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A Planetary Lens explores how women writers and photographers revise and reimagine landscape, identity, and history in the U.S. West.

Peter Joseph Gloviczki provides a history of new media technology that examines mediated narration from 1991 through 2018.

Randon Billings Noble has collected a range of lyric essays in a variety of forms that showcase the essay's openness to experimentation, reliance on authentic voice, and potential to explore complex subject matter.

A Missionary Nation focuses on Spain's crusade to resurrect its empire, beginning with the War of Africa.

Ragged Coast, Rugged Coves explores the untold story of cannery workers in Southeast Alaska from 1878 through the Cold War, particularly how making a living was pitted against the economic realities of the day.

Jump Shooting to a Higher Degree chronicles Sheldon Anderson's basketball career from grade school through his years playing professionally in West Germany and communist Poland in 1987.

Burning the Breeze chronicles the lives of three generations of women who defied society’s expectations: Julia Bennett, the first woman to build a Montana guest ranch; and her grandmother and mother, who fled Missouri during the Civil War to prosper in the American West.

Boy Almighty is an autobiographical novel that recounts the terrifying two years from 1940 to 1942 that Frederick Manfred spent at the Glen Lake Sanatorium in Minnesota, trying to recover from tuberculosis.

In Lamentations Carol Kammen imagines the 1842 crossing of the first group of families to go to Oregon through the perspectives of the dozen women who made the journey.

B.J. Hollars and his young son strike out on a 2,500-mile road trip to retrace the Oregon Trail. Their mission: to rediscover America—and Americans—along the way.

At once a stirring adventure tale, a candid memoir, an offbeat natural history, and a smart literary chronicle, The Bear Doesn’t Know is a bear-lover’s book of wonders—rich in the joy, beauty, and inspiration found during a life well lived in bear country.

Mosquitoes SUCK! is a vibrant graphic novel illustrating information about mosquito biology, ecology, and disease transmission needed for community-based control efforts.

Margaret Pollak explores experiences, understandings, and care of diabetes in a Native urban community in Chicago made up of individuals representing more than one hundred tribes from across the United States and Canada.

Cather Studies, Volume 13 explores the myriad ways Willa Cather's writing career was shaped by the decade she lived in Pittsburgh (1896-1906) and the artistic, professional, and personal connections that she made while sojourning there through 1916.

This anthology features work by and about queer, trans, and gender nonconforming Latinx communities, including immigrants and social dissidents who reflect on and write about diaspora and migratory movements while navigating geographical and embodied spaces in the United States.

National Races explores how politics interacted with transnational science in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to produce powerful, racialized national identity discourses. These essays demonstrate that the "national races" constructed by physical anthropologists had a vital historical role in racism, race science, and nationalism.

Writing Anthropologists, Sounding Primitives offers a contribution to the history of anthropology by synthesizing and applying insights from the history of writing, sound studies, and intermediality studies to poetry and scholarship produced by early twentieth-century U.S.-American cultural anthropologists.

Paul Ardoin asks how texts might work to unsettle readers at a moment when unwelcome information is rejected as fake news or rebutted with alternative facts.

John E. Schmitz examines the causes, conditions, and consequences of America's selective relocation and internment of German, Italian, and Japanese Americans during World War II.

Leveraging an Empire examines the process of settler colonialism in the developing region of Oregon via its exclusionary laws in the years 1841 to 1859.

This edited collection explores what trauma-seen through an analytical lens-can reveal about the early modern period and, conversely, what conceptualizations of psychological trauma from the period can tell us about trauma theory itself.

Henry Knight Lozano explores how U.S. boosters, writers, politicians, and settlers promoted and imagined California and Hawai'i as connected places, and how this relationship reveals the fraught constructions of an Americanized Pacific West from the 1840s to the 1950s.

Robert Niebuhr explores the importance of the turbulent populist politics of the period after 1899 and the significance of the Chaco War as the most influential revolution in modern Bolivian history.

French St. Louis places St. Louis, Missouri, in a broad colonial context, shedding light on its francophone history.

Frank P. Barajas argues that Chicanas and Chicanos of the 1960s and 1970s expressed politics distinct from the Mexican American generation that came of age in the decades before.

Maestro is the first full-length biography on Andre Tchelistcheff (1901-94) that details the events of his life leading to his career as an expert winemaker, consultant, and mentor and how his wisdom helped revitalize a severely-damaged Napa Valley wine industry.