The following is an excerpt from Operation Rising Sun: The Sinking of Japan’s Secret Submarine I-52 by David W. Jourdan (Potomac Books, 2020). Prologue Fifteen minutes of steady flying yielded nothing. Half an hour after launch, they still heard no … Continue reading Excerpt: Operation Rising Sun
The following is an excerpt from Millennial Cervantes: New Currents in Cervantes Studies edited by Bruce R. Burningham (June 2020), the newest addition to the New Hispanisms Series. Chapter 6: QuixoNation Unfinished Adaptations of Don Quixote in Cold War U.S. Cinema … Continue reading Excerpt: Millennial Cervantes
The following is an excerpt from Rising from the Ashes edited by William Willard, Alan G. Marshall, and J. Diane Pearson (June 2020). Chapter 2: Nimiipuu Peoplehood, Survival, and the Indian TerritoryBy J. Diane Pearson On October 5, 1877, an estimated … Continue reading Excerpt: Rising from the Ashes
The following is an excerpt from Bitterroot: A Salish Memoir of Transracial Adoption (Nebraska, 2018) by Susan Devan Harness. Harness (Confederated Salish Kootenai Tribes) is a writer, lecturer, and oral historian, and has been a research associate for the Tri-Ethnic Center … Continue reading Excerpt: Bitterroot
The following is an excerpt from Hearts of Lions: The History of American Bicycle Racing by Peter Joffre Nye (Nebraska, 2020). Chapter 4: John M. Chapman, Czar of Cycling Tis on Market Street away from all the cornfields Mistress Mihlon draws the amber … Continue reading Excerpt: Hearts of Lions
Helga Baitenmann is an associate fellow of the Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of London. She is the coeditor of Decoding Gender: Law and Practice in Contemporary Mexico. Her new book Matters of Justice: Pueblos, the Judiciary, and Agrarian … Continue reading Excerpt: Matters of Justice
The following is an excerpt from Isabel “Lefty” Alvarez: The Improbable Life of a Cuban American Baseball Star by Kat D. Williams (May 2020). Chapter 2:Refashioning Lefty I was always confused about what to do. Play ball or wear pretty dresses. … Continue reading Excerpt: Isabel “Lefty” Alvarez
The following is an excerpt from The Estrada Plot: How the FBI Captured a Secret Army and Stopped the Invasion of Mexico by Bill Mills (Potomac Books, April). After months of living with only the barest of necessities while battling Obregón’s forces … Continue reading Excerpt: The Estrada Plot
The following is an excerpt from When Sunflowers Bloomed Red: Kansas and the Rise of Socialism in America by R. Alton Lee and Steven Cox (Bison Books, 2020). In Kansas industrial laborers were largely confined to the Tri-State Mining Region … Continue reading Excerpt: When Sunflowers Bloomed Red
Tatiana L. Dubinskaya (1902–90) served in the Russian army until 1917, then became a soldier and a nurse for the Red Army during the Russian Civil War (1917–22). After the civil war, she worked as a typist for the Red Army … Continue reading Excerpt: In the Trenches
