Is this another world? No, it's modern-day Japan! Four years have passed since dungeons suddenly appeared all over the world, sparking conflict over the resources hidden within. Then one fateful day, a financial securities salaryman named Mizuki, who was relegated to an office branch in the countryside, arrives at his new workplace to find it transformed into one of those very dungeons. Entering to search for anyone who might be stuck inside, Mizuki realizes the dungeon is straight out of ...

Sandra Enríquez (Author)SANDRA ENRIQUEZ is an Associate Professor of History and the Director of the Public History Emphasis at the University of Missouri–Kansas City. Enríquez is the author of ¡El Barrio No Se Vende!: Grassroots Activism and Revitalization in El PasoAnnette Gordon-Reed (Author)ANNETTE GORDON-REED is the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard University. She has won sixteen book prizes, including the Pu...

Investment banker Mizuki was relegated to a company branch in the countryside, only to arrive and find it transformed into a dungeon--one connected to another world! While searching for survivors, he met the talkative fairy Kessie and obtained the mysterious Skillbook ability. Businessman Horinomiya hears about Mizuki's skillbook, and as part of his schemes as CEO, he convinces Mizuki to clear a dungeon for him. Horinomiya also sends a female adventurer named Carol, and she is so incredibl...

Using his mysterious Skillbook ability, former salaryman Mizuki and his partner, a fairy named Kessie, live to fight another day. They've both had enough of the dangerous exploring, but a public servant named Tachibana offers Mizuki an official government Dungeon Advisor position.Reluctantly, Mizuki accepts, but the other adventurers he meets despise him for his lack of experience. He heads into a dungeon for some training, but his party encounters a boss slime that has disguised itself as...

The dramatic life of Vietnam War hero Roy Benavidez, revealing how Hispanic Americans have long shaped US history, from "a major new voice [with] lyrical powers as a biographer” (David W. Blight, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Frederick Douglass)In May 1968, while serving in Vietnam, Master Sergeant Roy Benavidez led the rescue of a reconnaissance team surrounded by hundreds of enemy soldiers. He saved the lives of at least eight of his comrades that day...

On January 6, 2021, more than two thousand rioters stormed the doors of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C., hoping to interrupt the peaceful transfer of power from former president Donald Trump to his successor, Joseph Biden. The deaths, property damage, and vicious rampage that ensued were witnessed on live television as an unprecedented attack on the democratic process and those who strive to protect it.As an installment of UGA Press’s History in the Headlines series, ...

After becoming an official government adventurer, Mizuki catches the eye of adventurer Himata, who attempts to force Mizuki to join a planned coup. With Kessie's quick wit, Mizuki somehow escapes danger, but it's out of the frying pan and into the fire when a boss chimera starts raging. Will this become Mizuki's final battle?! The story of a salaryman's rise from background character to a starring role reaches its grand finale!

Winner of the Zócalo Public Square Book PrizeBenjamin L. Hooks Award Finalist“An insightful, powerful, and moving book.”—Kevin Boyle, author of Arc of Justice“Sturkey’s clear-eyed and meticulous book pulls off a delicate balancing act. While depicting the terrors of Jim Crow, he also shows how Hattiesburg’s black residents, forced to forge their own communal institutions, laid the organizational groundwork for the civil right...

Fifty years after Freedom Summer, To Write in the Light of Freedom offers a glimpse into the hearts of the African American youths who attended the Mississippi Freedom Schools in 1964. One of the most successful initiatives of Freedom Summer, more than forty Freedom Schools opened doors to thousands of young African American students. Here they learned civics, politics, and history, curriculum that helped them instead of the degrading lessons supporting segregation and Jim Crow an...

Marine Corps helicopter crews and infantrymen found little glory waiting for them in faraway Vietnam. Instead, they found themselves battling tenacious Sino-Soviet pawns in a savage daily struggle for survival.Former Marine HMM-265 helicopter pilot Marion Sturkey combines fascinating detail with grim realism in this eloquent saga of Marines at war. Weaving actual military records together with personal accounts from the helicopter crews, he breathes life into the daily struggle of ...

If you really want to understand Jim Crow—what it was and how African Americans rose up to defeat it—you should start by visiting Mobile Street in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, the heart of the historic black downtown. William Sturkey introduces us to both old-timers and newcomers who arrived in search of economic opportunities promised by the railroads, sawmills, and factories of the New South. He also takes us across town and inside the homes of white Hattiesburgers to show how their lives w...

Itsuki finally spent his first night with Wendy. But he's barely basked in afterglow when the feudal lord of the city, Origoll, shows up to berate him for all the trouble he's caused in town. When Origoll suddenly falls gravely ill, however, Itsuki is determined to help her and puts his alchemy skills to the test to prepare a remedy. Yet nothing seems to work! Finally, he recalls the elusive miracle drug he'd managed to concoct by accident. Will he be able to re-create this life-saving cur...