Identifying the previously unrecognised connections between American wars and mass incarceration, Prisoners after War reaches across lines of race, class, and gender to record the untold history of incarcerated veterans over the past six decades.
Crafted with lines from her late father’s letters, Jennifer Tseng’s Thanks for Letting Us Know You Are Alive is a portrait of an immigrant, a rootless person whose unspoken loss - that of his native geography, family, traditions, language - underlies every word.
Expanding the climate and health equity discussions to populations all over the globe, contributors in this... Læs mere
A loose narrative in three sections, these poems follow a speaker and her cousin through their hardscrabble, backwoods childhood to their separation - both physical and emotional - as adults.
Part memoir and part history lesson, Food Margins traces the tangled economic and political histories of the plantation, the factory, and the supermarket through the life of... Læs mere
Why did white pine help spark the American Revolution? How did balsam aid the development of germ theory? What does hemlock have to do with... Læs mere
Examines the life of Jonathan Fisher (1768-1847), a native of Braintree, Massachusetts, and graduate of Harvard College who moved in his late twenties to Blue Hill, Maine, where he embarked on a multifaceted career as a pioneer minister, farmer, entrepreneur, and artist.