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The winner of three gold medals in track at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome, Wilma Rudolph has been portrayed and remembered across a wide range of settings and sites over the past half-century. (Re)Presenting Wilma Rudolph explores the major episodes and sites of memory across the track legend's life and death.

By the mid-1970s, opposition from the NCAA had made intercollegiate athletics the most controversial part of Title IX, the US federal law prohibiting discrimination in all federally funded education programmes. In Invisible Seasons, Belanger recalls the remarkable story of how the Michigan State University women athletes helped change the landscape of higher education athletics.

Amid apocalyptic invasions and time travel, one common machine continually appears in H.G. Wells's works: the bicycle. In The War of the Wheels, Withers examines this mode of transportation as both something that played a significant role in Wells's personal life and as a literary device for creating elaborate characters and exploring complex themes.

With every touchdown, home run, and three-pointer, star athletes represent an American dream that only an elite group blessed with natural talent can achieve. However, Kimball concentrates on what happens once these modern warriors meet their untimely demise. As athletes die, legends rise in their place.