Set against cultural and generational tensions in the American South, historian Timothy Silver’s gritty true crime book "Death in Briar Bottom" covers a 1972 incident... Read More

Amy Yee’s book "Far from the Rooftop of the World" features the narratives of everyday Tibetans in exile. Gathered in India from 2008 to 2010 and in Australia, Belgium, and... Read More

The thought-provoking and expert essays of "A New History of the American South" represent expansive views of Southern history—beyond the period-focused notions of the region... Read More

Steven Moore’s nuanced, hypnotic essays about growing up in the Midwest balance nostalgia with critique, sharing childhood memories that were formative to his identity. An... Read More

Anastasia C. Curwood’s vibrant biography of Shirley Chisholm reveals a tenacious congresswoman and presidential candidate. Curwood writes that Chisholm, the daughter of... Read More

The situation is stark: those in less developed countries are “twenty times more likely to be affected by climate-related disasters.” In her forthright work of research and... Read More

Written from a womanist liberation perspective, Psyche A. Williams-Forson’s "Eating While Black" calls a cease and desist on policing Black Americans’ food choices and... Read More

Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore’s inspiring biography traces the rise of a Black American painter, the great grandson of slaves, to a place of eminence in twentieth-century American... Read More

While false claims of voter fraud have become common in recent years, the 2018 congressional midterm for North Carolina’s Ninth District featured the rare case of actual... Read More

Georgann Eubanks documents endangered native plants and a pantheon of botanists, citizen scientists, and environmental advocates working to restore their populations and... Read More

A short fever dream of a book, "Springer Mountain" combines historical records with personal philosophies about the evolution of meat-eating and vegetarianism in human beings.... Read More

Historian Julie Willett chronicles the rise of the 1970s caricature of masculinity and sexism in "The Male Chauvinist Pig". This academic work dives into second wave feminism... Read More