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Shadow Migration recounts Suzanne Ohlmann’s boomerang travels away from her Nebraska home, until a haunted basement forces her to confront the truth of her biological past.

In seven substantial essays, previously unpublished, Alan Knight offers a distinct perspective on several overarching themes in Latin American history, spanning approximately two centuries, from 1800 to 2000.

Girl Archaeologist illuminates the life and trailblazing career of Alice Kehoe, a woman with a family who was always, also, an archaeologist.

Birthing the West shows how mothers and midwives created an informal but dynamic health care system in the Rockies and Plains between 1860 and 1940. Over time, public health entities usurped their power, with lasting impacts for women, families, and American identity.

The first detailed account of the history of Fort Phil Kearny, including the dramatic Fetterman Fight of December 21, 1866, in which the U.S. Army suffered its worst defeat on the northern plains until Custer’s defeat at the Little Bighorn ten years later.

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C’RONA Pandemic Comics features three comic stories written for youth, accompanied by essays about the COVID-19 pandemic. The three stories feature the COVID-19 virus, wildlife and viruses, and the impact of the pandemic on Tribal communities.

This volume on the history of anthropology emphasizes schools of theory, institutional connections, social networks, and collaborative research with North American Indigenous communities. Regna Darnell, a fifty-year veteran of the field, brings unsurpassed historicist and presentist interpretations of the discipline’s legacy.

The St. Louis Commune of 1877 tells for the first time the entire and exciting story of the St. Louis Commune of 1877, when U.S. workers assumed political control of the city of St. Louis, Missouri, during the Great Railroad Strike.

This collection charts the political, conceptual, and ethical consequences of how the underexplored problem of the negative might be posed for contemporary cultural geography.

G. Kurt Piehler underscores the significant institutional and cultural shift in the place of religion in the armed forces during World War II.

Scars of War examines how the exclusion of mixed-race persons and people of Asian descent in the United States shaped the efforts of policymakers to recognize the Amerasians of Vietnam as American children and initiate legislation that designated them unfit for American citizenship.

The Forgotten Botanist tells the story of Sara Plummer Lemmon, a little-known and underappreciated woman of both science and art who did much of the botanical work attributed to her husband, John Gill Lemmon.

The Power of Scenery tells the story of how the world’s national parks came to be, with Frederick Law Olmsted’s insights and energy serving to link three American jewels: Yosemite National Park, Yellowstone National Park, and Niagara Falls State Park.

In the face of amnesia, how does one exist? In this poem, Hawad speaks directly to Azawad, a silent figure whose name designates a portion of Tuareg lands divided among five nation-states created in the 1960s.

Making a Modern U.S. West surveys the history of the U.S. West from 1898 to 1940, centering what is often relegated to the margins in histories of the region—the flows of people, capital, and ideas across borders.

Brian G. Shellum tells the story of Company L, which served in Skagway, Alaska, and was one of the two companies added to the all-Black Twenty-Fourth U.S. Infantry Regiment after war was declared on Spain in April 1898.

Dealing with all the ways love goes right and wrong, Marjorie Saiser’s collection honors the challenges of holding firm to who we really are, as well as our connections to the natural world.

A comprehensive coverage of the complex interactions between people and the environment.