When pregnant Rosie Carpe, her fatherless five-year-old son in tow, arrives in Guadeloupe looking...

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The Jews and Germany debunks a modern myth: that once upon a time there was a Judeo-German symbio...

White Slavery and Mothers Alive and Dead brings together a diverse set of essays exploring topics...

In this study of surrealism and ghostliness, Katharine Conley provides a new, unifying theory of ...

Speaking of Crime explores how inmates speak of their lives and in particular how they speak of c...

Jane Grigson's Fruit Book includes a wealth of recipes, plain and fancy, ranging from apple strud...

David Starkey is a professor of English at Santa Barbara City College and author of Poetry Writin...

'Baseball History from Outside the Lines' gathers the best recent historical literature about the...

Over the course of the past twenty-five years, anthologies have shifted from playing a relatively...

Timothy R. Mahoney is a professor of history at the University of Nebraska¿Lincoln and project ad...

'Smelser demonstrates that a good historian can write good sports history and that good sports hi...

Impertinences: Selected Writings of Elia Peattie is a collection of articles, editorials, and nar...

O Pioneers! was oh so long ago, and yet Willa Cather's masterpiece has proven to be an enduring t...

For the first time in decades, here is an in-depth look at Minnesota government and politics, pro...

Ann Fienup-Riordan is an independent scholar who has lived, worked, and taught in Alaska since 19...

William J. Peace is an independent scholar and lives in Katonah, New York. He has a PhD in anthro...

In her afterword, Martha Gellhorn traces the roots of the novel in her own experience as a war co...

Air Commanders combines short military biographies and operational analyses to reveal how the per...

An urgently needed analysis of why great powers lose asymmetrical wars

Martin Thomas is a professor of colonial history at Exeter University. He is the author of severa...

Brave Decisions presents true stories of men in American military history who met a moral challen...

The classic history of America 's greatest auto race, updated with twenty years of new material

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Of all the teams in the annals of baseball, only a select few can lay claim to historic significa...

Graced with illustrations by the author, 'Crane Music' introduces the two North American crane sp...

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This is the spirited story of Esther Burnett Horne, an accomplished and inspiring educator in Ind...

Set in the German Democratic Republic of the early 1970s, The Life and Adventures of Trobadora Be...

First encountered by explorer Hernando de Soto in the 16th century, the Caddoan tribes, found alo...

Roger Rothman is a professor of art history at Bucknell University.

Edmund Burke III is a professor of history and the director of the Center for World History at th...

The task of editing and annotating a nineteenth-century diary seemed straightforward at first, bu...

Storytelling is a precious, vibrant tradition among the Native peoples of the Far North. Collecte...

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'Jesse James,' said Carl Sandburg, 'is the only American bandit who is classical, who is to this ...

One of the more complex and widespread rituals practiced by Native American groups focused on the...

A Primer of Italian Fascism makes available for the first time in English translation the key doc...

David W. Dinwoodie is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of New Mexico. His...

Mick Gidley provides an intimate and informative glimpse of photographer Edward S. Curtis (1868-1...

Indian women's autobiographies have been slighted because of the assumption that women had a seco...

For golf’s true enthusiasts, the game is far more-and far more complex-than a simple hobby, commo...

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'' Many Native Americans photographed by Edward S. Curtis (1868– 1952) called him Shadow Catcher....

The 1977–78 Los Angeles Dodgers came close. Their tough lineup of young and ambitious players squ...

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