The devastation wrought upon US farming communities is tracked in Sonja Trom Eayrs’s courageous book "Dodge County, Inc.", in which the family farm that Eayrs grew up on... Read More

Robert Aquinas McNally’s "Cast Out of Eden" is a detailed biography of American naturalist and Sierra Club founder John Muir. Born in Scotland, Muir arrived in the United... Read More

In Mary Clearman Blew’s novel "Think of Horses", a disheartened, middle-aged romance novelist returns to her native Montana to reevaluate her life choices. It’s summer in... Read More

Aaron Gilbreath knows that you cannot understand California without understanding its interior. Thus, his travelogue "The Heart of California" explores the misunderstood,... Read More

By hook or by crook, the Indigenous people living on the land now occupied by the United States lost ownership rights to their property over the course of centuries. Many were... Read More

McNally provides a brutally frank and damningly well-documented account of the war’s sordid background. The 1873 Modoc War pitted the small but fierce Modoc tribe against the... Read More

The Turtle’s Beating Heart: One Family’s Story of Lenape Survival opens with a tribal elder’s explanation: “Delawares are like clouds….They never get together.”... Read More

Smith introduces audiences to a primordial, pristine, and rapidly vanishing world, with a reminder that its future is in our hands. Some people are lucky enough to know from an... Read More

War, as a topic, lends itself to unending discussion, research, debate, and analysis. Historians argue over past strategies, methods, and the results of battles waged over... Read More

The names of the legendary head coaches of football yesteryear are indelibly etched into the minds of football fans and into American culture. Halas. Lombardi. Bryant. Rockne.... Read More

Most readers have no clue what conditions were like in the Arctic lands of Scandinavia at the beginning of the twentieth century, when the Sami, or Lapps, were herding their... Read More

Many writers dream of swapping lives, at least for a little while, with their subjects. This is especially true in the sports field, where writers are surrounded by men and... Read More