A multidisciplinary study of the commonalities between heroes, icons, saints, and their institutions, across several cultures.

The original book on the renowned Freedom quilters of Gee's Bend

National Socialist state control of a public institution.

A survey of Native American earthlodge research from across the Great Plains. This collection explores current research in the ethnography and archaeology of Plains earthlodges, and considers a variety of Plains tribes, including the Mandan, Hidatsa, Cheyenne, and their late prehistoric period predecessors.

Colonial Search for a Southern Eden details how European imperialists began to dream of other kinds of wealth besides gold in the New World.

The first part of Forgetfulness is a fictional monograph on the life of the Austrian modernist composer Anton von Webern (1883-1945).

Archaeological excavations since 1989 have uncovered exciting evidence of the original townsite of Mobile, first capital of the Louisiana colony, and remnants of the colony's port on Dauphin Island.

A study of how doing field research submerged in a different culture impacts one's sense of identity.

Ultimately, Distant Reading treats poetry as a cultural practice that is always situated within specific sites of performance—recited on stage, displayed in magazines, laid out on a page, scrolled on the computer screen—rather than as a transcendent cloud of meaning tethered only to its words.

A provocative telling of "The Phenix City Story."

  “Heartland” English is the first book-length scholarly treatment of English spoken in the Midwest, or the northern interior of the continental United States. Frazer and his contributors focus on the myth of a uniform, “Midwestern” variety of American English. They show the complex region in which forces-old and new- have led to variety in the spoken language.

The first detailed analysis of Native metalworking in the Protohistoric/Contact Period

Udelson provides a trenchant analysis of Zangwill's works set within a historical context, i.e., Jewish emancipation and the dilemma of how one might remain fully Jewish while becoming fully modern.

An affectionate, humorous account of small town Alabama during the civil rights era.

A readable, exciting chronicle of the men and ships that ran federal naval blockades during the Civil War

Traces the development of Alabama's environmental movement from its beginnings with the establishment of The Alabama Conservancy in the late 1960s and early '70s to the preservation efforts of present-day activist groups

The only published record available of the oral cultural traditions of the Osage people.

A long-ignored prehistoric mound building people

A synthesis of research on earthenware technologies of the Late Archaic Period in the southeastern U.S.

Prehistoric plant use in the Late Woodland Period of central Indiana

"Raymond and Russell have fashioned a lively, useful volume. . . . The ability and integrity of the contributors make much of the difference, but the editors have given the book direction by soliciting state of the art essays in three fields . . . dialectology (the articles represent area linguistics at its best), grammar and usage (Algeo on usage shibboleths is particularly fine), and lexicography (a delight)."

—Choice