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A View from Abroad
The Coffin Ship
Jeanne E. Abrams
Cian T. McMahon
Reveals how the European travels of John and Abigail Adams helped define what it meant to be an American
A vivid, new portrait of Irish migration through the letters and diaries of those who fled their homeland during the Great Famine
296 PAGES • CLOTH 978-1-4798-0287-6 • $27.95
336 PAGES • CLOTH 978-1-4798-0876-2 • $35.00 IN THE GLUCKSMAN IRISH DIASPORA SERIES
Shortlisted
Growing Up Bank Street
The Story of John and Abigail Adams in Europe
Life and Death at Sea during the Great Irish Famine
Women in the Shadows of the Supreme Court
A Greenwich Village Memoir
Hannah Brenner Johnson and Renee Knake Jefferson
Donna Florio A vivid memoir of life in one of New York City’s most dynamic neighborhoods
The inspiring and previously untold history of the women considered— but not selected—for the US Supreme Court
240 PAGES • CLOTH 978-1-4798-0320-0 • $24.95 IN WASHINGTON MEWS BOOKS
304 PAGES • CLOTH 978-1-4798-9591-5 • $30.00
The House on Henry Street
The Enduring Life of a Lower East Side Settlement Ellen Snyder-Grenier Chronicles the sweeping history of the storied Henry Street Settlement and its enduring vision of a more just society 256 PAGES • CLOTH 978-1-4798-0135-0 • $28.00
2020 Mary Kelley Book Prize, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic | 2020 Outstanding Book Award, History of Education Society
In Pursuit of Knowledge
Black Women and Educational Activism in Antebellum America Kabria Baumgartner Uncovers the hidden role of girls and women in the desegregation of American education 320 PAGES • CLOTH 978-1-4798-2311-6 • $35.00 IN EARLY AMERICAN PLACES
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Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives
A Pictorial History of Working People in New York City Debra E. Bernhardt and Rachel Bernstein Brings to life the breathtaking and often heartbreaking stories of the workers who built New York City in the Twentieth Century 222 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-0265-4 • $25.00
Avidly Reads Passages Michelle D. Commander “What is the value of Black life in America?” This new Avidly Reads book plies four freighted modes of travel—the slave ship, train, automobile, and bus—to map the mobility of her ancestors over the past five centuries to offer a unique lens through which to capture the intricacies of Black life. 168 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-0617-1 • $14.95
AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY
The Black Civil War Soldier
A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship
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The Battle of Negro Fort
The Rise and Fall of a Fugitive Slave Community
Deborah Willis
Matthew J. Clavin
A stunning collection of stoic portraits and intimate ephemera from the lives of Black Civil War soldiers
The dramatic story of Andrew Jackson’s destruction of a free and independent community of fugitive slaves in Spanish Florida
256 PAGES • CLOTH 978-1-4798-0900-4 • $35.00 IN NYU SERIES IN SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ANALYSIS
Educated for Freedom
The Incredible Story of Two Fugitive Schoolboys who Grew Up to Change a Nation Anna Mae Duane The powerful story of two young men who changed the national debate about slavery 240 PAGES • CLOTH 978-1-4798-4747-1 • $30.00
256 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-1110-6 • $14.95
A Pledge with a Purpose
Black Sororities and Fraternities and the Fight for Equality Gregory S. Parks and Matthew W. Hughey Reveals the historical and political significance of “The Divine Nine”— the Black Greek Letter Organizations 360 PAGES • CLOTH 978-1-4798-2327-7 • $35.00
Coming of Age in Jim Crow DC
The Strange Careers of the Jim Crow North
Paula C. Austin
Edited by Brian Purnell and Jeanne Theoharis with Komozi Woodard
Navigating the Politics of Everyday Life
The fullest account to date of African American young people in a segregated city
208 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-0811-3 • $26.00
Segregation and Struggle outside of the South
Did American racism originate in the liberal North? An inquiry into the system of institutionalized racism created by Northern Jim Crow 352 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-2033-7 • $30.00
CARRIBEAN HISTORY 2020 Herbert H. Lehman Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in New York history | Honorable Mention, 2019 CASA Literary Prize for Studies on Latinos in the United States, La Casa de las Américas
Haiti’s Paper War
Post-Independence Writing, Civil War, and the Making of the Republic, 1804–1954 Chelsea Stieber Turns to the written record to re-examine the building blocks of a nation 380 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-0215-9 • $30.00 IN AMERICA AND THE LONG 19TH CENTURY
Sugar, Cigars, and Revolution
The Making of Cuban New York Lisandro Pérez The dramatic story of the origins of the Cuban community in nineteenth-century New York 400 PAGES • PAPER 978-0-8147-6728-3 • $24.00
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ASIAN AMERICAN HISTORY
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
A War Born Family
African American Adoption in the Wake of the Korean War Kori A. Graves The origins of a transnational adoption strategy that secured the future for Korean-Black children 328 PAGES • CLOTH 978-1-4798-7232-9 • $45.00
336 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-0536-5 • $29.00
Framed by War
Korean Children and Women at the Crossroads of US Empire Susie Woo An intimate portrait of the postwar lives of Korean children and women 336 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-8053-9 • $32.00
Our Voices, Our Histories
Asian American and Pacific Islander Women Edited by Shirley Hune and Gail M. Nomura An innovative anthology showcasing Asian American and Pacific Islander women’s histories 520 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-7701-0 • $35.00
ACTIVISM & DISSENT
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Fight the Power
African Americans and the Long History of Police Brutality in New York City Clarence Taylor A story of resistance, power, and politics as revealed through New York City’s complex history of police brutality 256 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-1108-3 • $24.00
NEW IN PAPERBACK! 2019 Anna Julia Cooper and C.L.R. James Award, National Council for Black Studies | 2019 Outstanding Book Award, History of Education Society | Finalist, 2019 Pauli Murray Book Prize in Black Intellectual History, African American Intellectual History Society
Upending the Ivory Tower
Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Ivy League Stefan M. Bradley 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 480 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-0602-7 • $25.00
We Are Worth Fighting For
A History of the Howard University Student Protest of 1989 Joshua M. Myers The Howard University protests from the perspective and worldview of its participants 288 PAGES • CLOTH 978-1-4798-1175-5 • $30.00 IN BLACK POWER
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Troublemakers
Students’ Rights and Racial Justice in the Long 1960s Kathryn Schumaker A powerful history of student protests and student rights during the desegregation era
288 PAGES • CLOTH 978-1-4798-7513-9 • $45.00
CULTURAL STUDIES FORTHCOMING!
Gilded Age Cocktails
History, Lore, and Recipes from America’s Golden Age Cecelia Tichi A delightful romp through America’s Golden Age of Cocktails 176 PAGES • CLOTH 978-1-4798-0525-9 • $19.95 IN WASHINGTON MEWS BOOKS
What Would Mrs. Astor Do? The Essential Guide to the Manners and Mores of the Gilded Age Cecelia Tichi A richly illustrated romp with America’s Gilded Age leisure class— and those angling to join it 352 PAGES • CLOTH 978-1-4798-2685-8 • $24.95
EARLY AMERICAN PLACES SERIES
Inn Civility
Urban Taverns and Early American Civil Society Vaughn Scribner Examines the critical role of urban taverns in the social and political life of colonial and revolutionary America 304 PAGES • CLOTH 978-1-4798-2311-6 • $35.00 IN EARLY AMERICAN PLACES
Selling the Sights
The Invention of the Tourist in American Culture Will B. Mackintosh A fascinating journey through the origins of American tourism 272 PAGES • CLOTH 978-1-4798-8937-2 • $35.00 IN EARLY AMERICAN PLACES
Properties of Empire
Indians, Colonists, and Land Speculators on the New England Frontier Ian Saxine A fascinating history of a contested frontier, where struggles over landownership brought Native Americans and English colonists together 320 PAGES • CLOTH 978-1-4798-3212-5 • $35.00 IN EARLY AMERICAN PLACES
Vagrants and Vagabonds
Poverty and Mobility in the Early American Republic Kristin O’Brassill-Kulfan The riveting story of control over the mobility of poor migrants, and how their movements shaped current perceptions of class and status in the United States 280 PAGES • CLOTH 978-1-4798-4525-5 • $35.00 IN EARLY AMERICAN PLACES
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Vexed with Devils
Manhood and Witchcraft in Old and New England Erika Gasser Stories of witchcraft and demonic possession from early modern England through the last official trials in colonial New England 272 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-7113-1 • $25.00 IN EARLY AMERICAN PLACES
Early American Places focuses on the history of North America from contact to the Mexican War, locating historical developments in the specific places where they occurred and were contested. The collaborating presses’ responsibilities are divided geographically. NYU Press covers the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic colonies, and French and British Canada. NYUPRESS.ORG/EARLY-AMERICAN-PLACES
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COLONIAL NEW IN PAPERBACK!
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 240 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-0598-3 • $15.95
Justice in a New World
Negotiating Legal Intelligibility in British, Iberian, and Indigenous America Edited by Brian P. Owens and Richard J. Ross A historical and legal examination of the conflict and interplay between settler and indigenous laws in the New World 352 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-0724-6 • $30.00
Relation of Virginia
A Boy’s Memoir of Life with the Powhatans and the Patawomecks Henry Spelman Edited by Karen Ordahl Kupperman A memoir of one of America’s first adventurers, a young boy who acted as a link between the Jamestown colonists and the Patawomecks and Powhatans 96 PAGES • CLOTH 978-1-4798-3519-5 • $14.95
The CounterRevolution of 1776
Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America Gerald Horne Illuminates how the preservation of slavery was a motivating factor for the Revolutionary War 363 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-0689-8 • $25.00
NYC & REGIONAL
Enchanted New York
A Journey along Broadway through Manhattan’s Magical Past Kevin Dann A fantastical field guide to the hidden history of New York’s magical past 352 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-3826-4 • $22.50
Times Square Red, Times Square Blue 20th Anniversary Edition Samuel R. Delany Twentieth anniversary edition of a landmark book that cataloged a vibrant but disappearing neighborhood in New York City 240 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-2777-0 • $25.00 IN SEXUAL CULTURES
Parkchester
A Bronx Tale of Race and Ethnicity Jeffrey S. Gurock The eight-decade story of a New York neighborhood 304 PAGES • CLOTH 978-1-4798-9670-7 • $30.00 IN WASHINGTON MEWS BOOKS
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The Truth about Baked Beans
An Edible History of New England Meg Muckenhoupt Forages through New England’s most famous foods for the truth behind the region’s culinary myths 352 PAGES • CLOTH 978-1-4798-8276-2 • $29.95 IN WASHINGTON MEWS BOOKS
MILITARY
Signature Wounds
The Untold Story of the Military’s Mental Health Crisis David Kieran The surprising story of the Army’s efforts to combat PTSD and traumatic brain injury 404 PAGES • CLOTH 978-1-4798-9236-5 • $35.00
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of 2016
Understanding the U.S. Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan Edited by Beth Bailey and Richard H. Immerman
Investigates the causes, conduct, and consequences of the recent American wars in Iraq and Afghanistan 368 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-2690-2 • $30.00
POLITICS & LAW NEW IN PAPERBACK! Winner, 2020 Best Book Award, Law Category, American Book Fest
Uncounted
Banned
Gilda R. Daniels
Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia
An answer to the assault on voting rights—crucial reading in light of the 2020 presidential election
Examines immigration enforcement and discretion during the first eighteen months of the Trump administration
The Crisis of Voter Suppression in America
272 PAGES • CLOTH 978-1-4798-6235-1 • $30.00
Finalist, 2016 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award | One of Bustle’s Books For Your Civil Disobedience Reading List
Dissent
The History of an American Idea Ralph Young Examines the key role dissent has played in shaping the United States, emphasizing the way Americans responded to injustices 640 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-1983-6 • $27.00 Instructor’s Guide available
Killing with Prejudice Institutionalized Racism in American Capital Punishment R.J. Maratea A history of the McCleskey v. Kemp Supreme Court ruling that effectively condoned racism in capital cases
Immigration Enforcement in the Time of Trump
232 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-0873-1 • $19.00
Loving Justice
Legal Emotions in William Blackstone’s England Kathryn Temple A history of legal emotions in William Blackstone’s England and their relationship to justice
280 PAGES • CLOTH 978-1-4798-9527-4 • $45.00
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224 PAGES • CLOTH 978-1-4798-8860-3 • $26.00
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JEWISH STUDIES
Dust to Dust
2020 JDC-Herbert Katzki Award for Writing Based on Archival Material, Jewish Book Council
A Mortuary of Books
A History of Jewish Burial Practices in New York
The Rescue of Jewish Culture after the Holocaust
Allan M. Amanik
Elisabeth Gallas
A revealing look at how death and burial practices influence the living
The astonishing story of the efforts of scholars and activists to rescue Jewish cultural treasures after the Holocaust
272 PAGES • CLOTH 978-1-4798-0080-3 • $40.00 IN THE GOLDSTEIN-GOREN SERIES IN AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY
416 PAGES • CLOTH 978-1-4798-3395-5 • $35.00 IN THE GOLDSTEIN-GOREN SERIES IN AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY
RELIGION FORTHCOMING!
The Church of the Dead The Epidemic of 1576 and the Birth of Christianity in the Americas Jennifer Scheper Hughes Tells the story of the founding of American Christianity against the backdrop of devastating disease, and of the Indigenous survivors who kept the nascent faith alive
FORTHCOMING!
Open Hearts, Closed Doors Immigration Reform and the Waning of Mainline Protestantism Nicholas T. Pruitt A history of mainline Protestant responses to immigrants and refugees during the twentieth century
272 PAGES • CLOTH 978-1-4798-0255-5 • $35.00 IN NORTH AMERICAN RELIGIONS
288 PAGES • CLOTH 978-1-4798-0354-5 • $45.00
Lift Every Voice and Swing
Soundtrack to a Movement
Black Musicians and Religious Culture in the Jazz Century
African American Islam, Jazz, and Black Internationalism
Vaughn A. Booker
Richard Brent Turner
Explores the role of jazz celebrities like Ella Fitzgerald, Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington, and Mary Lou Williams as representatives of African American religion in the twentieth century
Explores how jazz helped propel the rise of African American Islam during the era of global Black liberation 256 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-0676-8 • $30.00
344 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-9080-4 • $35.00
RELIGION, RACE, & ETHNICITY Books in this series address such questions as how the categories of religion, race, and ethnicity have intersected historically, influenced social movements, impacted historical processes, informed the development of group identity, and acted as a hegemonic impetus for social functions. SERIES EDITOR Peter J. Paris, Princeton Theological Seminary
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Race in a Godless World
Atheism, Race, and Civilization, 1850–1914 Nathan G. Alexander A historical analysis of the racial views of atheists in the United States and Britain 256 PAGES • CLOTH 978-1-4798-3500-3 • $39.00 IN SECULAR STUDIES
WOMEN & GENDER NEW IN PAPERBACK!
Stories from Trailblazing Women Lawyers Lives in the Law Jill Norgren The captivating story of how a diverse group of women, including Janet Reno and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, broke the glass ceiling and changed the modern legal profession
American Fatherhood A History
Jürgen Martschukat Explores the surprising diversity of fathers and fatherhood throughout American history and society 352 PAGES • CLOTH 978-1-4798-9227-3 • $45.00
304 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-0599-0 • $22.00
Gilded Suffragists
The New York Socialites who Fought for Women’s Right to Vote Johanna Neuman New York City’s elite women who turned a feminist cause into a fashionable revolution 240 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-0662-1 • $16.95 IN WASHINGTON MEWS BOOKS
First Ladies of the Republic
Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, Dolley Madison, and the Creation of an Iconic American Role Jeanne E. Abrams How the three inaugural First Ladies defined the role for future generations, and carved a space for women in America 328 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-9050-7 • $18.95
Everyday Crimes
Social Violence and Civil Rights in Early America
Her Own Hero
The Origins of the Women’s SelfDefense Movement
Kelly A. Ryan
Wendy L. Rouse
The narratives of slaves, wives, and servants who resisted social and domestic violence in the nineteenth century
The surprising roots of the selfdefense movement and the history of women’s empowerment
400 PAGES • CLOTH 978-1-4798-6961-9 • $39.00
288 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-0729-1 • $22.00
LGBTQ & SEXUALITY
2018 US History PROSE Award, Association of American Publishers
The Stonewall Riots A Documentary History Edited by Marc Stein On the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary, the most important moment in LGBTQ history— depicted by the people who influenced, recorded, and reacted to it
True Sex
The Lives of Trans Men at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Emily Skidmore The incredible stories of how trans men assimilated into mainstream communities in the late 1800s 272 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-9568-7 • $19.95
352 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-1685-9 • $35.00
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MONTHLY REVIEW PRESS
Dissenting POWS
From Vietnam’s Hoa Lo Prison to America Today Tom Wilber and Jerry Lembcke A fresh look at the resistance of US troops to the American war in Vietnam 160 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-5836-7908-1 • $19.00 Published by Monthly Review Press
The Dawning of the Apocalypse
The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century Gerald Horne Acclaimed historian Gerald Horne reveals the reality of settler colonialism underlying the myth of the creation of the United States of America 304 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-5836-7872-5 • $27.00 Published by Monthly Review Press
Extraodinary Threat
The U.S. Empire, the Media, and Twenty Years of Coup Attempts in Venezuela Joe Emersberger and Justin Podur US foreign policy decisions behind six coup attempts against the Venezuelan government – and Venezuela’s heightening precarity 248 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-5836-7916-6 • $25.00 Published by Monthly Review Press
Jazz and Justice
Racism and the Political Economy of the Music Gerald Horne A galvanizing history of how jazz and jazz musicians flourished despite rampant cultural exploitation 512 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-5836-7785-8 • $27.00 Published by Monthly Review Press
NEW VILLAGE PRESS FORTHCOMING!
Jane Jacobs’s First City Learning from Scranton, Pennsylvania Glenna Lang A thorough investigation of how Jane Jacobs’s ideas about the life and economy of great cities grew from her home city, Scranton 448 PAGES • CLOTH 978-1-6133-2139-3 • $39.95 Published by New Village Press
UNIVERSITY OF REGINA PRESS
Waging Peace in Vietnam
US Soldiers and Veterans Who Opposed the War Edited by David Cortright, Ron Carver, and Barbara Doherty How American soldiers opposed and resisted the war in Vietnam 320 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-6133-2106-5 • $35.00 Published by New Village Press
WITS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Reclaiming Tom Longboat
Cuba and Africa, 19591994
Indigenous Self-Determination in Canadian Sport
Writing an Alternative Atlantic History
Janice Forsyth
Edited by Kali Argyriadis, Giulia Bonacci and Adrien Delmas
Analyzes sport in Canada as a tool for both colonization and Indigenous self-determination 264 PAGES • PAPERBACK 978-0-8897-7728-6 • $24.95 Published by University of Regina Press
A history of Atlantic solidarity between Cuba and Africa, in struggle for African independence from colonial powers 344 PAGES • PAPER • 978-1-7761-4633-8 • $35.00 Published by Wits University Press
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GREAT FOR COURSES
Warfare and Culture in World History, Second Edition Edited by Wayne E. Lee An expanded edition of the leading text on military history and the role of culture on the battlefield 368 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-6243-6 • $25.00
Manifest Destinies, Second Edition The Making of the Mexican American Race Laura E. Gómez An essential resource for understanding the complex history of Mexican Americans and racial classification in the United States 320 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-9428-4 • $27.00
2020 Body and Embodiment Best Publication Award, American Sociological Association | Honorable Mention, 2020 Sociology of Sex and Gender Distinguished Book Award, American Sociological Association
Fearing the Black Body The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia Sabrina Strings How the female body has been racialized for over two hundred years 304 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-8675-3 • $28.00
Revolutions in the Atlantic World, New Edition A Comparative History Wim Klooster A new look at a contentious period in the history of the Atlantic world 272 PAGES • PAPER 978-1-4798-5717-3 • $26.00
NYU PRESS CLASSICS Gold Winner of the 2008 Foreword Magazine Book of the Year Award, Biography Category
Freedom’s Prophet
Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers Richard S. Newman Brings to life the inspiring story of one of America’s Black Founding Fathers, featured in the forthcoming documentary The Black Church: This is Our Story, This is Our Song
Black Sun
Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke Uncovers the mindset and motives that drive far-right extremists 371 PAGES • PAPER 978-0-8147-3155-0 • $29.00
359 PAGES • PAPER 978-0-8147-5857-1 • $28.00
Occult Roots of Nazism
Secret Aryan Cults and Their Influence on Nazi Ideology Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke Reveals how Nazism was influenced by powerful occult sects that thrived in Germany and Austria almost fifty years before Hitler’s rise to power 203 PAGES • PAPER 978-0-8147-3060-7 • $24.00
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