History

Molly Merryman is Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Sociology at Kent State University. She has authored a number of book chapters and journal articles and is a documentary filmmaker whose projects have received national and international screenings and awards.

September 2020 264 pages • 6 x 9 Paper • 9781479805785 • $30.00A(£23.99) Cloth • 9781479805761 • $89.00X(£74.00)

History CLIPPED WINGS

The Rise and Fall of the Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II MOLLY MERRYMAN

Revives the overlooked stories of pioneering women aviators, who are also featured in the forthcoming documentary film Coming Home: Fight for a Legacy

During World War II, all branches of the military had women's auxiliaries. Only the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) program, however, was made up entirely of women who undertook dangerous missions more commonly associated with and desired by men. More than the WACs (Army), WAVES (Navy), SPARS (Coast Guard), or Women Marines, the WASPs directly challenged assumptions of male supremacy in wartime culture. WASPs flew the fastest fighter planes and heaviest bombers; they test-piloted experimental models and worked in the development of weapons systems. Yet the WASPs were the only women's auxiliary within the armed services of World War II that was not militarized. In Clipped Wings, Molly Merryman draws upon military documents—many of which weren’t declassified until the 1990s—congressional records, and interviews with the women who served as WASPs during World War II to trace the history of the over one thousand pilots who served their country as the first women to fly military planes. She examines the social pressures that culminated in their disbandment in 1944—even though a wartime need for their services still existed—and documents their struggles and eventual success, in 1977, to gain military status and receive veterans’ benefits. In the preface to this reissued edition, Merryman reflects on the changes in women’s aviation in the past twenty years, as NASA’s new Artemis program promises to land the first female astronaut on the moon and African American and lesbian women are among the newest pilot recruits. Updating the story of the WASPs, Merryman reveals that even in the past few years there have been more battles for them to fight and more national recognition for them to receive. At its heart, the story of the Women Airforce Service Pilots is about persistence and extraordinary achievement.

POCAHONTAS AND THE ENGLISH BOYS

Caught between Cultures in Early Virginia KAREN ORDAHL KUPPERMAN

The captivating story of four young people—English and Powhatan—who lived their lives between cultures

Here for the first time outside scholarly texts is an accurate portrayal of Pocahontas, who, from the age of ten, acted as emissary for her father, who ruled over the local tribes, alongside the never-before-told intertwined stories of Thomas Savage, Henry Spelman, and Robert Poole, young English boys who were forced to live with powerful Indian leaders to act as intermediaries. Written by an expert in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Atlantic history, this book unearths gems from the archives—Henry Spelman’s memoir, travel accounts, letters, and official reports and records of meetings of the governor and council in Virginia—and draws on recent archaeology to share the stories of the young people who were key influencers of their day and who are now set to transform our understanding of early Virginia.

Karen Ordhl Kupperman is Silver Professor of History Emerita at New York University.

UPENDING THE IVORY TOWER

Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Ivy League STEFAN M. BRADLEY 2019 Outstanding Book Award, History of Education Society 2019 Anna Julia Cooper and C.L.R. James Award, National Council for Black Studies

The inspiring story of the black students, faculty, and administrators who forever changed America’s leading educational institutions and paved the way for social justice and racial progress

This book attempts to complete the narrative of higher education history, while adding a much needed nuance to the history of the Black Power movement. It tells the stories of those students, professors, staff, and administrators who pushed for change at the risk of losing what privilege they had. This book provides critical context for the Black Lives Matter movement that is growing in the streets and on campuses throughout the country today. As higher education continues to be a catalyst for change, there is no one better to inform today’s activists than those who transformed our country’s past and paved the way for its future.

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January 2021 240 pages • 6 x 9 21 black & white illustrations Paper • $15.95T(£12.99) 9781479805983 Cloth • 9781479825820

History

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January 2021 480 pages • 6 x 9 15 black & white illustrations Paper • $25.00S(£19.99) 9781479806027 Cloth • 9781479825820

History

Rebecca L. Davis is the Miller Family Early Career Professor of History at the University of Delaware. Her teaching and research focus on the histories of gender, sexuality, and religion in the modern United States. She is the author of More Perfect Unions: The American Search for Marital Bliss (2010). She is also a producer of the Sexing History podcast and a Research Associate for the Council on Contemporary Families. Michele Mitchell is Associate Professor of History at New York University and former North American editor of Gender & History. She is the author of Righteous Propagation: African Americans and the Politics of Racial Destiny after Reconstruction (2004) and co-editor of Dialogues of Dispersal: Gender, Sexuality, and African Diasporas (2004) and Gender, Imperialism and Global Exchanges (2015). She also serves on the Editorial Board of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History.

February 2021 416 pages • 6 x 9 3 black & white illustrations Paper • 9781479802289 • $35.00S(£27.99) Cloth • 9781479878079 • $99.00X(£82.00) In NYU Series in Social and Cultural Analysis

History HETEROSEXUAL HISTORIES

Edited by REBECCA L. DAVIS and MICHELE MITCHELL

The history of heterosexuality in North America across four centuries

Heterosexuality is usually regarded as something inherently “natural”—but what is heterosexuality, and how has it taken shape across the centuries? By challenging ahistorical approaches to the heterosexual subject, Heterosexual Histories constructs a new framework for the history of heterosexuality, examining unexplored assumptions and insisting that not only sex but race, class, gender, age, and geography matter to its past. Each of the fourteen essays in this volume examines the history of heterosexuality from a different angle, seeking to study this topic in a way that recognizes plurality, divergence, and inequity. Editors Rebecca L. Davis and Michele Mitchell have formed a collection that spans four centuries, addressing the many different racial groups, geographies, and subcultures of heterosexuality in North America. The essays range across disciplines with experts from various fields examining heterosexuality from unique perspectives. Together, they explain how differently earlier Americans understood the varieties of gender and different-sex sexuality, how heterosexuality emerged as a dominant way of describing gender, and how openly many people acknowledged and addressed heterosexuality’s fragility. By contesting presumptions of heterosexuality’s stability or consistency, Heterosexual Histories opens the historical record to interrogations of the raced, classed, and gendered varieties of heterosexuality and considers the implications of heterosexuality’s multiplicities and changes. Providing both a sweeping historical survey and concentrated case studies, Heterosexual Histories is a crucial addition to the field of sexuality studies.

THE INTIMACIES OF CONFLICT

Cultural Memory and the Korean War DANIEL Y. KIM

Enables a reckoning with the legacy of the Forgotten War through literary and cinematic works of cultural memory

Though often considered “the forgotten war,” lost between the end of World War II and the start of the Cold War, the Korean War was, as Daniel Y. Kim argues, a watershed event that fundamentally reshaped both domestic conceptions of race and the interracial dimensions of the global empire that the United States would go on to establish. He uncovers a trail of cultural artefacts that speaks to the trauma experienced by civilians during the conflict but also evokes an expansive web of complicity in the suffering that they endured. Taking up a range of American popular media from the 1950s, Kim offers a portrait of the Korean War as it looked to Americans while they were experiencing it in real time. Kim expands this archive to read a robust host of fiction from US writers like Susan Choi, Rolando Hinojosa, Toni Morrison, and Chang-rae Lee, and the Korean author Hwang Sok-yong. The multiple and ongoing historical trajectories presented in these works testify to the resurgent afterlife of this event in US cultural memory, and of its lasting impact on multiple racialized populations, both within the US and in Korea. The Intimacies of Conflict offers a robust, multifaceted, and multidisciplinary analysis of the pivotal—but often unacknowledged—consequences of the Korean War in both domestic and transnational histories of race.

"For some reason I've always been fascinated by the 1950s, even as a kid. When I began thinking how I might focus on that period in a project that would address issues of race in a comparative framework the topic of the Korean War came to me in a bit of an epiphany, as did the fact that my own family history, like that of so many Korean Americans, had probably been shaped by this event in unspoken ways." —Daniel Y. Kim

Daniel Y. Kim is Associate Professor of English at Brown University where he teaches classes in Asian American literature, American literature and Ethnic Studies. He has also taught as a Visiting Assistant Professor of American Studies at Yale University and as a Norman Freehling Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan’s Institute for the Humanities. He is the author of Writing Manhood in Black and Yellow: Ralph Ellison, Frank Chin, and the Literary Politics of Identity (2006) and the co-editor (with Crystal Parikh) of The Cambridge Companion to Asian American Literature (2015). His essays have been published in a number of journals including American Literary History, Criticism, Cross-Currents, Journal of Asian American Studies, Novel, and positions.

November 2020 336 pages • 6 x 9 17 black & white illustrations Paper • 9781479805365 • $29.00S(£22.99) Cloth • 9781479800797 • $89.00X(£74.00)

Cultural Studies

January 2021 312 pages • 6 x 9 12 black & white illustrations Cloth • $35.00S(£27.99) 9781479805655 In The Glucksman Irish Diaspora Series

History AMERICA AND THE MAKING OF AN INDEPENDENT IRELAND

A History FRANCIS M. CARROLL

Examines how the Irish American community, the American public, and the American government played a crucial role in the making of a sovereign independent Ireland

Beginning with the Rising of 1916, Francis M. Carroll chronicles how Irish Americans responded to the movement for Irish independence and pressured the US government to intervene on the side of Ireland. Carroll’s in-depth analysis demonstrates that Irish Americans after World War I raised funds for the Dáil Éireann government and for war relief, while shaping public opinion in favor of an independent nation. The book illustrates how the US government was the first power to extend diplomatic recognition to Ireland and welcome it into the international community. Overall, Carroll argues that the existence of the state of Ireland is owed to considerable effort and intervention by Irish Americans and the American public at large.

Francis M. Carroll is Professor of History Emeritus at St. John’s College, University of Manitoba.

January 2021 344 pages • 6 x 9 17 black & white illustrations Cloth • $35.00S(£27.99) 9781479895267 In Early American Places

History AN EMPIRE TRANSFORMED

Remolding Bodies and Landscapes in the Restoration Atlantic KATE LUCE MULRY

Examines the efforts to bring political order to the English empire through projects of environmental improvement

When Charles II ascended the English throne in 1660 after two decades of civil war, he was confronted with domestic disarray and a sprawling empire in chaos. By initiating ambitious projects of environmental engineering, agents of the English Restoration government aimed to transform both places and people in service of establishing order. In this deeply researched work, Kate Mulry highlights a period of innovation during which officials reassessed the purpose of colonies, weighed their benefits and drawbacks, and engineered and instituted a range of activities in relation to subjects’ bodies and material environments. This book is an interdisciplinary work addressing a series of interlocking issues concerning ideas about the environment, governance, and public health in the early modern English Atlantic empire.

Kate Luce Mulry is Assistant Professor of History at California State University, Bakersfield.

DIVIDING THE FAITH

The Rise of Segregated Churches in the Early American North RICHARD J. BOLES

Uncovers the often overlooked participation of African Americans and Native Americans in early Protestant churches

This book argues that, contrary to the traditional scholarly consensus, a significant portion of northern Protestants worshipped in interracial contexts during the eighteenth century. Yet in another fifty years, such an affiliation would become increasingly rare as churches were by-and-large segregated. Richard Boles draws from the records of over four hundred congregations to scrutinize the factors that made different Christian traditions either accessible or inaccessible to African American and American Indian peoples. By including Indians, Afro-Indians, and black people in the study of race and religion in the North, this research breaks new ground and uses patterns of church participation to illuminate broader social histories. Overall, it explains the dynamic history of racial integration and segregation in northern colonies and states.

Richard J. Boles is Assistant Professor of History at the Oklahoma State University.

THE FIERCE LIFE OF GRACE HOLMES CARLSON

Catholic, Socialist, Feminist DONNA T. HAVERTY-STACKE

Shares the story of the revolutionary Marxist and Catholic Grace Holmes Carlson and her life-long dedication to challenging social and economic inequality

This is a historical biography that examines the story of this complicated woman in the context of her times with a specific focus on her experiences as a member of the working class, as a Catholic, and as a woman. Her story illuminates the workings of class identity within the context of various influences over the course of a lifespan. It contributes to recent historical scholarship exploring the importance of faith in workers’ lives and politics, and uncovers both the possibilities and limitations for working-class and revolutionary Marxist women in the period between the first and second wave feminist movements. The long arc of her life (1906–1992) ultimately reveals significant continuities in her political consciousness that transcended the shifts in her particular partisan commitments, most notably her life-long dedication to challenging the root causes of social and economic inequality.

Donna T. Haverty-Stacke is Associate Professor of History at Hunter College, CUNY. December 2020 352 pages • 6 x 9 11 black & white illustrations Cloth • $35.00S(£27.99) 9781479803187 In Early American Places

History

December 2020 304 pages • 6 x 9 Cloth • $50.00S(£41.00) 9781479802180

History

December 2020 288 pages • 6 x 9 Cloth • $49.00S(£41.00) 9781479803149

History EVIL DEEDS IN HIGH PLACES

Christian America's Moral Struggle with Watergate DAVID E. SETTJE

Highlights Watergate as a critical turning point in Christian engagement in US politics

The Watergate scandal was one of the most infamous events in American democratic history. David E. Settje argues that Watergate was a turning point for spurring Christian engagement with politics. By examining the variety of Protestant Christian experiences—those more conservative, those more liberal, and those in between— and by incorporating analyses of both white and black Christian reactions, the book captures a significant swath of the American population at the time, providing one of the only studies to examine how everyday Americans viewed the events of Watergate. Grasping the dynamics of Christian responses to Watergate enables us to comprehend more completely that volatile moment in US history, and provides important context to make sense of reactions to our more recent political turmoil.

David E. Settje is Professor of History and Director of the Honors Program at Concordia University Chicago.

February 2021 320 pages • 6 x 9 14 black & white illustrations Paper • $35.00S(£27.99) 9781479801497 Cloth • $99.00X(£82.00) 9781479801480 In North American Religions

Religion WHEN THE MEDIUM WAS THE MISSION

The Atlantic Telegraph and the Religious Origins of Network Culture JENNA SUPP-MONTGOMERIE

An innovative exploration of religion's influence on communication networks

The advent of a telegraph cable crossing the Atlantic Ocean was viewed much the way the internet is today, to herald a coming world-wide unification. Public figures in the US imagined this new communication technology in primarily religious terms as offering the means to unite the world and inspire peaceful relations among nations. Religious utopianists saw the telegraph as the dawn of a perfect future. Religious framing thus dominated the interpretation of the technology’s possibilities, forging an imaginary of networks as connective, so much so that connection is now fundamental to the idea of networks. This book tells the story of how connection was made into the fundamental promise of networks, illuminating the power of public Protestantism in the first network imaginaries, which continue to resonate today in false expectations of connection.