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

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...

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...

'Soul of the age!' Ben Jonson eulogized Shakespeare, and in the next breath, 'He was not of an ag...

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

'You know, a lot of people like to talk about it, and I'm always pushing, pushing away, you know,...

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

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...

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

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...

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

The fabric of the western literary tradition is not always predictable. In one wayward strand, wa...

Richard W. Etulain is a professor emeritus of history at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerqu...

This volume is the first anthology of contemporary East German women's writing in English transla...

In 1911 Paris, Detective Alphonse Bertillon, renowned for pioneering crime-scene investigation te...

Although the Antarctic ice pack and some offshore islands had been sighted and even landed upon b...

In this volume Europe's leading modern historians offer new insights into two totalitarian regime...

Suzanne Oakdale is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of New Mexico¿Albuque...

The boom era began with the discovery of gold in California in 1848 and extended over 150 years t...

This is a fascinating work based on three individuals who became notorious in World War II as bro...

The Turn to the Native is a timely account of Native American literature and the critical writing...

James Hammond Trumbull (1821¿97) was a philologist and Connecticut historian. He is the author of...

Harry A. Kersey Jr. is a professor of history at Florida Atlantic University. He is the author of...

'Among the Indians, music envelopes like an atmosphere every religious, tribal, and social ceremo...

Appearing for the first time in English, this delightful story of the adventures of twelve young ...

John Rodden is the author of six books, including Lionel Trilling and the Critics: Opposing Selve...

M. Keith Booker is the James E. and Ellen Wadley Roper Professor of English and the director of t...

Tony Moss is NFL editor and columnist for The Sports Network, a wire service in suburban Philadel...

In this collection of fifteen classic Jewish folktales, the authors share some of the richest sto...

Lynette R. Melnar has a PhD in linguistics and is a research scientist for Motorola Labs.

During the 1947 partition of the Indian subcontinent, Kashmir-a Muslim-majority area ruled by a H...

David B. Downing is a professor of English at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He is the edito...

Colin Burgess is the author of books on space flight, including Teacher in Space: Christa McAulif...

Historian Hal Rothman throws into stark relief what happens when native cultures and Euro-America...

A collection of essays that seeks to undo Willa Cather's longstanding reputation as a writer who ...

The fascinating world of the Hopis is brought to light in this original and informative collectio...

Talmudic and midrashic folklore use the teachings of the ancient sages to answer questions and te...

In the summer of 1863 Kate Stone, a twenty-two-year-old refugee from Louisiana, wrote that in Tex...

Now celebrating seventy-five years of continuous publication, Prairie Schooner has been called on...

The noted Nez Perce fiction writer and critic W. S. Penn turns his wry and penetrating gaze on th...