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“. . . And Ladies of the Club”
HELEN HOOVEN SANTMYER
The Ohio State University Press, 1982
Library of Congress PS3537.A775A82 1982 | Dewey Decimal 813.52

This New York Times best seller by Helen Hooven Santmyer recounts the lives of a group of women who start a study club in a small town in southwestern Ohio in 1868. Over the years, the club evolves into an influential community service organization in the town. Numerous characters are introduced in the course of the novel but primary are Anne Gordon and Sally Rausch who, as the book begins, are new graduates of the Waynesboro Female Seminary. The novel covers decades of their lives—chronicling the two women’s marriages and those of their children and grandchildren. Santmyer focuses not just on the lives of the women in the club, but also their families and friends and the politics and developments in their small town and the larger world.
In this longest and most ambitious of Santmyer’s books, there is—as with all of her previous work—a poignant sense of a past made present again through an acute sensibility, of human life and experience as somehow cumulative, and of lives and events, largely fugitive and forgotten, as captured and transformed as the stuff of her poetry.

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... And Heaven Shed No Tears
Henry Armin Herzog
University of Wisconsin Press, 2005
Library of Congress DS135.P63H494 2005 | Dewey Decimal 940.5318092

Henry Herzog survived the liquidation of the Rzeszow ghetto in Poland and endured terrible hardships in forced labor camps. He documents the increasing severity of Nazi rule in Rzeszow and the complicity of the Jewish council (the Judenrat) and Jewish police in the round-ups for deportation to the Belzec concentration camp. One of these deportations took his parents to their deaths. His brothers were caught, tortured, and killed by the Gestapo. Herzog and his sister escaped to Hungary where—although she found refuge—he was betrayed, arrested, and finally put on a train to the concentration camps. Escaping by jumping off the train and fleeing into the Tatra Mountains, he joined a group of Russian partisans to fight the Nazis.

1995 paperback, Saga Publishers / Folio Private

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Archives of Empire: Volume I. From The East India Company to the Suez Canal
Barbara Harlow and Mia Carter, eds.
Duke University Press, 2003
Library of Congress DA16.A73 2003 | Dewey Decimal 909.0971241

A rich collection of primary materials, the multivolume Archives of Empire provides a documentary history of nineteenth-century British imperialism from the Indian subcontinent to the Suez Canal to southernmost Africa. Barbara Harlow and Mia Carter have carefully selected a diverse range of texts that track the debates over imperialism in the ranks of the military, the corridors of political power, the lobbies of missionary organizations, the halls of royal geographic and ethnographic societies, the boardrooms of trading companies, the editorial offices of major newspapers, and far-flung parts of the empire itself. Focusing on a particular region and historical period, each volume in Archives of Empire is organized into sections preceded by brief introductions. Documents including mercantile company charters, parliamentary records, explorers’ accounts, and political cartoons are complemented by timelines, maps, and bibligraphies. Unique resources for teachers and students, these books reveal the complexities of nineteenth-century colonialism and emphasize its enduring relevance to the “global markets” of the twenty-first century.

Tracing the beginnings of the British colonial enterprise in South Asia and the Middle East, From the Company to the Canal brings together key texts from the era of the privately owned British East India Company through the crises that led to the company’s takeover by the Crown in 1858. It ends with the momentous opening of the Suez Canal in 1869. Government proclamations, military reports, and newspaper articles are included here alongside pieces by Rudyard Kipling, Charles Dickens, John Stuart Mill, Karl Marx, Benjamin Disraeli, and many others. A number of documents chronicle arguments between mercantilists and free trade advocates over the competing interests of the nation and the East India Company. Others provide accounts of imperial crises—including the trial of Warren Hastings, the Indian Rebellion (Sepoy Mutiny), and the Arabi Uprising—that highlight the human, political, and economic costs of imperial domination and control.

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Brigham Young, the Quorum of the Twelve, and the Latter-Day Saint Investigation of the Mountain Meadows Massacre: Arrington Lecture No. Twelve
Thomas G. Alexander
Utah State University Press, 2007
Library of Congress F826.A428 2007 | Dewey Decimal 979.202

On September 11, 1857, a wagon train of emigrants passing through the Utah Territory on their way to California were massacred at Mountain Meadows. Although today’s historians agree that the principal perpetrators were members of the Mormon militia in southern Utah, how much the central Mormon leadership, especially Brigham Young at the top, knew about the massacre, when and how they learned about it, and the extent of a cover up afterward are still matters of controversy and debate.

In this 12th volume of the Arrington Lecture Series, Thomas Alexander (Lemuel Redd Professor of Western American History, Emeritus, at Brigham Young University), asserts that Brigham Young and the LDS Church’s governing Quorum of Twelve made timely and diligent efforts to investigate the massacre and encouraged legal proceedings but were hindered by federal territorial officials and lied to by massacre participant John D. Lee, preventing Young from learning the full truth for many years.

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Journal of West African History 1, no. 1
Nwando Achebe
Michigan State University Press Journals, 2015

IN THIS ISSUE

Editor's Note
Nwando Achebe, "The Birth of a New Journal"

Articles
Jan Jansen, "In Defense of Mali’s Gold: The Political and Military Organization of the Northern Upper Niger, c. 1650–c. 1850"
Ralph A. Austen, "Finding the Historical Wangrin or the Banality of Virtue"
Claire Robertson, "We Must Overcome: Genealogy and Evolution of Female Slavery in West Africa"
Trevor R. Getz, Lindsay Ehrisman, "The Marriages of Abina Mansah: Escaping the Boundaries of "Slavery" as a Category in Historical Analysis"
David Robinson, "Retrospective: Reflections on Legitimation and Pedagogy in the "Islamic Revolutions" of West Africa on the Frontiers of the Islamic World"
Moses Ochonu, "Caliphate Expansion and Sociopolitical Change in Nineteenth-Century Lower Benue Hinterlands"

Book Reviews
Carola Lentz, Land, Mobility, and Belonging in West Africa, Reviewed by Assan Sarr
Elizabeth Wrangham, Ghana during the First World War: The Colonial Administration of Sir Hugh Clifford, Reviewed by Kwame Essien
Raymond E. Dumett, Imperialism, Economic Development and Social Change in West Africa, Reviewed by Jeffrey S. Ahlman
John Iliffe, Obasanjo, Nigeria and the World, Reviewed by Hakeem Ibikunle Tijani
Toyin Falola and Saheed Aderinto, Nigeria, Nationalism, and Writing History, Reviewed by Philip S. Zachernuk
David Max Brown and Zola Maseko, The Manuscripts of Timbuktu; Shamil Jeppie and Souleymane Bachir Diagne, The Meanings of Timbuktu; Alexandra Huddleston, 333 Saints: A Life of Scholarship in Timbuktu, Reviewed by David E. Skinner
Susan Z. Andrade, The Nation Writ Small: Africa Fictions and Feminisms, 1958–1988, Reviewed by Anne V. Adams
Danny Hoffman, The War Machines: Young Men and Violence in Sierra Leone and Liberia, Reviewed by Douglas Thomas

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Journal of West African History 2, no. 2
Nwando Achebe
Michigan State University Press Journals, 2016

IN THIS ISSUE

Editor's Note
Nwando Achebe, "Nkolika—Recalling is Supreme"

Articles
Steven Pierce, "The Invention of Corruption: Political Malpractice and Selective Prosecution in Colonial Northern Nigeria"
Robert M. Baum, "Prophetic Critiques of Colonial Agricultural Schemes: The Case of Alinesitoué Diatta in Vichy Senegal"
Mohammed Bashir Salau, Harmony O’Rourke, "The Life and Experiences of Sa`id Ibn Hayatu, a Mahdist Leader: New Findings from the Buea Archive"
Nozomi Sawada, "Selecting Those ‘Worthy’ of Remembering: Memorialization in Early Lagos Newspapers"
Victoria Ellen Smith, "Secrets of West African Slave Ancestry: Fante Strategies of Silence and the Didactic Narrative in Ghanaian Literature"

Book Reviews
Elem Kalabari of the Niger Delta: The Transition from Slave to Produce Trading under British Imperialism, reviewed by Joe Davey
The Scattered Family: Parenting, African Migrants, and Global Inequality, Reviewed by Tiffany A. Flowers
Tony Allen: An Autobiography of the Master Drummer of Afrobeat, reviewed by Dawne Y. Curry
African European Trade in the Atlantic World: The Western Slave Coast circa 1550 to 1885, reviewed by Robert Hanserd

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Preferences and Situations: Points of Intersection Between Historical and Rational Choice In.
Ira Katznelson
Russell Sage Foundation, 2005
Library of Congress HM826.P74 2005 | Dewey Decimal 306.201

A scholarly gulf has tended to divide historians, political scientists, and social movement theorists on how people develop and act on their preferences. Rational choice scholars assumed that people—regardless of the time and place in which they live—try to achieve certain goals, like maximizing their personal wealth or power. In contrast, comparative historical scholars have emphasized historical context in explaining people's behavior. Recently, a common emphasis on how institutions—such as unions or governments—influence people's preferences in particular situations has emerged, promising to narrow the divide between the two intellectual camps. In Preferences and Situations, editors Ira Katnelson and Barry Weingast seek to expand that common ground by bringing together an esteemed group of contributors to address the ways in which institutions, in their wider historical setting, induce people to behave in certain ways and steer the course of history. The contributors examine a diverse group of topics to assess the role that institutions play in shaping people's preferences and decision-making. For example, Margaret Levi studies two labor unions to determine how organizational preferences are established. She discusses how the individual preferences of leaders crystallize and become cemented into an institutional culture through formal rules and informal communication. To explore how preferences alter with time, David Brady, John Ferejohn, and Jeremy Pope examine why civil rights legislation that failed to garner sufficient support in previous decades came to pass Congress in 1964. Ira Katznelson reaches back to the 13th century to discuss how the institutional development of Parliament after the signing of the Magna Carta led King Edward I to reframe the view of the British crown toward Jews and expel them in 1290. The essays in this book focus on preference formation and change, revealing a great deal of overlap between two schools of thought that were previously considered mutually exclusive. Though the scholarly debate over the merits of historical versus rational choice institutionalism will surely rage on, Preferences and Situations reveals how each field can be enriched by the other.

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QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking 2, no. 2
Charles E. Morris III
Michigan State University Press Journals, 2015

IN THIS ISSUE

Editorial Introduction
Charles E. Morris III, Thomas K. Nakayama, "Queers at Play, Transformative; Blackness and Queerness in Ferguson, Electric"

Essays
Matt Conn, "Gaming’s Untapped Queer Potential as Art"
Edmond Y. Chang, "Love Is in the Air: Queer (Im)Possibility and Straightwashing in FrontierVille and World of Warcraft"
Heidi McDonald, "Romance in Games: What It Is, How It Is, and How Developers Can Improve It"
Adrienne Shaw, "Circles, Charmed and Magic: Queering Game Studies"
Jeffrey Sens, "Queer Worldmaking Games: A Portland Indie Experiment"
Bonnie Ruberg, "No Fun: The Queer Potential of Video Games that Annoy, Anger, Disappoint, Sadden, and Hurt"
Sarah Beth Evans, Elyse Janish, "#INeedDiverseGames: How the Queer Backlash to GamerGate Enables Nonbinary Coalition"

Queer Conversation
Carly A. Kocurek, "Tabled for Discussion: A Conversation with Game Designer Michael De Anda"

Forum
Jeffrey Q. McCune, Jr., "The Queerness of Blackness"
Javon Johnson, "Black Joy in the Time of Ferguson"
Reuben Riggs, "Meeting Queerness and Blackness in Ferguson"
Jennifer Tyburczy, "Undeniable Forensic Evidence"
Nyle Fort, Darnell L. Moore, "Last Words: A Black Theological Response to Ferguson and Anti-Blackness"

Book Reviews
Katsuhiko Suganuma, Contact Moments: The Politics of Intercultural Desire in Japanese Male-Queer Cultures, Reviewed by Shinsuke Eguchi
Christina B. Hanhardt, Safe Space: Gay Neighborhood History and the Politics of Violence, Reviewed by Eric A. Stanley
A. Finn Enke, ed., Transfeminist Perspectives in and beyond Transgender and Gender Studies, Reviewed by Sam Hsieh
Adela C. Licona, Zines in Third Space: Radical Cooperation and Borderlands Rhetoric, Reviewed by Alyssa A. Samek
Sheena C. Howard, Black Queer Identity Matrix: Towards an Integrated Queer of Color Framework, Reviewed by Dominique D. Johnson

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QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking 3, no. 3
Charles E. Morris III
Michigan State University Press Journals, 2016

IN THIS ISSUE

Essays
John M. Sloop, Isaac West, "Heroism’s Contexts: Robbie Rogers and the Ghost of Justin Fashanu"
Paul Borghs, "The Gay and Lesbian Movement in Belgium from the 1950s to the Present"
Laura K. Wallace, "'My History, Finally Invented': Nightwood and Its Publics"

Queer Conversation
Alexis Pauline Gumbs, "Pulse"
Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, "Queer Puerto Ricans and the Burden of Violence"
Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, "Los puertorriqueños queer y el peso de la violencia"
Katie L. Acosta, "Pulse: A Space for Resilience, A Home for the Brave"
Michael Hames-Garcia, "When I Think of Pulse, I Think of Shakti"
Cassils, "103 Shots"
Julia Steinmetz, "The Sound of Everynight Life"
Christina B. Hanhardt, "Safe Space Out of Place"
Kimberlee Pérez, "I Also Want More"
Uriel Quesada, "Hacer lo posible"
Joseph M. Pierce, "Our Queer Breath"
Joseph M. Pierce, "Travestis, negras, boricuas, maricas"
Ramzi Fawaz, "Locked Eyes"
Jennifer Tyburczy, "Orlando and the Militancy of Queer Mourning"
E. Cram, "Pulse: The Matter of Movement"
Jeffrey A. Bennett, "202 Bullets"
Micaela J. Díaz-Sánchez, "Bailando: 'We Would Have Been There'"
Charles Rice-González, "Latino/a Visibility and a Legacy of Power and Love"
Karma R. Chávez, "Refusing Queer Violence"
Shinsuke Eguchi, "The Orlando Pulse Massacre: A Transnational Japanese Queer Response"
Aaron C. Thomas, "My Father’s Pulse"
Ahmet Atay, "A Response to the Orlando Shooting: Queer Communication Pedagogy"

Forum
Ryan Conrad, "An Introduction to a Different Kind of Conversation"
Michael Johnson, "A Letter from South Central Correctional Center"
Alison Duke, "The Missing 17 Minutes"
David Oscar Harvey, "On Iowa, HIV Criminalization, and Cautious Optimism"
Demian DinéYahzi’, "NEGATIVE / POSITIVE"
Cyd Nova, "Vectors of Disease: Sex Workers as Bodies to Be Managed"

Book Reviews
Francesca Stella, Lesbian Lives in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia: Post/Socialism and Gendered Sexualities, reviewed by Veronika Lapina
Leland G. Spencer and Jamie C. Capuzza, eds., Transgender Communication Studies: Histories, Trends, and Trajectories, reviewed by Sara Hayden
Patricia Bell-Scott, The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice, reviewed by Simon D. Elin Fisher

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Rhetoric, Politics & Culture 1, no. 1
Carmen Kynard
Michigan State University Press Journals, 2021

In This Issue

Carmen Kynard and Bryan J. McCann, “Editors’ Introduction”

Article
Eric King Watts, “The Primal Scene of COVID-19: ‘We’re All in this Together’”

Forum: Rhetoric, Politics, and Culture in Perilous Times
V. Jo Hsu , “Toward QTPOC Community: A Theory in the Flesh, an Open Letter, a Closing Wound”

EunYoung Lee, “A Rhetorician Who Doesn’t Have Her Own Words to Speak”

Susana Martínez Guillem, “Sacando la Lengua in Rhetorical Theory and Criticism”

Atilla Hallsby, “Intimate Spaces of Mental Wellness”

Dakota J. Sandras, “The Voice of Honor: Centering an Indigenous Ethic of Protocol in Ongoing Perilous Times”

Teigha Mae VanHester, “‘In a 90s Kind of World, I’m Glad I Got My Girls’: Living Single and One Fat, Black, Intellectual Queen’s Quest to Bring Flavor to the Academy”

Matthew Houdek and Ersula J. Ore, “Cultivating Otherwise Worlds and Breathable Futures”

Ashley Noel Mack and Tiara R. Na’puti, “Publicity as Containment”

Rhetoric in Review
“Stories of Antiracist Theory, Instruction, and Practice: A Review Essay”: April Baker-Bell, Linguistic Justice: Black Language, Literacy, Identity, and Pedagogy, Aja Y. Martinez,
Counterstory: The Rhetoric and Writing of Critical Race Theory, and Louis M. Maraj, Black or Right: Anti/Racist Campus Rhetorics, reviewed by José Luis Cano Jr.

William Saas, Maxximilian Seijo, and Scott Ferguson, Money on the Left podcast, reviewed by Kate Siegfried

Rhetoric, Politics & Culture Sponsoring Members

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Texas Monthly On . . .: Food
From the editors of Texas Monthly
University of Texas Press, 2008
Library of Congress TX360.U62T47 2008 | Dewey Decimal 641.59764

From reviews of the newest, hippest restaurants in cities across Texas to stories about the comfort foods we all love, Texans have long relied on Texas Monthly to dish up some of the best writing about food in the Lone Star state. This anthology brings together twenty-eight classic articles about food in Texas and the culture that surrounds it—markets that purvey exotic and traditional foods, well-known chefs, tributes to the cooks and cookbooks of days gone by, and even a feature on how to open a restaurant. Many of the articles are by Patricia Sharpe, Texas Monthly's longtime restaurant critic and winner of the James Beard Journalism Award for Magazine Feature Writing without Recipes. Joining her are Texas Monthly editor Evan Smith and contributors Gary Cartwright, Jordan MacKay, Skip Hollandsworth, Pamela Colloff, Anne Dingus, Suzy Banks, Joe Nick Patoski, and Prudence Mackintosh.

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Texas Monthly On . . .: Texas True Crime
From the editors of Texas Monthly
University of Texas Press, 2007
Library of Congress HV6793.T4T56 2007 | Dewey Decimal 364.10922764

Since 1973, one magazine has covered crime in Texas like no one else, delving deep into stories that may turn your stomach—but won't let you turn away. Texas Monthly On... Texas True Crime is a high-speed read around Texas, chasing criminals from the Panhandle to the Piney Woods, through gated mansions and trailer parks, from 1938 to the twenty-first century. The stories, which originally appeared as articles in the magazine, come from some of its most notable writers: Cecilia Ballí investigates the drug-fueled violence of the border; Pamela Colloff reports on Amarillo's lethal feud between jocks and punks; Michael Hall re-visits the legend of Joe Ball, a saloon owner who allegedly fed his waitresses to pet alligators; Skip Hollandsworth uncovers the computer nerd who became Dallas' most notorious jewel thief; and Katy Vine tracks a pair of teenage lesbians inspired by Thelma and Louise.

Texas Monthly On... Texas True Crime is the second in a series of books in which the editors of Texas Monthly offer the magazine's inimitable perspective on various aspects of Texas culture, including food, politics, travel, and music, among other topics. Texas Monthly On... Texas Women was released in 2006.

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Texas Monthly On . . .: Texas Women
From the editors of Texas Monthly
University of Texas Press, 2006
Library of Congress HQ1438.T4T495 2006 | Dewey Decimal 305.409764

Since 1973, Texas Monthly has spotlighted hundreds of Texans who, for better or worse, make this state like no place else. TEXAS MONTHLY On . . . Texas Women profiles thirteen women who are not only fascinating in their own right, but also representative of the legions of women who have contributed to the character and uniqueness of Texas. They range from First Ladies Laura Bush and Lady Bird Johnson to pop culture icons such as Candy Barr and Janis Joplin—and all of them exemplify the qualities that make Texas women distinctive. The women's profiles originally appeared as articles in the magazine, authored by some of Texas Monthly's notable writers—Cecilia Ballí, Gary Cartwright, Paul Burka, Mimi Swartz, Jan Jarboe Russell, Skip Hollandsworth, Robert Draper, William Broyles Jr., Jan Reid, Joe Nick Patoski, Pamela Colloff, and Helen Thorpe. The writers also introduce their pieces with headnotes that update the stories or, in some cases, tell the story behind the story. TEXAS MONTHLY On . . . Texas Women is the first in a series of books in which the editors of Texas Monthly will offer the magazine's inimitable perspective on various aspects of Texas culture, including food, politics, travel, and music, among other topics.

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What Every Senior Needs To..
J Nora
University Press of Colorado, 2004
Library of Congress RA564.8.N67 2004 | Dewey Decimal 362.1989700973

At a time when astonishing medical advances appear in the media almost daily, access to even the most routine health care and satisfactory doctor-patient relationships is becoming increasingly difficult to find. Moreover, the rapidly growing population of

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