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Art historian Nora Barnes and her husband, Toby Sandler, are visiting West Ireland for a family reunion. During a morning walk through a deserted village on Achill Island, Nora stumbles upon a body - her notorious uncle Bert. When a clue singles out her mother as the likely suspect, Nora and Toby are on the case to clear her name.

Published on the occasion of an exhibition held on June 1-September 8, 2019 at the Museum of Wisconsin Art.

A newlywed gazes upon the wreckage of the Titanic. A young woman becomes the protege of a Parisian hotelier. An old woman meets an angel in a ghost town. Underground Women is a compilation of short stories by multitalented writer Jesse Lee Kercheval.

Chronicles the story of Henry F. Young, an officer in the famed Iron Brigade, as told through 155 letters home. His insights, often poignant and powerful, enable readers to witness the Civil War as he did.

The author has used letters and journal entries to ensure immediacy to an Arctic story that really happened, that pits men, in their fight to stay alive, against their better selves and the consequences of becoming bestial.

In the first legal history of the federal trial of the Industrial Workers of the World, Dean Strang shows how the case laid the groundwork for a fundamentally different strategy to stifle radical threats in the US, and had a major role in shaping the modern American Justice Department.

On a chilly Monday in late spring, Sheriff Dave Cubiak is at the Green Arbor Lodge for lunch when a scream from a nearby medical conference disrupts the scene. Then suddenly another scream pierces the air.... Past and present merge as long-buried secrets rise to the surface.

The bluesy, rich, and vital poems in House of Sparrows look for grace and beauty not outside of the suffering world but within it. Betsy Sholl explores the shifting ironies and contradictions in the stories we tell - how the apple is both medicinal and poison, and how the poor are spiritually rich.

Provides a wide-ranging investigation of the gendered nature of historical memory and its influence on the development of the Mara region of Tanzania over the past 150 years. Shetler's exploration of oral traditions and histories opens new vistas for understanding how women and men in this culture tell their stories and assert their roles.

From London to DC to Australia to Los Angeles, Tim Miller has sold out shows in which he addresses issues of gender, immigration, homophobia, and censorship. A Body in the O is an important addition to Miller's existing body of work, picking up from his show Lay of the Land and moving into his more recent piece, Rooted.

By weaving history and anecdotes to create a picture of Russia's cultural center, McAuley underscores the impact of time and place on the Russian intelligentsia who lived through the transition from Soviet to post-Soviet life. The result is a remarkable group portrait of a generation.

In the summer of 1917 three Wisconsin National Guard companies came together to form the 150th Machine Gun Battalion of the now famous 42nd ""Rainbow"" Division. Through letters, diaries, and other recollections, Larson tells us the story of these Guardsmen's experiences, and considers the impact of war's trauma and tedium on their lives.

For many nineteenth-century Russians, poetry was woven into everyday life - in conversation and correspondence, scrapbook albums, and parlour entertainments. Blending literary analysis with social and cultural history, this book shows how poetry lovers of the period became nodes in a vast network of literary appreciation and constructed meaning.

How did flamenco-a song and dance form associated with both a despised ethnic minority in Spain and a region frequently derided by Spaniards-become so inexorably tied to the country's culture? Sandie Holguin focuses on the history of the form and how reactions to the performances transformed from disgust to reverance over the course of two centuries.

By focusing on one particular type of NGO - those organized to help prevent the spread and transmission of HIV in Kenya - Megan Hershey interrogates the ways NGOs achieve (or fail to achieve) their planned outcomes. Along the way, she examines the slippery slope that is often used to define ""success"".

The poems of Rebecca Hazelton's contemporary American fantasyland revel in the constructed realities of movie sets and marriage. Keen, wry, and playful, Hazelton's poems poke fun at the savagery buzzing underneath life's slicked-back surfaces and crack the veneer on our most brightly jarring cultural constructions.

Covers elements of production, circulation, and reception of African American writing across a range of genres and contexts. This collection challenges mainstream book history and print culture to understand that race and racialization are inseparable from the study of texts and their technologies.

These poems trace the speaker's emotional biography from a wild and impoverished rural childhood through tender and terrifying adulthood. Rooted in the heart and the messy organs of our mortality, Melissa Crowe's work is epistolary in tone but gritty in texture.

The contributors to this volume are members of the Hellenistic Sardis Project, a research collaboration between long-standing expedition members and scholars keenly interested in the site. These new discussions on the pre-Roman history of Sardis restore the city in the scholarship of the Hellenistic East.

Featuring contributions from some of the most accomplished scholars on the topic, Holding the World Together explores the rich and varied ways in which women have wielded power across the African continent, from the precolonial period to the present.

Few areas of study offer more insight into American culture than competitive sports. Teaching US History through Sports suggests creative ways to use sports as a lens to examine a broad range of historical subjects, including Puritan culture, the rise of Jim Crow, the Cold War, the civil rights movement, and the women's movement.

Aufbau - a German-language weekly - was an essential platform for the generation of refugees from Hitler and the displaced people and concentration camp survivors who arrived in the US after the war. This book examines the columns and advertisements that chronicled the social and cultural life of that generation.

In this innovative work, Joanna Allan demonstrates why we should foreground gender as key for understanding both authoritarian power projection and resistance. She brings an ethnographic component to examine how concerns for equality and women's rights can be co-opted for authoritarian projects.

Coins, because of their connection to the ruling elite of the ancient Greco-Roman world, offer an insight into historical events and into the social history of power and propaganda. This catalogue describes 193 coins from a 6th century BC Lydian coin to one minted at Constantinople circa AD 380.

Founded in 1987 by professor William Weege, the Tandem Press seeks to recreate the dynamic creative atmosphere of a visiting artist community where students and artists collaborate, work, and learn together. This catalogue details the first five years of the programme.

The Van Vleck collection of Japanese woodblock prints is one of the Elvehjem Museum of Art's (now the Chazen Museum of Art) most important collections of more than 3700 prints collected by Van Vleck between 1910 and 1943, including the prints that Frank Lloyd Wright collected in Japan in the 1920s. This copiously illustrated catalog is the culmination of several years of intensive study and documentation, and is the first step in making this impressive collection accessible to museum visitors and scholars. Distributed for the Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison

A trade in Athenian pottery flourished from the early sixth until the late fifth century BCE, finding a market in Etruria. Most studies of these painted vases focus on the artistry and worldview of the Greeks who made them, but Sheramy Bundrick shifts attention to their Etruscan customers, ancient trade networks, and archaeological contexts.

"It was a huge and powerful ship with a tall, handsome pilothouse and big smoking stacks, no place for a girl, though I loved it, I cannot tell you how much I loved it." In her eighty-fifth year, Fern Halvorson tells the story of a childhood journey across Lake Michigan and the secret she has kept since that ill-fated voyage.