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Reviews

Under Jackie’s Shadow

Review in Journal of Southern History:

Under Jackie’s Shadow is an important text for any researcher who wants to explore baseball’s biggest challenge: getting Black Americans back into America’s pastime.”

No Friday Night Lights

Review in Tribal College Journal:

“What resonates from the text is the pride the district feels for their players. The team finds its purpose through the connections among its players, coaches, and fans.”

Disintegrating Empire

Review in Contemporary European History:

“By tracing these three threads’ unravelling over distinct but connected chronologies, Disintegrating Empire makes a clear case for decolonisation’s unevenness.”

The Bears of Grand Teton

Review in Roundup Magazine:

“In this excellent new work, [Consolo-Murphy] offers the first comprehensive history of bears, black and grizzly, throughout the landscape of the past 100 years.”

On the Backs of Others

Review in H-Sci-Med-Tech:

On the Backs of Others adopts a fairly broad geographic purview . . . . This book’s geographic scope allows the author to parse how bodily experiences of exploration might be different given the change of different variables.”

90 Seconds to Midnight

Review in Inside Story:

“DeCroes Jacobs’s 90 Seconds to Midnight should be required reading for any incumbent or aspiring political leader.”

Taking Charge, Making Change

Review in Roundup Magazine:

“In this comprehensively researched account of one boarding school, Robert W. Galler Jr. provides a detailed narrative of how Native communities, in collaboration with the Catholic Church, have transformed the institutions into a culturally competent, educationally adaptive, and self-determining school.”

Of Corn and Catholicism

Review in Roundup Magazine:

“Directed at an academic audience, this nuanced study opens another window on cultural resillence and power.”

Author Interviews

Dennis Snelling

Interview with SABR Mathewson-Plank Chapter

Melissa Fraterrigo

Interview in Hippocampus Magazine

Tim Manners

Interview on Baseball and BBQ

Jim Leeke

Interview on Downtown with Rich Kimball

Charolette DeCroes Jacobs

Interview in LA Progressive

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