In 1898 the US sent troops to suppress the Filipino struggle for independence, including three regiments of the "Buffalo Soldiers". Among them was David Fagen. The outlines of Fagen's legend have been known for more than a century, but the details of his military achievements, his personal history, and his fate have remained a mystery - until now.
Offers the groundbreaking intellectual history of the Royal Lao Government (RLG) from 1945 to 1975. Ryan Wolfson-Ford’s account firmly centers the Lao people as not pawns of the superpowers but agents of their own history, with the Lao elite as the authors of the nation’s trajectory.
Vivacious, unconventional, candid, and straight, Helen Branson operated a gay bar in Los Angeles in the 1950s - America's most anti-gay decade. In 1957 she published her memoir Gay Bar, the first book by a heterosexual to depict the lives of homosexuals with admiration, respect, and love. In this new edition, Will Fellows interweaves Branson's chapters with historical perspective.
Hart Island has served as a potter’s field for more than a century, holding over a million indigent, unclaimed, or unknown New Yorkers’ bodies - and yet it is little-known even among locals. In this absorbing and elegiac story, Gary Zebrun explores overlapping connections of sexuality, family, criminality, and morality.
A selection of poetry covering the full range of Hellenistic poetic genres, this anthology includes translations of ""Argonautica"" and eight of Theocritus's ""Idylls"". The author has also written ""The Hellenistic Aesthetic"".