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Teaser trailer for Lawmen: Bass Reeves, inspired by The Bass Reeves Trilogy in Dallas Morning News
Reviews
Who Are the Jews—And Who Can We Become?
Review in Publishers Weekly:
“Hartman adroitly argues that ‘as long as the story we tell ourselves about ourselves embraces and strengthens the complexity of our identities. . . we provide ourselves with the tools to expand our moral aperture,’ and invites essential debates about Judaism’s past, present, and future. This impresses.”
Review in Jewish Book Council:
“When one thinks of midrash, rarely does feminist midrash — or the stories of biblical women — come to mind. But in Rabbi Marla J. Feldman’s book Biblical Women Speak: Hearing Their Voices Through New and Ancient Midrash, those women take center stage.”
Review in Moment:
“Most modern readers would be at a loss if quizzed about biblical characters such as Keturah, the third wife of Abraham; Bat Shua, the wife of Judah; Bilhah, the handmaiden of Rachel; or Noa, the daughter of Tselophehad. Rabbi Marla J. Feldman’s recently published book Biblical Women Speak brings these neglected women to our attention, along with many others to whom the Bible devotes only a line or two, if that, treating them as props or as background against which the male characters interact.”
Review in H-Net Reviews:
“Despite its purposefully narrow focus on literary representations of settler colonialism in the United States and Australia, the book provides an in-depth and extended analysis of settler thought, past and present, engaging with the damage done, the limits of a response based in an anxious, guilty liberalism, and, importantly, the fraught yet emerging discourses of recognition, accountability, and systemic action. The breadth, the detail, and the lucidity of Lynch’s readings of these two regions’ settler-colonial texts (aren’t they all such, the author might suggest) make Outback and Out West a must-read contribution to eco-literary studies.”
Creek Internationalism in an Age of Revolution, 1763–1818
Review in Journal of Southern History:
“Creek Internationalism in an Age of Revolution is well written, expertly researched, and historiographically significant. Hill’s research is impressive.”
Review in Journal of Southern History:
“The premise of this book is that for many years historians have misunderstood the history of manifest destiny. This phrase was not just triumphant rhetoric that justified the territorial growth of the United States. According to Daniel J. Burge, it represented a specific vision of the future in which all of North America would become part of the United States—and that vision failed.”
Review in Reading Religion:
“Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory offers a glimpse into understanding the relationship between religion and race during the Civil War, particularly for non-specialists. Dundas writes a book which would appeal to the military historian of the Civil War, with its emphasis on the troops… Overall, Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory is a helpful addition to a growing renaissance of Civil War scholarship in the study of American religion.”
Review in H-Net:
“Steven Dundas’s Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: Religion and the Politics of the Civil War Era and Beyond has the potential to pique interest in the topic of racism in the United States of America. Through its easily conveyed contention that racism impacted politics in pre-Civil War America, Dundas’s book adds to the study of the Civil War era in a way that allows for more readers to engage with professional historians’ work on the subject.”
Review in The Bulwark:
“What animates The Sound of Undoing, though, is the humanist’s interest in nuance and distinctions, and an admirable suspicion of the things that palliate the noise of modern life.”
The Middle Kingdom under the Big Sky
Review in Western Historical Quarterly:
“The Middle Kingdom Under the Big Sky is a compelling diasporic analysis that explores how the lives of Chinese residents in Montana were simultaneously rooted in place and shaped by concerns abroad.”
Author Interviews
Interview with The April Institute
Interview with Current
Interview with Jacobin
Interview with the Alaska Public Media
Interview with Boulder Bookstore
Interview with New Books Network
Interview with Pasadena Star News
Interview with Friday LIVE
Interview with Civil Eats
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