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Come Fly with Us is the story of an elite group of space travelers who flew as members of many space shuttle crews from pre-Challenger days to Columbia in 2003. Not part of the regular NASA astronaut corps, these professionals known as “payload specialists” came from a wide variety of backgrounds and were chosen for an equally wide variety of scientific, political, and national security reasons. Melvin Croft and John Youskauskas focus on this special fraternity of spacefarers and their individual reflections on living and working in space. Relatively unknown to the public and often flying only single missions, these payload specialists give the reader an unusual perspective on the experience of human spaceflight. The authors also bring to light NASA’s struggle to integrate the wide-ranging personalities and professions of these men and women into the professional astronaut ranks. While Come Fly with Us relates the experiences of the payload specialists up to and including the Challenger tragedy, the authors also detail the later high-profile flights of a select few, including Barbara Morgan, John Glenn (who returned to space at the age of seventy-seven), and Ilan Ramon of Israel aboard Columbia on its final, fatal flight, STS-107.

Robert Dean Emslie spent fifty-six of his eighty-four years in professional baseball, eight as a player and forty-nine as an umpire. His thirty-five seasons as a National League umpire included the three most contentious decades umpires ever faced, the 1890 to 1920 era, when the game transitioned from amateur to professional sport.

In this definitive biography of Harry Dalton, Lee C. Kluck tells the full and colorful story of a man many consider to be the first modern baseball executive, who had notable stints with the Baltimore Orioles and Milwaukee Brewers.

Combining new empirical information about political behavior with a close examination of the capacity of the state’s government, this third edition of West Virginia Politics and Government offers a comprehensive and pointed study of the ability of the state’s government to respond to the needs of a largely rural and relatively low-income population.

In a gathering of griot traditions fusing storytelling, cultural history, social, and literary criticism, Gale P. Jackson “re-members” and represents how women of the African diaspora have drawn on ancient traditions to record memory, history, and experience in song, dance, and poetics in performance.

Few buildings reveal truths, inspire greatness, and narrate the creation of humanity. Creative Genius documents such a place. The Nebraska Capitol—once called “a peak in the history of building accomplishment”—breaks the boundaries of architecture and art. Steeped in history and lore, the building narrates the creation of the universe and life, as well as the epic journey of the peoples of Nebraska. This book reveals the themes driving the art, chronicles the stories behind artists and their creations, and celebrates the beauty embodied in this influential building.

Between the Wires tells for the first time the history of Janowska, in Lviv, Ukraine, one of the deadliest concentration camps in the Holocaust, by bringing together never-before-seen evidence and painstakingly detailed research from archives in seven countries and in as many languages.

Kevin M. Anzzolin analyzes the role and representation of journalism in literary texts from Porfirian Mexico to argue that these writings created a literate, objective, refined, and informed public.

Baseball Hall of Famer Johnny Mize grew up in a broken home in the mountains of northeast Georgia. Jerry Grillo writes of Mize’s fifteen Major League seasons with the Cardinals, New York Giants, and Yankees—with whom he won five World Series titles—and the twenty-eight years he spent waiting for his call from the Hall of Fame.

David Krell chronicles the cultural impact of the Boston Red Sox on business, media, and the National Pastime with engaging stories and anecdotes about the team’s rich history beyond the field.

On Our Own Terms sets recent federal education legislation against the backdrop of two hundred years of education funding and policy to explore two critical themes: the racial and settler colonial dynamics that have shaped Indian education and an equally long Indigenous tradition of engaging schools, funding, and policy on their own terms.

Philip Burnham’s threefold biography of Clarence Three Stars, the Pine Ridge Reservation, and the Oglala Lakota peoples during a half century of forced change and transformation reveals how Three Stars worked to undermine the settler-colonial system into which the Carlisle Indian Industrial School had tried to assimilate him.

A teacher and mentor to students at St. Labre Indian School, David Joseph Charpentier details the joys, dangers, and complexities of life on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation in this thoughtful tribute to one of his more memorable students, Maurice Prairie Chief.

Focusing on case studies from six Native nations from across the United States, David R. M. Beck details how the U.S. government coerced American Indian nations to accept termination of their political relationship with the United States by threatening to withhold money that belonged to the tribes.

As the environmental justice movement slowly builds momentum, Diane J. Purvis highlights the work of Alaska’s Indigenous peoples in small rural villages who have faced incredible odds throughout history yet have built political clout fueled by vigorous common cause in defense of their homes and livelihood.

James Mallery explores the implications of such social constructs as gender, race, and class for the development of San Francisco from the gold rush through World War I.

Steen Ledet Christiansen’s Storytelling in “Kabuki” explores the series created by David Mack—a slow, recursive narrative that focuses on the death of Kabuki, her past, and the complex use of space on the page.

John E. Schmitz examines the causes, conditions, and consequences of America’s selective relocation and internment of German, Italian, and Japanese Americans during World War II.

The never-before-published memoir of Waite Hoyt, Hall of Fame pitcher for the New York Yankees in their first dynasty decade, longtime Cincinnati Reds broadcaster after his playing career, and vaudeville star, funeral director, oil painter, and alcoholic.

By turns introspective, surreal, and bitingly funny, this collection of linked short stories spans seven decades across Japan and the United States and shows a family’s tenacity in the face of relationships fractured by language and distance.

Galloping Gourmet is a culinary biography, a deep dive into the different roles food and drink played in William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody’s life.

This collection shows that Wallace Stegner’s work, however flawed, remains a useful tool for assessing the past, present, and future of the American West.

Nebraska Volleyball is the first book to tell the fifty-year story of how volleyball took hold at the University of Nebraska, going from its early origins to its first National Championship and beyond.

Loving the Dying is a collection of poems on life’s different stages and what the ineluctable reality of death might imply about how we should think about our lives.

Brand Antarctica analyzes advertisements and related cultural products to identify common framings that have emerged in representations of Antarctica from the late nineteenth century to the present.

Great Plains Forts introduces readers to the fortifications that have aided and impacted the lives of Indigenous peoples, fur trappers and traders, travelers, and military personnel on the Great Plains from precontact times to the present.

Framing Nature explores the environmental perception of Grand Canyon National Park and how visual representations shape popular ideas and meanings about national parks and the American West.

The biography of George Allen, one of the greatest and most memorable coaches in NFL history and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

Musician and music historian Craig Harris tells the compelling stories of contemporary Indigenous musicians of North America in their own words.