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HIGHLIGHTS THE IRISH REVOLUTION
THE BLACK CIVIL WAR SOLDIER
A Global History
A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship
Edited by Patrick Mannion and Fearghal McGarry
Deborah Willis
How the Irish Revolution was shaped by international actors and events
256 PG | CLOTH | 9781479809004 | $35 368 PG | CLOTH | 9781479808892 | $35
Longlisted, 2021 National Book Awards (Nonfiction) A stunning collection of stoic portraits and intimate ephemera from the lives of Black Civil War soldiers
PASIFIKA BLACK
Oceania, Anti-colonialism, and the African World
THE TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICAN SEX EDUCATION
Quito Swan
A lively living history of anti-colonialist movements across the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans
Mary Calderone and the Fight for Sexual Health Ellen S. More
A comprehensive history of the battle over sex education in the United States 336 PG | CLOTH | 9781479885084 | $49 376 PG | CLOTH | 9781479812042 | $39
MUTINY ON THE RISING SUN
JAZZ AGE COCKTAILS
History, Lore, and Recipes from America’s Roaring Twenties
A Tragic Tale of Slavery, Smuggling, and Chocolate
Cecelia Tichi
Jared Ross Hardesty
A little-known story of mutiny and murder illustrating the centrality of smuggling and slavery in early American society
How the Prohibition law of 1920 made alcohol, savored in secret, all the more delectable when the cocktail shaker was forced to go “underground”
280 PG | PAPER | 9781479812486 | $25 168 PG | PAPER | 9781479810123 | $19.95
THE MUSEUM
PUBLIC FACES, SECRET LIVES
A Short History of Crisis and Resilience
Wendy L. Rouse
Celebrates the resilience of American cultural institutions in the face of national crises and challenges
Samuel J. Redman
A Queer History of the Women’s Suffrage Movement Restores queer suffragists to their rightful place in the history of the struggle for women’s right to vote
256 PG | CLOTH | 9781479813940 | $27
232 PG | CLOTH | 9781479809332 | $24.95
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NYC/REGIONAL JEWISH NEW YORK
TIMES SQUARE RED, TIMES SQUARE BLUE
The Remarkable Story of a City and a People
20th Anniversary Edition
Deborah Dash Moore, Jeffrey S. Gurock, Annie Polland, Howard B. Rock, Daniel Soyer
Samuel R. Delany
Twentieth anniversary edition of a landmark book that cataloged a vibrant but disappearing neighborhood in New York City
The definitive history of Jews in New York and how they transformed the city
240 PG | PAPER | 9781479827770 | $25 512 PG | PAPER | 9781479802647 | $18.95
A QUEER NEW YORK
ENCHANTED NEW YORK
Geographies of Lesbians, Dykes, and Queers
A Journey along Broadway through Manhattan’s Magical Past
Jen Jack Gieseking
Winner, 2021 Glenda Laws Award given by the American Association of Geographers The first lesbian and queer historical geography of New York City
336 PG | PAPER | 9781479835737 | $30
Kevin Dann
A fantastical field guide to the hidden history of New York’s magical past
352 PG | PAPER | 9781479838264 | $22.50
THE STONEWALL RIOTS
ORDINARY PEOPLE, EXTRAORDINARY LIVES
A Documentary History Edited by Marc Stein
A Pictorial History of Working People in New York City
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.
by Debra E. Bernhardt and Rachel Bernstein
240 PG | PAPER | 9781479802654 | $25
Brings to life the breathtaking and often heartbreaking stories of the workers who built New York City in the Twentieth Century 352 PG | PAPER | 9781479816859 | $35
THE HOUSE ON HENRY STREET
GROWING UP BANK STREET
The Enduring Life of a Lower East Side Settlement
A Greenwich Village Memoir
Ellen M. Snyder-Grenier
A vivid memoir of life in one of New York City’s most dynamic neighborhoods
Donna Florio
Foreword by Bill Clinton Chronicles the sweeping history of the storied Henry Street Settlement and its enduring vision of a more just society
256 PG | CLOTH | 9781479801350 | $27.95
In Washington Mews Books
256 PG | CLOTH | 9781479803200 | $24.95
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AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY LIBERTY ROAD
THE UNTOLD STORY OF SHIELDS GREEN
Black Middle-Class Suburbs and the Battle Between Civil Rights and Neoliberalism
The Life and Death of a Harper’s Ferry Raider
Gregory Smithsimon
Louis A. Decaro, Jr.
A unique insight into desegregation in the suburbs and how racial inequality persists
Explores the life of Shields Green, one of the Black men who followed John Brown to Harper’s Ferry in 1859
312 PG | PAPER | 9781479861491 | $30
248 PG | PAPER | 9781479816705 | $16.95
42 TODAY
A WAR BORN FAMILY
Jackie Robinson and His Legacy
African American Adoption in the Wake of the Korean War
Edited by Michael G. Long Foreword by Ken Burns, Sarah Burns and David McMahon Afterword by Kevin Merida
Kori A. Graves
The origins of a transnational adoption strategy that secured the future for Korean-black children
Explores Jackie Robinson’s compelling and complicated legacy In Washington Mews Books
256 PG | cloth | 9781479805624 | $27.95
328 PG | CLOTH | 9781479872329 | $45
THE STRANGE CAREERS OF THE JIM CROW NORTH
EDUCATED FOR FREEDOM
The Incredible Story of Two Fugitive Schoolboys Who Grew Up to Change a Nation
Segregation and Struggle outside of the South
Anna Mae Duane
Edited by Brian Purnell and Jeanne Theoharis With Komozi Woodard
352 PG | PAPER | 9781479820337 | $30
Did American racism originate in the liberal North? An inquiry into the system of institutionalized racism created by Northern Jim Crow
The powerful story of two young men who changed the national debate about slavery
240 PG | PAPER | 9781479816712 | $16.95
Fight the Power
The Battle of Negro Fort
African Americans and the Long History of Police Brutality in New York City
The Rise and Fall of a Fugitive Slave Community Matthew J. Clavin
Clarence Taylor
The dramatic story of the United States’ destruction of a free and independent community of fugitive slaves in Spanish Florida
A story of resistance, power and politics as revealed through New York City’s complex history of police brutality
256 PG | PAPER | 9781479811083 | $24
256 PG | PAPER | 9781479811106 | $14.95
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INDIGENOUS HISTORY OWÓKNAGE
Châhkâpâs
Carry the Kettle First Nation Contributions by Jim Tanner, Tracey Tanner, David R. Miller and Peggy Martin McGuire
John Peastitute Edited by Marguerite MacKenzie Translated by Julie Brittain and Silas Nabinicaboo Illustrated by Elizabeth Jancewicz
The Story of Carry The Kettle Nakoda First Nation
A Naskapi Legend
The definitive story of the Nakoda people, in their own words
Shares the story of Châhkâpâs, a heroic figure in First Nations storytelling, who performs feats of strength and skill in spite of his diminutive size
Published by University of Regina Press 412 PG | PAPER | 9780889778146 | $34.95
264 PG | PAPER | 9780889778290 | $19.95
Published by University of Regina Press
THE BOY FROM BUZWAH
kayās nōhcīn
I Come from a Long Time Back Mary Louise Rockthunder Edited and translated by Jean L. Okimasis and Arok Wolvengrey
A Life in Indian Education Cecil King
A powerful memoir from an Indigenous educator.
The first published collection of stories as told by Mary Louise Rockthunder, a much-beloved storyteller of Cree, Saulteaux, and Nakoda heritage
Published by University of Regina Press
Published by University of Regina Press 356 PG | PAPER | 9780889778504 | $25.95
264 PG | PAPER | 9780889778368 | $19.95
ASIAN-AMERICAN HISTORY THE INTIMACIES OF CONFLICT
FRAMED BY WAR
Korean Children and Women at the Crossroads of US Empire
Cultural Memory and the Korean War
Susie Woo
Daniel Y. Kim
336 PG | PAPER | 9781479805365 | $29
Winner, 2020 Peter C Rollins Prize, given by the Northeast Popular & American Culture Association Enables a reckoning with the legacy of the Forgotten War through literary and cinematic works of cultural memory
FIERCE AND FEARLESS Patsy Takemoto Mink, First Woman of Color in Congress Judy Tzu-Chun Wu and Gwendolyn Mink
The first biography of trailblazing legislator Patsy Takemoto Mink, best known as the legislative champion of Title IX
An intimate portrait of the postwar lives of Korean children and women In Nation of Nations
336 PG | PAPER | 9781479880539 | $32
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456 PG | PAPER | 9781479831920 | $35
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EARLY AMERICAN PLACES IN PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE
AN EMPIRE TRANSFORMED
Black Women and Educational Activism in Antebellum America
Remolding Bodies and Landscapes in the Restoration Atlantic
Kabria Baumgartner
320 PG | PAPER | 9781479816729 | $23
Winner, 2021 AERA Outstanding Book Award Winner, 2020 Mary Kelley Book Prize, given by the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Winner, 2020 Outstanding Book Award, given by the History of Education Society
Kate Luce Mulry
Examines the efforts to bring political order to the English empire through projects of environmental improvement
376 PG | cloth | 9781479895267 | $35
DIVIDING THE FAITH
VEXED WITH DEVILS
The Rise of Segregated Churches in the Early American North
Manhood and Witchcraft in Old and New England
Richard J. Boles
Stories of witchcraft and demonic possession from early modern England through the last official trials in colonial New England
Erika Gasser
Uncovers the often overlooked participation of African Americans and Native Americans in early Protestant churches
344 PG | cloth | 9781479803187 | $35
272 PG | PAPER | 9781479871131 | $25
INN CIVILITY
PROPERTIES OF EMPIRE
Urban Taverns and Early American Civil Society
Indians, Colonists, and Land Speculators on the New England Frontier
Vaughn Scribner
Examines the critical role of urban taverns in the social and political life of colonial and revolutionary America
304 PG | CLOTH | 9781479864928 | $35
Ian Saxine
A fascinating history of a contested frontier, where struggles over landownership brought Native Americans and English colonists together 320 PG | cloth | 9781479832125 | $35
VAGRANTS AND VAGABONDS
SELLING THE SIGHTS
The Invention of the Tourist in American Culture
Poverty and Mobility in the Early American Republic
Will B. Mackintosh
A fascinating journey through the origins of American tourism
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 PG | CLOTH | 9781479845255 | $35
272 PG | cloth | 9781479889372 | $35
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US HISTORY SHORTLISTED
GILDED AGE COCKTAILS
Women in the Shadows of the Supreme Court
History, Lore, and Recipes from America’s Golden Age
Hannah Brenner Johnson and Renee Knake Jefferson Foreword by Melissa Murray
Cecelia Tichi
A delightful romp through America’s Golden Age of Cocktails
Best Book of 2020, National Law Journal The inspiring and previously untold history of the women considered—but not selected— for the US Supreme Court 304 PG | PAPER | 9781479811960 | $18.95
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In Washington Mews Books
176 PG | PAPER | 9781479805259 | $19.95
A VIEW FROM ABROAD
KABBALAH AND THE FOUNDING OF AMERICA
The Story of John and Abigail Adams in Europe Jeanne E. Abrams
The Early Influence of Jewish Thought in the New World
Reveals how the European travels of John and Abigail Adams helped define what it meant to be an American
296 PG | cloth | 9781479802876 | $27.95
Brian Ogren
Explores the influence of Kabbalah in shaping America’s religious identity
328 PG | CLOTH | 9781479807987 | $35
AMERICAN FATHERHOOD
THE PRESIDENTS AND THE CONSTITUTION, VOLUME ONE
A History
Jürgen Martschukat Translated by Petra Goedde
From the Founding Fathers to the Progressive Era
Explores the surprising diversity of fathers and fatherhood throughout American history and society
Edited by Ken Gormley
352 PG | cloth | 9781479892273 | $45
Shines a light on the constitutional issues that confronted and shaped each presidency from George Washington to the Progressive Era 416 PG | PAPER | 9781479802128 | $22
EMPIRE’S NURSERY
POCAHONTAS AND THE ENGLISH BOYS
Children’s Literature and the Origins of the American Century
Caught between Cultures in Early Virginia
Brian Rouleau
How children and children’s literature helped build America’s empire
320 PG | CLOTH | 9781479804474 | $35
Karen Ordahl Kupperman
The captivating story of four young people—English and Powhatan—who lived their lives between cultures
240 PG | PAPER | 9781479805983 | $15.95
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ACTIVISM WE ARE WORTH FIGHTING FOR
“LET US VOTE!”
Youth Voting Rights and the 26th Amendment
A History of the Howard University Student Protest of 1989
Jennifer Frost
The fascinating tale of how a bipartisan coalition worked successfully to lower the voting age
Joshua M. Myers
The Howard University protests from the perspective and worldview of its participants In Black Power
288 PG | PAPER | 9781479816767 | $16.95
284 PG | cloth | 9781479811328 | $39
UPENDING THE IVORY TOWER
DISSENTING POWS
From Vietnam’s Hoa Lo Prison to America Today
Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Ivy League
Tom Wilber and Jerry Lembcke
A fresh look at the resistance of US troops to the American war in Vietnam
Stefan M. Bradley
Published by Monthly Review Press
480 PG | PAPER | 9781479806027 | $25
160 PG | PAPER | 9781583679081 | $19
Winner, 2019 Anna Julia Cooper and C.L.R. James Award Finalist, 2019 Pauli Murray Book Prize in Black Intellectual History Winner, 2019 Outstanding Book Award, given by the History of Education Society
THE GLUCKSMAN IRISH DIASPORA SERIES AMERICA AND THE MAKING OF AN INDEPENDENT IRELAND
THE COFFIN SHIP
Life and Death at Sea during the Great Irish Famine Cian T. McMahon
A vivid, new portrait of Irish migration through the letters and diaries of those who fled their homeland during the Great Famine
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 312 PG | CLOTH | 9781479805655 | $35
328 PG | cloth | 9781479808762 | $35
CHANGING LAND Diaspora Activism and the Irish Land War
CONNECT WITH US!
Niall Whelehan
How diaspora activism in the Irish land movement intersected with wider radical and reform causes
@nyupress 216 PG | CLOTH | 9781479809554 | $30
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RELIGION & HISTORY THE CHURCH OF THE DEAD
THE MAKING OF AMERICAN CATHOLICISM
The Epidemic of 1576 and the Birth of Christianity in the Americas
Regional Culture and the Catholic Experience
Jennifer Scheper Hughes
Michael J. Pfeifer
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 264 PG | cloth | 9781479802555 | $35
In North American Religions
248 PG | PAPER | 9781479889426 | $30
CIVIL RELIGION TODAY
THE FIERCE LIFE OF GRACE HOLMES CARLSON
Religion and the American Nation in the Twenty-First Century
Catholic, Socialist, Feminist Donna T. Haverty-Stacke
Edited by Rhys H. Williams, Raymond Haberski Jr. and Philip Goff
Shares the story of the revolutionary Marxist and Catholic Grace Holmes Carlson and her life-long dedication to challenging social and economic inequality
Moves the discussion of American civil religion into the twenty-first century 240 PG | PAPER | 9781479809851 | $30
Traces the development of Catholic cultures in the South, the Midwest, the West, and the Northeast, and their contribution to larger patterns of Catholicism in the United States
312 PG | CLOTH | 9781479802180 | $50
SANCTIFIED SISTERS
THE COURSE OF GOD’S PROVIDENCE
A History of Protestant Deaconesses
Religion, Health, and the Body in Early America
Jenny Wiley Legath
The first history of the deaconess movement in the United States
Philippa Koch
Shows that a religious understanding of illness and health persisted well into postEnlightenment early America In North American Religions
288 PG | cloth | 9781479860630 | $35
280 PG | cloth | 9781479806683 | $39
OLD CANAAN IN A NEW WORLD
272 PG | CLOTH | 9781479866366 | $35
CHRISTIAN ANARCHIST
Native Americans and the Lost Tribes of Israel
Ammon Hennacy, A Life on the Catholic Left
Elizabeth Fenton
William Marling
Were indigenous Americans descendants of the lost tribes of Israel?
A biography of a remarkable figure, whose politics prefigured today’s social justice, ecology, and gender equality movements
336 PG | CLOTH | 9781479810079 | $45
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US CULTURE & POLICY MUSLIMS OF THE HEARTLAND
OPEN HEARTS, CLOSED DOORS
How Syrian Immigrants Made a Home in the American Midwest
Immigration Reform and the Waning of Mainline Protestantism
Edward E. Curtis IV
Nicholas T. Pruitt
Uncovers the surprising history of Muslim life in the early American Midwest
256 PG | cloth | 9781479812561 | $30
A history of mainline Protestant responses to immigrants and refugees during the twentieth century
296 PG | cloth | 9781479803545 | $45
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THE WAR ON DRUGS
The Crisis of Voter Suppression in America
A History
Edited by David Farber
Gilda R. Daniels
A revealing look at the history and legacy of the “War on Drugs”
An answer to the assault on voting rights—crucial reading in light of the 2020 presidential election
272 PG | PAPER | 9781479811984 | $16.95
376 PG | PAPER | 9781479811366 | $30
MONTHLY REVIEW PRESS BEYOND LEVIATHAN
NEW POLARIZATIONS AND OLD CONTRADICTIONS: THE CRISIS OF CENTRISM
Critique of the State
István Mészáros Edited by John Bellamy Foster
A field-defining masterwork, this posthumous publication maps the evolution of the idea of the state from ancient Greece to today
512 PG | paper | 9781583679494 | $34
Socialist Register 2022
Edited by Greg Albo and Colin Leys
Takes the buzzword “polarization” as its point of departure to describe the vast, and ever-growing economic inequality worldwide 320 PG | paper | 9781583679371 | $29
A LEFT GREEN NEW DEAL
A LAND WITH A PEOPLE
An Internationalist Blueprint
Palestinians and Jews Confront Zionism
Becker Riexinger, Lia Becker, Katharina Dahme and Christina Kaindl
Edited by Esther Farmer, Rosalind Pollack Petchesky and Sarah Sills
What does a successful socialist Green New Deal look like?
146 PG | PAPER | 9781583679456 | $17
A collection of personal stories, history, poetry, and art
184 PG | PAPER | 9781583679296 | $19
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WITS UNIVERSITY PRESS COLOUR, CLASS AND COMMUNITY THE NATAL INDIAN CONGRESS, 1971-1994
ARCHIVES OF TIMES PAST
Conversations about South Africa’s Deep History
Edited by Cynthia Kros, John Wright, Mbongiseni Buthelezi and Helen Ludlow
Ashwin Desai and Goolam Vahed
392 PG | paper | 9781776147151 | $30
Positions the history and inner workings of the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) against the canvas of the major political developments in South Africa during the 1970s and 1980s up to the first democratic elections in 1994
336 PG | paper | 9781776147274 | $35
CAN THEMBA
BONES AND BODIES
The Making and Breaking of the Intellectual Tsotsi, a Biography
How South African Scientists Studied Race
Siphiwo Mahala
Alan G Morris
Mahala’s biography gives insight into the life and writing of Can Themba (1924–1967), an iconic figure of the South African literary world and Drum journalist who died in exile
312 PG | PAPER | 9781776147311 | $30
This volume critically examines sources of evidence and material from the archive that historically have been used to tell southern Africa’s precolonial story.
Critically examines the history of evolutionary anthropology in South Africa, uncovering the often racist philosophical motivations of these physical anthropology researchers and the discipline itself
304 PG | paper | 9781776147236 | $30
GREAT FOR COURSES WARFARE AND CULTURE IN WORLD HISTORY
CLIPPED WINGS
The Rise and Fall of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) of World War II
Second Edition
Molly Merryman
Edited by Wayne E. Lee
Revives the overlooked stories of pioneering women aviators, who are also featured in the documentary film Coming Home: Fight for a Legacy
An expanded edition of the leading text on military history and the role of culture on the battlefield
368 PG | paper | 9781479862436 | $30
280 PG | paper | 9781479805785 | $30
SUGAR, CIGARS, AND REVOLUTION
FIRST LADIES OF THE REPUBLIC
The Making of Cuban New York
Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, Dolley Madison, and the Creation of an Iconic American Role
Lisandro Pérez
400 PG | PAPER | 9780814767283 | $24
Winner, 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, given by La Casa de las Américas
Jeanne E. Abrams
How the three inaugural First Ladies defined the role for future generations, and carved a space for women in America 328 PG | paper | 9781479890507 | $18.95
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