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“This compelling book hits its stride with a ghastly chronicle of every tactic humans have employed in the battle against massive flocks and hopeless odds.”

Review in Washington Independent Review of Books:

“The odyssey in Starlings encompasses more than a century of avian trials and triumphs. The perils starlings face and the wonders they inspire earn them their role as epic heroes in Stark’s thought-provoking tale.”

Big Loosh

Review in Bevis Baseball Research:

“Leeke’s chronicle of the life and umpiring times of Luciano is a marvelous compilation of humorous accounts and groundbreaking work attributes that showed a baseball umpire could be both competent and stylish to modify the stoic-umpire standard.”

The Great Kosher Meat War of 1902

Review in the Journal of American History:

“Seligman’s fascinating account makes use of Yiddish sources to provide fresh insights into the history of immigrant working-class Jews in America.”

Picturing Indians

Review in the Journal of American History:

“This work is a timely and much-needed intervention into film studies that greatly expands our knowledge of Native Americans in Hollywood in important new ways. It will inspire fresh examinations of the films themselves and the direction that the industry took in representing Native Americans on-screen after 1960.”

The Gas and Flame Men

Review in the Journal of American History:

“Short chapters escort readers through the trials and considerable errors of organizing and producing gas warfare units capable of offensive and defensive operations in the war. Not surprisingly, this makes for gruesome accounts but also provides fascinating nuggets of information.”

Memory Wars

Review in the Journal of American History:

“The work will be significant for scholars interested in memory formation and the construction of national and regional history.”

Of Love and War

Review in the Journal of American History:

“Based on military and administrative documents as well as oral histories and memoirs, Of Love and War is a carefully researched work. . . . a valuable addition to the literature on the history and consequences of war.”