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American History

Blinking Red

Crisis and Compromise in American Intelligence after 9/11

Geographic Personas

Self-Transformation and Performance in the American West

Henry James Framed

Material Representations of the Master

John James Audubon's Journal of 1826

The Voyage to The Birds of America

The Forgotten Terrorist

Sirhan Sirhan and the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, Second Edition

Plotting to Kill the President

Assassination Attempts from Washington to Hoover

Unprecedented

A Simple Guide to the Crimes of the Trump Campaign and Presidency

Curious Unions

Mexican American Workers and Resistance in Oxnard, California, 1898–1961

Mexican Americans with Moxie

A Transgenerational History of El Movimiento Chicano in Ventura County, California, 1945–1975

Country of the Cursed and the Driven

Slavery and the Texas Borderlands

Forts of the Northern Plains

A Guide to Military and Civilian Posts of the Plains Indian Wars

Journey to Freedom

Uncovering the Grayson Sisters' Escape from Nebraska Territory

Death at the Edges of Empire

Fallen Soldiers, Cultural Memory, and the Making of an American Nation, 1863–1921

Borderland Films

American Cinema, Mexico, and Canada during the Progressive Era

Flight to the Top of the World

The Adventures of Walter Wellman

The Forgotten Botanist

Sara Plummer Lemmon's Life of Science and Art

A Failed Vision of Empire

The Collapse of Manifest Destiny, 1845–1872

Terrorism, Betrayal, and Resilience

My Story of the 1998 U.S. Embassy Bombings

Ronald Reagan

An Intellectual Biography

Liverpool to Great Salt Lake

The 1851 Journal of Missionary George D. Watt

Richard Nixon

California's Native Son

Oklahoma's Atticus

An Innocent Man and the Lawyer Who Fought for Him

Freshwater Passages

The Trade and Travels of Peter Pond

Predicting the Winner

The Untold Story of Election Night 1952 and the Dawn of Computer Forecasting

Our American Story

The Search for a Shared National Narrative

The Great Oklahoma Swindle

Race, Religion, and Lies in America's Weirdest State

Upton Sinclair

California Socialist, Celebrity Intellectual

Between Soil and Society

Legislative History and Political Development of Farm Bill Conservation Policy

The Fault Lines of Farm Policy

A Legislative and Political History of the Farm Bill

The Snatch Racket

The Kidnapping Epidemic That Terrorized 1930s America

American Quilts in the Industrial Age, 1760–1870

The International Quilt Study Center and Museum Collections

Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory

Religion and the Politics of Race in the Civil War Era and Beyond

GPS Declassified

From Smart Bombs to Smartphones

Range Wars

The Environmental Contest for White Sands Missile Range

The First Migrants

How Black Homesteaders’ Quest for Land and Freedom Heralded America’s Great Migration

Raising the Flag

America's First Envoys in Faraway Lands

Compliments of Hamilton and Sargent

A Story of Mystery and Tragedy on the Gilded Age Frontier

Fascism

Why Not Here?

More Than a Doctrine

The Eisenhower Era in the Middle East

Finding Oil

The Nature of Petroleum Geology, 1859-1920

The Greater Plains

Rethinking a Region's Environmental Histories

French St. Louis

Landscape, Contexts, and Legacy

Operation Pedro Pan

The Migration of Unaccompanied Children from Castro's Cuba

9/12

The Epic Battle of the Ground Zero Responders

Bourbon Justice

How Whiskey Law Shaped America

Harry and Arthur

Truman, Vandenberg, and the Partnership That Created the Free World

The Kennedys in the World

How Jack, Bobby, and Ted Remade America's Empire

A Powerful Mind

The Self-Education of George Washington

Political Godmother

Nackey Scripps Loeb and the Newspaper That Shook the Republican Party

Imperial Zions

Religion, Race, and Family in the American West and the Pacific

War on the Silver Screen

Shaping America's Perception of History

Murder, Inc.

The CIA under John F. Kennedy

The Spanish Craze

America's Fascination with the Hispanic World, 1779–1939

Amiable Scoundrel

Simon Cameron, Lincoln's Scandalous Secretary of War

Before Chappaquiddick

The Untold Story of Mary Jo Kopechne and the Kennedy Brothers

Champagne Charlie

The Frenchman Who Taught Americans to Love Champagne

The St. Louis Commune of 1877

Communism in the Heartland

Sunflower Justice

A New History of the Kansas Supreme Court

When Sunflowers Bloomed Red

Kansas and the Rise of Socialism in America

Following the Drum

Women at the Valley Forge Encampment

Haig's Coup

How Richard Nixon's Closest Aide Forced Him from Office

Power and Complacency

American Survival in an Age of International Competition

Touched with Fire

Morris B. Abram and the Battle against Racial and Religious Discrimination

Dressing for the Culture Wars

Style and the Politics of Self-Presentation in the 1960s and 1970s

Deconstructing Dr. Strangelove

The Secret History of Nuclear War Films

Becoming Ronald Reagan

The Rise of a Conservative Icon

Confederate Exodus

Social and Environmental Forces in the Migration of U.S. Southerners to Brazil

A Professional Foreigner

Life in Diplomacy

Empress San Francisco

The Pacific Rim, the Great West, and California at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition

Clash

Presidents and the Press in Times of Crisis

Catholic Borderlands

Mapping Catholicism onto American Empire, 1905-1935

JFK Assassination Logic

How to Think about Claims of Conspiracy

The Man in the Arena

The Life and Times of U.S. Senator Gale McGee

Citizen Justice

The Environmental Legacy of William O. Douglas—Public Advocate and Conservation Champion

Shades of Gray

Writing the New American Multiracialism

Sight Unseen

How Frémont's First Expedition Changed the American Landscape

How to Reach Japan by Subway

America's Fascination with Japanese Culture, 1945–1965

Without Warning

The Tornado of Udall, Kansas

Risking Immeasurable Harm

Immigration Restriction and U.S.-Mexican Diplomatic Relations, 1924–1932

Bootleggers and Borders

The Paradox of Prohibition on a Canada-U.S. Borderland

Fit for the Presidency?

Winners, Losers, What-Ifs, and Also-Rans

The Limits of Liberty

Mobility and the Making of the Eastern U.S.-Mexico Border

Asphalt

A History

Harvesting History

McCormick's Reaper, Heritage Branding, and Historical Forgery

At the Base of the Giant's Throat

The Past and Future of America's Great Dams

Skywalks

Robert Gordon’s Untold Story of Hallmark’s Kansas City Disaster

Washington Merry-Go-Round

The Drew Pearson Diaries, 1960-1969

American Detective

Behind the Scenes of Famous Criminal Investigations

Quest for the Presidency

The Storied and Surprising History of Presidential Campaigns in America

Opposing Jim Crow

African Americans and the Soviet Indictment of U.S. Racism, 1928-1937

A Glorious Liberty

Frederick Douglass and the Fight for an Antislavery Constitution

Murdering the President

Alexander Graham Bell and the Race to Save James Garfield

Grasslands Grown

Creating Place on the U.S. Northern Plains and Canadian Prairies

Remembering America

How We Have Told Our Past

The Winning Ticket

Uncovering America’s Biggest Lottery Scam

Hawaiian by Birth

Missionary Children, Bicultural Identity, and U.S. Colonialism in the Pacific

The Great Kosher Meat War of 1902

Immigrant Housewives and the Riots That Shook New York City

A Second Reckoning

Race, Injustice, and the Last Hanging in Annapolis

The Third Degree

The Triple Murder That Shook Washington and Changed American Criminal Justice

Monumental Controversies

Mount Rushmore, Four Presidents, and the Quest for National Unity

Buffalo Soldiers in Alaska

Company L, Twenty-Fourth Infantry

Buffalo Soldiers in California

Charles Young and the Ninth Cavalry, 1902–1904

The Alphabet Bomber

A Lone Wolf Terrorist Ahead of His Time

America's Forgotten Terrorists

The Rise and Fall of the Galleanists

Memory Wars

Settlers and Natives Remember Washington’s Sullivan Expedition of 1779

George H. W. Bush

Character at the Core

Busy in the Cause

Iowa, the Free-State Struggle in the West, and the Prelude to the Civil War

America Ascendant

The Rise of American Exceptionalism

Patriotic Murder

A World War I Hate Crime for Uncle Sam

The Presidential Fringe

Questing and Jesting for the Oval Office

Vice Capades

Sex, Drugs, and Bowling from the Pilgrims to the Present

On Distant Service

The Life of the First U.S. Foreign Service Officer to Be Assassinated

Looking at the Stars

Black Celebrity Journalism in Jim Crow America

Call Me Commander

A Former Intelligence Officer and the Journalists Who Uncovered His Scheme to Fleece America

In Food We Trust

The Politics of Purity in American Food Regulation

Scars of War

The Politics of Paternity and Responsibility for the Amerasians of Vietnam

Murrow's Cold War

Public Diplomacy for the Kennedy Administration

The Southern Exodus to Mexico

Migration across the Borderlands after the American Civil War

George McGovern and the Democratic Insurgents

The Best Campaign and Political Posters of the Last Fifty Years

The NYPD's First Fifty Years

Politicians, Police Commissioners, and Patrolmen

Producing Predators

Wolves, Work, and Conquest in the Northern Rockies

A Different Manifest Destiny

U.S. Southern Identity and Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century South America

Black Montana

Settler Colonialism and the Erosion of the Racial Frontier, 1877–1930

Orchestrating the Instruments of Power

A Critical Examination of the U.S. National Security System

Echo of Its Time

The History of the Federal District Court of Nebraska, 1867-1933

Look

How a Highly Influential Magazine Helped Define Mid-Twentieth-Century America

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American West

One Size Fits None

A Farm Girl's Search for the Promise of Regenerative Agriculture

Out Here on Our Own

An Oral History of an American Boomtown

Tenacious of Life

The Quadruped Essays of John James Audubon and John Bachman

The Old Iron Road

An Epic of Rails, Roads, and the Urge to Go West

The Life of the Afterlife in the Big Sky State

A History of Montana's Cemeteries

Beckoning Frontiers

The Memoir of a Wyoming Entrepreneur

Arizona Politics and Government

The Quest for Autonomy, Democracy, and Development

Justice in Plain Sight

How a Small-Town Newspaper and Its Unlikely Lawyer Opened America's Courtrooms

Blood in the Borderlands

Conflict, Kinship, and the Bent Family, 1821–1920

Empire Builder

John D. Spreckels and the Making of San Diego

The Sugar King of California

The Life of Claus Spreckels

The First Atomic Bomb

The Trinity Site in New Mexico

Utah Politics and Government

American Democracy among a Unique Electorate

Fort Phil Kearny

An American Saga

Black Gun, Silver Star

The Life and Legend of Frontier Marshal Bass Reeves

At Home in the World

California Women and the Postwar Environmental Movement

The Case of Rose Bird

Gender, Politics, and the California Courts

Fruit, Fiber, and Fire

A History of Modern Agriculture in New Mexico

Mud, Blood, and Ghosts

Populism, Eugenics, and Spiritualism in the American West

Solomon D. Butcher

Photographing the American Dream

Choosing to Care

A Century of Childcare and Social Reform in San Diego, 1850-1950

Dervish Dust

The Life and Words of James Coburn

The Comic Book Western

New Perspectives on a Global Genre

Losing Eden

An Environmental History of the American West

Grizzly West

A Failed Attempt to Reintroduce Grizzly Bears in the Mountain West

Making a Modern U.S. West

The Contested Terrain of a Region and Its Borders, 1898-1940

Restoring Nature

The Evolution of Channel Islands National Park

The Power of Scenery

Frederick Law Olmsted and the Origin of National Parks

Hospital and Haven

The Life and Work of Grafton and Clara Burke in Northern Alaska

Hush of the Land

A Lifetime in the Bob Marshall Wilderness

Wallace Stegner's Unsettled Country

Ruin, Realism, and Possibility in the American West

Weird Westerns

Race, Gender, Genre

Downwind

A People's History of the Nuclear West

Back from the Collapse

American Prairie and the Restoration of Great Plains Wildlife

Galloping Gourmet

Eating and Drinking with Buffalo Bill

The Heart of California

Exploring the San Joaquin Valley

Política

Nuevomexicanos and American Political Incorporation, 1821–1910

Rewilding the Urban Frontier

River Conservation in the Anthropocene

Russian Colonization of Alaska

Preconditions, Discovery, and Initial Development, 1741-1799

Maestro

André Tchelistcheff and the Rebirth of Napa Valley

From Back Alley to the Border

Criminal Abortion in California, 1920–1969

Before the West Was West

Critical Essays on Pre-1800 Literature of the American Frontiers

Burning the Breeze

Three Generations of Women in the American West

Birthing the West

Mothers and Midwives in the Rockies and Plains

Living the California Dream

African American Leisure Sites during the Jim Crow Era

Agents of Empire

The First Oregon Cavalry and the Opening of the Interior Pacific Northwest during the Civil War

The Middle Kingdom under the Big Sky

A History of the Chinese Experience in Montana

A Connected Metropolis

Los Angeles Elites and the Making of a Modern City, 1890–1965

Speculative Wests

Popular Representations of a Region and Genre

En Recuerdo de

The Dying Art of Mexican Cemeteries in the Southwest

We Who Work the West

Class, Labor, and Space in Western American Literature

Irwin Klein and the New Settlers

Photographs of Counterculture in New Mexico

California and Hawai'i Bound

U.S. Settler Colonialism and the Pacific West, 1848-1959

Taking the Field

Soldiers, Nature, and Empire on American Frontiers

Captivating Westerns

The Middle East in the American West

The Bower Atmosphere

A Biography of B. M. Bower

Westerns

A Women's History

Morta Las Vegas

CSI and the Problem of the West

Idaho Politics and Government

Culture Clash and Conflicting Values in the Gem State

Outback and Out West

The Settler-Colonial Environmental Imaginary

City of Vice

Transience and San Francisco's Urban History, 1848–1917

A Country Strange and Far

The Methodist Church in the Pacific Northwest, 1834–1918

Cast Out of Eden

The Untold Story of John Muir, Indigenous Peoples, and the American Wilderness

Late Westerns

The Persistence of a Genre

Raid and Reconciliation

Pancho Villa, Modernization, and Violence in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

Gem of the Sierra

Schemes and Splendor in Nineteenth-Century Lake Tahoe

Nature's Mountain Mansion

Wonder, Wrangles, Bloodshed, and Bellyaching from Nineteenth-Century Yosemite

The Grapes of Conquest

Race, Labor, and the Industrialization of California Wine, 1769–1920

Sabotaged

Dreams of Utopia in Texas

Preserving Yellowstone's Natural Conditions

Science and the Perception of Nature

Bloody Bay

Grassroots Policing in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco

Sea Otters

A History

San Francisco's Queen of Vice

The Strange Career of Abortionist Inez Brown Burns

Unpopular Sovereignty

Mormons and the Federal Management of Early Utah Territory

Legacies of Dust

Land Use and Labor on the Colorado Plains

Backcountry Ghosts

California Homesteaders and the Making of a Dubious Dream

Stories from Afield

Adventures with Wild Things in Wild Places

Chasing the Ghost Bear

On the Trail of America’s Lost Super Beast

Watch the Bear

A Half Century with the Brown Bears of Alaska

Vanished Arizona

Recollections of the Army Life of a New England Woman, Second Edition

Unhomely Wests

Essays from A to Z

Leveraging an Empire

Settler Colonialism and the Legalities of Citizenship in the Pacific Northwest

The Last Sovereigns

Sitting Bull and the Resistance of the Free Lakotas

The Last Heir

The Triumphs and Tragedies of Two Montana Families

The Settler Sea

California's Salton Sea and the Consequences of Colonialism

Cattle Beet Capital

Making Industrial Agriculture in Northern Colorado

Exceptional Mountains

A Cultural History of the Pacific Northwest Volcanoes

Twenty Miles of Fence

Blueprint of a Cowboy

Continental Reckoning

The American West in the Age of Expansion

Framing Nature

The Creation of an American Icon at the Grand Canyon

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Anthropology

America's Digital Army

Games at Work and War

American Antiquities

Revisiting the Origins of American Archaeology

Governing Affect

Neoliberalism and Disaster Reconstruction

The Franz Boas Papers, Volume 2

Franz Boas, James Teit, and Early Twentieth-Century Salish Ethnography

Ojibwe Stories from the Upper Berens River

A. Irving Hallowell and Adam Bigmouth in Conversation

Come Now, Let Us Argue It Out

Counter-Conduct and LGBTQ Evangelical Activism

Hoarding New Guinea

Writing Colonial Ethnographic Collection Histories for Postcolonial Futures

Captives

How Stolen People Changed the World

Corridor Talk to Culture History

Public Anthropology and Its Consequences

The Franz Boas Papers, Volume 1

Franz Boas as Public Intellectual—Theory, Ethnography, Activism

The History of Anthropology

A Critical Window on the Discipline in North America

Intermarriage from Central Europe to Central Asia

Mixed Families in the Age of Extremes

A Far Corner

Life and Art with the Open Circle Tribe

White Gold

Stories of Breast Milk Sharing

Art Effects

Image, Agency, and Ritual in Amazonia

Yup'ik Words of Wisdom

Yupiit Qanruyutait, New Edition

Creeks and Southerners

Biculturalism on the Early American Frontier

The Enigma of Max Gluckman

The Ethnographic Life of a "Luckyman" in Africa

Coming of Age in Chicago

The 1893 World's Fair and the Coalescence of American Anthropology

Travels with Frances Densmore

Her Life, Work, and Legacy in Native American Studies

A Maverick Boasian

The Life and Work of Alexander A. Goldenweiser

Girl Archaeologist

Sisterhood in a Sexist Profession

Race Experts

Sculpture, Anthropology, and the American Public in Malvina Hoffman's Races of Mankind

Mexicans in Alaska

An Ethnography of Mobility, Place, and Transnational Life

Maria Czaplicka

Gender, Shamanism, Race

Upward, Not Sunwise

Resonant Rupture in Navajo Neo-Pentecostalism

National Races

Transnational Power Struggles in the Sciences and Politics of Human Diversity, 1840–1945

The Coming Man from Canton

Chinese Experience in Montana, 1862–1943

Ancestral Mounds

Vitality and Volatility of Native America

Yearning to Labor

Youth, Unemployment, and Social Destiny in Urban France

Lessons from Fort Apache

Beyond Language Endangerment and Maintenance

World-Making Stories

Maidu Language and Community Renewal on a Shared California Landscape

Holding On

African American Women Surviving HIV/AIDS

An Asian Frontier

American Anthropology and Korea, 1882–1945

Excavating Nauvoo

The Mormons and the Rise of Historical Archaeology in America

Amazonian Kichwa of the Curaray River

Kinship and History in the Western Amazon

Writing Anthropologists, Sounding Primitives

The Poetry and Scholarship of Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, and Ruth Benedict

The Mayans Among Us

Migrant Women and Meatpacking on the Great Plains

Rebuilding Shattered Worlds

Creating Community by Voicing the Past

Songs of Profit, Songs of Loss

Private Equity, Wealth, and Inequality

Alliance Rises in the West

Labor, Race, and Solidarity in Industrial California

Shape Shifters

Journeys across Terrains of Race and Identity

Before Boas

The Genesis of Ethnography and Ethnology in the German Enlightenment

Segregation Made Them Neighbors

An Archaeology of Racialization in Boise, Idaho

Rising from the Ashes

Survival, Sovereignty, and Native America

Franz Boas

The Emergence of the Anthropologist

Religious, Feminist, Activist

Cosmologies of Interconnection

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Fiction

Common Cause

A Novel of the War in America

Elder Northfield's Home

or, Sacrificed on the Mormon Altar

Better Times

Short Stories

Not a Clue

A Novel

Mahagony

A Novel

Lamentations

A Novel of Women Walking West

Changing Woman

A Novel of the Camp Grant Massacre

Vanished

Stories

Boy Almighty

An Autobiographical Novel

Awu's Story

A Novel

Eagle Voice Remembers

An Authentic Tale of the Old Sioux World

Private Way

A Novel

Follow the Angels, Follow the Doves

The Bass Reeves Trilogy, Book One

The Forsaken and the Dead

The Bass Reeves Trilogy, Book Three

Hell on the Border

The Bass Reeves Trilogy, Book Two

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Gender Studies

Women Made Visible

Feminist Art and Media in Post-1968 Mexico City

Courage and Grief

Women and Sweden's Thirty Years' War

Travel and Travail

Early Modern Women, English Drama, and the Wider World

A Civil Society

The Public Space of Freemason Women in France, 1744–1944

Problematic

How Toxic Callout Culture Is Destroying Feminism

Land of Sunshine

Race, Gender, and Regional Development in a California Periodical

Practiced Citizenship

Women, Gender, and the State in Modern France

Colonial Metropolis

The Urban Grounds of Anti-Imperialism and Feminism in Interwar Paris

Horrible Mothers

Representations across Francophone North America

Undesirable Practices

Women, Children, and the Politics of the Body in Northern Ghana, 1930–1972

Intersectionality

Origins, Contestations, Horizons

Abuses of the Erotic

Militarizing Sexuality in the Post-Cold War United States

Queering Kansas City Jazz

Gender, Performance, and the History of a Scene

Postcolonial Hauntologies

African Women's Discourses of the Female Body

Wise Latinas

Writers on Higher Education

Gendered Citizenship

The Original Conflict over the Equal Rights Amendment, 1920–1963

Feminist Formalism and Early Modern Women's Writing

Readings, Conversations, Pedagogies

A Woman of Adventure

The Life and Times of First Lady Lou Henry Hoover

Writings from the Sand, Volume 2

Collected Works of Isabelle Eberhardt

Diversifying Diplomacy

My Journey from Roxbury to Dakar

Public Privates

Feminist Geographies of Mediated Spaces

Fidelis

A Memoir

Maricas

Queer Cultures and State Violence in Argentina and Spain, 1942–1982

Terrorizing Gender

Transgender Visibility and the Surveillance Practices of the U.S. Security State

Borrowing from Our Foremothers

Reexamining the Women's Movement through Material Culture, 1848–2017

Transforming Family

Queer Kinship and Migration in Contemporary Francophone Literature

Art from Trauma

Genocide and Healing beyond Rwanda

Recovering Women's Past

New Epistemologies, New Ventures

Romance with Voluptuousness

Caribbean Women and Thick Bodies in the United States

Salvific Manhood

James Baldwin's Novelization of Male Intimacy

A Planetary Lens

The Photo-Poetics of Western Women's Writing

Daughters of 1968

Redefining French Feminism and the Women's Liberation Movement

Pauline Frederick Reporting

A Pioneering Broadcaster Covers the Cold War

Nepantla Squared

Transgender Mestiz@ Histories in Times of Global Shift

The Camp Fire Girls

Gender, Race, and American Girlhood, 1910–1980

Transmovimientos

Latinx Queer Migrations, Bodies, and Spaces

She Can Bring Us Home

Dr. Dorothy Boulding Ferebee, Civil Rights Pioneer

War Flower

My Life after Iraq

Jewish Voices in Feminism

Transnational Perspectives

Queer Embodiment

Monstrosity, Medical Violence, and Intersex Experience

The Incorrigibles

Eugenics and Sterilization in the Kansas Industrial School for Girls

Ellen Browning Scripps

New Money and American Philanthropy

California Dreams and American Contradictions

Women Writers and the Western Ideal

Telltale Women

Chronicling Gender in Early Modern Historiography

Whiskey Women

The Untold Story of How Women Saved Bourbon, Scotch, and Irish Whiskey

Staging Family

Domestic Deceptions of Mid-Nineteenth-Century American Actresses

Capitalist Family Values

Gender, Work, and Corporate Culture at Boeing

Phoebe Apperson Hearst

A Life of Power and Politics

Who Gets to Go Back-to-the-Land?

Gender and Race in U.S. Self-Sufficiency Popular Culture

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

Selected Tales, Essays, and Poems

Haters

Harassment, Abuse, and Violence Online

Hybrid Anxieties

Queering the French-Algerian War and Its Postcolonial Legacies

Place and Postcolonial Ecofeminism

Pakistani Women's Literary and Cinematic Fictions

Opening Acts

Narrative Beginnings in Twentieth-Century Feminist Fiction

When Women Ruled the Pacific

Power and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Tahiti and Hawai‘i

Cora Du Bois

Anthropologist, Diplomat, Agent

Deco Body, Deco City

Female Spectacle and Modernity in Mexico City, 1900–1939

Gendering Radicalism

Women and Communism in Twentieth-Century California

The Melancholy Void

Lyric and Masculinity in the Age of Góngora

The Other Exchange

Women, Servants, and the Urban Underclass in Early Modern English Literature

A Hemisphere of Women

The Founding and Development of the Inter-American Commission, 1915–1939

Of Love and War

Pacific Brides of World War II

Fruits of Victory

The Woman's Land Army of America in the Great War

Gothic Queer Culture

Marginalized Communities and the Ghosts of Insidious Trauma

Engendering Islands

Sexuality, Reproduction, and Violence in the Early French Caribbean

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Memoir

In Trace of TR

A Montana Hunter's Journey

American English, Italian Chocolate

Small Subjects of Great Importance

The Enjoy Agenda

At Home and Abroad

Croswell Bowen

A Writer's Life, a Daughter's Portrait

The I-35W Bridge Collapse

A Survivor's Account of America’s Crumbling Infrastructure

South of Somewhere

Wine, Food, and the Soul of Italy

From Chernobyl with Love

Reporting from the Ruins of the Soviet Union

If This Were Fiction

A Love Story in Essays

Get Me Through Tomorrow

A Sister's Memoir of Brain Injury and Revival

There I Go Again

How I Came to Be Mr. Feeny, John Adams, Dr. Craig, KITT, and Many Others

The Horse Lover

A Cowboy's Quest to Save the Wild Mustangs

Canoeing the Great Plains

A Missouri River Summer

Shenandoah

A Story of Conservation and Betrayal

Delusions of Grandeur

American Essays

Autumn Song

Essays on Absence

Shift

A Memoir of Identity and Other Illusions

Bitterroot

A Salish Memoir of Transracial Adoption

Borderline Citizen

Dispatches from the Outskirts of Nationhood

Flock Together

A Love Affair with Extinct Birds

From the Mouths of Dogs

What Our Pets Teach Us about Life, Death, and Being Human

Go West, Young Man

A Father and Son Rediscover America on the Oregon Trail

Midwestern Strange

Hunting Monsters, Martians, and the Weird in Flyover Country

The Hard Way Home

Alaska Stories of Adventure, Friendship, and the Hunt

Russia's Dead End

An Insider's Testimony from Gorbachev to Putin

Uphill Both Ways

Hiking toward Happiness on the Colorado Trail

I'll Be Your Mirror

Essays and Aphorisms

Queen of the Fall

A Memoir of Girls and Goddesses

The Virgin of Prince Street

Expeditions into Devotion

The Last Street Before Cleveland

An Accidental Pilgrimage

Anything Will Be Easy after This

A Western Identity Crisis

More Stories from Langley

Another Glimpse inside the CIA

Stories from Langley

A Glimpse Inside the CIA

Honyocker Dreams

Montana Memories

Bodies of Truth

Personal Narratives on Illness, Disability, and Medicine

Where Are You From

Letters to My Son

Packing for India

A Life of Action in Global Finance and Diplomacy

Wild Idea

Buffalo and Family in a Difficult Land

Shadow Migration

Mapping a Life

Meander Belt

Family, Loss, and Coming of Age in the Working-Class South

This River Beneath the Sky

A Year on the Platte

More in Time

A Tribute to Ted Kooser

The Solace of Stones

Finding a Way through Wilderness

Almost Somewhere

Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail

Animal Bodies

On Death, Desire, and Other Difficulties

Bad Tourist

Misadventures in Love and Travel

Drunk in China

Baijiu and the World's Oldest Drinking Culture

From Miniskirt to Hijab

A Girl in Revolutionary Iran

The Bear Doesn't Know

Life and Wonder in Bear Country

Good Neighbors, Bad Times Revisited

New Echoes of My Father's German Village

Low Mountains or High Tea

Misadventures in Britain's National Parks

Acetylene Torch Songs

Writing True Stories to Ignite the Soul

The Pat Boone Fan Club

My Life as a White Anglo-Saxon Jew

Sky Songs

Meditations on Loving a Broken World

In Search of Monster Fish

Angling for a More Sustainable Planet

Siberian Exile

Blood, War, and a Granddaughter's Reckoning

The Sound of Undoing

A Memoir in Essays

When We Were Ghouls

A Memoir of Ghost Stories

Knocked Down

A High-Risk Memoir

Cold

Three Winters at the South Pole

This Fish Is Fowl

Essays of Being

Loving and Leaving Washington

Reflections on Public Service

The Three-Minute Outdoorsman Returns

From Mammoth on the Menu to the Benefits of Moose Drool

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Military History

Selling War

A Critical Look at the Military's PR Machine

Quagmire

Personal Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan

Managing Sex in the U.S. Military

Gender, Identity, and Behavior

Bold Venture

The American Bombing of Japanese-Occupied Hong Kong, 1942–1945

War Crimes in Japan-Occupied Indonesia

A Case of Murder by Medicine

Working in the Killing Fields

Forensic Science in Bosnia

Spies, Lies, and Citizenship

The Hunt for Nazi Criminals

Shattered Minds

How the Pentagon Fails Our Troops with Faulty Helmets

It's My Country Too

Women's Military Stories from the American Revolution to Afghanistan