Modern History Press imprint: 68 books
More Than A Memory
Reflections of Viet Nam
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
A Conflict that Shaped A Generation
Four decades on, the legacy of American involvement in the Viet Nam War still looms large in the lives of the veterans who experienced it first hand. This new anthology of poems, stories, and essays looks at the war through the lens of both past and present...
Iraq through a Bullet Hole
A Civilian Wikileaks
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
A unique on-the-ground account of a country shattered
Iraqi playwright Issam Jameel returned to Iraq after a 12-year exile. Giving up the relative safety of Jordan, he made a perilous journey to Baghdad for a reunion. Unfortunately, the reason for his trip was to grieve for his nephew, recently killed...
How to Write a Suicide Note
Serial Essays that Saved a Woman's Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
How to Write a Suicide Note examines the life of a Chinese/Black woman who grew up passing for white, who grew up poor, who loves women but has always married white men. Writing has saved her life. It has allowed her to name the historical trauma--the racist, sexist, classist experiences that have...
by Sherry Quan Lee
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009
Critical Acclaim for Sherry Quan Lee's Chinese Blackbird
"Quan Lee eloquently expresses how painful and confusing it can be to embrace the many complex identities that one body can contain. With evocative imagery and words that cut straight to the heart, Quan Lee details her lifelong struggles...
Made in America, Sold in the Nam
A Continuing Legacy of Pain
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2006
Hope and Healing For All Who Have Been Touched by War
For Viet Nam Vets: an opportunity to verify their experiences against experiences of others leading to validation and perhaps even an airing of their suspicions and fears about themselves. No matter how long it has been, healing is possible.
For...
Trips to the Edge
Tales of the Unexpected
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Kick back and enjoy this mini-anthology of spine-tingling short stories from Diane Wing, author of "Thorne Manor And Other Bizarre Tales" and "Coven: Scrolls of the Four Winds."
Another Walk in the Park: A familiar walking path leads to a disturbing encounter in an unexpected...
by Anya Achtenberg
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
Blue Earth is a compelling novel of Minnesota, a land that guards its secrets. Carver Heinz loses both farm and family in the farm crisis of the 1980s. Displaced into urban Minneapolis, he becomes obsessed with Angie, a beautiful child he rescues from a tornado in an encounter he insists they keep...
Creating a Local Historical Book
Fiction and Non-Fiction Genres
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Does Your City or Region Have a Fascinating Story that needs to be told before it's forgotten?
Yes, it does, and you can be the person to write it!
In this short text, Tyler Tichelaar, author of My Marquette and The Marquette Trilogy, talks in a conversational format about how he became interested...
by Don Bodey
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2008
Everyone is gunning for the New Guy
Gabriel Sauers of Two Squad is a soldier, newly arrived in Vietnam--a country too beautiful to invite so savagely unreal a war. But Gabriel won't be a New Guy for long. He'll go through incoming mortars, he'll see the enemy alive. He'll wander through a hell...
K.V. Dominic Essential Readings
Poems about Social Justice, Women's Rights, and the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
K. V. Dominic Essential Readings gathers for the first time the three most important works of poetry from this shining new light of contemporary Indian verse in English: Winged Reason, Write Son, Write and Multicultural Symphony. A fourth collection of 22 previously unpublished poems round out a complete...
King Arthur's Children
A Study In Fiction And Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Did you know King Arthur had many other children besides Mordred?
Depending on which version of the legend you read, he had both sons and daughters, some of whom even survived him. From the ancient tale of Gwydre, the son who was gored to death by a boar, to Scottish traditions of Mordred as...
by Ankita Sharma
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
In India, the life of women has never been easy by any stretch of the imagination. Swati's Marriage and Other Tales of India brings their eternal struggles to a new audience by engaging the subject head-on through the eyes of young women in the 21st century. Western audiences may have assumed that...
Matriarch
An Australian Novel of Love and War
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
"Powerful and unforgettable."
At the beginning of the twentieth century, the son of an English lord settles in Australia and marries an indigenous woman. It is an age when interracial relationships are not only misunderstood, but result in family conflict, disgrace, and disinheritance.
Then...
Lake Superior Tales
Stories of Humor and Adventure in Michigan's Upper Peninsula
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Join us for epic adventures in the U.P. on land and lakes!
Pirates, thieves, shipwrecks, sexy women, lost gold, and adventures on the Lake Superior frontier await you! In this book, you'll sail on a ship full of gold, outwit deadly shapeshifters, battle frontier outlaws and even meet the mysterious...