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SYMBOLS OF FREEDOM

Slavery and Resistance Before the Civil War

Matthew J. Clavin How American symbols inspired enslaved people and allies to fight for true freedom

THE MUSEUM

A Short History of Crisis and Resilience

Samuel J. Redman

“Convincingly, succinctly, and accessibly argues that ‘museums as institutions have proven extraordinarily durable as cultural concepts’.”  —Museum History Journal

JEWISH SOLDIERS IN THE CIVIL WAR

The Union Army Adam D. Mendelsohn

“The most significant reexamination of American Jewry and the Civil War in over seventy years.”

—Jonathan D. Sarna, Joseph H. & Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History, Brandeis University

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groundbreaking way of investigating a traumatic period in history,
Irish history,
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The True Story of the Immigrant Cops Who Fought the Rise of the Mafia Paul Moses The inside story of the NYPD’s detectives who fought both gangsters and prejudice against their own beloved immigrant community 304 PP | CLOTH | $30 9781479823246
“A
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Jones
untold story of a dynamic student movement on one of the nation’s most important historically Black campuses 352 PP | CLOTH | $49 9781479885084 PASIFIKA BLACK Oceania, Anti-colonialism, and the African World Quito Swan A lively living history of anti-colonialist movements across the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans 288 PP | PAPER | $17 9781479816767
A History of the Howard University Student Protest of 1989 Joshua M. Myers
Howard University protests from the perspective and worldview of its participants 312 PP | CLOTH | $39 9781479847679 DARK AGORAS Insurgent Black Social Life and the Politics of Place J. T. Roane A history of Black urban placemaking and politics in Philadelphia from the Great Migration to the era of Black Power 248 PP | PAPER | $17 9781479816705
Life and Death of a Harper’s Ferry Raider
A. DeCaro, Jr.
emerges is a portrait of a man willing to die if it meant an end to slavery.”  —Library Journal 320 PP | PAPER | $23 9781479816729 IN PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE Black Women and Educational Activism in Antebellum America Kabria Baumgartner Uncovers the hidden role of women in the desegregation of American education In Early American Places 240 PP | PAPER | $17 9781479816712
The Incredible Story of Two Fugitive Schoolboys Who Grew Up to Change a Nation
Mae Duane
powerful story of two young men who changed the national debate about slavery
THE TUSKEGEE STUDENT UPRISING
History Brian
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IN DEPENDENCE

Women

Jacqueline Beatty

Examines the role of the American Revolution in the everyday lives of women

KEEPING FAMILY SECRETS

Shame and Silence in Memoirs from the 1950s Margaret K. Nelson

From teen pregnancy to gay sexuality and communism to disability, the startling secrets that families kept during the Cold War era

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ON THE RISING SUN

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collection of essays explores baseball
Jackie Robinson’s
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—USA Today 304 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479849123 INDIGENOUS MEMORY, URBAN REALITY Stories of American Indian Relocation and Reclamation Michelle R. Jacobs Contemporary accounts of urban Native identity in two pan-Indian communities 280 PP | CLOTH | $25 9781479812486
Tragic Tale of Slavery, Smuggling, and Chocolate Jared Ross Hardesty
swashbuckling tale of mutiny and murder illustrating the
of smuggling and slavery
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VERNACULAR RELIGION

Collected Essays of Leonard Norman Primiano

Edited by Deborah Dash Moore

A comprehensive collection of the pioneering work of Leonard Norman Primiano, one of the preeminent scholars in religious studies

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

OF

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Rights
440 PP | CLOTH | $35 9781479819430 JEWS IN THE SOVIET UNION: A HISTORY War, Conquest, and Catastrophe, 1939–1945, Volume 3 Oleg Budnitskii, David Engel, Gennady Estraikh, and Anna Shternshis Provides a comprehensive history of Soviet Jewry during WWII 432 PP | CLOTH | $35 9781479819461 JEWS IN THE SOVIET UNION: A HISTORY
Stalin, 1953–1967, Volume 5
Estraikh Offers an analysis of
272 PP | CLOTH | $39 9781479822270 JEWISH SUNDAY SCHOOLS Teaching Religion in Nineteenth-Century America
Yares Charts how changes to Jewish education
the 19th century served as a site for the wholescale reimagining of Judaism itself 344 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479818679
IN THE SHADOW
EBENEZER A Black Catholic Parish in the Age of Civil
and Vatican II Leah Mickens Uncovers how the Civil Rights Movement and Vatican II affected African American Catholics in Atlanta
After
Gennady
Soviet Jewish society after the death of Joseph Stalin
Laura
in
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Americans
Lost
Were indigenous Americans descendants of the lost tribes
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OLD CANAAN IN A NEW WORLD Native
and the
Tribes of Israel Elizabeth Fenton
of Israel?
RELIGION AND HISTORY

STAY COOL

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Why Dark Comedy Matters in the Fight Against Climate Change Aaron Sachs How gallows humor can bolster us to confront global warming 304 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479812776 THE RACIAL RAILROAD Julia H. Lee Reveals the legacy of the train as a critical site of race in the United States 312 PP | PAPER | $29 9781479806843
Performance, Civil Rights, and the Unfinished Project of Emancipation Julius B. Fleming Jr. A bold rethinking of the Civil Rights Movement through the lens of Black theater In Performance and American Cultures 240 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479818402 THE PRIVILEGE OF PLAY A History of Hobby Games, Race, and Geek Culture Aaron Trammell The story of white masculinity in geek culture through a history of hobby gaming In Postmillennial Pop 288 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479818310 336 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479812400 THE UNINTENDED Photography, Property, and the Aesthetics of Racial Capitalism Monica Huerta Reimagines photography through the long history of ideas of expression In America and the Long 19th Century 216 PP | PAPER | $28 9781479808205 HIP HOP HERESIES Queer Aesthetics in New York City Shanté Paradigm Smalls Unearths the queer aesthetic origins of NYC hip hop In Postmillennial Pop THE TWO REVOLUTIONS A History of the Transgender Internet Avery Dame-Griff The internet origins of the American transgender movement In Queer / Trans / Digital
BLACK PATIENCE

SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Kathleen Barry

Brings

BLACK IN LATIN AMERICA

Henry

THE COLUMBIAN ORATOR

Edited by David W. Blight

An 1797 publication of Enlightenment era thought, read by virtually every American schoolboy in the early 19th century

THE ETHICS OF LIBERTY

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Slave, Prophet, Legend Carleton Mabee
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Moses
Louis Gates, Jr.
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The history of how six Latin American countries acknowledge—or deny— their African past
Rothbard
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Murray N.
The authoritative text on

From

From World War I to the Trump Era

Edited by Ken Gormley

A revealing look at the constitutional issues that confronted and shaped each presidency from Woodrow Wilson through Donald J. Trump

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THE PRESIDENTS AND THE CONSTITUTION, VOLUME TWO
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EDITION
CRITICAL RACE THEORY, FOURTH
Introduction
Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic
Theory
A new edition of a seminal text in Critical Race
363 PP | PAPER | $27 9781479806898 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 351 PP | PAPER | $28 9781479886036 272 PP | PAPER | $30 9781479820153 THE GARDEN POLITIC Global Plants and Botanical Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century America Mary Kuhn How new botanical ideas enabled Americans to radically re-envision politics and society In America and the Long 19th Century 384 PP | PAPER | $38 9781479810390
AND US
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RELIGION
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In North American Religions WE
Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement Akinyele Omowale Umoja
Movement
A bold and exciting historical narrative of the armed resistance of Black soldiers of the Mississippi Freedom
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The Story of Carry The Kettle Nakoda First Nation Carry the Kettle First Nation The definitive story of the Nakoda people, in their own words 356 PP | PAPER | $26 9780889778504 THE BOY FROM BUZWAH A Life in Indian Education Cecil King A powerful memoir from an Indigenous educator 392 PP | PAPER | $20 9780889778573 UNSETTLED A Reckoning on the Great Plains Dawn Morgan A probing memoir examining family tragedy on the Great Plains 304 PP | PAPER | $35 9780889778719 THE ECOLOGICAL BUFFALO On the Trail of a Keystone Species Wes Olson An expert on the buffalo tells the history of this keystone species through extensive research and beautiful photographs 320 PP | PAPER | $27 9780889779228 WHO GETS IN An Immigration Story Norman Ravvin A Jewish immigration story, from Poland to the Canadian Prairies in the early 1930s 240 PP | PAPER | $23 9781613322031 A PEACEFUL SUPERPOWER Lessons from the World’s Largest Antiwar Movement David Cortright The story of dramatic events told by distiguished peace scholar and activist David Cortright 320 PP | PAPER | $27 9781613321508 TALKING TO THE GIRLS Intimate and Political Essays on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Edited by Edvige Giunta and Mary Anne Trasciatti Candid and intimate accounts of the factoryworker tragedy that shaped American labor rights
OWÓKNAGE

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RADEK A Novel Stefan Heym
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Angus
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by Ben Wilkins The collected writings, speeches, and letters of renowned freedom fighter Anne Braden ENDLESS HOLOCAUSTS Mass Death in the History of the United States Empire David Michael Smith An argument against the myth of “American exceptionalism”
THE WAR AGAINST
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Ian
A unique historical account of
peoples’ self-
in the face
of
Edited
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