Reviews
Review in The Literate Quilter:
“In her Preface, Smucker connects Pandemic quilt making to the past and in the last chapter includes examples of Pandemic quilts, demonstrating how quilters respond to current events and situations through quiltmaking . . . I learned so much from this book.”
Review in Tribal College Journal (35.2):
“Oskison’s work is still very relevant today as a measure of the way Cherokees felt about their long-time principal chief in the years following his death, i.e., very sympathetic, but not without recognizing that he had faults.”
Review in Tribal College Journal (35.2):
“Goodwin’s thorough research of archival materials provides a unique example of the importance of documenting our tribal histories. It also reminds us that oral histories are as important as the written artifacts we uncover.”
Creek Internationalism in an Age of Revolution, 1763-1818
Review in Tribal College Journal (35.3):
“Creek Internationalism in an Age of Revolution, 1763-1818 by James L. Hill explores the diplomatic relationships of the Muscogee Creek people at the international negotiating table during and after the American Revolution.”
Review in Tribal College Journal (35.3):
“Though a member of the Yankton Sioux Tribe, Ella Deloria (1889-1971) was raised on the Standing Rock Sioux reservation, where her father, one of the first Dakota Episcopalian priests, was a missionary. The same kinship protocol her father learned to follow in establishing rapport with converts, she learned and adapted for interviewing Native informants for Columbia University’s pioneering anthropologist Franz Boas. If she brought a gift and food to share with people whom she called by the correct social kinship terms, she could return and they would answer her questions as relatives doing her a favor. Thus Deloria, père et fille, broke down barriers that would have been immediately erected had they proceeded like a white missionary or ethnographer, respectively . . . This is a definitive, monumental work.”
Review in Hippocampus Magazine:
“Acetylene Torch Songs reminded me of why I write and motivated me to rebirth some of the more confessional pieces I’d shelved. It made me not just want to be a better writer, but to do the kind of soul work that creates ‘writing that burns through, no matter what it finds.'”
Review in California Review of Books:
“This book reclaims knowledge. This book is a timely reminder that many hands built California, perpetuated its myth and legend as a western paradise, and those hands were not all white. This book brings Black people into the California story, raises them from obscure footnotes to important roles worth remembering, acknowledging, and memorializing.”
Review in Kirkus Reviews:
“A brief, even-toned overview of American antisemitism, suitable for all readers.”
The JPS Bible Commentary: Psalms 120-150
Review in Association of Jewish Libraries:
“The language is clear, accessible to readers with limited knowledge of Hebrew and avoids specialized vocabulary (if a specialized literary form is described by a technical term, a lay-person explanation is available in parenthesis). This Volume is recommended for Judaic and academic libraries.”
Review in Association of Jewish Libraries:
“Biblical Women Speak is a good choice for a synagogue library or a reader interested in a feminist viewpoint. The book can be used in a variety of ways. It could be a reference source for Rabbis and educators. The author’s own modern midrashim can be read as short stories and used by discussion groups or book clubs to spark questioning and further delve into these biblical women’s lives.”
Review in Journal of Sport History:
“Charlie Murphy is an excellent addition to the existing body of work in book-length baseball biography. Cannon masterfully moves beyond his subject’s on-field baseball achievements, often the singular focus of a baseball biography, by providing a well-balanced mix of Murphy’s off-field contribution to the baseball industry, his cultural influence, and an exploration of his character.”
Review in Hispanic American Historical Review:
“Clearly written and deeply researched, The Enlightened Patrolman offers readers several things: a nuanced history of urban policing, a social history of nocturnal Mexico City in the decades before independence, and a case study of a failed Bourbon reform. It will appeal to both specialists and undergraduate students in upper-level colonial Mexican and Latin American courses.”
Review in Hispanic American Historical Review:
“The book is very well written and meticulous in its use of archival sources, piecing together fascinating family histories from 1890 to 1930 and explaining why many early Seventh-day Adventist leaders were at the forefront of the political struggle for emancipation and the Indigenous population’s increased freedom . . . Mabat carefully puts Seventh-day Adventist growth in the wider context of Andean religions, including other Protestant mission churches and, of course, Catholicism. Every university library should have Sacrifice and Regeneration, and every Andes expert should buy it.”
Review in Journal of Folklore Research:
“In Praise of the Ancestors will be of immense value to historians, anthropologists, folklorists, and anyone striving to understand oral tradition as history, the cultural logics underpinning succession, and the constitution of personhood itself.”
Author Interviews
Interview in Hippocampus Magazine
Interview in OTD Military History Channel
UNP blog 