Nonfiction

In Lessons from the Foothills, Gretchen Dykstra digs into Berea College’s past and present, from its 19th-century founding by John G. Fee, a Kentucky-born preacher with a dream of an integrated school that served Appalachians, to the school’s myriad challenges today.

Part memoir, part argument, and part self-help manual, How Do You Feel? by Dr. Jessi Gold challenges dangerous assumptions, common to the public and healthcare workers alike, about what it means to be a good doctor or nurse.

By the Fire We Carry, by Cherokee journalist Rebecca Nagle, tells how the Five Tribes of frontier history (Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muscogee, and Seminole) were dispossessed first of their Southeastern homelands, then of their reservation lands in Oklahoma — until finally, against the odds, they won back their treaty rights in court.

FROM THE CHAPTER 16 ARCHIVE: Blending poetry and prose, Joy Harjo’s second memoir, Poet Warrior, braids her story of becoming an accomplished poet and modern Native woman — always guided by her ancestors in the Muscogee (Creek) Nation — into the larger context of Native history.