In America’s National Cemeteries, Timothy B. Spears takes the reader on a grand tour of these singular places of commemoration, the final resting place for more than four million American military personnel who died either in wartime, during their time of service, or after their honorable discharge. His absorbing account—part historical narrative and part travelogue—is enhanced by 180 of his remarkable photographs, which capture the spirit, grandeur, and solemn remembrance to be found in each of the 155 national cemeteries across America and abroad.

A groundbreaking exploration of the Jewish marriage contract and its evolution in English translation

How Tennessee reformers reconciled Southern heritage with rising nationalism, weaving the Lost Cause into the fabric of American progress and identity

A revealing study on the little-known and misunderstood provincial navies established by North American British colonists

In “Echoes of Exile,” Daniela Spenser weaves together a history of Europe’s calamitous 20th century conflicts—the Holocaust, Communism, the Cold War—by tracing those events in the lives of her parents and grandparents of Czech, Polish, and German descent. Enhancing and humanizing extensive archival research with interviews and hundreds of personal letters, Echoes of Exile brings complex political history to vivid life in the story of one family's struggle to survive.

In “Echoes of Exile,” Daniela Spenser weaves together a history of Europe’s calamitous 20th century conflicts—the Holocaust, Communism, the Cold War—by tracing those events in the lives of her parents and grandparents of Czech, Polish, and German descent. Enhancing and humanizing extensive archival research with interviews and hundreds of personal letters, Echoes of Exile brings complex political history to vivid life in the story of one family's struggle to survive.

Explores the profound influence of multilingual dictionaries, dialogues, and grammars on English Renaissance playwrights

Manifesting Violence explores the digital world as a fertile location where white supremist groups spread manifestos and screeds about a supposed white genocide. 

A unique collection of Fitzgerald family photographs, many never before published, hand selected by a curator of the Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Museum

A determined journalist’s account of rising to Pulitzer Prize-winning height

Theater Symposium, Volume 32 seeks to explore the collaborative interactions and ritual chains specific to performance during the collective reemergence into a hope filled post-COVID landscape. The contributors choose to engage this period of rebirth through an examination of the thriving and robust environment of material performance in all its facets. While vast in its diversity and by far the most popular aspect of object performance, puppetry serves as the guide into an even larger creative space of object performance styles and structures.

Traces the little-known story of the bitter contest for the fate of the University of Alabama after the Civil War

The story of the birth and evolution of modern Israel, especially concerning the struggle for Israeli-Palestinian peace, from the view of a journalist, politician and diplomat  who wrote with his own hands several important chapters in that history.
 

Examines the role of digital technologies in the lives of Kaqchikel Maya women whose husbands work abroad

Conveys in dramatic detail the high-risk, covert operations of a nuclear attack submarine during the zenith of the Cold War
 

An account of the rise of sportsmen and conservation groups in Arkansas who made common cause to save the state’s wildlife resources

This new biography reveals Marion Greenwood's central place in the pantheon of history’s remarkable women artists.

Noted Houma/Choctaw storyteller Grayhawk Perkins shares age-old wisdom in a memorable collection of folktales

(per JD, Grayhawk requested that we refer to his tribe as Houma/Choctaw, rather than Choctaw/Houma. JBM)

10.23.24
Hello, Wendi and Jen,

I wanted to mention to you both that, in the process of ok’ing his catalog copy, Grayhawk requested that we refer to his tribe as Houma/Choctaw, rather than Choctaw/Houma. I made that change in the catalog copy but wanted to mention it to you all in case it comes up in other places (flyers, etc.)

Thanks,

JD Wilson

Weaves the author's own four-month cross-country sojourn in a VW van with thoughts on travel narratives across the history of American literature

An experimental narrative by eco-fiction author and poet Patrick Lawler evolves out of the interactions between twenty-four extinct animals and those characters who struggle for significance in the face of their own extinction

Explores the untold impacts of colonialism in New England through diverse colonist lives, Indigenous encounters, and environmental legacies

A comprehensive historical account of race and healthcare in the segregated South

Investigates the interdisciplinary dimensions of countermemory through a rhetorical lens

Illuminates how algorithms, intertwined with human biases, damage political discourse and civic engagement