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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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