Books

  • gullies
    Let Us Now Praise Famous Gullies uses the unlikely story of Providence Canyon—and the 1930's contest over its origins and meaning—to recount the larger history of soil in America.
  • prieto
    This Atlantic world history centers on the life of Juan Nepomuceno Prieto, a member of the West African Yorùbá people enslaved and taken to Havana during the era of the Atlantic slave trade
  • lucile
    Never officially recognized during her lifetime, the first African American woman to graduate from the University of Colorado was posthumously honored this spring. Now, a biography telling the long-overlooked story of Lucile Berkeley Buchanan has been published.
  • souders
    Grant Souders is not just the face you see as you step into the office of the English department in Hellems Arts & Sciences. He is also an accomplished poet, whose debut collection, Service (Tupelo Press, 2017), has been receiving some well-deserved attention.
  • book
    A New History of Islamic SpainAbout the Book: In Kingdoms of Faith, award-winning historian Brian A. Catlos rewrites the history of Islamic Spain from the ground up, evoking the cultural splendor of al-Andalus, while offering an
  • goodman
    The Puritan Cosmopolis traces a sense of kinship that emerged from within the larger realm of Puritan law and literature in late seventeenth-century New England.
  • carr
    Approaching the practices of reading and writing from a feminist perspective, Julie Carr asks vital ethical questions about the role of poetry—and of art in general—in a violent culture.
  • mama
    'My idea was to show how two people went through the two greatest tragedies of the 20th century,' says Zygmunt Frajzyngier
  • peace
    About the book: Civil wars are among the most difficult problems in world politics. While mediation, intervention, and peacekeeping have produced some positive results in helping to end civil wars, they fall short in
  • Ones
    This book focuses on Shine, a musical performance about how energy, humanity and climate are interrelated.
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