Just Freedom
Inside Florida’s Decades-Long Voting Rights Battle
This book tells the story of the fight to restore voting rights to people with past felony convictions in Florida. Daniel Rivero details the advocacy and action that helped 1.4 million people gain the right to vote—and the obstacles still preventing them from doing so.
Some Nightmares Are True
Ghosts of America's Deadliest Disasters
The Keep
Living with the Tame and the Wild on a Mountain Farm
The Keep—the term for “the strongest or central tower of a castle, acting as a final refuge”—is a love letter to an unexpected place and adopted lifestyle in Appalachia by a husband and wife.
The Enduring Riddle of Mackenzie King
The Enduring Riddle of Mackenzie King assembles a who’s who of political historians to untangle the legacy of Canada’s longest-serving, most controversial, and possibly greatest prime minister.
Lessons from "Take Me Home, Country Roads"
Identity, (Be)Longing, and Imagined Landscapes
Morris explores the song “Take Me Home, Country Roads” in various contexts such as it pertains to West Virginia geography and heritage and the diversity of these beliefs, external perceptions of the state, and the song as a phenomenon across different media platforms.
Deciding on Death
Rodriguez, Carter, and Medically Assisted Dying in Canada
Deciding on Death is a comprehensive analysis of the ethical debate, political controversy, and judicial and legislative developments culminating in the legalization of medically assisted dying in Canada.
Autism and the Culture of Therapy
The Politics and Practice of Applied Behaviour Analysis
Autism and the Culture of Therapy investigates the larger systems that regulate applied behaviour therapies, their negotiation and application by practitioners and parents, and how they have redefined what autism means.
Artifact
Encounters with the Campus Shooting Archives
Each college campus shooting leaves an archival record. Julija Šukys examines the documentation—court transcripts, police reports, institutional reports, and monuments to the dead—and confronts what it means to live in a place where students and their teachers are gunned down on a regular basis.
Vestiges of the Three Kingdoms of Ancient Korea
A Translation of the Samguk yusa
Scarred Landscapes
Place, Trauma, and Memory in Caribbean Latinx Art
Scarred Landscapes is a groundbreaking exploration of the rich and complex works of Caribbean Latinx artists. This book documents the work of ten influential artists of Cuban, Dominican, and Puerto Rican descent, based in New York City from the 1970s to the present. Through their diverse practices, including painting, printmaking, photography, sculpture, installation, video, and performance art, these artists confront the legacies of colonial trauma and their own experiences of diasporic unbelonging and artworld marginality.