Texas, Workingmen, and Professional Baseball in 1888
The Texas League's first baseball season in 1888 took place during a turbulent political, economic, and cultural time in Texas. Amid the millions of acres of wild and rural Texas frontier boomed the cities of Galveston, Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth, San Antonio, and Austin, where the new state capitol building had just opened. The Texas economy was ......
Winner of the 2025 Omeljan Pritsak Book Prize in Ukrainian Studies Finalist for the 2024 National Jewish Book Award Honorable Mention for the 2023-2024 American Association for Ukrainian Studies Book Prize Between the Wires tells for the first time the history of the Janowska camp in Lviv, Ukraine. Located in a city with the third-largest ......
Capitalism during the American colonial era was an economic system known primarily for dispossessing and exploiting Indigenous peoples. Some Indigenous nations, however, learned to use its primary features--wealth accumulation, private investment, and a globalized marketplace--to strengthen their families and defend their communities. The ......
Baseball's Third Commissioner and His Four Decades of Shaping the Game
Many baseball observers have viewed Ford Frick as an ineffective commissioner of Major League Baseball, largely manipulated by the league's owners, and more of an observer than a changemaker during his tenure from 1951 to 1965. Dave Bohmer challenges this perception, presenting Frick as a key figure in some of the massive changes baseball ......
Born into slavery in free territory, Joseph Godfrey died widely reviled for his controversial role in the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862. Separated from his mother at age five when his enslaver sold her, Godfrey sought refuge in his teens among the Dakota people he had befriended as a child. Godfrey married a Dakota woman and was living with his family ......
The Missouri River is one of the most dangerous rivers in the United States--and one of the most economically important. Even as prolonged drought in the Midwest has imperiled urban drinking water and agricultural water supplies, parched regions in the basin far from the river have proposed piping water from the Missouri to alleviate their own ......
How the Czech Republic's Amateur Underdogs Became World Baseball Classic Heroes
Despite long odds and low funds, the Czech Republic's national baseball team of amateur players managed to shock the world at the 2023 World Baseball Classic--the sport's World Cup--when they took an upset win against Spain in the WBC qualifiers and then defeated China in the actual tournament, securing their place in the upcoming 2026 tournament. ......
Literary Genealogies of an Indigenous Intellectual in Nineteenth-Century Peru
Thomas Ward examines Inca Garcilaso de la Vega's seventeenth-century work and how it influenced post-independence Peruvian literature in the nineteenth century. As literati struggled to define their fledgling Peruvian Republic, they found inspiration in the dual-heritage author Garcilaso de la Vega's previously banned work, Royal Commentaries. ......
Fish Cars and Fish Culture explores the intersection between the development of railroads and fish culture during the last half of the 1800s. R. W. Hafer traces how the growth in the railroad industry, both in terms of its technology and its geographic reach, assisted the newly formed U.S. Fish Commission in its attempt to restore the nation's ......
