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Think George Saunders channeling Willa Cather. A ghost story wannabe, Dog on Fire begins with a vision of a brother with a shovel, and ends in Jell-O.

Road to Nowhere is the story of how the Mets and the Yankees played through several mediocre seasons from 1990 to 1996 but built teams that would help drive their ascendancy the rest of the decade.

Little Poison is the story of Paul Runyan, a short-hitting farm boy from Arkansas who rose to prominence during the 1930s and defeated Sam Snead by a resounding margin at the 1938 PGA Championship.

A memoir in essays, The Sound of Undoing deconstructs the way sound has overwhelmingly shaped Paige Towers’s life.

Leo Durocher offers fascinating and fresh insights into the racial integration of baseball, Durocher’s unprecedented suspension from the game, the two clubhouse revolts staged against him in Brooklyn and Chicago, and his vibrant life off the field.

Clayton Anderson recounts his quest to become an astronaut and his experiences during his fifteen years as an astronaut.

In this biography Gary C. Anderson profiles Sitting Bull, a military and spiritual leader of the Lakota people who remained a staunch defender of his nation and way of life until his untimely death.

Skywalks is the story of the 1981 Hyatt Regency Kansas City hotel disaster that killed 114 people, as told through the actions of Kansas City attorney Robert Gordon.

Derek Stonorov chronicles a half century of his remarkable field experiences studying brown bear behavior as a research scientist and guide in some of Alaska’s most beautiful wild places.

Focusing on creative responses to intensifying water crises in the United States, Hydronarratives explores how narrative and storytelling support environmental justice advocacy in Black, Indigenous, and low-income communities.

Taking the Field draws on the experiences of U.S. soldiers to examine interconnected ideas about nature and empire during the Progressive Era.

Elliott West lays out the main events and developments of the emergence of the American West, situating the birth of the West in the broader narrative of American history between 1848 and 1880.

The Cap brings the economic history of professional basketball to life by going behind-the-scenes to tell the story of the deal between the NBA and the National Basketball Players Association that created, in 1983, the salary cap—the first in all of sports.

A son’s story about growing up with a father who was an astronaut and flew on the Apollo 14 mission.

Nature’s Mountain Mansion focuses exclusively on the critical nineteenth century when Yosemite was “discovered” by an expanding nation and transformed into one of the nation’s most visited national parks.

Dana Fritz’s photographs of Nebraska’s hand-planted forest make visible the forces such as sand, wind, water, planting, thinning, sowing, and burning that have shaped this unique landscape.

In modern American soccer’s origin story, a young, underdog team and their wise coach journey to fearsome arenas in Central America and deafening stadiums in Italy in 1990, bringing the United States to its first World Cup in forty years.

Bleeding Green is a lifelong fan’s look at the Hartford Whalers, a National Hockey League team that, despite an inglorious past and a future that unexpectedly vanished, have had a lasting impact to this day on not only the NHL but the sports landscape as a whole.

Sacrifice and Regeneration focuses on the extraordinary success of Seventh-day Adventism in the Andean plateau at the beginning of the twentieth century and sheds light on the historical trajectories of Protestantism in Latin America.

A history of women playing American football in the United States, focused on the growth of the game since the passage of Title IX in 1972.

From Near and Far takes a transnational approach to the history of France by considering the many ways in which people and places beyond the conventionally accepted borders of the nation shaped its life.

These poems pry at the complexities of difference—race, religion, gender, nationality—that shape our twenty-first-century geopolitical conditions.

Through the lens of America’s first and most popular girls’ organization, Jennifer Helgren traces the role and changing meaning of American girls’ citizenship across critical intersections of gender, race, class, and disability in the twentieth-century United States.

Ryan Poll argues that the New 52 Aquaman develops the superhero into a figure of ecological justice who charts the environmental apocalypse caused by global capitalism and helps readers connect the violences occurring in the ocean to those occurring on the surface, including sexism and racism.