A first-rate ornithologist, Margaret Morse Nice pioneered field studies on song sparrows and advocated for women’s active role in the sciences. In this engaging first book-length biography, Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie sheds light on Nice’s intellectual journey.
This timely study of how the Supreme Court building shapes Washington as a space and a place for political action and meaning yields a multidimensional... Læs mere
Examining William Pitt the Younger’s foreign policy from 1783 to 1797, Nathaniel Jarrett considers a... Læs mere
Timely in its implications for debates over immigration and assimilation, Japanese Americans at Heart Mountain presents a remarkable... Læs mere
Spanning a century of fraught history, this volume describes the critical strategic work that tidewater Virginia Indians,... Læs mere
Tells the story of two larger-than-life figures - George Harrison met Muhammad Ali - at a momentous time. A unique blend of biography and cultural history, this book goes to the very heart of the zeitgeist that each man inhabited and reinvented in profound and enduring ways.
How did Washington become the leading producer of America’s most popular fruit? In this enlightening book, Amanda Van Lanen offers a comprehensive response to this question by tracing the origins, evolution, and environmental consequences of the state’s apple industry.
The history of Oklahoma runs through the thousands of towns that sprang up in the wake of statehood and even... Læs mere
Euripides’ Hippolytus is a fascinating play about passion, innocence, rejection, betrayal, and the tragic breakdown of a family. This commentary,... Læs mere