Immersive and wild-hearted, joyfully alive to both the intimate and the elemental, Homestead is an unflinching portrait of a new state and of the hard-fought, hard-bitten work of making a family.

In our first edition of "Books of the Month," the College of Letters and Science at UC Davis celebrates L&S authors researching issues related to Chicana/o and Latin American studies in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month. Find more L&S authors on our "Bookshelf."

Beginning in the fall of 1914, every French soldier on the Western Front received a daily ration of wine from the army. In his book "A Thirst for Wine and War," assistant professor Adam Zientek explores the French army’s emotional and behavioral conditioning of soldiers through the distribution of a mind-altering drug that was later hailed as one of the army’s “fathers of victory.”