History

Too Much Sea for Their Decks: Shipwrecks of Minnesota’s North Shore and Isle Royale Too Much Sea for Their Decks Shipwrecks of Minnesota’s North Shore and Isle Royale Michael Schumacher 2023 Spring
Shipwreck stories from along Minnesota’s north shore of Lake Superior and Isle Royale
The Frankfurt School in Exile The Frankfurt School in Exile Thomas Wheatland 2023 Spring
An examination of the influence of German intellectuals on postwar American thought
The Environmental Unconscious: Ecological Poetics from Spenser to Milton The Environmental Unconscious Ecological Poetics from Spenser to Milton Steven Swarbrick 2023 Spring
Bringing psychoanalysis to bear on the diagnosis of ecological crisis
The Silence of the Miskito Prince: How Cultural Dialogue Was Colonized The Silence of the Miskito Prince How Cultural Dialogue Was Colonized Matt Cohen 2022 Fall
Confronting the rifts created by our common conceptual vocabulary for North American colonial studies
Opioid Reckoning: Love, Loss, and Redemption in the Rehab State Opioid Reckoning Love, Loss, and Redemption in the Rehab State Amy C. Sullivan 2022 Fall
Examines the complexity and the humanity of the opioid epidemic
The Contest: The 1968 Election and the War for America’s Soul The Contest The 1968 Election and the War for America’s Soul Michael Schumacher 2021 Spring
A dramatic, deeply informed account of one of the most consequential elections and periods in American history
Breathing Race into the Machine: The Surprising Career of the Spirometer from Plantation to Genetics Breathing Race into the Machine The Surprising Career of the Spirometer from Plantation to Genetics Lundy Braun 2021 Spring
How race became embedded in a medical instrument
The Trial of the Edmund Fitzgerald: Eyewitness Accounts from the U.S. Coast Guard Hearings The Trial of the Edmund Fitzgerald Eyewitness Accounts from the U.S. Coast Guard Hearings 2019 Fall
A documentary drawn from testimony at the Coast Guard’s official inquiry looks anew at one of the most storied, and mysterious, shipwrecks in American history
Torn in Two: The Sinking of the Daniel J. Morrell and One Man’s Survival on the Open Sea Torn in Two The Sinking of the Daniel J. Morrell and One Man’s Survival on the Open Sea Michael Schumacher 2018 Fall
A gripping tale of one of the worst shipwrecks in Great Lakes history and of remarkable survival against all odds
The Salvager: The Life of Captain Tom Reid on the Great Lakes The Salvager The Life of Captain Tom Reid on the Great Lakes Mary Frances Doner 2017 Spring
“The dramatic story of great disasters and of the gambles that are the life and blood of the salvage business.” —The New York Times
November’s Fury: The Deadly Great Lakes Hurricane of 1913 November’s Fury The Deadly Great Lakes Hurricane of 1913 Michael Schumacher 2014 Fall
The first complete—and fully illustrated—account of the deadliest storm in Great Lakes history
Precarious Prescriptions: Contested Histories of Race and Health in North America Precarious Prescriptions Contested Histories of Race and Health in North America Laurie B. Green, John Mckiernan-González and Martin Summers, Editors 2014 Spring
Explores the complex relations between the institutions and ideologies of health and people of color in America
Sex before Sex: Figuring the Act in Early Modern England Sex before Sex Figuring the Act in Early Modern England James M. Bromley and Will Stockton, Editors 2013 Spring
How do contemporary notions of sex acts distort views of sex in literature of other eras?
Tender Comrades: A Backstory of the Hollywood Blacklist Tender Comrades A Backstory of the Hollywood Blacklist Patrick McGilligan and Paul Buhle 2012 Fall
The definitive portrait of Hollywood’s dark high noon
Those About Him Remained Silent: The Battle over W. E. B. Du Bois Those About Him Remained Silent The Battle over W. E. B. Du Bois Amy Bass 2012 Fall
Uncovers racism and red-baiting in the dynamic between the cold war and civil rights