended a religiously affiliated mission school, a federal Indian boarding school, or both. He tells the stories of Native anthropologists Tichkematse, William Jones, and James R. Murie, who were alumni of the Hampton Institute in Virginia. Richard Davis and Cleaver Warden were among the first and second classes to attend the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania. Amos Oneroad graduated from the Haskell Indian Industrial Training School in Lawrence, Kansas, after attending mission and boarding schools in South Dakota. D. C. Duvall, John V. Satterlee, and Florence and Louis Shotridge attended smaller boarding and mission schools in Montana, Wisconsin, and Alaska Territory, respectively.
Turning the Power follows the forced indoctrination of Native American students and then details how each of them “turned the power,” using their English knowledge and work experience in the anthropological field to embrace, document, and preserve their Native cultures rather than abandoning their heritage.
“Turning the Power brings to historical consciousness a series of Native individuals who have rarely been recognized and whose roles in early ethnographic fieldwork were significant. Of even greater importance, though, are the issues surrounding ethnic identity and the central importance of individual decisions (agency). The essays are fascinating to read, individually and collectively.”
—Curtis M. Hinsley, coeditor of Coming of Age in Chicago: The 1893 World’s Fair and the Coalescence of American Anthropology
“Nathan Sowry’s research utilizes a vast array of archival and secondary sources. He has done a wonderful job of weaving the narratives of important characters in each chapter. It will serve well anyone interested in the history of American anthropology and American Indians.”—Benjamin R. Kracht, editor of Autobiography of a Kiowa Indian
James Cowles Prichard of the Red Lodge A Life of Science during the
Age of Improvement
MARGARET M. CRUMP
In James Cowles Prichard of the Red Lodge Margaret M. Crump offers the first in-depth biography of the early Victorian British scientist James Cowles Prichard (1786–1848). An intellectual giant in the developing human sciences, he was a pioneering psychiatric theorist in the formative years of the discipline and one of Europe’s leading anthropologists. With evocative detail, Crump draws readers into the social and cultural milieu of early nineteenth-century Bristol, a world of pre-scientific medicine and the emerging fields of anthropology and psychiatry. As the century’s premier theorist of the common origin of all humanity, known as monogenism, Prichard asserted the affinity and equal capacity of all humans. Even though he was politically and socially conservative, Prichard worked behind the scenes to support abolitionism, and he advocated for the humane treatment of colonial British subjects. He challenged the rising tide of scientific racism starting to fester in the academic halls of Europe and the United States. He is also considered one of the pioneers of Celtic linguistics. His influential publications on neurological and psychological conditions called for the humane care and treatment of the mentally ill and mentally disabled and protection of their civil liberties. Born into changing, challenging times, during a revolution in British culture and at the threshold of modern science, Prichard fully embodied the age of improvement.
“Margaret Crump does Prichard proud in this fine study of this multifaceted man and his times.”—William Bynum, author of Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century
“Margaret Crump’s archival and bibliographical scholarship are second to none. . . . I wholeheartedly recommend this gem of firstrate academic learning that has implications for current affairs in race and equality.”—Nicolaas A. Rupke, author of Richard Owen: Biology without Darwin
“In this exceedingly informative and engrossing account of the life and times of James Cowles Prichard, Margaret Crump expertly weaves together the life, medical career, and anthropological writings of one of Bristol’s most interesting past inhabitants.”—Jonathan Reinarz, editor of A Cultural History of Medicine in the Age of Empire
Margaret M. Crump is an independent scholar in nineteenth-century British intellectual and cultural history and works as an arts educator and artist in Bristol, United Kingdom.
JUNE
706 pp. • 6 x 9 • 2 photographs, 11 illustrations, index
$99.00X • hardcover • 978-1-4962-4200-6
$134.00 Canadian / £89.00 UK
$45.00S • paperback • 978-1-4962-4234-1
$61.00 Canadian / £40.00 UK
Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology
Regna Darnell and Robert Oppenheim, series editors
Regna Darnell is Distinguished University Professor of anthropology emerita at the University of Western Ontario. She is the author of History of Theory and Method in Anthropology (Nebraska, 2022), among other books. Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz is professor of communication emerita at the University of Wisconsin–Parkside. She is the author of Rolling in Ditches with Shamans: Jaime de Angulo and the Professionalization of American Anthropology (Nebraska, 2005).
JUNE
330 pp. • 6 x 9 • 2 photographs, 2 tables, index
$70.00S • hardcover • 978-1-4962-4300-3
$95.00 Canadian / £63.00 UK
Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology
Regna Darnell and Robert Oppenheim, series editors
Invisible Contrarian Essays in Honor of Stephen O. Murray
EDITED BY REGNA DARNELL AND WENDY LEEDS-HURWITZ
In Invisible Contrarian Regna Darnell and Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz have assembled scholars to memorialize and celebrate the prescient vision and interdisciplinary contributions of the late Stephen O. Murray (1950–2019), who did pioneering research in ethnolinguistics and anthropology of gender and homosexuality. His socially relevant work continues to provide a cogent example of an emergent, forward-looking anthropology for the twenty-first century. Murray’s wide-ranging work included linguistics, regional ethnography in Latin America and Asia, activism, history of anthropology in relation to social sciences, and migration studies.
Along with a complete list of his publications, Invisible Contrarian highlights Murray’s methodological innovations and includes key writings that remain little known, since he never pursued a tenured research position. Murray’s significant, prolific contributions deserve not only to be reexamined but to be shared with contemporary and future audiences. Ideal both as a primer for those who have not yet read Murray’s work and as an in-depth resource for those already familiar with him, this volume demonstrates the wide-ranging accomplishments of a man who modeled how to be an independent scholar outside an academic position.
“Stephen Murray emerges from these pages as a committed scholar, brilliant, incisive, tenacious, courageous, and—occasionally—grumpy and contentious. Invisible Contrarian demonstrates that signal contributions to the discipline can be made amid other work as more and more anthropologists are developing careers outside the academy.”
—Andrea Laforet, coeditor of The Franz Boas Papers, Volume 2
“No other book assembles both papers by Stephen Murray and comments on his work. This is a treasure trove for any scholar working on Murray or wanting to know more about his work in either anthropology or queer studies. Invisible Contrarian will be the definitive Murray reference.”—Yves Winkin, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of anthropology and communication studies at the University of Liège
Ojibwe Ethnogenesis, 1640–1740
THERESA M. SCHENCK
In Ojibwe Ethnogenesis, 1640–1740 Theresa M. Schenck (Ojibwe, Huron, Blackfeet) presents the first scholarly work to untangle the origin, rise, and spread of Ojibwe identity and culture from the mid-seventeenth to the mideighteenth century, as well as the emergence of Ojibwe identity in the early years of French imperial incursions into the Upper Midwest. Schenck traces the names ascribed to the Ojibwes by French officials, traders, missionaries, and settlers in the earliest European records to their presences in French America. Schenck then follows the people themselves and their complex relationships through the centuries. Schenck’s proficiency in French and her close reading of the original sources, many in French, have facilitated a more accurate, traceable, and comprehensive documentary study than achieved by previous generations of scholars. Ojibwe Ethnogenesis, 1640–1740 has thus achieved our fullest understanding to date of Ojibwe roots and culture going back four hundred years.
“Theresa Schenck is an extraordinary scholar and writer and demonstrates in every paragraph a respect for the reader, a presentation of critical academic discourse, and a direct explanation of the subject. Ojibwe Ethnogenesis, 1640–1740 is a learned, original, and inclusive history of the Outchibouec, Ojibwes, Chippewas, and Sauteurs.”
—Gerald Vizenor, author of Native Provenance: The Betrayal of Cultural Creativity
“Theresa Schenck’s interest in early Ojibwe history is grounded in her ancestral ties to the people and a concern for achieving a fuller understanding of Ojibwe roots and culture. Tracing a deep past in records going back four hundred years, Ojibwe Ethnogenesis, 1640–1740 is unique in content and its attention to its subject. It fills an important niche in the literature.”—Jennifer S. H. Brown, editor of Ojibwe Stories from the Upper Berens River: A. Irving Hallowell and Adam Bigmouth in Conversation
Theresa M. Schenck (Ojibwe, Huron, Blackfeet) is professor emerita of life sciences communications and American Indian studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is the editor of William W. Warren’s History of the Ojibway People and the author of William W. Warren: The Life, Letters, and Times of an Ojibwe Leader (Nebraska, 2009) and All Our Relations: Chippewa Mixed Bloods and the Treaty of 1837
JUNE
192 pp. • 6 x 9 • 3 illustrations, 7 maps, 1 table, index
$60.00S • hardcover • 978-1-4962-4187-0
$81.00 Canadian / £54.00 UK
Geoffrey Kimball is a research associate in the Department of Anthropology at Indiana University. He is the author of Yukhíti Kóy: A Reference Grammar of the Atakapa Language (Nebraska, 2022), Koasati Traditional Narratives (Nebraska, 2010), Koasati Dictionary (Nebraska, 1994), and Koasati Grammar (Nebraska, 1991). Watt Sam (c. 1877–1944), a member of the Cherokee Nation, was one of the last remaining speakers of the Natchez language. He worked extensively with Mary R. Haas and other linguists to record vocabulary, grammar, and more than seventy traditional narratives. Nancy Raven (c. 1874–1957), a member of the Cherokee Nation, was upon her death the last known speaker of Natchez. She worked extensively with Mary R. Haas to record vocabulary, grammar, and fourteen literary narratives.
AUGUST
332 pp. • 7 x 10 • 6 photographs, 1 illustration, 131 tables
$80.00S • hardcover • 978-1-4962-4035-4
$108.00 Canadian / £72.00 UK
Natchez Analytical Dictionary
GEOFFREY KIMBALL
BASED ON THE KNOWLEDGE SHARED BY WATT SAM AND NANCY RAVEN
In Natchez Analytical Dictionary Geoffrey Kimball offers the first comprehensive dictionary of the Natchez language, a now extinct Native American language originally spoken in the region surrounding Natchez, Mississippi, and finally in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. Based primarily on the extensive fieldwork of world-renowned linguist Mary R. Haas, the dictionary also contains material collected earlier by linguists and anthropologists such as Victor Riste, John R. Swanton, Albert S. Gatschet, Ann Eliza Worcester Robertson, Albert Pike, and Albert S. Gallatin.
The Natchez language—whose lack of accurate available lexical material has perplexed modern linguists—has long been thought to be related to the Muskogean languages. Kimball’s Natchez Analytical Dictionary fills this critical gap for comparative, historical linguistics.
“This dictionary will be a boon not only to language learners but also to the fields of linguistics, anthropology, ethnography, and Indigenous Studies, helping us understand more about these people of the great Mississippian culture of North America.”
—David V. Kaufman, author of Clues to Lower Mississippi Valley Histories: Language, Archaeology, and Ethnography
“Natchez is not for the faint of heart, and Geoffrey Kimball not only shows mastery of the complexities but has managed to explain things cleanly and clearly. He has made sense of all historical layers of documentation, not a simple task, in light of what can be learned from the careful work of Mary R. Haas, and it is wonderful to see all of these facts assembled clearly in one place.”—Marianne Mithun, author of The Languages of Native North America
A Grammar of Nakoda (Assiniboine)
LINDA A. CUMBERLAND
A Grammar of Nakoda (Assiniboine) is the first complete grammar of the Native American language Assiniboine, also known by the endonym Nakoda, a member of the Siouan language family. It addresses all major grammatical categories, including phonology, nouns, verbs, adverbs, enclitics, determiners, syntax, and kinship terminology. It also includes groundbreaking analysis of motion verbs of coming and going, demonstrating that such verbs compose a closed system that is consistent in varying degrees across all Siouan languages.
Over the past century and a half, the classification of the Assiniboine language has suffered due to a complicated history regarding the Dakotan branch of the Siouan language family. Once spoken over a vast contiguous area of the northern plains, Assiniboine/Nakoda is used today among the Assiniboine people in and around Fort Belknap and Fort Peck in Montana and in five reserves in Saskatchewan. A Grammar of Nakoda (Assiniboine) establishes the singular basis of the language while also relating its unique features to other Great Plains American Indian languages.
“A Grammar of Nakoda (Assiniboine) is an outstanding work that describes the phonological, grammatical, and syntactical structures of Nakoda, as well as some lexical peculiarities. Since this grammar is written within a descriptive framework, it is highly accessible and will be useful for both researchers and Nakoda-language teachers and students.”—Vincent Collette, coauthor of A Concise Dictionary of Nakoda (Assiniboine)
“The grammar presented here by Tųwį Linda is the foremost resource gathered and produced for the Nakoda language. Her work within Nakoda communities over decades has proven her determination to save a language. This resource, now updated, is an accurate and detailed grammar. Our tribe is forever grateful to Linda for her friendship and love.”—Kenneth “Tuffy” Helgeson (Lodge Pole Nakoda), a Nakoda instructor at Aaniiih Nakoda College and at Hays Lodgepole High School on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation
“I believe this will become the definitive grammar on Assiniboine, and as such, it will serve a very important role in language maintenance and revitalization programs.”—John Boyle, associate professor of linguistics at Fresno State University
Linda A. Cumberland is a former language director at the Kaw Nation of Oklahoma. She has received grants for language preservation research from the Wenner-Gren Foundation, Fulbright Foundation, National Science Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
MAY
458 pp. • 7 x 10 • 1 illustration, 1 map, 45 tables, 10 charts, 7 appendixes
$85.00X • hardcover • 978-1-4962-4283-9
$115.00 Canadian / £76.00 UK
Studies in the Native Languages of the Americas Tim Thornes, series editor
Charles E. Apekaum (ca. 1890) was born during the final years of the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Reservation. He served as interpreter for the Santa Fe Laboratory of Anthropology field expedition in 1935, among many other jobs as a translator. Weston La Barre was an anthropologist best known for his work on traditional uses of plants in Native American religions and use of psychoanalysis in ethnography. He is the author of The Peyote Cult , a landmark work in psychological anthropology. Benjamin R. Kracht is a professor emeritus of anthropology at Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. He is the editor of Stories from Saddle Mountain: Autobiographies of a Kiowa Family by Henrietta Tongkeamha and Raymond Tongkeamha (Nebraska, 2021) and the author of Kiowa Belief and Ritual (Nebraska, 2017), among other books.
JULY
250 pp. • 6 x 9 • 7 b&w photographs, index
$65.00S • hardcover • 978-1-4962-4318-8
$88.00 Canadian / £58.00 UK
American Indian Lives
Kimberly Blaeser, Brenda J. Child, R. David Edmunds, and Tsianina K. Lomawaima, series editors
Autobiography of a Kiowa Indian
CHARLES E. APEKAUM
WITH WESTON LA BARRE
EDITED BY BENJAMIN R. KRACHT
Born during the final years of the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Reservation, Charles E. Apekaum, grandson of Kiowa chief Stumbling Bear, served as the principal interpreter for the Santa Fe Laboratory of Anthropology field expedition in 1935. Educated, bilingual, and world traveled, Apekaum’s services as a translator were sought by anyone who dealt with the Kiowa Indian Agency personnel, politicians, and scholars.
The following year, Apekaum traveled throughout Oklahoma with anthropologist Weston La Barre and ethnobotanist Richard Evans Schultes, serving as their liaison as they documented the peyote religion. During off days, Apekaum narrated his life story to La Barre, recounting the final days of the reservation, allotment, the early days of Anadarko, Oklahoma, his seventeen years attending boarding schools, service in the navy during World War I and then as a state game warden, his work translating for politicians, and his involvement in the Native American Church. La Barre never published the manuscript, which contains rich details about intertribal variants of the sacred peyote rite as well as about Apekaum’s life experience.
In Autobiography of a Kiowa Indian Benjamin R. Kracht presents Apekaum’s autobiography for the first time. This eyewitness account is an important addition to Native American life narratives and the reconstruction of Kiowa cultural, social, and religious life in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the southern Great Plains.
“Kiowa storyteller Charles Apekaum describes his homeland during a critical transition from traditional life on the Great Plains to reservation times. This is an essential volume in the unfolding traditions of Plains Indigenous history.”—Denise Low, author of The Turtle’s Beating Heart: One Family’s Story of Lenape Survival
Rezballers and Skate Elders
Joyful Futures in Indian Country
DAVID KAMPER
Ethnographer and American Indian studies scholar David Kamper examines how Indigenous youth and adults are making basketball and skateboarding meaningful to their communities by sustaining the transmission of intergenerational knowledge and combatting intergenerational trauma. Kamper looks at how the events and tournaments built around rezball are similar to powwows in how they bring people together across localized communities and generations and he coins the phrase “skate elders” for those who use the social nature of skateboarding to build community and mentorships.
Through a broad picture of North America, Kamper demonstrates how Native peoples have long indigenized cultural practices and material culture to assert Native sovereignty, creating joy and hope in the process. In Rezballers and Skate Elders Kamper considers how Native expressions of basketball and skateboarding show continuities with the historical transformation of practices that originated outside Indian Country to make them meaningful in Native life.
“David Kamper has provided a provocative and insightful reimagining of the role and function of sport in contemporary Native life. His sensitive portrayal of basketball and skateboarding invites the reader into a vibrant world of youth cultures, community engagement, Indigenous survivance, and reinvention of what it means to be Indigenous in the twenty-first century.”—Jeffrey P. Shepherd, author of We Are an Indian Nation: A History of the Hualapai People
“Rezballers and Skate Elders is a contribution to its field, offering an upbeat portrayal of American Indian youth culture that goes beyond yet another story about historical traumas and tragedies. This is a fascinating and thought-provoking work.”—Ashkan Soltani Stone, coauthor of Rez Metal: Inside the Navajo Nation Heavy Metal Scene
David Kamper is a professor of American Indian studies, associate director and cofounder of the Center for Skateboarding, Action Sports, and Social Change, and cofounder of Surf/ Skate Studies Collaborative at San Diego State University. He is the author of The Work of Sovereignty: Tribal Labor Relations and Self-Determination at the Navajo Nation and coeditor of Waves of Belonging: Indigeneity, Race, and Gender in the Surfing Lineup
JUNE
264 pp. • 6 x 9 • 7 photographs, index
$60.00S • hardcover • 978-1-4962-1316-7
$81.00 Canadian / £55.00 UK
David Shane Lowry (Lumbee) is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Southern Maine. He has held postdoctoral fellowships at MIT and Brandeis University.
AUGUST
310 pp. • 6 x 9 • 15 photographs, 1 map, index
$65.00S • hardcover • 978-1-4962-3279-3
$88.00 Canadian / £58.00 UK
Lumbee Pipelines
American Indian Movement in the Residue of Settler Colonialism
DAVID SHANE LOWRY
In Lumbee Pipelines David Shane Lowry (Lumbee) examines the historical and modern paths, or “pipelines,” through which members of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina maintain Lumbee national identity, community practices, and tribal sovereignty. Through extensive ethnographic research and contextualization, Lowry explores these pipelines: the programs and traditions through which the Lumbee people engineer the settler-colonial conditions that define life in North Carolina and the United States as a whole.
Even as the Lumbee community depends on the economics, politics, and histories of settler colonialism, those realities at once threaten Lumbee life, freedom, and community. Despite that conflict, Lumbee people use these pipelines to protect their interests and to influence the world in the realms of public infrastructure and education, healthcare services, humanitarian networks, fossil fuel pipelines, environmental degradation, and artificial intelligence. Lowry paints an intimate portrait of how individual Lumbees define their identities and sense of being, revealing the disputes and affinities between Lumbee community members in various states of accepting and rejecting settlercolonial circumstances.
Lumbee Pipelines engages conversations about how, even as American Indian identities and communities are often erased amid the business of contemporary American life, Lumbee people have devised ways to empower and enrich themselves and other peoples by repurposing and evading the genocidal pressures that define settler-colonial society.
“Fearless and with a sharp eye for the many death-dealing hypocrisies that drive ongoing colonial states of American Indian and Indigenous oppression, Lumbee anthropologist David Lowry uses the tools of Indigenous anthropology and ethnography to call for a shift in discursive emphasis and analysis. . . . This book might very well become the foundation not only for innovative new scholarship in American Indian and Indigenous studies, but also in international courts that adjudicate human rights violations and reparation claims.”—Ulrike Wiethaus, coeditor of Moravian Americans and their Neighbors, 1772–1822
“David Shane Lowry’s ability to explain the multiple contradictions of contemporary Native life makes this work a rare find.” —Robert B. Caldwell Jr., author of Choctaw-Apache Foodways
“Readers of Lumbee Pipelines will be challenged to reframe their orientation . . . and embrace those frameworks that uphold Lumbee and Indigenous history, culture, and values. I applaud Lowry for this outstanding, provocative work.”—Ronny Antonio Bell, chair of the Division of Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy at the University of North Carolina Eshelman School of Pharmacy
Recovering Ancestors in Anthropological Traditions
EDITED BY REGNA DARNELL AND FREDERIC W. GLEACH HISTORIES OF ANTHROPOLOGY ANNUAL, VOLUME 15
Recovering Ancestors in Anthropological Traditions, volume 15 of the Histories of Anthropology Annual, focuses on themes of individual scholars and national developments, with each specific case building toward an understanding of an international discipline. Similar to the cultures that anthropologists study, anthropology’s four-field discipline contains myriad practices, theories, and methodologies that are often divergent, contradictory, and associated with nationally based schools of thought, contributing to a vital and diverse global discipline.
This volume emphasizes the challenges international scholars face as they engage both local and global movements. Several European traditions are represented, including two chapters adding to the body of work on Portugal from previous volumes in the series. North American traditions are well represented, including a collection of works on Nancy Lurie. Also included is an important examination of the collection of human skeletal remains in Argentina, presented in English for the first time. Readers will find both new information and new ways of understanding this complex history.
“This collection of essays is a remarkable and important contribution to the history of anthropology. It is also a contribution to our disciplinary understanding of methods development, public anthropology, and the ways in which anthropology is applied. The papers related to Nancy O. Lurie are particularly significant for our understanding of methods development.”—Thomas McIlwraith, author of “We Are Still Didene”: Stories of Hunting and History from Northern British Columbia
Regna Darnell is Distinguished University Professor of anthropology emerita at the University of Western Ontario. She is the author of History of Theory and Method in Anthropology (Nebraska, 2022). Darnell is the general editor of The Franz Boas Papers: Documentary Edition series and coeditor of the Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology series. Frederic W. Gleach is a senior lecturer and curator of the Anthropology Collections at Cornell University. He is the author of Powhatan’s World and Colonial Virginia: A Conflict of Cultures (Nebraska, 1997).
AUGUST
372 pp. • 6 x 9 • 6 photographs, 3 illustrations, 1 table
$45.00S • paperback • 978-1-4962-4229-7
$61.00 Canadian / £40.00 UK
Histories of Anthropology Annual
Bernard C. Perley (Tobique Maliseet) is a professor and the director of the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. He is the author of Defying Maliseet Language Death: Emergent Vitalities of Language, Culture, and Identity in Eastern Canada (Nebraska, 2011) and a coeditor of Anthropological Theory for the Twenty-First Century: A Critical Approach and Language and Social Justice: Global Perspectives
AUGUST
274 pp. • 6 x 9 • 19 photographs, 1 illustration, 8 maps, 4 graphs, index
$65.00S • hardcover • 978-1-4962-4340-9
$88.00 Canadian / £58.00 UK
Remediating Cartographies of Erasure
Anthropology, Indigenous Epistemologies, and the Global Imaginary
EDITED BY BERNARD C. PERLEY
Remediating Cartographies of Erasure brings together leading sociocultural and linguistic anthropologists to explore the moral imperatives of anthropology as a discipline to contribute to the self-determination and equality of Indigenous peoples around the globe. This engaged collaboration highlights the partnerships between Indigenous communities and anthropology as a mutually respectful and emancipatory practice of Indigenous and anthropological epistemologies.
Indigenous scholars from New Zealand, the United States, and Canada and non-Indigenous scholars from Australia, the United States, and Canada each provide concrete examples of how researchers actualize the moral imperative to work with Indigenous peoples in ways that foster their human rights and self-determination. The contributors discuss anthropological work done in Canada, the United States, Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Honduras, Australia, Sardinia, and New Zealand.
In laying out a world anthropology, this volume demonstrates the rectification practices of Indigenous peoples and continues anthropology’s long-standing advocacy for social justice and human rights around the globe.
“The scholars featured in this volume represent an excellent cross section of engaged and engaging thinkers. . . . Bold and insightful, one of the book’s main contributions is the challenge it sets readers to look again at what it is they thought they knew through a new lens of inquiry. In this spirit, it will be of wide interest to human geographers as well as anthropologists and Indigenous studies scholars.”
—Mark K. Watson, author of Japan’s Ainu Minority in Tokyo: Diasporic Indigeneity and Urban Politics
A People Destroyed
New Research on the Roma Genocide, 1941–1945
EDITED BY ANTON WEISS-WENDT
A People Destroyed features the most recent work on the Roma genocide in Europe during World War II. Despite the murder of a substantial part of the Romani population in various countries and occupied territories, it took historians more than half a century to collect enough evidence to establish the fact of genocide. Even today the public remains largely unaware of the extent of suffering that the Nazis and some of their allies inflicted on the Roma.
A People Destroyed shows that the Nazis most consistently murdered Roma in the German-speaking countries and the occupied Soviet territories, while Fascist Croatia attempted its own “Final Solution of the Gypsy Question.” The history of persecution that Roma people endured in Europe laid the foundation for the Nazi policy of extermination.
Anton Weiss-Wendt and the contributors to the volume, who come from nine different countries, build on existing Holocaust scholarship in their discussion of policy implementation, racial ideology, and the shared experiences of Jews and Roma. Meticulously analyzing diverse primary sources such as perpetrator documents and war crimes trial records, witness testimonies and population data, and contemporaneous newspaper reports and oral interviews, A People Destroyed provides a comprehensive overview of the destruction while focusing on the individual experiences of the victims.
“This is a truly impressive collection of articles by a diverse and dogged group of scholars. Anyone who studies or teaches about the Holocaust has long awaited such a volume and will applaud its publication. The scholarship is of a high quality and the need is great.”—Eliyana R. Adler, coeditor of Jewish and Romani Families in the Holocaust and Its Aftermath
Anton Weiss-Wendt is a research professor at the Norwegian Center for Holocaust and Minority Studies in Oslo. He is the author of Murder without Hatred: Estonians and the Holocaust and The Soviet Union and the Gutting of the UN Genocide Convention , and the coeditor of Racial Science in Hitler’s New Europe, 1939–1945 (Nebraska, 2013).
AUGUST
342 pp. • 6 x 9 • 13 photographs, 2 illustrations, 5 maps, 4 tables, index
$70.00S • hardcover • 978-1-4962-3453-7
$95.00 Canadian / £63.00 UK
Andrea R. Morrell is an associate professor of anthropology at Guttman Community College, City University of New York.
JUNE
174 pp. • 6 x 9 • 8 photographs, 1 illustration, 1 table, index
$99.00X • hardcover • 978-1-4962-3902-0
$134.00 Canadian / £89.00 UK
$30.00S • paperback • 978-1-4962-4311-9
$41.00 Canadian / £25.99 UK
Anthropology of Contemporary North America
James S. Bielo and Carrie M. Lane, series editors
Prison Town Making the Carceral State in Elmira, New York
ANDREA R. MORRELL
Elmira, a town of about twenty-six thousand people in central New York, is in some ways a typical town—with quiet, tree-lined residential streets, an art museum, local coffee shops, and a small college. The city, however, is best known as home to Elmira Correctional Facility and, until its closure in March 2022, the Southport Correctional Facility. Hundreds of locals work at the facilities, the town plays host to visitors of the incarcerated, and local medical institutions provide treatment to inmates. The prisons and Elmira are inseparable.
In Prison Town Andrea R. Morrell illustrates the converging and shifting fault lines of race and class through a portrait of a prison town undergoing deindustrialization as it chooses the path of prison expansion. In this ethnography, Morrell highlights the contradictions of prison work as work that allows a middle-class salary and lifestyle but trades in other forms of stigma. Guards, prisoners, prisoner’s families, and meager amounts of money and care work travel through spaces of free and unfree via the porous borders between prison and town. As Morrell captures the rapid expansion of the carceral state into upstate New York from the perspective of a small city with two prisons, she demonstrates how the prison system’s racialized, gendered, and classed dispossession has crossed its own porous borders into the city of Elmira.
“Prison Town sheds new light on the racializing and immiserating consequences of prison building for rural communities.”—Judah Schept, author of Coal, Cages, Crisis: The Rise of the Prison Economy in Central Appalachia
“Though prisons promise economic development to deindustrialized regions, what they produce is misery. Andrea Morrell’s ethnography of Elmira, New York, offers a tender portrait of a bleak place. . . . Painful and personal, Prison Town reveals how life is broken for people on both sides of the prison walls.”—Christina Heatherton, coeditor of Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter
“Highly readable and lucid. Andrea Morrell has produced an urgent, well-researched, empirically rich, and theoretically sophisticated book.”—David P. Stein, assistant professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara
Sacred Wonderland The History of Religion in Yellowstone
THOMAS S. BREMER
Since its beginning in 1872, Yellowstone National Park has been an alluring destination with significance beyond its stunning mountain scenery, abundant wildlife, and the world’s largest collection of geysers and hot springs. Once deemed America’s “wonderland,” this national park has long been a repository of meanings for and aspirations of the American people. In Sacred Wonderland Thomas S. Bremer explores the historical role of religion in making Yellowstone National Park an American icon.
The park’s religious history spans nineteenth-century evangelical Christian ideas of Manifest Destiny in addition to religiously informed conservationist movements. Bremer touches on white supremacist interpretations of the park in the early twentieth century and a controversial new religious movement that arrived on the scene in the 1980s. From early assumptions about Native American beliefs to eclectic New Age associations, from early rivalries between nineteenthcentury Protestants and Catholics to twentieth-century ecumenical cooperation, religion has been woven into the cultural fabric of Yellowstone. Bremer reveals a range of religious beliefs, practices, and interpretations that have contributed to making the park an appealing tourist destination and a significant icon of the American nation.
“Timely and immensely important. Sacred Wonderland reads like a clear-eyed love letter to national parks—written by a person who has contemplated all the complexities, violences, and concessions made in the formation of the U.S. national park system.”—Brandi Denison, author of Ute Land Religion in the American West, 1879–2009
“A richly varied story of grand sweep—from Jesuit missionaries to Protestant financiers, from landscape painters to Emersonian wayfarers and naturalists. . . . A work of historical subtlety and honest ambivalence, Sacred Wonderland makes for great reading.”
—Leigh Eric Schmidt, author of The Church of Saint Thomas Paine: A Religious History of American Secularism
“With its concern for the exercise of (soft) power, Sacred Wonderland stands at the leading edge of historical scholarship on nature, preservation and conservation, and religion as a social and political force.”—Kerry Mitchell, author of Spirituality and the State: Managing Nature and Experience in America’s National Parks
Thomas S. Bremer is professor emeritus of religious studies at Rhodes College. He is the author of Formed from the Soil: An Introduction to the Diverse History of Religion in America and Blessed with Tourists: The Borderlands of Religion and Tourism in San Antonio
JULY
246 pp. • 6 x 9 • 7 photographs, 6 illustrations, index
$60.00S • hardcover • 978-1-4962-0995-5
$81.00 Canadian / £54.00 UK
America’s Public Lands
Char Miller, series editor
Cornelia Klecker is an assistant professor of American Studies at the University of Innsbruck. She is the author of Spoiler Alert! Mind-Tricking Narratives in Contemporary Hollywood Film and the editor in chief of the Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies Sascha Pöhlmann is a professor of American literature and culture at Technical University Dortmund. He is the author of Future-Founding Poetry: Topographies of Beginnings from Whitman to the Twenty-First Century and Vote with a Bullet: Assassination in American Fiction .
APRIL
314 pp. • 6 x 9 • 7 photographs, 4 illustrations, index
$65.00S • hardcover • 978-1-4962-3899-3
$88.00 Canadian / £58.00 UK
Flyover Fictions Polarization
in U.S.-American Culture, Media, and Politics
EDITED BY CORNELIA KLECKER AND SASCHA PÖHLMANN
Flyover Fictions critically engages the history and contemporary use of the “flyover country” trope in American culture and repurposes the concept as an abstract tool for cultural studies. The term “flyover” arose in the 1970s with variations—“flyover country,” “flyover states”—mainly used as synonyms for the American Midwest in intranational banter regarding cultural differences from the dominant urban centers of New York City and Los Angeles. In recent years, the trope has shifted away from this playfulness and its traditional geographic reference points to indicate larger political and cultural developments that speak of a deepening polarization in the United States.
Flyover Fictions is an exploration of the trope’s current politicization, historical contexts, and general proliferation of meanings. Instead of resolving the ambiguities inherent in the concept, the volume considers what can be done with these ambiguities, and how precisely their fuzziness might be used to create an analytic tool to describe, understand, and critique processes of cultural hierarchization. The contributors show how flyover fictions may operate in different national contexts and also internationally or transnationally, not only providing a fresh perspective on historical and contemporary American culture but also supplying a conceptual toolbox for broader use.
“Flyover Fictions contributes to its field with its warning: ‘Coastals’ insulting ‘Flyovers’ (or vice versa) have practically become the muzzle flashes that Yank versus Johnny Reb and that Yankee versus Tory once were. An eclectic discussion, the volume’s scholarship is cutting-edge. Flyover Fictions should serve advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, and specialized readers.”—Russell Burrows, author of Reading Wallace Stegner’s “Angle of Repose”
“The recent politicization of the term ‘flyover’ is one of the reasons the subject is particularly important at the moment. . . . This is a well-thought-out collection that reads as a cohesive whole.”
—Michael K. Johnson, author of Speculative Wests: Popular Representations of a Region and Genre
Nebraska Government and Politics
Second Edition
EDITED BY ROBERT BLAIR, CHRISTIAN L. JANOUSEK, AND JEROME DEICHERT
Nebraska Government and Politics offers an in-depth examination of the connection between the political culture, traditions, and heritage of Nebraska and its governmental institutions. This new edition discusses federalism, constitutionalism, and the continuing American frontier, paying special attention to the effects and frameworks of Nebraska’s political culture. The authors emphasize enduring trends and issues through Nebraska’s history as they examine the cultural foundations of the state’s political institutions, the major governmental structures in the state, and the political and administrative relationships at play. The chapters cover periodic populism, the state constitution, nonpartisanship and direct democracy, budgeting and financial policies, the unicameral, the executive branch, local government, political culture, and capital punishment. Robert Blair, Christian L. Janousek, and Jerome Deichert provide a long view of Nebraska, a state whose unique political culture is reflected in its institutions.
“Nebraska Government and Politics provides rich context to help the reader understand the origins and traditions of Nebraska’s political culture and institutions.”—Sue Crawford, city administrator for York, Nebraska, former Nebraska state senator, and professor emeritus of political science at Creighton University
“Nebraska Government and Politics is important to the understanding of Nebraska and will serve the public and political community well. The research is detailed and is presented by well-regarded scholars. It will find broad use among politicians, public administrators, and teachers, as well as the general public.”—Paul Landow, associate professor emeritus of political science at the University of Nebraska at Omaha
“An in-depth explanation of the state and local government in Nebraska as well as the historical events that led to the development of its unique political culture. The contributors explain how Nebraska’s culture led to a system of government distinct from those in other states. They also use contemporary examples to illustrate how that culture continues to influence policy outcomes today.”
—Kimberly Nelson, professor of public administration and government at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Robert Blair is professor emeritus in the School of Public Administration at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Christian L. Janousek is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Creighton University. Jerome Deichert is director emeritus for the Center for Public Affairs Research at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.
APRIL
210 pp. • 6 x 9 • 10 tables, 3 charts, 16 graphs, 1 appendix, index
$35.00S • paperback • 978-0-8032-3049-1
$47.00 Canadian / £29.99 UK
Politics and Governments of the American States
Harriet E. H. Earle is a senior lecturer of English at Sheffield Hallam University and a research fellow at the Centre for War, Atrocity, and Genocide at Nipissing University in Canada. She is the author of Comics: An Introduction and Comics, Trauma, and the New Art of War
MAY
188 pp. • 5 x 8 • 7 illustrations, index
$30.00S • paperback • 978-1-4962-4054-5
$41.00 Canadian / £25.99 UK
Encapsulations: Critical Comics Studies
Martin Lund and Julia Round, series editors
Silence in the Quagmire
The Vietnam War in U.S. Comics
HARRIET E. H. EARLE
In Silence in the Quagmire Harriet E. H. Earle uses silence to construct a narrative of the Vietnam War via U.S. comics. Unlike the vast majority of cultural artifacts and scholarly works about the war, which typically focus on white, working-class American servicemen and their experiences of combat, Earle’s work centers lessvisible players: the Vietnamese on both sides of the conflict, women and girls, and returning veterans.
Earle interrogates the ways this conflict is represented in American comic books, with special focus on these missing groups. She discusses how—and more critically why—these groups are represented as they are, if they’re represented at all, and the ways these representations have affected views of the war, during and since. Using Michel Foucault’s understanding of silence as discourse, Earle considers how both silence and silencing are mobilized in the creation of the U.S.-centric war narrative. Innovative in its structure and theoretical scaffolding, Silence in the Quagmire deepens our understanding of how comic books have represented the violence and trauma of conflict.
“A compelling exploration of how comics shape historical memory, Harriet Earle’s study of marginalized voices provides an inclusive and nuanced understanding of the Vietnam War’s portrayal in American comics.”—Stephen Connor, associate professor of history at Nipissing University
“Absent speech, scenes concealed in the gutter, the ambiguity of a figure: these are the traces expertly tracked and analyzed in Harriet Earle’s exploration of narrative silences within the American mythogenesis of the Vietnam War.”—Elizabeth Allyn Woock, assistant professor of English at Palacký University
“An essential guide for anyone studying the representation of conflict in the comic form.”—David Huxley, editor in chief of Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics
Ties That Bind
People and Perception in U.S. and Korean
Transnational Relations, 1905–1965
HANNAH KIM
Ties That Bind narrates five stories of how a transnational community helped shape American perceptions and understandings of Korea and Koreans, from a time when only a small number of Americans knew anything about Korea to a time when most Americans were aware of Korea’s geopolitical significance. Three of the moments took place when Korea was a colony of Japan: the so-called conspiracy case in 1911, the independence movement of 1919, and the efforts to recognize Korean independence during World War II. The other two moments transpired in the context of the Cold War, when Korean orphans and Korean exchange students came to the United States in the 1950s.
In these five stories, the interplay of people, perceptions, and official and unofficial policy can be seen in the work of people who tried to influence U.S. and Korean relations by binding Americans and Koreans through shared values and experiences. They did so by portraying Koreans as Christian converts, as supporters of democracy and democratic ideals, and as people embracing western or American cultural norms. The actors in this book did not always succeed in their goals but, through their endeavors, they facilitated policy discussions, forged ties between the United States and Korea, and began to break down cultural barriers between Koreans and Americans.
“Ties That Bind takes a novel and interesting approach to a topic that has received little attention. Based on groundbreaking research and eminently readable, it nicely bridges the fields of diplomatic and Asian American history, both of which have been working toward a new Pacific history that integrates transnational and international elements.”—Gregg A. Brazinsky, author of Winning the Third World: Sino-American Rivalry during the Cold War
Hannah Kim is an associate professor of history and a co-coordinator of the social studies education program at the University of Delaware, Newark.
AUGUST
320 pp. • 6 x 9 • 29 photographs, 1 illustration, 3 tables, index
$65.00S • hardcover • 978-1-4962-1332-7
$88.00 Canadian / £58.00 UK
Studies in Pacific Worlds
Rainer F. Buschmann and Katrina Gulliver, series editors
Thomas A. Krainz is an associate professor of history at DePaul University. He is the author of Delivering Aid: Implementing Progressive Era Welfare in the American West
JULY
328 pp. • 6 x 9 • 17 photographs, 1 illustration, 5 maps, index
$65.00S • hardcover • 978-1-4962-3952-5
$88.00 Canadian / £58.00 UK
A Great Many Refugees Progressive Era Assistance in the American West
THOMAS A. KRAINZ
Local communities in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries commonly addressed the needs of refugees, defined broadly during the Progressive Era to include internally displaced people and economic migrants. These communities’ efforts to assist people in need created a type of informal pop-up welfare system of short-term assistance that provided for hundreds, and often thousands of refugees.
In A Great Many Refugees Thomas A. Krainz examines how communities in the American West cared for refugees. The ten case studies include a range of different causes that forced people to flee, including revolution, war, genocide, environmental disaster, and economic recession. Communities tapped into their local resources to provide for refugees, and this informal welfare proved—in the short term—remarkably efficient, effective, and, at times, flexible and innovative. However, local communities simply could not sustain their widespread relief efforts for long and providing meaningful and comprehensive long-term aid proved a near-universal failure.
Krainz’s examination of how Progressive Era residents cared for refugees uncovers a significant segment of welfare policies and practices that have remained largely obscured. These examples of informal, short-term assistance efforts profoundly challenge our standard depiction of local Progressive Era welfare practices as anemic and unresponsive to those in crisis.
“In this fascinating book Thomas Krainz reveals a hidden history of local aid provided to refugees and internally displaced people across the American West at the turn of the century. . . . Krainz’s pathbreaking work transforms our understanding of refugee history as well as, more broadly, Progressive Era welfare policies.” —Julie Greene, author of Box 25: Archival Secrets, Caribbean Workers, and the Panama Canal
“In light of the modern parallels, A Great Many Refugees encourages us to think about both the definition and the mere existence of refugee experiences in turn-of-the-century America. Moreover, it pushes scholars to think about the legacy of ‘reform’ in the Progressive Era and to make important connections to the present.”—Jeffrey A. Johnson, editor of Reforming America: A Thematic Encyclopedia and Document Collection of the Progressive Era
Tongues of Settlement Where the World Becomes Basque
BLAKE ALLMENDINGER
Known for their cultural traditions, celebrated cuisine, and distinct language, Basque peoples originated in a small area in the Pyrenees Mountains called Euskal Herria, or the Basque Country. Over the centuries, large numbers of Basques have left their homeland to settle throughout Spain, France, North America, Latin America, and South Africa, accompanied by their unique language and literature.
Tongues of Settlement traces how Basque emigrants and their descendants have adapted to the Americas by interacting with the land and people, while inscribing their presence and producing a body of literature distinct from the literature of Euskal Herria. Blake Allmendinger explores the evolving relationship between language and place, analyzing forms of remembrance used to signify the Basque presence in numerous countries, especially in the western United States, where most immigrants settled and where their descendants currently reside.
Tongues of Settlement considers what eventually happens as assimilated Basques relinquish their native language yet maintain a connection to place. It includes works by Basque authors, translated into English, recounting their experiences in the American West; books by Basque American writers whose narratives are set (at least in part) in the Basque Country; popular genres published by Basque American authors; and recurrent themes in Basque American literature. In this first comprehensive study, Allmendinger traces the evolution of Basque American literature from its origins in medieval oral culture to the creation of a literary renaissance in the twenty-first century American West.
“Blake Allmendinger’s decision to focus on Basque American literature in its broadest dimension rather than just on Basque American authors allows Tongues of Settlement to cover a wider variety of authors, regardless of their nationality or the language they use in their books. This choice is useful to explore some of the most meaningful cultural and literary transfers between the American West and the Basque Country.”—David Río, author of Robert Laxalt: The Voice of the Basques in American Literature
Blake Allmendinger is a professor of English at the University of California–Los Angeles. He is the author of several books, including Geographic Personas: Self-Transformation and Performance in the American West (Nebraska, 2021), The Melon Capital of the World (Nebraska, 2015), Imagining the African American West (Nebraska, 2008), and The Cowboy: Representations of Labor in an American Work Culture
MAY
176 pp. • 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 • 6 photographs, 1 illustration, index
$55.00S • hardcover • 978-1-4962-4186-3
$74.00 Canadian / £49.00 UK
Marc Eagle is a professor of history at Western Kentucky University.
AUGUST
314 pp. • 6 x 9 • 3 maps, 1 table, index
$70.00S • hardcover • 978-1-4962-0837-8
$95.00 Canadian / £63.00 UK
The Audiencia of Santo Domingo in the Seventeenth Century
Justice and Royal Authority in the Spanish Caribbean
MARC EAGLE
In this examination of the Audiencia of Santo Domingo— an appellate court of justice for most of the Spanish Caribbean—Marc Eagle analyzes its role, especially the way it provided royal oversight and a connection to the metropolis for the island of Hispaniola and the larger district of the Caribbean over the course of the seventeenth century. The audiencia was beset by internal conflict, beholden to local elites, frequently disrespected by other officials in its district, and plagued by periodic epidemics and natural disasters. While the seventeenth-century Caribbean experienced dramatic changes, the tribunal on Hispaniola shared many similarities with other audiencias throughout Spanish America. Eagle argues that the Audiencia of Santo Domingo was a surprisingly durable institution; even as it was turbulent and inefficient, it adequately met both regional and peninsular needs and was both flexible and relatively inexpensive.
The Audiencia of Santo Domingo in the Seventeenth Century takes a pragmatic look at the messy practice of successful overseas governance, offering a new discussion of the social context of colonial administration and the connections between overseas officials and permanent residents.
“A highly authoritative, imaginative, and captivating read with broad implications for Latin America and legal, political, and social history of the early modern world. This book will serve as the entry point for understanding the Caribbean. Building on recent international scholarship, The Audiencia of Santo Domingo in the Seventeenth Century provides a comprehensive and innovative analysis that is ideally suited for the classroom.”—Christoph Rosenmüller, author of Viceroy Güemes’s Mexico: Rituals, Religion, and Revenue
“Archivally thorough and well researched. Marc Eagle has spent a great deal of time evaluating the letters and logics of the Spanish empire and, as a result, contributes an admirably rich dataset to scholarship.”—Charlton W. Yingling, author of Siblings of Soil: Dominicans and Haitians in the Age of Revolutions
Freethinkers and Labor Leaders Women, Social Change, and Politics in Modern
Mexico
MARÍA TERESA FERNÁNDEZ ACEVES TRANSLATED BY TANYA HUNTINGTON
The interpretation of the revisionist historiography of the Mexican Revolution (1910–17) has focused primarily on revolutionary leaders who were men, pushing the heroines of the war to the sidelines. If women happened to be mentioned, they appeared only as symbols, not as social agents. However, the role of the Adelitas, the Cristeras, the Hijas del Anáhuac, and the women of the Ácrata Group were essential to the revolution. In Freethinkers and Labor Leaders María Teresa Fernández Aceves tells the stories of five militant feminist women who aided in the creation of a modern culture in revolutionary and postrevolutionary Mexico and, in some ways, Latin America as a whole: Belén de Sárraga Hernández (1872–1950), Atala Apodaca Anaya (1884–1977), María Arcelia Díaz (1896–1939), María Guadalupe Martínez Villanueva (1906–2002), and María Guadalupe Urzúa Flores (1912–2004).
These five women formed part of two cultural generations that participated together in the Mexican Revolution, in the consolidation of state cooperative institutions, and in the antiestablishment and dissident politics that evolved in the late 1940s. Through these social processes and their struggles as women, mothers, and workers, these women fought for secular education, labor rights, and the civil and political rights of women, redefining cultural and social constructions. Based on original, pathbreaking research, Freethinkers and Labor Leaders demonstrates how five women transformed Latin American society’s ideas of citizenship, femininity, masculinity, and politics.
“Freethinkers and Labor Leaders adds significant depth to our knowledge about Mexican women in the twentieth century, provides new avenues of historical inquiry, and reminds us of the centrality of gendered ideologies in the making of modern Mexico.”
—Sonia Hernández, author of Working Women into the Borderlands
María Teresa Fernández Aceves is a professor of social anthropology at Centro de Investigaciones en Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social–Occidente in Jalisco, Mexico. She is the author of a book in Spanish about women in twentieth-century Mexico.
AUGUST
334 pp. • 6 x 9 • 22 photographs, 11 illustrations, 3 tables, index
$99.00X • hardcover • 978-1-4962-3127-7
$134.00 Canadian / £89.00 UK
$40.00S • paperback • 978-1-4962-4317-1
$54.00 Canadian / £36.00 UK
Confluencias
Susie S. Porter, María L. O. Muñoz, and Diana J. Montaño, series editors
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An American Corner of the World
An American Corner of the World
David J. Wishart
David J. Wishart is an emeritus professor of geography at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He is the editor of Encyclopedia of the Great Plains (Nebraska, 2004) and Encyclopedia of the Great Plains Indians (Nebraska, 2007), and the author of several books, including An Unspeakable Sadness: The Dispossession of the Nebraska Indians (Nebraska, 1997).
MARCH
200 pp. • 6 x 9 • 18 photographs, 2 illustrations, 10 maps, 2 graphs
$24.95T • paperback • 978-0-933307-43-8
$34.00 Canadian / £21.99 UK
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A Brief History of Nebraska
Ronald C. Naugle
$14.95 • paperback • 978-0-933307-39-1
DAVID J. WISHART
An American Corner of the World is a deep geography of an American place: Richardson County, Nebraska. It tells the story of the changing patterns and rhythms of life there, from the first occupants, hunters and gatherers thousands of years ago, right through almost to the present. In one sense, it is a county history, but in another sense it is a case study, representative of innumerable rural counties throughout the Midwest and Great Plains that experienced similar stages of initial rapid population growth and subsequent sustained population decline.
Why, then, select Richardson County, when so many other suitable case studies could have been chosen? The answer lies in the enduring presence of Native Americans, with the Iowa and Sac and Fox reservations still occupying the southern reaches of the county. Their experiences over time are also representative of those of other Native American nations across the country, though again expressed locally in distinctive ways. This juxtaposition of accounts of Native American dispossession and American succession allows a fuller story to be told than if only one side were related—and it identifies Richardson County as an intrinsically American corner of the world.
The Woman Who Loved Mankind
The Life of a Twentieth-Century Crow Elder
LILLIAN BULLSHOWS HOGAN
AS
TOLD TO BARBARA LOEB AND MARDELL HOGAN PLAINFEATHER
The oldest living Crow at the dawn of the twenty-first century, Lillian Bullshows Hogan, grew up on the Crow reservation in rural Montana. In The Woman Who Loved Mankind she enthralls readers with stories from her long and remarkable life and as well as the stories of her parents, part of the last generation of Crow born to nomadic ways.
As a child Hogan had a miniature tepee, a fast horse, and a medicine necklace of green beads; she learned traditional arts and food gathering from her mother and experienced the bitterness of Indian boarding school. As an adult she drove a car, maintained a bank account, and read the local English paper, but she spoke Crow as her first language, practiced beadwork, tanned hides, and often visited the last of the old chiefs and berdaches with her family. Though she married in the traditional Crow way and was a proud member of the Tobacco and Sacred Pipe societies, she also helped establish a Christian church on her reservation.
Hogan’s stories are warm, funny, heartbreaking, and brimming with information about Crow life. Hogan told her stories to Mardell Hogan Plainfeather and Barbara Loeb, whose record of her words stays true to Hogan’s expressive speaking rhythms with its echoes of traditional Crow storytelling.
Lillian Bullshows Hoga n (1905–2003) was a highly respected Crow elder whose life spanned the twentieth century. Barbara Loeb taught Native art history at Oregon State University. She is the author of numerous writings on Crow and Plateau Indian art and culture. Mardell Hogan Plainfeather is the daughter of Lillian Bullshows Hogan. She is retired as a supervisory park ranger with the National Park Service and as a Crow field director of the American Indian Tribal Histories Project at the Western Heritage Center in Billings, Montana.
JULY
498 pp. • 6 x 9 • 22 photographs, 1 illustration, 5 genealogies, 1 map, index
$40.00S • paperback • 978-1-4962-4337-9
$54.00 Canadian / £36.00 UK
A Thrilling Narrative of Indian Captivity Dispatches
from the Dakota War
MARY BUTLER RENVILLE
EDITED BY CARRIE REBER ZEMAN AND KATHRYN ZABELLE
DEROUNIAN-STODOLA
This edition of A Thrilling Narrative of Indian Captivity rescues from obscurity a crucially important work about the bitterly contested 1862 U.S.-Dakota War in Minnesota. Written by Mary Butler Renville, an Anglo woman, with the assistance of her Dakota husband, John Baptiste Renville, A Thrilling Narrative of Indian Captivity was printed as a book only once, in 1863, and has not been republished since. The work details the Renvilles’ experiences as “captives” among their Dakota kin in the Upper Camp and chronicles the story of the Dakota Peace Party. Their sympathetic portrayal of those who opposed the war in 1862 combats the stereotypical view that most Dakotas supported it and illuminates the injustice of their exile from Dakota homelands. From the authors’ unique perspective as an interracial couple, they paint a complex picture of race, gender, and class relations on successive midwestern frontiers.
This narrative provides fresh insights into the most controversial event in the region’s history, and includes groundbreaking historical and literary contexts for the text and a first-time collection of extant Dakota correspondence with authorities during the war.
Mary Butler Renville (1830–1895) and John Baptiste Renville (1831–1903) dedicated their lives to education and mission work among the Dakotas. Carrie Reber Zeman is an independent historian specializing in the context and historiography of the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862. Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola is a professor of English emerita at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and the author of The War in Words: Reading the Dakota Conflict through the Captivity Literature (Nebraska, 2009).
JULY
408 pp. • 6 x 9 • 5 photographs, 9 illustrations, 4 maps, 2 appendixes, index
$35.00S • paperback • 978-1-4962-4338-6
$47.00 Canadian / £29.99 UK
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Index
Alford, Kenneth L. 27
Allmendinger, Blake 65
An American Corner of the World 68
Apekaum, Charles E. 52
At the Corner of Past and Future 25
The Audiencia of Santo Domingo in the Seventeenth Century 66
Autobiography of a Kiowa Indian 52
Baseball before We Knew It 11
Baseball’s First Superstar 12 Beach, Christopher 6
The Bears of Grand Teton 18
Bennett, Liza 4 Big Loosh 15
Blair, Robert 61
Block, David 11 Blue Helmet 30
Bremer, Thomas S. 59
Carlson, Nancy Naomi 7
Carpenter, Edward H. 30
Carter, Ted 36
Chorneau, Tom 21
Cobra 42
Cody, Louisa Frederici 28
Consolo-Murphy, Sue 18
Continental Reckoning 40
Cooper, Courtney Ryley 28 Crisis and Crossfire 35 Croft, Melvin 10
Crump, Margaret M. 47
Crush 37
Cumberland, Linda A. 51
Darnell, Regna 48, 55
Deichert, Jerome 61
Derounian-Stodola, Kathryn Zabelle 69
Disruption 41
Donnelly, Chris 17
Dowdy, Michael 2 Eagle, Marc 66
Earle, Harriet E. H. 62
Erickson, Donna L. 20
The Essential Book of Pickup Trucks 24
Feldmann, Doug 16
Fernández Aceves, María Teresa 67
Flyover Fictions 60
France de Bravo, Brandel 9
Freethinkers and Labor Leaders 67
Frey, Benjamin E. 45
Frontier Comrades 23
Fuji Fire 31
Gaff, Alan D. 12
Garcia, Tristan 6
Georgia and Anita 4
Get Your Tokens Ready 17
Gleach, Frederick W. 55
A Grammar of Nakoda (Assiniboine) 51
A Great Many Refugees 64
Haefele, Fred 24
Hahn, Peter L. 35
Hemley, Robin 5
Henry, Chas 31
Hill, Pamela Smith 1
Hogan, Lillian Bullshows 69
How to Change History 5
Huntington, Tanya 67
Into the Void 10
Invisible Contrarian 48
Jacobs, Charlotte DeCroes 34
James Cowles Prichard of the Red Lodge 47
Janousek, Christian L. 61
Jewell, James Robbins 32
Joern, Pamela Carter 25
Jordan, Dave 42
Kamper, David 53
Ketubah Renaissance 39
Kim, Hannah 63
Kim, Robert S. 33
Kimball, Geoffrey 50
Klecker, Cornelia 60
Kracht, Benjamin R. 52
Krainz, Thomas A. 64
Krell, David 14
La Barre, Weston 52
Leeds-Hurwitz, Wendy 48
Leeke, Jim 15
Life in the G 43
Locomotive Cathedral 9
Loeb, Barbara 69
Lowry, David Shane 54
Lumbee Pipelines 54
MacKinnon, William P. 27
McEwen, R.F. 8
Memories from the Jungle 6
Memories of Buffalo Bill 28
Moore, Bailey Gaylin 3
Morrell, Andrea R. 58
Mrs. Cook and the Klan 21
Natchez Analytical Dictionary 50
Nebraska Government and Politics 61
Neyer, Rob 43
1978 14
90 Seconds to Midnight 34
O’Connell, Nicholas 37
Ojibwe Ethnogenesis, 1640–1740 49
Old Rags and Iron 8
One More for the White Rat 16
On the Overland Trails with William Clark 27
Out of the Crazywoods 41 Parker, Dave 42
A People Destroyed 57
Peritz, Aki J. 41
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