Winner, Abbott Lowell Cummings Award, Vernacular Architecture Forum, 2020Winner, Elisabeth Blair MacDougall Book Award, Society of Architectural Historians, 2021From the boundary surveys of the 1850s to the ever-expanding fences and highway networks of the twenty-first century, Border Land, Border Water examines the history of the construction projects that have shaped the region where the United States and Mexico meet.Tracing the accretion ...

Abel LeBlanc, better known to his brothers as Riggs, is the President of Kings of Retribution MC, Louisiana Chapter. As a former Green Beret, he runs the club with the same precision and grit he did serving his country.Dedicating years of his life to mercenary missions and his club left no time or desire to settle down and start his own family.No one has ever come close to making him want more until Luna.A call from Jake, President and founder of Kings of Retributio...

Texas history is often recounted through tales of revolution, oil booms, and cattle drives. But what if we considered a different lens—one shaped by wind and wildfire, rivers and drought, grasslands and pine forests?Nature and Place in Texas reimagines the Lone Star story by centering its ecosystems. This collection of essays by leading environmental historians reveals how the state’s natural features—its plains, deserts, rivers, forests, and coastlines—have shaped and bee...