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Bleeding Green
The Hartford Whalers were a beloved hockey team from their founding in 1972 as the New England Whalers. Playing in the National Hockey League’s smallest market and arena after the …
From Near and Far
From Near and Far relates the history of modern France from the French Revolution to the present. Noted historian Tyler Stovall considers how the history of France interacts with …
Red Barber
2023 SABR Baseball Research Award A Booklist Top 10 Sports & Recreation Book Finalist for the 2023 Seymour Medal Finalist for the 2022 CASEY Award Born and raised in rural …
Dirt Persuasion
2023 Nebraska Book Award 2023 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleDirt Persuasion examines a watershed moment in U.S. environmental politics: the fight over the Keystone XL Pipeline. …
Stumbling around the Bases
From the late 1950s to the 1980s, baseball’s American League mismanaged integration and expansion, allowing the National League to forge ahead in attendance and prestige. While …
As Long as the Earth Endures
As Long as the Earth Endures is an annotated collection of almost all of the known Native texts in Miami-Illinois, an Algonquian language of Indiana, Illinois, and Oklahoma. These …
Who Gets to Go Back-to-the-Land?
In Who Gets to Go Back-to-the-Land??, Valerie Padilla Carroll examines a variety of media from the last century that proselytized self-sufficiency as a solution to the economic …
Cattle Beet Capital
In 1870 several hundred settlers arrived at a patch of land at the confluence of the South Platte and Cache la Poudre Rivers in Colorado territory. Their planned agricultural …
Strength from the Waters
Strength from the Waters is an environmental and social history that frames economic development, environmental concerns, and Indigenous mobilization within the context of a …
Sacrifice and Regeneration
At the dawn of the twentieth century, while Lima’s aristocrats hotly debated the future of a nation filled with “Indians,” thousands of Aymara and Quechua Indians left the pews of …
The Enlightened Patrolman
When late eighteenth-century New Spanish viceregal administrators installed public lamps in the streets of central Mexico City, they illuminated the bodies of Indigenous, …
Gentry Rhetoric
Gentry Rhetoric examines the full range of influences on the Elizabethan and Jacobean genteel classes’ practice of English rhetoric in daily life. Daniel Ellis surveys how the …