"U.S. historians can read this book with considerable profit for the details it offers; general readers can enjoy it as a straightforward and informative biography."
—Choice

Showcases brilliant and experimental work in African American poetry.

A surprising, vivid, complex experience of Nietzsche's final hours.

 "A well-written and carefully crafted account of Aguaruna magic and its practical applications [that] diverges from more traditional approaches by focusing not only on the symbolic realm of magic but also on the instrumental intent."

--American Anthropologist

A true classic of American humor.

A classic volume on the early study of American Indians.

Boeckmann links character, literary genre, and science, revealing how major literary works both contributed to and disrupted the construction of race in turn-of-the-century America.

Accessible translation of a French language classic.

The Cultural Prison brings a new dimension to the study of prisoners and punishment by focusing on how the punishment of American offenders is represented and shaped in the mass media through public arguments.

Perilous Missions is William M. Leary's detailed operational history of  the USA's Civil Air Transport (CAT), taking it through its many forms and uses in Asian conflicts.

Three trailblazers for education reform in the Sunbelt South.

"In about 1615 an anonymous Jew from Prague composed a short Hebrew chronicle to recount 'the expulsions, miracles, and other occurrences befalling [the Jews] in Prague and the other lands of our long exile.' Abraham David discovered the manuscript [and] added glosses, historical notes, and an introduction. . . . The chronicle, with its brief annual entries, is not a continuous narrative, but does give a feeling of immediacy, like a newspaper."
—Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry

Examines the effects of the Spanish mission system on population structure and genetic variability in indigenous communities living in northern Florida and southern Georgia during the 16th and 17th centuries

Antoine Meillet (1866–1936) is one of the most important linguists of all time

A revealing and important Civil War memoir.

A study of the role of rhetoric in the exercise of leadership within a community of faith.

Explores literature's social mission at the turn of the century as defined by William Dean Howells and practiced by him and others.