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Offers a meditation on the profession of nude modeling. Combining personal perspective, historical anecdote, and prose, this title reveals that both the appeal of posing nude for artists and the appeal of drawing the naked figure lie in our deeply human responses to beauty, sex, love, and death.

May Kennedy McCord, lovingly nicknamed 'Queen of the Hillbillies', spent half a century sharing the history, songs, and stories of her native Ozarks. Queen of the Hillbillies brings together the best of McCord's published and previously unpublished writings to share her knowledge, humour, and inimitable spirit with a new generation of readers.

Albert Einstein said, "Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." It is in this vein that Sholeh Wolpe's mesmerizing memoir in verse unfolds. In this lyrical and candid work, her fifth collection of poems, Wolpe invokes the abacus as an instrument of remembering.

Examines how white Texans transformed lynching from a largely clandestine strategy of extralegal punishment into a form of racialized recreation in which crowd involvement was integral to the mode and methods of the violence.

Infused with hospitality, and brimming with good humour, generosity, and a deeply respectful sense of place, Dairy Hollow House Soup & Bread invites readers to create a storied table, at home in their kitchens yet as big as the world.

Takes readers behind the Staff Only door at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History to reveal how curators collect objects, plan exhibits, and bring alive complex and exciting history. In vivid detail, Pete Daniel recounts the exhilaration of innovative research, the joys of collaboration, and the rewards of mentoring new generations.

Lynching is often viewed as a narrow form of violence: either the spontaneous act of an angry mob against accused individuals, or a demonstration of white supremacy against an entire population considered subhuman. However, in this book, historian Guy Lancaster exposes the multiple forms of violence hidden beneath the singular label of lynching.

A dog in an art museum? Maybe not most dogs, but Friday goes to the museum every Tuesday to visit his friends. One day Friday must say goodbye for the winter. Join the fun as Friday trots through the galleries, taking selfies and saying goodbye to all of his friends - Maman the spider, Rosie the Riveter, George Washington, and many others.

Nikki Haley has been widely hailed as an emerging force in American politics, her star power burnished over a decade that has seen her move to the global stage. Jason Kirk analyses her ascendance in the Republican party to her elevated profile as Donald Trump's representative to the United Nations.

Presents a timely collection of essays analysing a wide array of Latin American narratives through the lens of food studies. Topics explored include potato and maize in colonial and contemporary global narratives, the role of cooking in Sor Juana's poetics, and the centrality of desire in twentieth-century cooking writing by women.

Conversation and memory are at the heart of Danielle Badra's Like We Still Speak. In her elegiac and formally inventive debut, Badra carries on talking with the sister and father she has lost, often setting her words alongside theirs and others' in polyphonic poems that can be read in multiple directions.

Each year, readers, writers, and critics alike look forward to Thomas Hauser's newest collection of articles about the contemporary boxing scene. Broken Dreams presents coverage of 2020's most important fighters and fights, outside-the-ring controversies, regulatory missteps, and other issues that defined the year's boxing scene.

Traces the explosion of white nationalism in Arkansas in the 1920s and its impact on the state's development. In documenting this history, Kenneth Barnes shows how the Klan's early success still casts a long shadow on the state to this day.

With their cameras and notebooks in hand, photographers Sabine Schmidt and Don House embarked on an ambitious project to document the libraries committed to serving Arkansas's smallest communities. Remote Access is the culmination of this fascinating three-year effort.

Makes the Truman Scholarship application process transparent to applicants and their advisors. These essays teach readers how to gain the most from the application process, how to connect past involvement and successes to future academic and career goals, how to approach interviews, and how to embrace the opportunity if selected for an award.

The catalogue of an exhibition co-organized by Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, and Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts. The exhibition and this associated catalogue invite visitors to discover the sea as an expansive way to reflect on American culture and environment.

Madeleine Wattenberg's debut collection alternates between epistolary poems to the mythical figure Io and lyrical interrogations of science, myth, and the historical record. Wattenberg casts Io - the priestess of Hera who was turned into a heifer - as a woman struggling to navigate the terrain between choice and coercion.

Published just days before America's entry into World War II, Ozark Country is Otto Ernest Rayburn's love letter to his adopted region. Rayburn's colourful tour takes readers from the fictional village of Woodville into the backcountry of a region teeming with storytellers, ballad singers, superstitions, and home remedies.

Craig Blais's Moon News deploys the sonnet form to treat subjects as diverse as Gregor Samsa, SpongeBob SquarePants, and the cosmos. Here the form's capaciousness is engaged to full effect.

More than a retelling of the origin story of a democracy born from an intimate connection with the land, this book wagers that socially responsible agrarian mythmaking should be a vital part of a food ethic of resistance if we are to rectify the destructive tendencies in our contemporary food system.

Offers a detailed history of the Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile program, which has served as a powerful component of US nuclear strategies for over half a century. David Stumpf examines technological breakthroughs, and places the Minuteman program in context with world events.

For nearly a century, British expatriate Charles Joseph Finger (1867-1941) was best known as an award-winning author of children's literature. In Shared Secrets, Elizabeth Findley Shores relates Finger's untold story, exploring the secrets that connected the author to an international community of twentieth-century queer literati.

Craft is a diverse, democratic art form practiced by Americans of every gender, age, ethnicity, and class. Crafting America traces this expansive range of skilled making in a variety of forms, from ceramics and wood to performance costume and community-based practice.