A collection of creative writing and art about COVID-19 at the onset of the pandemic by people from vulnerable populations.

An adaptation of Olaudah Equiano’s Interesting Narrative published for Black children in 1829, now given new life in a major scholarly edition.

The improbable and powerful true story of a single mother with prosthetics for both legs who travels the globe with her young daughter in a Land Rover.

One of the first book-length considerations of the Appalachian writer Robert Morgan.

Historians investigate the relationships between film, culture, and energy.

How teachers can help combat higher education’s mental health crisis.

For readers of Elena Ferrante, Nicole Krauss, and Carmen Maria Machado, In Other Lifetimes All I’ve Lost Comes Back to Me is a braided story collection that invokes the real, surreal, and mythic to explore the longings and loneliness of contemporary love.
 

A more-than-human approach to planetary survival, from a leading environmental humanist.

The biracial coming-of-age journey of a boy from Black and Jewish families—a “brilliant, devastating book.”

One of the first new interpretations of West Virginia’s origins in over a century—and one that corrects previous histories’ tendency to minimize support for slavery in the state’s founding.

How Hawaiʻi became the epicenter of the biotech seed industry, and how a resistance movement arose to confront the industry’s power.

Linked stories trace the vocational and emotional bargains made by workers at a Colorado sausage factory.

A collection of evidence-based insights and intersectional teaching strategies to inspire transformative student learning and interrupt stereotypes about what a professor looks like.
 

A new critical edition of Sutton Griggs’s turn-of-the-twentieth-century novel, which continues to shed light on understandings of Black politics.
 

“A lovely and rapturous excavation and examination of the past, a lesson in writing oneself into history when it doesn’t offer you a space.” —Jenny Boully, author of Betwixt-and-Between: Essays on the Writing Life
 

Original voices from across the solarpunk movement, which positions ingenuity, generativity, and community as ways to resist hopelessness in response to the climate crisis.

“Part mystery, part fable but all original, Jim Foote is sure to be one of your favorite literary detectives—cryptid or otherwise.” —Jordan Farmer, author of The Poison Flood and The Pallbearer
 

Award-winning teachers offer practical tips for addressing inequities in the college classroom and for making all students feel welcome and included.

A practical and evidence-based teaching guide for graduate students across all fields.

“A beautiful, powerful book. Read it and be changed.”—Jim Minick

“Darkly compelling.” —Tom Perrotta

What does memory mean for learning in an age of smartphones and search engines?

“A literary page-turner. . . . Part Cormac McCarthy, part Tom Drury and Raymond Chandler, Kapcala has created a voice all his own.” —Brian Castleberry

“Commands your attention from the first page to the last word.” —Morgan Jerkins

An environmental humanist’s study of extractive capitalism and colonial occupation in Indian fiction.

Essays by the foremost labor historian of the Black experience in the Appalachian coalfields.

An engrossing and beautifully crafted memoir of imagination, obsession, and disaster from the couch of old-fashioned four-times-a-week psychoanalysis.
 

The remarkable autobiography of a Black woman evangelist.
 

Transnational perspectives on the relationship between nuclear energy and society.
 

History at the intersection of healthcare, labor, and civil rights.
 

Recounted with humor and honesty, Lester invites us into his life as he struggles with masculinity and searches for a place where he fits.
 

A personal remembrance from the preeminent chronicler of Black life in Appalachia.
 

Tells the fascinating story of the Red’s climbing community through interviews with the people who lived that history and considers how sustainable ecotourism might contribute to the region economically.
 

A classic book about Appalachian life and music, now updated with new material.
 

An oral history of the West Virginia Mine Wars published to coincide with the centennial of the Battle of Blair Mountain.
 

A newly discovered nineteenth-century novel about West Virginia breaking away from Virginia, set amid the cannel coal boom and featuring an interracial abolitionist movement.
 

A dreamlike, evocative reckoning with a lost epoch in popular culture—and with old, weird America.

Students are reading on screens more than ever—how can we teach them to be better digital readers?

Memoir about ballet and illness from a creative writing teacher whose career as a ballerina was stopped by rheumatoid arthritis.

What happens to teaching when you consider the whole body (and not just “brains on sticks”)?