Every painting of cultural worth should have a chronicler as thorough and comprehensive as James M. Dennis. A professor emeritus of art history at the University of Wisconsin, Dennis has two missions here, the first being to explain the... Read More

Anyone interested in the history of film making and what it takes to write and direct movies that matter should look no further than this book. Escaping the Philadelphia slums in the 1930s to become a journalist in Atlantic City and New... Read More

“The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line…,” was an especially memorable line written in 1903 by W.E.B. Du Bois in the The Souls of Black Folk, just one year before George Edwin Taylor became the first... Read More

In just three months’ time, from April to July 1994, Hutu extremists in Rwanda conducted a killing spree of Tutsis so widespread and deadly that it became the third recognized genocide of the twentieth century. To its shame, the United... Read More

Aldo Leopold, a patriarch of the Land Ethic, noted in A Sand County Almanac, “There are two kinds of hunting: ordinary hunting, and ruffed-grouse hunting.” Mark Parman, a lifelong hunter and resident of northern Wisconsin, picks up... Read More

African Women Writing Resistance: An Anthology of Contemporary Voices collects writings of thirty-six women from thirteen African countries, providing a metaphorical megaphone to those women and a clear, unflinching look at what it’s... Read More

Stories have tremendous power to provide a sense of belonging to a people, a culture, and a place; narrative provides a context in which a strong sense of personal and community identity can be formed. Even people who live at the margins... Read More

He may have been a bastard, but he had his father’s name. That counted for something. It elevated him a notch above his mother and grandmother in the legitimacy ranks. They were also illegitimate children, but bore the matrilineal... Read More