Between the Wires tells for the first time the history of Janowska, in Lviv, Ukraine, one of the deadliest concentration camps in the Holocaust, by bringing together never-before-seen evidence.

Brandon Morgan tells the story of how dreams of capitalist development and varied forms of violence went hand-in-hand to create rural communities along the U.S.-Mexico border around the turn of the twentieth century.

Sandra E. Bonura tells the overlooked yet genuine rags-to-riches story of Claus Spreckels and his pioneering role in developing the sugar industry in the United States and the kingdom of Hawai‘i.

During Hawai‘i’s territorial period (1900–1959), Native Hawaiians resisted assimilation by refusing to replace Native culture, identity, and history with those of the United States. By actively participating in U.S. public schools, Hawaiians resisted the suppression of their language and culture, subjection to a foreign curriculum, and denial of their cultural heritage and history, which was critical for Hawai‘i’s political evolution within the manifest destiny of the United States.

In The Education of Clarence Three Stars Philip Burnham tells the life story of the remarkable Packs the Dog, a member of the Minneconjou Lakotas who was born in 1864 east of the Black Hills. In 1879 Packs the Dog joined the first class of Indian students to be admitted to the Carlisle Indian Industrial School.

On Our Own Terms sets recent federal education legislation against the backdrop of two hundred years of education funding and policy to explore two critical themes: the settler colonial dynamics that have shaped Indian education and how Indigenous peoples engage schools on their own terms.

In Unhomely Wests Stephen Tatum presents twenty-six essays exploring literary, visual art, cinematic, and musical representations of homelessness as a theme, a trope, an affliction, a threat, and a condition of alienation in the American West.

Sigrid Anderson focuses on the Southern California magazine Land of Sunshine, a publication that featured authors such as Edith Eaton, Mary Austin, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, to explore how regional periodical fiction offered agency to women—and the implications for the region and its populace.

Object-Oriented Narratology offers individual case studies that demonstrate the richness and diversity of the ways in which narrative, both Western and non-Western, deals with humans’ relationships to their material environment and with the otherness of objects.

Rewilding the Urban Frontier argues that the urban rivers of the United States might be one of the best opportunities for creating self-sustaining ecosystems capable of adapting to the rapid and cascading changes caused by human impacts.

In Between Soil and Society Jonathan Coppess traces the history and development of U.S. conservation policy, especially as it compares to and interacts with the development of farm policy.

In Framing Nature Yolonda Youngs traces the idea of the Grand Canyon as an icon and the ways people came to know it through popular imagery and visual media.