Long before she wrote The House of Dies Drear, M. C. Higgins, the Great, and many other...

When the Civil War broke out in April 1861, Kansas was in a unique position. Although it had been...

Through an examination of metaphors that describe the trauma, loss, and suffering associated with...

Triumph of the Expert is a history of British colonial policy and thinking and its contr...

As a serial killer stalks prostitutes in Columbus, Ohio, a distraught brother asks private inv...

It’s a violent encounter that private investigator Andy Hayes could have done without. One minute...

The Origins of Modern Polish Democracy is a series of closely integrated essays that tra...

Between 1500 and 1850, European traders shipped hundreds of thousands of African, Indian, Malagas...

Every River on Earth: Writing from Appalachian Ohio includes some of the best regional poe...

Between 1600 and 1800, the promise of fresh food attracted more than seven hundred English, Frenc...

Pearls, People, and Power is the first book to examine the trade, distribution, produ...

This biography of Twala, an unjustly neglected Black African literary figure in apartheid South A...