The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota is committed to producing a small number of high-quality publications in archaeology, the art of archaeology, North Dakota history, petroculture, and politics, public history & humanities. The Digital Press is also proud to partner with two journals to publish special supplements and volumes.
The volumes are published, as often as possible, as open access under various Creative Commons licenses.
Our publications are made available as free-to-download or low-cost paperbacks.
ARCHAEOLOGY
Corinth Excavations Archaeological Manual
By G.D.R. Sanders, Sarah A. James, and Alicia Carter Johnson
The first major field manual published from an American excavation in Greece and among a very small number of manuals published from the Eastern Mediterranean in the last generation.
ISBN-13: 978-0692878101
https://doi.org/10.31356/dpb009
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Visions of Substance
Edited by Brandon Olson and William Caraher
With the advent of low-cost and easy to use 3D imaging tools, the discipline of archaeology is on the cusp of a major change in how we document, study, and publish archaeological contexts.
ISBN-978-0692368398
https://doi.org/10.31356/dpb006
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Mobilizing the Past for a Digital Future: The Potential of Digital Archaeology
Edited by Erin Walcek Averett, Jody Michael Gordon, and Derek B. Counts
Mobilizing the Past is a collection of 20 articles that explore the use and impact of mobile digital technology in archaeological field practice.
ISBN-13: 978-0692790137
https://doi.org/10.31356/dpb008
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DATAM: Digital Approaches to Teaching the Ancient Mediterranean
Edited by Sebastian Heath
DATAM: Digital Approaches to Teaching the Ancient Mediterranean provides a series of new critical studies that explore digital practices for teaching the Ancient Mediterranean world at a wide range of institutions and levels.
ISBN-13: 978-1734506822
https://doi.org/10.31356/dpb016
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Visualizing Votive Practice: Exploring Limestone and Terracotta Sculpture from Athienou-Malloura through 3D Models
Derek B. Counts, Erin Walcek Averett, Kevin Garstki, and Michael Toumazou
Visualizing Votive Practice is an innovative, open-access, digital monograph that explores the limestone and terracotta sculptures excavated from a rural sanctuary at the site of Athienou-Malloura (Cyprus) by the Athienou Archaeological Project.
ISBN-13: 978-1-7345068-7-7
https://doi.org/10.31356/dpb011
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Deserted Villages: Perspectives from the Eastern Mediterranean
Edited by Rebecca M. Seifried and Deborah E. Brown Stewart
Deserted Villages: Perspectives from the Eastern Mediterranean is a collection of case studies examining the abandonment of rural settlements over the past millennium and a half, focusing on modern-day Greece with contributions from Turkey and the United States.
ISBN-13: 978-1736498682
https://doi.org/10.31356/dpb019
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An Archaeology of the Red River of the North
Michael G. Michlovic
An Archaeology of the Red River of the North offers an expansive survey of the indigenous cultures and peoples in the region of the Red River from the recession of Lake Agassiz around 9000 years ago to the intrusion of the Europeans.
ISBN-13: 978-1-966360-04-9 (paperback)
ISBN-13: 978-1-966360-05-6 (Ebook/PDF)
https://doi.org/10.31356/dpb033
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Archaeological Cultures of the Sheyenne Bend
Michael G. Michlovic and George R. Holley
This volume presents the results of several decades of archaeological research in the Sheyenne Bend region of southeastern North Dakota. Piecing together evidence from disparate field projects, along with the work done by previous researchers, Archaeological Cultures of the Sheyenne Bend offers a status report on the pre-European era cultures of southeastern North Dakota.
ISBN-13: 978-1-7364986-7-5 (paperback)
ISBN-13: 978-1-7364986-6-8 (Ebook/PDF)
https://doi.org/10.31356/dpb021
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Archaeologies of Roads
Tuna Kalaycı, ed.
What happens if we think of roads not only as a static archaeological object but as a dynamic and complex phenomenon?
Inspired by this question, “Archaeologies of Roads” brings together various studies spanning diverse landscapes and epochs.
ISBN-13: 979-8-9891912-8-4 (paperback)
ISBN-13: 979-8-9891912-0-8 (Ebook/PDF)
https://doi.org/10.31356/dpb024
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Corinthian Countrysides: Linked Open Data and Analysis from the Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey
David K. Pettegrew
Corinthian Countrysides presents the datasets, analysis, and results of a large-scale intensive survey in the eastern territory of Corinth between 1997 and 2003. Carried out under a permit of the Greek Ministry of Culture grant- ed through the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, the Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey investigated the Isthmus west of the Corinth Canal, a highly-connected transport corridor and densely settled area from prehistory to the present day, and sampled parts of the mountainous and coastal districts of the southeast Corinthia.
ISBN-13: 979-8-9891912-3-9 (print)
ISBN-13: 979-8-9891912-2-2 (Ebook/PDF)
https://doi.org/10.31356/dpb026
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THE ART OF ARCHAEOLOGY
Codex
Edited by Micah Bloom
Codex examines the fate of books in the aftermath of the 2011 Minot flood. It is an ambitious project that flows across a wide range of media, embraces archaeological sensibilities, and speaks simultaneously to universal and profoundly local experiences.
ISBN-13: 978-0692978269
https://doi.org/10.31356/dpb001
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Punk Archaeology
Edited by Kostis Kourelis, William R. Caraher, and Andrew Reinhard
Punk Archaeology is an irreverent and relevant movement in archaeology, and these papers provide a comprehensive anti-manifesto.
ISBN: 978-0692281024
https://doi.org/10.31356/dpb007
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Context and Content: The Art of WD
Wild Drawing (WD), . Edited by Kostis Kourelis.
Wild Drawing (WD) is the leading figure in Athens’ street art scene that blossomed in the 2010s. His distinctive style of realism, anamorphic perspective, and classical aesthetics has won him international recognition and commissions throughout the world.
ISBN-13: 978-1-966360-08-7 (paperback)
ISBN-13: 978-1-966360-09-4 (Ebook/PDF)
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Sun Ra Sundays
Rodger Coleman and Edited by Sam Byrd.
In his time on planet Earth, the iconoclastic musician, visionary, big band leader, and composer Sun Ra left behind a treasure trove of music—studio recordings, live performances, rehearsals—many of them appearing on his homegrown label Saturn. In Sun Ra Sundays, Rodger Coleman examines over 130 of these recordings, both released and unreleased, placing them in histor- ical and biographical context and giving detailed critical analyses of the music.
ISBN-13: 979-8-9868900-8-1 (paperback)
ISBN-13: 979-8-9868900-4-3 (Ebook/PDF)
https://doi.org/10.31356/dpb022
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NORTH DAKOTA HISTORY
The War with the Sioux: Norwegians against Indians 1862-1863
by Karl Jakob Skarstein. Translation by Melissa Gjellstad and Danielle Skjelver
The Dakota War (1862-1864) stands among the most overlooked conflicts in American History. Contemporary with the American Civil War, the Dakota War featured significant fighting, tactical brilliance, and strategic savvy set in the open plains of Minnesota and North Dakota.
ISBN-13: 978-0692496176
Out of Print
The History of North Dakota
by Elwyn Robinson
In collaboration with the Chester Fritz Library at the University of North Dakota.
Elwyn Robinson’s History of North Dakota continues to stand as the definitive history of the state despite being published over 50 years ago.
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Haunted by Waters: The Future of Memory and the Red River Flood of 1997
Edited by David Haeselin
The twentieth anniversary of the Red River Flood of 1997, which devastated the town of Grand Forks, North Dakota and surrounding areas, gives a new generation of Grand Forksers and Red River valley citizens the occasion to look backward so that they can look forward.
ISBN-13: 978-0692882573
https://doi.org/10.31356/dpb005
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The Old Church on Walnut Street: A Story of Immigrants and Evangelicals
by Chris Price
In the late 1800s, Norwegian immigrants began flooding into the Red River Valley. As they moved into the Grand Forks area, they brought their Old World folkways and religious practices.
ISBN-13: 978-0692057575
https://doi.org/10.31356/dpb010
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Dakota Datebook: North Dakota Stories from Prairie Public
Edited by Dave Haeselin
Prairie Public’s beloved Dakota Datebook radio series is now in book form! The students of the University of North Dakota’s Writing, Editing, and Publishing program combed the archives and selected 365 of their favorites for this endearing, compelling, and humorous collection.
ISBN-13: 978-1-7328410-4-8 (ebook)
ISBN-13: 978-1-7328410-5-5 (Paperback)
https://doi.org/10.31356/dpb012
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Campus Building
Edited by Shilo Viginia Previti, Grant McMillan, and Samuel Amendolar
This book celebrates Merrifield Hall on the campus of the University of North Dakota. This century-old building is now enduring a radical renovation designed to keep it relevant for the next generation of students on the UND campus.
ISBN-13:979-8-9868900-7-4 (paperback)
ISBN-13: 979-8-9868900-9-8 (Ebook/PDF)
https://doi.org/10.31356/dpb025
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A Physician’s Journey: The Memoir of Robert A. Kyle, M.D.
Robert A. Kyle
Regrettably, I did not know three of my four grandparents.
So begins A Physician’s Journey, a quintessential modern memoir. Beginning in the tradition of the prairie reverie with snow-filled winters and single room school houses and ending with a litany of late-life accolades, Dr. Robert Kyle details his life from the farm, to smoke jumper school, to the University of North Dakota, to Northwestern Medical School, the US Air Force and eventually a career at Minnesota’s Mayo Clinic.
ISBN-13: 979-8-9891912-7-7 (print)
ISBN-13: 979-8-9891912-1-5 (Ebook/PDF)
https://doi.org/10.31356/dpb028
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Big Pandemic on the Prairie: The Spanish Flu in North Dakota
Christopher Neal Price
Big Pandemic on the Prairie: The Spanish Flu in North Dakota is the first book-length account of North Dakota’s experience with one of the deadliest pandemics in history. Set against the backdrop of the waning days of World War I, Big Pandemic on the Prairie tells the story of another conflagration that began along the front lines before spreading to the farthest reaches of the globe.
ISBN-13: 979-8-9891912-6-0 (print)
ISBN-13: 979-8-9891912-4-6 (Ebook/PDF)
https://doi.org/10.31356/dpb029
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Grand Forks at 150: The First Fifty. Beta Edition.
Nikki Berg Burin
2024 marks the 150th anniversary of white settlers platting the city of Grand Forks, North Dakota which in 1874 opened the townsite of Grand Forks to legal settlement. While the city of Grand Forks wasn’t officially incorporated until 7 years later, 2024 nevertheless begins a period of reflection on the history, the present, and the future of the city.
https://doi.org/10.31356/dpb027
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The Library of Chester Fritz
Brian R. Urlacher
Time is short!
Fate has entangled a library, a businessman, and the future of humanity. A trail of documents left behind by an eccen- tric businessman, traveler, and philanthropist Chester Fritz is the only way to understand the urgent danger. This book brings together Chester Fritz’s journals and follows his travels through war torn China and his ascent to the heights of global capitalism.
ISBN-13: 979-8-9868900-0-5 (paperback)
ISBN-13: 979-8-9868900-1-2 (Ebook/PDF)
https://doi.org/10.31356/dpb023
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Songs of the Bunch Grass Acres
Clell Goebel Gannon, New Edition. With a forward by Tom Isern and an introduction by Aaron Barth.
Clell Gannon’s Songs of the Bunch Grass Acres is a minor monument to the literary culture of the Northern Plains and American West. At a century old, it continues to speaks to the complexities of the settler colonial experience on the Northern Plains of the United States. From the vantage of Bismarck, North Dakota, Gannon’s poetry looks across a landscape being shaped by development and induces a deep nostalgia for the beauty of a fading nature. Along the way, Gannon sings songs love, loss, and hope that resonate as strongly with us today as they did a century ago.
ISBN-13: 9781966360063 (paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781966360070 (Ebook/PDF)
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PETROCULTURE
The Bakken Goes Boom: Oil and the Changing Geographies of Western North Dakota
Edited by William Caraher and Kyle Conway
In 2008, the Bakken went boom. Thanks to advances in hydraulic fracturing, oil production in western North Dakota exploded. As the price of oil went up, so did the oil rigs. People came from all over the country (and the world) in search of work, and cities and towns struggled to keep up. This book is about the challenges they faced. It is about the human dimensions of the boom, as told by artists, poets, journalists, and scholars. It captures the boom at its peak, before the price of oil fell and the boom went bust.
ISBN-13: 978-0692643686
https://doi.org/10.31356/dpb004
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Sixty Years of Boom and Bust: The Impact of Oil in North Dakota, 1958-2018
Edited by Kyle Conway
In the 1950s, North Dakota experienced its first oil boom in the Williston Basin, on the western side of the state. The region experienced unprecedented social and economic changes, which were carefully documented in a 1958 report by four researchers at the University of North Dakota.
ISBN-13: 978-1734506839
https://doi.org/10.31356/dpb014
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The Beast: Making a Living on a Dying Planet (Expanded Digital Edition)
Written by Nicole Burton and Hugh Goldring. Edited by Patrick McCurdy
Set in Alberta, The Beast sinks its fangs into one of the toughest questions of our time: Would you rather starve next week when the economy crashes, or in 50 years when the ecosystem collapses?
ISBN-13: 987-1-7328410-9-3
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POLITICS, PUBLIC HISTORY & HUMANITIES
Picking the President: Understanding the Electoral College
Edited by Eric Burin
The 2016 presidential election has sparked an unprecedented interest in the Electoral College. In response to Donald Trump winning the presidency despite losing the popular vote, numerous individuals have weighed in with letters-to-the-editor, op-eds, blog posts, videos, and the like, and thanks to the revolution in digital communications, these items have reached an exceptionally wide audience.
ISBN-13: 978-062833445
https://doi.org/10.31356/dpb002
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Picking the President: Understanding the Electoral College. Revised and Expanded Edition.
Edited by Eric Burin
During the latter half of 2024, with the United States amid unchartered waters, the Revised and Expanded Edition of Picking the President was assembled (like the first edition had been in 2017) to promote understanding of the Electoral College. To this end, Part I (“The First Edition of Picking the President”) consists of the first edition’s Preface, Introduction, and fourteen essays. Part II (“New Perspectives on the Electoral College”) unveils a new Prelude, a new Introduction, and fifteen new essays. Part III (“Resources”) features fifty items, including the complete debate on the subject at the Constitutional Convention, which illuminate the creation, ratification, and early evolution of the United States’ presidential election system. In providing an expansive view of the Electoral College, the Revised and Expanded Edition of Picking the President aims to promote understanding of this system as the United States heads still further into the unknown.
ISBN-13: 978-1-966360-02-5 (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 978-1-966360-03-2 (PDF)
https://doi.org/10.31356/dpb032
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One Hundred Voices, Harrisburg’s Historic African American Community, 1850-1920
Calobe Jackson, Jr., Katie Wingert McArdle, David Pettegrew, editors. Foreword by Lenwood Sloan.
In 2020, a coalition of citizens, organizers, legislators, and educators came together to commemorate the Fifteenth and Nineteenth Amendments by establishing a new monument in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. This would be a memorial dedicated to the capital city’s significant African American community and its historic struggle for the vote. The Commonwealth Monument, located on the Irvis Equality Circle on the South Lawn of Pennsylvania’s State Capitol Grounds, features a bronze pedestal inscribed with one hundred names of change agents who pursued the power of suffrage and citizenship between 1850 and 1920.
ISBN-13: 978-1-7345068-5-3 (paperback)
ISBN-13: 978-1-7345068-6-0 (Ebook/PDF)
https://doi.org/10.31356/dpb017
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Protesting on Bended Knee: Race, Dissent, and Patriotism in 21st Century America
Edited by Eric Burin
Protesting on Bended Knee eyes the modern crusade for racial equality through the prism of the demonstrations associated with Colin Kaepernick, a professional football player who in 2016 began kneeling during the national anthem to draw attention to discrimination and injustice.
ISBN-13: 978-1-7328410-0-0 (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 978-1-7328410-1-7 (Ebook)
https://doi.org/10.31356/dpb013
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Failing Gloriously and Other Essays
Shawn Graham
Please, you gotta help me. I’ve nuked the university.
Failing Gloriously and Other Essays documents Shawn Graham’s odyssey through the digital humanities and digital archaeology against the backdrop of the 21st-century university.
ISBN-13: 978-1-7328410-6-2 (ebook)
ISBN-13: 978-1-7328410-8-6 (Paperback)
https://doi.org/10.31356/dpb015
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Israel, Palestine, and the Trolley Problem: On the Futility of the Search for the Moral High Ground
Jack Russell Weinstein
Arguments about Israel and Palestine are almost always accusatory and polemical. Rather than learning from one another, opponents jockey for the moral high ground trying to find that one attack they believe proves their side to be completely on the right, without compromise. This means Israel’s advocates dismiss Palestinian land claims without due consideration and Pro-Palestinian voices falsely accuse Israel of the most heinous modern crimes: colonialism, genocide, and apartheid. None of this is productive or healthy.
ISBN-13: 978-1-966360-00-1 (print)
ISBN-13: 978-1-966360-01-8 (Ebook/PDF)
https://doi.org/10.31356/dpb031
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Mindful Wandering: Nature and Global Travel through the Eyes of a Farmgirl Scientist
Rebecca J. Romsdahl
Mindful Wandering is an inspiring blend of memoir, travelogue, and environmental manifesto. As a translational ecologist, Rebecca Romsdahl is trained to ask critical questions about how we can improve our human relationships with the natural world for a sustainable, resilient future. As a farmgirl, she learned how to observe nature and life through the changing seasons. In this collection of essays spanning two decades, Romsdahl weaves these ideas together as she travels our changing world.
ISBN-13: 978-1-7364986-4-4 (paperback)
ISBN-13: 978-1-7364986-5-1 (Ebook/PDF)
https://doi.org/10.31356/dpb020
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PARTNERS
We are proud to work with the century-old literary journal North Dakota Quarterly to support their book series and to have published the first five volumes of Epoiesen: A Journal for Creative Engagement in History and Archaeology.
The Muslims of Darürrahat
Ismail Gaspirali. Translated by Çiğdem Pala Mull. Edited by Sharon Carson. North Dakota Quarterly Supplement Series 3.
In Ismail Gaspirali’s 1890s story The Muslims of Darürrahat, (the Peaceful Country) the not entirely intrepid narrator Mullah Abbas Efendi arrives in the imaginary land of Darürrahat. He has been led there by mysteriously appearing guides, who take him from Alhambra palace in Andalusia through an underground tunnel, where he emerges in Darürrahat to find a Muslim utopian country filled with progressive people and dotted with beautiful Islamic architecture and technologically advanced cities. As in most works of utopian imagination which are also aimed squarely at social critique of the author’s present day, there is nothing simple about this world or this literary work.
ISBN-13: 979-8-9891912-5-3 (print)
ISBN-13: 979-8-9891912-9-1 (Ebook/PDF)
https://doi.org/10.31356/dpb030
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The Cherry Tree
Jurij Koch. Translated by John. K. Cox. North Dakota Quarterly Supplement Series 2.
Set in the Sorbian-speaking region of the former East Germany, this unique and thought-provoking novella focuses on Ena, a young farm worker, who is torn between her family’s culture and the growing demands of modern society. She must navigate the conflicting demands and competing world views of her two lovers, Mathias (a Sorbian farmer) and Sieghart (a German engineer), even as she moves to Paris and then deals with the passing of her beloved grandfather. The story is tight and intense, with touches of magical realism as well as beautiful descriptions of nature. Koch’s pithy, accurate descriptions of life in Brandenburg and Saxony are animated by the author’s steadfast and heartening appreciation of rural traditions, the visits of a pre-Christian goddess, and…a surprise ending.
ISBN-13: 979-8-9868900-2-9 (paperback)
ISBN-13: 979-8-9868900-3-6 (Ebook/PDF)
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Snichimal Vayuchil
Translated by Paul M. Worley. North Dakota Quarterly Supplement Series 1.
Snichimal Vayuchil or Flowery Dream is an experimental poetry workshop in bats’i k’op, or Tsotsil Maya, where writers create poetry in their own mother language and Spanish, sharing their work as a form of what they call relational poetry. The workshop is also a place where these young writers reflect upon the origins of literature in indigenous communities, as well as the contributions contemporary indigenous literary creation makes to social change.
ISBN-13: 978-0692073612
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Epoiesen
Epoiesen (ἐποίησεν) – made – is a journal for exploring creative engagement with the past, especially through digital means. It publishes primarily what might be thought of as “paradata” or artist’s statements that accompany playful and unfamiliar forms of singing the past into existence.
What have you made? What will you make? This journal, in its online home, makes space to valorize and recognize the scholarly ways of knowing that are expressed well beyond the text. Bill White reminds us why society allows archaeologists to exist in the first place:
“it is to amplify the whispers of the past in our own unique way so they can still be heard today.”
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