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

Two-thirds of Shakespeare's plays have trial scenes, and many deal specifically with lawyers, cou...

In 2011 when Alice Feiring first arrived in Georgia, she felt as if she’d emerged from the magic ...

An intimate glimpse of how Two-Spirit (gay) Native men in Colorado and Oklahoma work to build cro...

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

Addressing the Nebraska Indian Wars between 1865 and 1877, this anthology of well-written article...

No American president has been closer to the working life of the West than Theodore Roosevelt. Fr...

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...

Joanne Barker (Lenape) is an assistant professor of American Indian studies at San Francisco Stat...

'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...

Constructing a vintage Indian motorcycle from a box of parts is more than the restoration of a bi...

Behind the Frontier tells the story of the Indians in Massachusetts as English settlements encroa...

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...

The story behind the man behind seven NBA championshipsPhil Jackson led Michael Jordan and the Ch...

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

A Conspiracy of Optimism describes the unprecedented controversy now raging over the U.S. Forest ...

Charlie Metro's career runs the gamut of the specialties found in baseball-player, coach, manager...

This JPS bestseller is now updated and expanded, with new words, names, terms, and expressions Or...

Robbie Ethridge, an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Mississippi, is the ...

John Christgau (1934–2018)¿is the author of numerous books, including Kokomo Joe (Nebraska 2009),...

Anne Finger has taught creative writing at Wayne State University in Detroit and at the Universit...

Devoted, eccentric, and compelling, Gertrude and Leo Stein were constant companions, from childho...

One morning in 1943, close to eighty men descended into the Smith coal mine in Bearcreek, Montana...

Harold Lamb (1892¿1962), who wrote biographies and screenplays as well as historical fiction, is ...

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

Allen Barra is a sports columnist for the Wall Street Journal, the Village Voice, and the New Yor...

Edward J. Rielly is a professor of English at Saint Joseph¿s College in Standish, Maine. He is th...

Justine Mintsa is a Gabonese author and, before her retirement in 2016, was an English professor ...

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

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

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

Ellen Cassedy's longing to recover the Yiddish she'd lost with her mother's death eventually led ...

The Seven Years' War was the world's first global conflict, spanning five continents and the crit...

The acclaimed author of 'Duel in the Sun,' hailed as 'a perfect golf time machine' ('USA Today'),...

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

Beset by enemies on every side and torn by internal divisions, the crusader kingdoms were a hotbe...

Originally published: Emmaus, Pa.: Rodale, c2003.

A critic, novelist, filmmaker, jazz musician, painter, and, above all, poet, Weldon Kees (1914-55...

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

A balanced history of Father Francis M. Craft, a key figure in Sioux missionary history, who mini...