American Studies
- What a Library Means to a Woman Edith Wharton and the Will to Collect Books Sheila Liming 2020 Spring
- Examining the personal library and the making of self
- Digitize and Punish Racial Criminalization in the Digital Age Brian Jefferson 2020 Spring
- Tracing the rise of digital computing in policing and punishment and its harmful impact on criminalized communities of color
- Happiness by Design Modernism and Media in the Eames Era Justus Nieland 2019 Spring
- A cultural history of modern lifestyle viewed through film and multimedia experiments of midcentury designers Charles and Ray Eames
- Degrees of Freedom The Origins of Civil Rights in Minnesota, 1865–1912 William D. Green 2020 Spring
- The true story, and the black citizens, behind the evolution of racial equality in Minnesota
- LatinX Claudia Milian 2020 Spring
- Nationality is not enough to understand “Latin”-descended populations in the United States
- Tony Oliva The Life and Times of a Minnesota Twins Legend Thom Henninger 2020 Spring
- The astounding success and personal struggle of the Twins’ beloved outfielder and batting champion—from his arrival from Cuba at age twenty-two to the present
- The Alchemy of Meth A Decomposition Jason Pine 2019 Fall
- Meth cooks practice late industrial alchemy—transforming base materials, like lithium batteries and camping fuel, into gold
- Suspect Communities Anti-Muslim Racism and the Domestic War on Terror Nicole Nguyen 2019 Fall
- The first major qualitative study of “countering violent extremism” in key U.S. cities
- Black Bourgeois Class and Sex in the Flesh Candice M. Jenkins 2019 Fall
- Exploring the forces that keep black people vulnerable even amid economically privileged lives
- Avant-Garde in the Cornfields Architecture, Landscape, and Preservation in New Harmony Ben Nicholson and Michelangelo Sabatino, Editors 2019 Spring
- A close examination of an iconic small town that gives boundless insights into architecture, landscape, preservation, and philanthropy
- Beyond Education Radical Studying for Another World Eli Meyerhoff 2019 Fall
- A bold call to deromanticize education and reframe universities as terrains of struggle between alternative modes of studying and world-making
- Burgers in Blackface Anti-Black Restaurants Then and Now Naa Oyo A. Kwate 2019 Fall
- A powerful account, and rebuke, of historical and contemporary racism in restaurant branding
- Translated Nation Rewriting the Dakhóta Oyáte Christopher Pexa 2019 Spring
- How authors rendered Dakhóta philosophy by literary means to encode ethical and political connectedness and sovereign life within a settler surveillance state
- Debates in the Digital Humanities 2019 Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein, Editors 2019 Spring
- The latest installment of a digital humanities bellwether
- The Decorated Tenement How Immigrant Builders and Architects Transformed the Slum in the Gilded Age Zachary J. Violette 2019 Spring
- A reexamination of working-class architecture in late nineteenth-century urban America
- Producers, Parasites, Patriots Race and the New Right-Wing Politics of Precarity Daniel Martinez HoSang and Joseph E. Lowndes 2019 Spring
- The shifting meaning of race and class in the age of Trump
- Prison Land Mapping Carceral Power across Neoliberal America Brett Story 2019 Spring
- From broken-window policing in Detroit to prison-building in Appalachia, exploring the expansion of the carceral state and its oppressive social relations into everyday life
- Reading for Reform The Social Work of Literature in the Progressive Era Laura R. Fisher 2019 Spring
- An unprecedented examination of class-bridging reform and U.S. literary history at the turn of the twentieth century
- The Art of Protest Culture and Activism from the Civil Rights Movement to the Present, Second Edition T. V. Reed 2019 Spring
- A second edition of the classic introduction to arts in social movements, fully updated and now including Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street, and new digital and social media forms of cultural resistance
- Thursdays and Every Other Sunday Off A Domestic Rap by Verta Mae Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor 2018 Fall
- Observations from the lives of African American domestic workers—back in print