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The Sonoran Dynasty in Mexico
Honorable Mention for the 2024 SECOLAS Alfred B. Thomas Book Award Two generals from the northwestern state of Sonora, Álvaro Obregón and Plutarco Elías Calles, dominated Mexico …
One Season in Rocket City
Named a Best Baseball Book of 2023 by Sports Collectors Digest It’s 1984. Minor League Baseball mogul Larry Schmittou needs a new home for his Southern League Nashville Sounds …
Reading the Contemporary Author
Readers, literary critics, and theorists alike have long demonstrated an abiding fascination with the author, both as a real person—an artist and creator—and as a theoretical …
Mud, Blood, and Ghosts
Populism has become a global movement associated with nationalism and strong-man politicians, but its root causes remain elusive. Mud, Blood, and Ghosts exposes one deep root in …
The Grapes of Conquest
Honorable Mention for the 2024 OAH Frederick Jackson Turner Award California’s wine country conjures images of pastoral vineyards and cellars lined with oak barrels. As a mainstay …
The First Atomic Bomb
2024 Southwest Book of the Year On July 16, 1945, just weeks before the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that brought about the surrender of Japan and the end of World War …
Hospital and Haven
Hospital and Haven tells the story of an Episcopal missionary couple who lived their entire married life, from 1910 to 1938, among the Gwich’in peoples of northern Alaska, devoting …
Little Poison
Paul Runyan—the Arkansas farm boy who stood five feet, six inches and weighed 130 pounds—shocked the golf world by defeating long and lean, sweet-swinging Sam Snead in the finals …
Unsettling Agribusiness
In the last half century Brazil’s rural economy has developed profitable soy and sugarcane plantations, causing mass displacement of rural inhabitants, deforestation, casualization …
Hydronarratives
2023 Choice Outstanding Academic Title The story of water in the United States is one of ecosystemic disruption and social injustice. From the Standing Rock Indian Reservation and …
The Incorrigibles
Between September 1935 and June 1936, sixty-two girls from a reformatory in north-central Kansas were sterilized in the name of eugenics. None of the girls were habitual criminals, …