American Studies

Settling the Boom The Sites and Subjects of Bakken Oil Mary E. Thomas and Bruce Braun, Editors 2022 Fall

Examines how settler colonial and sexist infrastructures and narratives order a resource boom

In the Company of Grace A Veterinarian's Memoir of Trauma and Healing Jody Lulich 2022 Fall

The son of a Black mother and white father overcomes family trauma to find the courage of compassion in veterinary practice

A Tender Spirit, A Vital Form Arlene Burke-Morgan & Clarence Morgan Howard Oransky, Editor 2022 Fall

A beautifully illustrated review of the deeply connected lives and careers of this prominent Minneapolis African American artist-couple

The Long 2020 Richard Grusin and Maureen Ryan, Editors 2022 Fall

Sharply intelligent, often personal reflections on the global crises of 2020 that are still ongoing

The Unteachables Disability Rights and the Invention of Black Special Education Keith A. Mayes 2022 Fall

How special education used disability labels to marginalize Black students in public schools

Native Agency Indians in the Bureau of Indian Affairs Valerie Lambert 2022 Fall

What happens when American Indians take over an institution designed to eliminate them?

Break Point Two Minnesota Athletes and the Road to Title IX Sheri Brenden 2022 Fall

How two teenage girls in Minnesota jump-started a revolution in high school athletics

Isherwood on Writing The Complete Lectures in California Christopher Isherwood James J. Berg, Editor 2022 Fall

Isherwood’s lectures on writing and writers, now all available for the first time

The Sky Watched Poems of Ojibwe Lives Linda LeGarde Grover 2022 Fall

A collective memoir in poetry of an Ojibwe family and tribal community, from creation myth to this day, updated with new poems

Iron Curtain Journals January–May 1965 Allen Ginsberg 2022 Fall

The first of three in a series of Ginsberg’s unpublished travel journals

South American Journals January–July 1960 Allen Ginsberg 2022 Fall

The great Beat poet’s observations, reflections, poetry, and mind-expanding explorations while traveling through South America

The Fall of America Journals, 1965-1971 Allen Ginsberg 2022 Fall

An autobiographical journey through America in the turbulent 1960s—the essential backstory to Ginsberg’s National Book Award–winning volume of poetry

The Horror of Police Travis Linnemann 2022 Spring

Unmasks the horrors of a social order reproduced and maintained by the violence of police

Finding Turtle Farm My Twenty-Acre Adventure in Community-Supported Agriculture Angela Tedesco 2022 Spring

The story of starting and running an organic farm—told by the woman who owned one of the first Community Supported Agriculture operations in the Upper Midwest

The School-Prison Trust Sabina Vaught, Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy and Jeremiah Chin 2022 Fall

Considers colonial school–prison systems in relation to the self-determination of Native communities, nations, and peoples

On Posthuman War Computation and Military Violence Mike Hill 2022 Spring

Tracing war’s expansion beyond the battlefield to the concept of the human being itself

Exceptionally Queer Mormon Peculiarity and U.S. Nationalism K. Mohrman 2022 Spring

How perceptions of Mormonism from 1830 to the present reveal the exclusionary, racialized practices of the U.S. nation-state

Viral Cultures Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS Marika Cifor 2022 Spring

Delves deep into the archives that keep the history and work of AIDS activism alive

Showroom City Real Estate and Resistance in the Furniture Capital of the World John Joe Schlichtman 2021 Fall

A unique and engaging account of local urban decision-making within the globalizing world

Mediating Alzheimer’s Cognition and Personhood Scott Selberg 2022 Spring

An exploration of the representational culture of Alzheimer’s disease and how media technologies shape our ideas of cognition and aging

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