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1.
Series: Native Art of the Pacific Northwest: A Bill Holm Center Series Skidegate House Models From Haida Gwaii to the Chicago World's Fair and Beyond Hardcover Robin K. Wright 9780295751047 $68.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Grade (US) from 17 Mar 05, 2024

In 1892 seventeen Haida artists were commissioned to carve a model of HlGaagilda Llnagaay (the village of Skidegate on Haida Gwaii, British Columbia) for the 1893 World?s Fair in Chicago. The Skidegate model, featuring twenty-nine large houses and forty-two poles, is the only known model village in North America carved by nineteenth-century Indigenous residents of the village it portrayed. Based on over twenty years of collaborative research with the Skidegate Haida community, the book features vital cultural context. Robin K. Wright explores h... + Read More
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Stomp and Shout R&B and the Origins of Northwest Rock and Roll Hardcover Peter Blecha 9780295751252 $41.00 MUSIC Grade (US) from 17 Feb 16, 2023

Finalist for the 2024 Washington State Book Award in General NonfictionParking lot rumbles, teen dance riots, and the rise of the Northwest SoundLong before the world discovered grunge, the Pacific Northwest was already home to a singular music culture. In the late 1950s, locals had codified a distinct offshoot of rockin' R&B, and a surprising number of them would skyrocket to success, including Little Bill and the Bluenotes, the Wailers, Ron Holden, Paul Revere and the Raiders, the Kingsmen, Merrilee Rush, and the Sonics.With entertaining acco... + Read More
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Wide-Open Desert A Queer History of New Mexico Paperback Jordan Biro Walters 9780295751023 $41.00 HISTORY Grade (US) from 17 Feb 07, 2023

Reveals the untold stories about New Mexico?s queer pastThroughout the twentieth century, New Mexico?s LGBTQ+ residents inhabited a wide spectrum of spaces, from Santa Fe?s nascent bohemian art scene to the secretive military developments at Los Alamos. Shifting focus away from the urban gay meccas that many out queer people called home, Wide-Open Desert brings to life a vibrant milieu of two-spirit, Chicana lesbian, and white queer cultural producers in the heart of the US Southwest. Jordan Biro Walters draws on oral histories, documentaries, ... + Read More
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Black Lives in Alaska A History of African Americans in the Far Northwest Paperback Ian C. Hartman 9780295750934 $33.99 HISTORY Grade (US) from 17 Nov 29, 2022

Documents the rich history of Black life in Alaska since the 1850sThe history of Black Alaskans runs deep and spans generations. Decades before statehood and earlier even than the Klondike gold rush of the 1890s, Black men and women participated in Alaska?s politics and culture. They hunted whales, patrolled the seas, built roads, served in the military, and opened businesses, even as they endured racism and fought injustices. Into the twentieth century, Alaska?s Black residents were often part of the larger, nationwide freedom struggle. At the... + Read More
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Series: Classics of Asian American Literature Picture Bride A Novel Paperback Yoshiko Uchida 9780295751122 $26.99 FICTION Grade (US) from 17 Sep 06, 2022

The story of a Japanese American picture bride, from Angel Island to TopazSeeking an escape from life in her small village in Japan, Hana Omiya arrives in California in 1917, one of thousands of Japanese ?picture brides? whose arranged marriages brought them to the United States. When she finally sets foot on a pier in San Francisco, she is disappointed to meet her soon-to-be husband, the stoic Taro Takeda, who looks much older than in the photo his family had shared. Far from the fantasy life she dreamed up back home, Hana confronts emotional ... + Read More
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Botticelli and Renaissance Florence Masterworks from the Uffizi Paperback Cecilia Frosinini 9780998587226 $54.00 ART Grade (US) from 17 Oct 25, 2022

This sumptuously illustrated book presents the most recent scholarship in English on Botticelli and Renaissance Florence, featuring essays and entries written by an international team of scholars and experts in the field.The authors examine both the rich array of works featured in the exhibition?paintings, drawings, prints, decorative arts, and ancient Roman marble statues?and seminal themes concerning Botticelli and the artistic achievements of Renaissance Florence. Works by Botticelli?s master, Fra Filippo Lippi, and other members of Botticel... + Read More
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Series: Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books People of the Ecotone Environment and Indigenous Power at the Center of Early America Paperback Robert Michael Morrissey 9780295750880 $41.00 HISTORY Grade (US) from 17 Nov 01, 2022

Winner of the 2023 Hal K. Rothman Book Prize for best book in western environmental history from the Western History AssociationIndigenous power in a significant cultural and ecological borderlandIn People of the Ecotone, Robert Morrissey weaves together a history of Native peoples with a history of an ecotone to tell a new story about the roots of the Fox Wars, among the most transformative and misunderstood events of early American history. To do this, he also offers the first comprehensive environmental history of some of North America?s mos... + Read More
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Heaven on the Half Shell The Story of the Oyster in the Pacific Northwest 2nd edition Paperback David George Gordon 9780295750781 $44.90 HISTORY Grade (US) from 17 Apr 11, 2023

How oysters shaped the environment, cultures, and economies of the NorthwestHeaven on the Half Shell offers a thoroughly researched and richly illustrated history of the Pacific Northwest?s beloved bivalve, the oyster. Starting with the earliest evidence of sea gardens and clam beds from 11,500 years ago, this book covers the history of oyster cultivation through contemporary aquaculture in coastal Washington, Oregon, British Columbia, northern California, and southeastern Alaska.Generations of oyster farmers, Native and non-Native, have weathe... + Read More
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The Grizzly in the Driveway The Return of Bears to a Crowded American West Paperback Robert Chaney 9780295750972 $26.99 NATURE Grade (US) from 17 May 24, 2022

Confronts the unintended consequences of a conservation success storyFour decades ago, the areas around Yellowstone and Glacier National Parks sheltered the last few hundred surviving grizzlies in the Lower 48 states. Protected by the Endangered Species Act, their population has surged to more than 1,500, and this burgeoning number of grizzlies now collides with the increasingly populated landscape of the twenty-first-century American West. While humans and bears have long shared space, today?s grizzlies navigate a shrinking amount of wildernes... + Read More
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Homewaters A Human and Natural History of Puget Sound Paperback David B. Williams 9780295751009 $26.99 HISTORY Grade (US) from 17 Sep 27, 2022

An intimate biography of place and an urgent call to conservationNot far from Seattle skyscrapers live 150-year-old clams, more than 250 species of fish, and underwater kelp forests as complex as any terrestrial ecosystem. For millennia, vibrant Coast Salish communities have lived beside these waters dense with nutrient-rich foods, with cultures intertwined through exchanges across the waterways. Transformed by settlement and resource extraction, Puget Sound and its future health now depend on a better understanding of the region?s ecological c... + Read More
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The River That Made Seattle A Human and Natural History of the Duwamish Paperback BJ Cummings 9780295750989 $26.99 HISTORY Grade (US) from 17 May 11, 2022

Restores the river to its central place in the city?s historyWith bountiful salmon and fertile plains, the Duwamish River has drawn people to its shores over the centuries for trading, transport, and sustenance. Chief Se?alth and his allies fished and lived in villages here and white settlers established their first settlements nearby. Industrialists later straightened the river?s natural turns and built factories on its banks, floating in raw materials and shipping out airplane parts, cement, and steel. Unfortunately, the very utility of the r... + Read More
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The Port of Missing Men Billy Gohl, Labor, and Brutal Times in the Pacific Northwest Paperback Aaron Goings 9780295751207 $26.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Grade (US) from 17 Jul 12, 2022

A compelling biography of the Ghoul of Grays HarborIn the early twentieth century so many dead bodies surfaced in the rivers around Aberdeen, Washington, that they were nicknamed the ?floater fleet.? When Billy Gohl (1873?1927), a powerful union official, was arrested for murder, local newspapers were quick to suggest that he was responsible for many of those deaths, perhaps even dozens?thus launching the legend of the Ghoul of Grays Harbor.More than a true-crime tale, The Port of Missing Men sheds light on the lives of workers who died tragica... + Read More
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Fear No Man Don James, the '91 Huskies, and the Seven-Year Quest for a National Football Championship Paperback Mike Gastineau 9780295751214 $26.99 SPORTS & RECREATION Grade (US) from 17 Aug 09, 2022

Finalist for the 2022 Washington State Book Award for General Nonfiction, sponsored by The Washington Center for the Book and the Seattle Public LibraryThe inside story of one of the most electrifying college football teams of all timeIn 1984 the University of Washington Huskies won every game but one, ranking second in national polls. For most coaches, such a season would be a career pinnacle. But for Don James second place motivated him to set aside what he knew about football and rethink the game. James made radical changes to his coaching p... + Read More
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Eternal Offerings Ancient Chinese Bronzes from the Minneapolis Institute of Art Hardcover Liu Yang 9780998587219 $122.00 ART Grade (US) from 17 Dec 01, 2025

The collection of ancient Chinese bronzes at the Minneapolis Institute of Art is exceptional in its depth and rarity. It is generally considered to be one of the most important in the United States. The works span millennia, from the Shang through the Han dynasties (1600 BCE to 220 CE), illustrating the evolving function of ritual bronzes in Chinese society.This luxuriously illustrated catalog, with essays contributed by renowned scholars and hundreds of thorough entries, is the first major study of the collection since the 1950s. The book feat... + Read More
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The Ghost in the City Luo Ping and the Craft of Painting in Eighteenth-Century China Hardcover Michele Matteini 9780295750958 $88.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Grade (US) from 17 May 16, 2023

A visual and social exploration of early modern Beijing's cultural milieuIn 1771 the artist Luo Ping (1733?99) left his native Yangzhou to relocate to the burgeoning hub of Beijing's Southern City. Over two decades, he became the favored artist of a cosmopolitan community of scholars and officials who were at the forefront of the cultural life of the Qing-dynasty (1644?1911). From his spectacular ghost paintings to his later work exploring the city's complex history, compressed spatial layout, and unique social rituals, Luo Ping captured the pl... + Read More
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Porcelain for the Emperor Manufacture and Technocracy in Qing China Hardcover Kai Jun Chen 9780295750828 $88.00 HISTORY Grade (US) from 17 Mar 28, 2023

A new perspective for understanding the technology behind goods ?made in China?The exquisite ceramic ware produced at the Imperial Porcelain Manufactory at Jingdezhen in southern China functioned as a kind of visual propaganda for the Qing dynasty (1644?1911) court. Porcelain for the Emperor charts the career of bannerman Tang Ying, a technocrat in the porcelain industry, through the first half of the eighteenth century to uncover the wider role of specialist officials in producing the technological knowledge and distinctive artistic forms that... + Read More
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A Century of Modern Chinese Poetry An Anthology Paperback Michelle Yeh 9780295751160 $44.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Grade (US) from 17 May 02, 2023

The most comprehensive collection of modern Chinese poetry in English translation available todayThis volume?a completely overhauled and updated version of Michelle Yeh?s 1992 classic Anthology of Modern Chinese Poetry?brings together modern poetry from the Chinese-speaking world dating from the 1910s to the 2010s. Featuring the work of 85 poets from mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Singapore, it contains more than 280 poems that span the entire history of modern Chinese poetry. Poets include those regarded as canonical as well ... + Read More
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The Cultivated Forest People and Woodlands in Asian History Paperback Ian M. Miller 9780295750903 $44.00 NATURE Grade (US) from 17 Nov 29, 2022

Synthesizes multiple perspectives on Asian forests from early history to the near presentForests have histories that need to be told. This examination of wood and woodlands in East and Southeast Asia brings together case studies from China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and Sumatra to explore continuities in the history of forest management across these regions as well as the distinctive qualities of human-forest relations within each context. With a general introduction to forest histories in East and Southeast Asia and a multidisciplinary set of auth... + Read More
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Material Contradictions in Mao's China Paperback Jennifer Altehenger 9780295750859 $44.00 HISTORY Grade (US) from 17 Dec 08, 2022

An excavation of the sociocultural, economic, and political history of everyday commoditiesThe growth of markets and consumerism in China?s post-Mao era of political and economic reform is a story familiar to many. By contrast, the Mao period (1949?1976)?rightly framed as a time of scarcity?initially appears to have had little material culture to speak of. Yet people attributed great meaning to materials and objects often precisely because they were rare and difficult to obtain. This first volume devoted to the material history of the period ex... + Read More
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Chinese Autobiographical Writing An Anthology of Personal Accounts Paperback Patricia Buckley Ebrey 9780295751238 $44.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Grade (US) from 17 Jan 03, 2023

Step into Chinese history through the accounts of those who lived itPersonal accounts help us understand notions of self, interpersonal relations, and historical events. Chinese Autobiographical Writing contains full translations of works by fifty individuals that illuminate the history and conventions of writing about oneself in the Chinese tradition. From poetry, letters, and diaries to statements in legal proceedings, these engaging and readable works draw us into the past and provide vivid details of life as it was lived from the pre-imperi... + Read More
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Old Stacks, New Leaves The Arts of the Book in South Asia Hardcover Sonal Khullar 9780295751115 $88.00 ART Grade (US) from 17 May 09, 2023

A deep dive into the visual forms, material contexts, social lives, and global circulations of booksIn the twenty-first century, debates on the future of books and print culture have intensified with the rise of digital technologies, and the contemporary art world has witnessed an explosion of interest in the book form. Amid this artistic and intellectual activity, there has been little scrutiny of book arts in South Asia and their particular ontologies, histories, and genealogies. This volume weaves together scholarly essays, original artistic... + Read More
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The Brush of Insight Artists and Agency at the Mughal Court Hardcover Yael Rice 9780295751092 $88.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Grade (US) from 17 May 23, 2023

Sheds light on the art and artists that gave material form to Mughal imperial visionOver the course of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, Mughal court painters evolved from illustrators of manuscripts and albums to active mediators of imperial visionary experience, cultivating their patrons? earthly and spiritual authority. Featuring over 80 color illustrations, The Brush of Insight traces this shift, demonstrating how royal artists created a new visual economy that featured highly naturalistic royal portraits and depictions of the ... + Read More
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Series: Global South Asia Lahore Cinema Between Realism and Fable Paperback Iftikhar Dadi 9780295750811 $44.00 PERFORMING ARTS Grade (US) from 17 Nov 08, 2022

A pioneering analysis of exemplary feature filmsCommercial cinema has been among the most powerful vectors of social and aesthetic modernization in South Asia. So argues Iftikhar Dadi in his provocative examination of cinema produced between 1956 and 1969?the long sixties?in Lahore, Pakistan, following the 1947 Partition of South Asia. These films drew freely from Bengali performance traditions, Hindu mythology, Parsi theater, Sufi conceptions of the self, Urdu lyric poetry, and Hollywood musicals, bringing these traditions into dialogue with m... + Read More
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Series: Culture, Place, and Nature The Camphor Tree and the Elephant Religion and Ecological Change in Maritime Southeast Asia Paperback Faizah Zakaria 9780295751184 $44.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Grade (US) from 17 Feb 07, 2023

Uncovers a spiritual dimension in the transition to the AnthropoceneWhat is the role of religion in shaping interactions and relations between the human and nonhuman in nature? Why are Muslim and Christian organizations generally not a potent force in Southeast Asian environmental movements? The Camphor Tree and the Elephant brings these questions into the history of ecological change in the region, centering the roles of religion and colonialism in shaping the Anthropocene??the human epoch.? Historian Faizah Zakaria traces the conversion of th... + Read More
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Oceanographers and the Cold War Disciples of Marine Science Paperback Jacob Darwin Hamblin 9780295751276 $41.00 SCIENCE Grade (US) from 17 Sep 13, 2022

A political history of twentieth-century oceanographyOceanographers and the Cold War is about patronage, politics, and the community of scientists. It is the first book to examine the study of the oceans during the Cold War era and explore the international focus of American oceanographers, taking into account the roles of the US Navy, US foreign policy, and scientists throughout the world. Jacob Darwin Hamblin demonstrates that to understand the history of American oceanography, one must consider its role in both conflict and cooperation with ... + Read More
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Christina Fernandez Multiple Exposures Hardcover Rebecca Epstein 9780895512017 $68.00 PHOTOGRAPHY Grade (US) from 17 Nov 01, 2022

Winner of the Silver Medal in Best Art Books from the 2023 International Latino Book AwardsWinner of the Bronze Medal in Best Cover Illustration or Photo from the 2023 International Latino Book AwardsChristina Fernandez sees herself as equally artist and storyteller, one who employs photography to explore social and physical isolation and estrangement within marginalized communities while experimenting with composition and form. Her art is shaped by the concerns that powered the Chicano movement and the aesthetics and discourses of postmodernis... + Read More
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Daniel Boyd Treasure Island Hardcover Isobel Parker Philip 9781741741599 $82.00 ART Grade (US) from 17 Aug 30, 2022

Daniel Boyd (b. 1982) is one of Australia?s most acclaimed artists. His practice is internationally recognized for its engagement with the colonial history of the Australia?Great Ocean (Pacific) region. Drawing upon intermingled discourses of science, religion, and aesthetics, Boyd?s work reveals the complexities through which political, cultural, and personal memory is composed. Boyd?s work traces his cultural and visual heritage?both Aboriginal and ni-Vanuatu?in relation to broader histories of colonial settlement and the Western art canon. W... + Read More
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Vivienne Binns On and through the Surface Paperback Anneke Jaspers 9780648152996 $48.00 ART Grade (US) from 17 Dec 06, 2022

Vivienne Binns is an important and singular figure in the history of Australian visual art. Her groundbreaking and experimental work has tested the philosophical underpinnings of art itself, both preempting and participating in the most significant cultural discourses of our times: from women?s social and sexual liberation to Australia?s regional identity. Her outstanding, multifaceted, and sustained contribution to Australian art was recognized in 2021 with an Australia Council Award for Visual Arts.Vivienne Binns: On and through the Surface i... + Read More
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Ends of Painting Art in the 1960s and 1970s Paperback David Homewood 9780909952068 $41.00 ART Grade (US) from 17 Oct 03, 2023

Contemporary art begins where painting ends, or so goes one of recent art history's most dominant narratives. This book is a postmortem of the supposed death of painting in the period following World War II. In eleven essays by a global array of leading scholars, Ends of Painting offers a counter-history, showing how the practice and discourse of painting remained integral to art throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Written by art historians from Australia, Asia, Europe, and North America, each chapter captures a renewed critical approach to topics ... + Read More
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UnAustralian Art Ten Essays on Transnational Art History Hardcover Rex Butler 9780909952105 $54.00 ART Grade (US) from 17 Oct 03, 2023

UnAustralian Art: Ten Essays on Transnational Art History proposes a radical rethinking of Australian art. Rex Butler and ADS Donaldson do not seek to identify a distinctive national sensibility; instead, they demonstrate that Australian art and artists have always been engaged in struggles and creative exchanges with the rest of the world. Examining Australian art as much from the outside in as the inside out, Butler and Donaldson?s methodology opens Australian art history to an encyclopedic multitude of hitherto excluded stories?from Australi... + Read More
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?????????????? (The Coroner's Lunch) Paperback Colin Cotterill 9786162151897 $31.95 FICTION Grade (US) from 17 Aug 09, 2022

The Coroner?s Lunch, the first of fifteen Dr. Siri Paiboun mysteries, is set in Laos in 1976. Siri, at the age of seventy-two, is appointed the national forensic doctor. However, he has never properly trained in the field. Being highly responsible and imaginative, he sets up a team of two assistants, Geung and Dtui, in a morgue. When the wife of a party leader turns up dead and the bodies of tortured Vietnamese soldiers start to float on a Laotian lake, Siri must solve the mystery.
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Community Movements in Southeast Asia An Anthropological Perspective of Assemblages Paperback Ryoko Nishii 9786162151866 $48.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Grade (US) from 17 Sep 06, 2022

Derived from the terms community and social movement, Shigeharu Tanabe?s concept of community movements is the process by which people create alternative communities, practices, and worlds that resist the influence and imposition of hegemonic political structures. Community movements enable us to capture the reality of power relations as they arise from and involve small-scale, face-to-face interactions rather than the assumed existence of social institutions such as the nation-state.Illustrating this alternative means of constructing social id... + Read More
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Art Fallen from Heaven Modern Balinese Sculpture Hardcover Koos van Brakel 9789460220517 $67.00 ART Grade (US) from 17 Nov 22, 2022

Art Fallen from Heaven offers a new perspective on the origin of modern Balinese sculpture in the 1930s and an overview of its evolution from 1932 to 1973. Thoroughly illustrated with photos of traditional and modern sculpture as well as historic photos, this exhibition volume provides an overview of the artists association Pita Maha (1936?39) and many of its members.After Bali was subjugated by Dutch colonial rule, patronage shifted from the ruling monarchs to tourists and the Western art market. This new patronage, bringing with it the concep... + Read More
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The Exhibitionists A History of Sydney's Art Gallery of New South Wales Hardcover Steven Miller 9781741741544 $88.00 ART Grade (US) from 17 Mar 01, 2022

In 2021, the Art Gallery of New South Wales celebrated its 150th anniversary. Since its founding as an academy of art in 1871, its evolution into one of Australia?s premier public art museums is testament to the enthusiasm and ingenuity of its staff, trustees, and supporters, and to the artists whose works have drawn in visitors from Sydney and beyond.The Exhibitionists is the story of the people who made the gallery. It peels away the layers of official narratives to find the often-overlooked histories bubbling beneath the surface. These are t... + Read More