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Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women

The Jim Crow Routine Everyday Performances of Race, Civil Rights, and Segregation in Mississippi

EDITED BY MIA E. BAY, FARAH J. GRIFFIN, MARTHA S. JONES, AND BARBARA D. SAVAGE

STEPHEN A. BERREY The South’s system of Jim Crow racial oppression is usually understood in terms of legal segregation that mandated the separation of white and black Americans. Yet, as Stephen A. Berrey shows, it was also a high-stakes drama that played out in the routines of everyday life, where blacks and whites regularly interacted on sidewalks and buses and in businesses and homes. Every day, individuals made, unmade, and remade Jim Crow in how they played their racial roles—how they moved, talked, even gestured. The highly visible but often subtle nature of these interactions constituted the Jim Crow routine.

Despite recent advances in the study of black thought, black women intellectuals remain often neglected. This collection of essays by fifteen scholars of history and literature establishes black women’s places in intellectual history by engaging the work of writers, educators, activists, religious leaders, and social reformers in the United States, Africa, and the Caribbean. Dedicated to recovering the contributions of thinkers marginalized by both their race and their gender, these essays uncover the work of unconventional intellectuals, both formally educated and self-taught, and explore the broad community of ideas in which their work participated. The end result is a field-defining and innovative volume that addresses topics ranging from religion and slavery to the politicized and gendered reappraisal of the black female body in contemporary culture.

stephen a. berrey is assistant professor of American culture and history at the University of Michigan.

“Stephen Berrey has written the cultural history of Jim Crow’s demise in Mississippi. To a degree unmatched by previous scholars, he emphasizes the everyday interactions and cultural dynamics of a transformation more commonly viewed through the lens of politics, law, economics, and social movements. His study opens up new avenues of inquiry and forever alters how scholars will think and write about the life, death, and legacies of Jim Crow.”

—Jason Morgan Ward, author of Defending White Democracy: The Making of a Segregationist Movement and the Remaking of Racial Politics, 1936–1965

mia e. bay is professor of history at Rutgers University. farah j. griffin is William B. Ransford Professor of English and Comparative Literature and African-American Studies at Columbia University. martha s. jones is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor at the University of Michigan. barbara d. savage is Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

“In his beautiful and important book, Stephen Berrey examines the performance of segregation to uncover the nuances and ambiguities that characterized blacks’ and whites’ daily experience of Jim Crow in Mississippi in the 1950s and 1960s. The Jim Crow Routine is a groundbreaking examination of southern black agency in conflict with southern white oppression.”

—Grace Hale, University of Virginia

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“Groundbreaking and indispensable, Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women may very well become a benchmark study and paradigm-altering work in the field of intellectual history. There are no other books like it. Period.”

—Davarian L. Baldwin, Trinity College

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Chained in Silence

Oberlin, Hotbed of Abolitionism

Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South

College, Community, and the Fight for Freedom and Equality in Antebellum America

TALITHA L. LEFLOURIA

J.BRENT MORRIS

In 1868, the state of Georgia began to make its rapidly growing population of prisoners available for hire. The resulting convict leasing system ensnared not only men but also African American women, who were forced to labor in camps and factories to make profits for private investors. In this vivid work of history, Talitha L. LeFlouria draws from a rich array of primary sources to piece together the stories of these women, recounting what they endured in Georgia’s prison system and what their labor accomplished.

By exploring the role of Oberlin—the college and the community—in fighting against slavery and for social equality, Morris establishes this “hotbed of abolitionism” as the core of the antislavery movement in the West and as one of the most influential reform groups in antebellum America. Though historians have embraced Oberlin as a potent symbol of egalitarianism, radicalism, and religious zeal, Morris is the first to portray the complete history behind this iconic antislavery symbol.

talitha l. leflouria is assistant professor of history at Florida Atlantic University. Her research was featured in the documentary Slavery by Another Name, based on Douglas A. Blackmon's Pulitzer Prize–winning book.

j. brent morris is assistant professor of history at the University of South Carolina Beaufort.

“Oberlin, Hotbed of Abolitionism is a superbly conceptualized and deeply researched book that makes an important contribution to abolition studies, utopian studies, and studies of antebellum reform. It is the first book to explore in detail Oberlin’s role in ending slavery and obtaining social equality. More than any other study, it highlights the role of western reserve abolition societies in precipitating war and ending slavery.”

—John Stauffer, Harvard University

Justice, Power, and Politics

“This bold, brilliant, beautifully written book—a significant contribution to the fields of prison history, southern history, African American history, and gender studies—shows why charting the struggles in convict women’s lives matters for understanding the emergence of modernity in the New South.

Talitha L. LeFlouria rejects a recent and popular thesis that convict labor was simply slavery that persisted, while also illuminating how beliefs about race and sex forged in slavery carried on to shape modernity and the prison system.”

—Mary Ellen Curtin, American University

“This book stands as a very well-written, tightly focused, and deeply ramifying history. J. Brent Morris narrates Oberlin’s long-term importance in the struggle to end slavery and racial injustice during the nineteenth century. Illuminating the national importance of what we often think of as a highly local story, it is an important piece of scholarship and a very enjoyable read.”

—Richard S. Newman, Rochester Institute of Technology

“Every page of Chained in Silence is a revelation. The author connects the hideous conditions that black female convicts endured with the emergence of white business supremacy and the modernization of the South. LeFlouria skillfully illuminates the ties between gender, racism, and labor exploitation in the making of the New South. This book is destined to play an integral role in contemporary debates on mass incarceration and prison reform.”

—Paul Ortiz, University of Florida

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Captive Nation

The Struggle for Equal Adulthood

Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era

Gender, Race, Age, and the Fight for Citizenship in Antebellum America

DAN BERGER

CORINNE T. FIELD

In this pathbreaking book, Berger offers a bold reconsideration of twentieth century black activism, the prison system, and the origins of mass incarceration. Showing that the prison was a central focus of the black radical imagination from the 1950s through the 1980s, Berger traces the dynamic and dramatic history of this political struggle.

In the fight for equality, early feminists often cited the infantilization of women and men of color as a method used to keep them out of power. Field argues that attaining adulthood—and the associated political rights, economic opportunities, and sexual power that come with it—became a common goal for both white and African American feminists between the American Revolution and the Civil War. The idea that black men and all women were more like children than adult white men proved difficult to overcome, however, and continued to serve as a foundation for racial and sexual inequality for generations.

dan berger is assistant professor of comparative ethnic studies at the University of Washington Bothell.

Justice, Power, and Politics

“Captive Nation is truly brilliant and innovative. This thoroughly researched book makes an important contribution to a number of historical and interdisciplinary fields. It is a well-written and well-researched exploration of the role prisoners played in global movements against racism. It will certainly assume its rightful place at the head of the line in the emerging field of prisoner rights and radicalism in the postwar United States."

—Donna Murch, author of Living for the City: Migration, Education, and the Rise of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California

corinne t. field is a lecturer in the Corcoran Department of History and the Women, Gender, Sexuality Program at the University of Virginia.

Gender and American Culture

“In this book, Corinne T. Field not only illuminates a significant issue for feminists and abolitionists, but she also shows how adulthood united these two movements, if only fleetingly. A pleasure to read and an important contribution to the history of women, race, and citizenship in the United States.”

—Carol Faulkner, Syracuse University

“In this richly documented and powerfully told history, Dan Berger reveals how the seeds of mass incarceration were sown inside a larger war on black liberation movements. He beautifully restores the central role that prisoners and prison organizing played in those movements. This is an urgent account of a dynamic and complex black radical movement whose profound impact could not be contained behind bars.”

—Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination

“The Struggle for Equal Adulthood is intellectually and conceptually brilliant. A gratifying, tightly focused, and rigorously argued text, it approaches its topic with clarity and verve.

Corinne T. Field has written a compelling book that will contribute to both women’s and African American history.”

—Barbara Dianne Savage, University of Pennsylvania

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Lynched

Crescent City Girls

The Victims of Southern Mob Violence

The Lives of Young Black Women in Segregated New Orleans

AMY KATE BAILEY AND STEWART E. TOLNAY

LAKISHA MICHELLE SIMMONS

On July 9, 1883, twenty men stormed the jail in Morehouse Parish, Louisiana, kidnapped Henderson Lee, a black man charged with larceny, and hanged him. Events like this occurred thousands of times across the American South in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, yet we know scarcely more about any of these other victims than we do about Henderson Lee. Drawing on new sources to provide the most comprehensive portrait of the men and women lynched in the American South, Amy Bailey and Stewart Tolnay's revealing profiles and careful analysis begin to restore the identities of—and lend dignity to— hundreds of lynching victims about whom we have known little more than their names and alleged offenses.

What was it like to grow up black and female in the segregated South? To answer this question, LaKisha Simmons blends social history and cultural studies, recreating children’s streets and neighborhoods within Jim Crow New Orleans and offering a rare look into black girls’ personal lives. Simmons argues that these children faced the difficult task of adhering to middle-class expectations of purity and respectability even as they encountered the daily realities of Jim Crow violence, which included interracial sexual aggression, street harassment, and presumptions of black girls’ impurity. lakisha michelle simmons is assistant professor of global gender studies at the University at Buffalo, SUNY.

amy kate bailey is assistant professor of sociology at the University of Illinois–Chicago.

“Crescent City Girls is a provocative, insightful, and important perspective on the complexities of black female childhood in the Jim Crow South. Simmons not only fills an important gap in the scholarship regarding how we might understand the interiority of black girls’ lives; her work also raises new questions and insights about the different ways that black communities navigated the South’s racialized and gendered violence.”

—Cheryl D. Hicks, author of Talk with You Like a Woman: African American Women, Justice, and Reform in New York, 1930–1935

stewart e. tolnay is S. Frank Miyamoto Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington.

“This timely book is a major contribution to the scholarship on lynching that shifts our attention from the event—the act of murder—to the victims. Bringing new degrees of detail and clarity to our understanding of lynching, Amy Bailey and Stewart Tolnay restore a measure of identity to the hundreds of lynching victims who otherwise are barely known.”

—W. Fitzhugh Brundage, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

“This book is like a quilt as it pieces together many fragments to tell a rich and fascinating story. I see it as part of a new scholarship that looks at historical questions from a different angle, making a significant contribution.”

—Elizabeth Higginbotham, University of Delaware

“Lynched breaks new ground with a truly impressive data collection effort that allows the authors to ask and analyze new and important questions about lynching. It allows us to consider the extent to which our theories of racial violence hold water when confronted with evidence about the attributes of individual victims. The authors present their work in a way that is both accessible to a general audience and also deeply meaningful for ongoing debates about conflict and racial violence.”

—Rory McVeigh, University of Notre Dame

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The Product of Our Souls

Country Soul

Ragtime, Race, and the Birth of the Manhattan Musical Marketplace

Making Music and Making Race in the American South

DAVID GILBERT

CHARLES L. HUGHES

In 1912 James Reese Europe made history by conducting his 125–member Clef Club Orchestra at Carnegie Hall.

The first concert by an African American ensemble at the esteemed venue was more than just a concert—it was a political act of desegregation, a defiant challenge to the status quo in American music.

In this book, David Gilbert explores how Europe and other African American performers, at the height of Jim Crow, transformed their racial difference into the mass-market commodity known as “black music.” Gilbert shows how Europe and others used the rhythmic sounds of ragtime, blues, and jazz to construct new representations of black identity, challenging many of the nation’s preconceived ideas about race, culture, and modernity and setting off a musical craze in the process.

In the sound of the 1960s and 1970s, nothing symbolized the rift between black and white America better than the seemingly divided genres of country and soul. Yet the music emerged from the same songwriters, musicians, and producers in the recording studios of Memphis and Nashville, Tennessee, and Muscle Shoals, Alabama—what Charles L. Hughes calls the “country-soul triangle.” In legendary studios like Stax and FAME, integrated groups of musicians like Booker T. and the MGs and the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section produced music that both challenged and reconfirmed racial divisions in the United States. Working with artists from Aretha Franklin to Willie Nelson, these musicians became crucial contributors to the era’s popular music and internationally recognized symbols of American racial politics in the turbulent years of civil rights protests, Black Power, and white backlash.

david gilbert received a Ph.D. in U.S. history from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

charles l. hughes is assistant professor of history at Oklahoma State University.

“The Product of Our Souls has the potential to be one of the most important works of urban cultural history produced in the last twenty years. For so long, the stories of the Johnson Brothers, the Marshall Hotel, James Reese Europe, and others have been used to close the curtains on minstrelsy or open the doors of the New Negro Renaissance. But here we see a cogent and fully developed story of its own, the story of a ragtime modernity, the period where race is identified as a key conduit in the creation of the American musical marketplace.”

—Davarian L. Baldwin, author of Chicago’s New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, and Black Urban Life

“With Country Soul, Charles L. Hughes offers a much-needed revisionist history of southern soul and country music, one that takes the music and musicians seriously while remaining critical of both the contemporary racial politics of the music business and the accumulated romanticism of the surrounding scholarship. It's a massive achievement and a gentle ode to the legacy of musicians who built American culture before being tossed out of the history books.”

—Karl Hagstrom Miller, University of Virginia

“You might think you already know the story of the birth of ragtime, but The Product of Our Souls gives us an entirely fresh look at this musical expression of African American modernity.

David Gilbert provides readers with a new understanding of the creative autonomy and power of African American composers, musicians, and playwrights as they shaped the future of American popular music in relation to white supremacy and an emerging consumer culture.”

—Barry Shank, author of The Political Force of Musical Beauty

“The sweet sounds of Soul make it easy to imagine an American South that, perhaps, never existed, where the music had folk dancing across color lines. Those lines remain intact in this exhaustively researched and provocative book. In it, Charles L. Hughes celebrates the most American of American music and the genius of musicians who may not have changed the world, but certainly made the world a better-sounding place.”

—Mark Anthony Neal, author Soul Babies: Black Popular Culture and the Post-Soul Aesthetic

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Mobilizing New York

System Kids

AIDS, Antipoverty, and Feminist Activism

Adolescent Mothers and the Politics of Regulation

TAMAR W. CARROLL

LAUREN J. SILVER

Examining three interconnected case studies, Tamar Carroll powerfully demonstrates the ability of grassroots community activism to bridge racial and cultural differences and effect social change.

Drawing on a rich array of oral histories, archival records, newspapers, films, and photographs from post–World War II New York City, Carroll shows how poor people transformed the antipoverty organization Mobilization for Youth and shaped the subsequent War on Poverty. Carroll contends that social policies that encourage the political mobilization of marginalized groups and foster coalitions across identity differences are the most effective means of solving social problems and realizing democracy.

Lauren Silver considers the daily lives of adolescent mothers as they negotiate the child welfare system to meet the needs of their children and themselves. Often categorized as dependent and delinquent, these young women routinely become wards of the state as they move across the legal and social borders of a fragmented urban bureaucracy. Combining critical policy study and ethnography, and drawing on current scholarship as well as her own experience as a welfare program manager, Silver demonstrates how social welfare “silos” construct the lives of youth as disconnected, reinforcing unforgiving policies and imposing demands on women the system was intended to help.

tamar w. carroll is assistant professor of history at Rochester Institute of Technology.

lauren j. silver is assistant professor of childhood studies at Rutgers University-Camden.

“Lauren Silver writes about young mothers’ experiences navigating child welfare systems with detailed intimacy. Silver’s previous experience as a social services program manager alongside her close and insightful scholarly observations and analysis challenge us to reimagine what our systems can be. I hope her challenges and suggestions will be read widely and taken up by youth policy workers, analysts, and theorists.”

—Wanda Pillow, University of Utah

Gender and American Culture

“Carroll has captured the New York I grew up in, evoking the creativity and emotional power of social activism in the 1960s and of people unified across lines of class, race, and gender, struggling to keep hold of the working-class soul of the city.”

—Annelise Orleck, author of Common Sense and a Little Fire: Women and Working-Class Politics in the United States, 1900–1965

“Beautifully written and meticulously researched, System Kids is an outstanding account of young mothers caught up in the child welfare system. Lauren Silver shows how these mothers’ lives crisscross a variety of state arenas—from systems of welfare to health care to education to mental health to criminal justice. In the process, Silver reveals how social power operates through a complex matrix of gender, race, class, and age divisions that deepen the culture of fear surrounding these women. She also exposes how the young women develop complex strategies to negotiate among the different, and often contradictory, demands placed on them by these public institutions. System Kids is a rare achievement: it combines insightful social analysis with innovative policy recommendations, while remaining close to—and thoroughly honest about—young mothers’ lived experiences.”

—Lynne Haney, New York University

“Much of the evidence in this book flies in the face of stereotypes about the second-wave feminist movement and frames its history in new ways. This is a very valuable study.”

—Sara Evans, University of Minnesota

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The Life and Times of Elijah Muhammad

Family Bonds Free Blacks and Re-enslavement Law in Antebellum Virginia

CLAUDE ANDREW CLEGG III

TED MARIS-WOLF Elijah Muhammad was one of the most significant and controversial black leaders of the twentieth century. His followers called him the Messenger of Allah, while his critics labeled him a teacher of hate. Southern by birth, Muhammad moved north, eventually serving as the influential head of the Nation of Islam for over forty years. Clegg not only chronicles Muhammad’s life, but also examines the history of American black nationalists and the relationship between Islam and the African American experience.

Between 1854 and 1864, more than a hundred free African Americans in Virginia proposed to enslave themselves and, in some cases, their children. Ted Maris-Wolf explains this phenomenon as a response to state legislation that forced free African Americans to make a terrible choice: leave enslaved loved ones behind for freedom elsewhere or seek a way to remain in their communities, even by renouncing legal freedom. Maris-Wolf paints an intimate portrait of these people whose lives, liberty, and use of Virginia law offer new understandings of race and place in the upper South.

claude clegg III teaches history at Indiana University at Bloomington. He is the author of The Price of Liberty: African Americans and the Making of Liberia.

ted maris-wolf is a historian at The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.

“The Life and Times of Elijah Muhammad is impressive, punctiliously researched, and persuasively argued. In telling Elijah Muhammad’s story, Claude Clegg III has created a tour de force study of African American life and culture in the twentieth century.”

—Michael A. Gomez, New York University

“Maris-Wolf breaks new ground in the study of free African Americans in the antebellum South, challenging previous scholars’ interpretations of why, at the height of pre–Civil War repression, free black Americans chose to enslave themselves.

His style is smart, engaging, and grounded in social history, making Family Bonds a pleasure to read.”

—Martha S. Jones, author of All Bound Up Together: The Woman Question in African American Public Culture, 1830– 1900

“I can think of no twentieth-century leader with anything like the impact of Elijah Muhammad whose life has been so profoundly unexamined. [Clegg] has brought Muhammad to light in a fluidly written biography rich with information, analysis and suspense.”

—The New York Times Book Review

“The depth of the research here is remarkable and enthralling.

This is the first study of its kind and makes a strong contribution to what we know about the meaning of liberty, freedom, and slavery.”

—Loren Schweninger, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

“An impressively perceptive and valuable book . . . A major contribution to African-American history that ought to be read by anyone interested in Malcolm X.” —David J. Garrow, in Newsday

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Lincoln’s Autocrat

Through the Heart of Dixie

The Life of Edwin Stanton

Sherman’s March and American Memory

WILLIAM MARVEL

ANNE SARAH RUBIN

Edwin M. Stanton (1814– 1869), one of the nineteenth century’s most impressive legal and political minds, wielded enormous influence and power as Lincoln’s Secretary of War during most of the Civil War and under Johnson during the early years of Reconstruction.

In the first full biography of Stanton in more than fifty years, William Marvel offers a detailed reexamination of Stanton’s life, career, and legacy. Marvel argues that while Stanton was a formidable advocate and politician, his character was hardly benign. Climbing from a difficult youth to the pinnacle of power, Stanton used his authority—and the public coffers—to pursue political vendettas, and he exercised sweeping wartime powers with a cavalier disregard for civil liberties.

Sherman’s March, cutting a path through Georgia and the Carolinas, is among the most symbolically potent events of the Civil War. Rubin uncovers and unpacks stories and myths about the March from a wide variety of sources, including African Americans, women, Union soldiers, Confederates, and even Sherman himself.

Drawing her evidence from an array of media, including travel accounts, memoirs, literature, films, and newspapers, Rubin uses the competing and contradictory stories as a lens into the ways that American thinking about the Civil War has changed over time. anne sarah rubin is associate professor of history at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and the author of A Shattered Nation: The Rise and Fall of the Confederacy, 1861–1868.

william marvel’s many books include A Place Called

Civil War America

Appomattox, Andersonville: The Last Depot, Lincoln’s Darkest Year, and Tarnished Victory.

“Anne Sarah Rubin’s Through the Heart of Dixie is a valuable exploration of the myriad ways Americans—from Union soldiers to freepeople to white southern women—have struggled to interpret Sherman’s March through Georgia and the Carolinas, serving up a provocative assessment of its cultural legacy to the present time.”

—Joan Waugh, author of U. S. Grant, American Hero, American Myth

Civil War America

“This is easily the most comprehensive biography of Edwin M. Stanton ever written. Lincoln’s Autocrat will doubtless stir debate over both Stanton’s character and his role in the war, but that is clearly this book’s very purpose. Marvel’s erudite and probing interpretation will unquestionably stand as the definitive biography of this overlooked key player in Lincoln’s cabinet for the current, and likely the next, generation of readers.”

—Daniel E. Sutherland, author of A Savage Conflict: The Role of Guerrillas in the American Civil War

“Drawing on an impressive range of source material, Rubin considers a wide variety of views and actors, from participants and witnesses to novelists and filmmakers.”

—America’s Civil War

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“With Lincoln’s Autocrat, William Marvel has delivered another fine book, prodigiously researched and told in his trademark lucid, fast-paced narrative style. A seasoned scholar, Marvel casts his net wide in evaluating Stanton and his contribution to the war and to the political culture of the postwar period, navigating the intersections of the era’s legal system and the convoluted political culture like only a writer such as he can.”

—Stephen D. Engle, author of Don Carlos Buell: Most Promising of All

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The Battle of Ezra Church and the Struggle for Atlanta

A Gunner in Lee’s Army

EARL J. HESS

EDITED BY GRAHAM T. DOZIER

The Civil War Letters of Thomas Henry Carter Foreword by Peter S. Carmichael

Fought on July 28, 1864, the Battle of Ezra Church was a dramatic engagement during the Civil War’s Atlanta Campaign. Hess’s compelling study is the first book-length account of the fighting at Ezra Church. Detailing Lee’s tactical missteps and Howard’s vigilant leadership, he challenges many common misconceptions about the battle. Richly narrated and drawn from an array of unpublished manuscripts and firsthand accounts, Hess’s work sheds new light on the complexities and significance of this important engagement, both on and off the battlefield.

In May 1861, Virginian Thomas Henry Carter (1831– 1908) raised an artillery battery and joined the Confederate army. Over the next four years, he rose steadily in rank from captain to colonel, placing him among the senior artillerists in Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. Dozier offers the definitive edition of Carter’s letters, meticulously transcribed and carefully annotated. This impressive collection brings to light Carter’s unvarnished opinions of the people and events that shaped his wartime experience and sheds new light on Lee’s army and Confederate life in Virginia.

earl j. hess is Stewart W. McClelland Chair in History at Lincoln

graham t. dozier is managing editor of publications at the

Memorial University and author of many books on the Civil War, including Kennesaw Mountain: Sherman, Johnston, and the Atlanta Campaign and The Civil War in the West.

Virginia Historical Society.

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“Col. Tom Carter belongs on any short list of the bright young artillerists who made Lee’s ‘Long Arm’ famous, in company with Pelham, Pegram, Alexander, and Huger. His smart and perceptive letters, skillfully edited by Graham Dozier, make one of the best primary sources on the Army of Northern Virginia to reach print in recent memory.”

—Robert K. Krick, author of The Smoothbore Volley That Doomed the Confederacy and Stonewall Jackson at Cedar Mountain.

“Exploring a pivotal but often overlooked battle in the Civil War, The Battle of Ezra Church is the first book-length examination of the battle of Ezra Church. Well written and well researched, this book offers invaluable descriptions of troop movements and battle actions, as well as keen analysis of strategy and how individual battles fit into the larger context of the Atlanta Campaign. In his account of this bloody conflict, Earl Hess reminds us that he is one of the finest Civil War historians writing today.”

—Keith S. Bohannon, University of West Georgia

“A Gunner in Lee’s Army comprises the best published recollections we have of a Virginia artillery commander. In over 100 letters to his wife, Carter was extremely observant as well as highly opinionated about military actions and individual officers. Superbly edited, this book is a necessary source for any study of the Army of Northern Virginia.”

—James I. Robertson Jr., author of Stonewall Jackson

“This excellent study builds on Earl Hess’s earlier work on Sherman’s Atlanta campaign, providing a gripping treatment of the last in a series of bloody engagements near the city in July 1864. The narrative reflects the author’s sure grasp of sources, keen eye for biographical detail, and ability to evoke the drama and complexity of major military events. Anyone interested in the campaign that brought a sea change in both Union and Confederate national morale in 1864 will read this book with profit.”

—Gary W. Gallagher, author of The Union War

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The Ordeal of the Reunion

Defining Duty in the Civil War

A New History of Reconstruction

Personal Choice, Popular Culture, and the Union Home Front

MARK WAHLGREN SUMMERS

J. MATTHEW GALLMAN

For a generation, scholarship on the Reconstruction era has rightly focused on the struggles of the recently emancipated for a meaningful freedom and defined its success or failure largely in those terms. Summers goes beyond this vitally important question, focusing on Reconstruction’s need to form an enduring Union without sacrificing the framework of federalism and republican democracy. This book offers a fresh explanation for Reconstruction’s demise and a case for its essential successes as well as its great failures. Indeed, this book demonstrates the extent to which the victors’ aims in 1865 were met—and at what cost.

The Civil War thrust Americans onto unfamiliar terrain, as two competing societies mobilized for four years of bloody conflict. Concerned Northerners turned to the print media for guidance on how to be good citizens in a war that hit close to home but was fought hundreds of miles away. Examining the breadth of Northern popular culture, J. Matthew Gallman offers a dramatic reconsideration of how the Union’s civilians understood the meaning of duty and citizenship in wartime. j. matthew gallman is professor of history at the University of Florida and author of Receiving Erin's Children: Philadelphia, Liverpool, and the Irish Famine Migration,1845–1855

mark wahlgren summers is professor of history at the University of Kentucky and is author of A Dangerous Stir: Fear, Paranoia, and the Making of Reconstruction.

Civil War America

Littlefield History of the Civil War Era

“In an intriguing and wonderfully illustrated book, J. Matthew Gallman offers a crucial new take on print culture and citizenship in the North during the Civil War. By looking at print materials in popular media, from political cartoons to short stories, Gallman gives readers surprising insights into the hearts and minds of Northerners by looking at what they wrote and read during this tumultuous era in American history.”

—Lyde Cullen Sizer, author of The Political Work of Northern Women Writers and the Civil War, 1850–1872

“Understanding Reconstruction as its contemporaries did, as a time to consolidate the nation but not to remake it, to guarantee its peaceful future and to secure its evolution, but not to revolutionize it, Mark Summers follows the Reconstruction story chronologically as well as thematically in a fast-paced narrative. The Ordeal of the Reunion exhibits the hand of a seasoned and thoughtful historian, thoroughly conversant with both the time period and its sources.”

—John David Smith, author of Lincoln and the U.S. Colored Troops

“J. Matthew Gallman offers a compelling examination of how struggling northerners defined, debated and delineated loyal behavior during the four years of the American Civil War. At once entertaining and enlightening, Gallman’s lively survey of an impressive range of print literature yields fresh understanding of the evolving roles that patriotic Union civilians aspired to emulate. Accompanying the text are striking images bringing to vivid life the myriad ways of “defining duty” for the anxious population of the United States.”

—Joan Waugh, author of U.S. Grant: American Hero, American Myth

“Effectively captures the turmoil and frustrations of the era. . . . [and] shows how economic woes affected Reconstruction’s prospects.”

—Publishers Weekly

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Belligerent Muse

Civil War Canon

Five Northern Writers and How They Shaped Our Understanding of the Civil War

Sites of Confederate Memory in South Carolina THOMAS J. BROWN

STEPHEN CUSHMAN

In this expansive history of South Carolina’s commemoration of the Civil War era, Thomas Brown uses the lens of place to examine the ways that landmarks of Confederate memory have helped white southerners negotiate their shifting political, social, and economic positions. By looking at prominent sites such as Fort Sumter, Charleston’s Magnolia Cemetery, and the South Carolina statehouse, Brown reveals a dynamic pattern of contestation and change. He highlights transformations of gender norms and establishes a fresh perspective on race in Civil War remembrance by emphasizing the fluidity of racial identity within the politics of white supremacy.

War destroys, but it also inspires, stimulates, and creates. It is, in this way, a muse, and a powerful one at that. The Civil War was a particularly prolific muse—unleashing with its violent realities a torrent of language, from soldiers' intimate letters and diaries to everyday newspaper accounts, great speeches, and enduring literary works. Cushman considers the Civil War writings of five of the most significant and best known narrators of the conflict: Abraham Lincoln, Walt Whitman, William Tecumseh Sherman, Ambrose Bierce, and Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain. Considering their writings both as literary expressions and as efforts to record the rigors of the war, Cushman analyzes their narratives and the aesthetics underlying them to offer a richer understanding of how Civil War writing chronicled the events of the conflict as they unfolded and then served to frame the memory of the war afterward.

thomas j. brown has taught at the University of South Carolina since 1996.

Civil War America

“At a time when one could ask, fairly, what is left to say about Civil War memory, Thomas J. Brown offers us a fresh and revealing analysis. Lost Cause scholarship often approaches the subject with an emphasis on a particular context—politics, or gender studies, or economic change. Brown threads these disparate approaches together and moves the study of Confederate memory all the way through the twentieth century, something few historians can claim.”

—Charles J. Holden, St. Mary's College of Maryland

stephen cushman is Robert C. Taylor Professor of English at the University of Virginia.

Civil War America

“Stephen Cushman presents an excellent and thoroughly researched overview of a timely topic--the relation of the Civil War to the writings of men whose engagement both with fighting the war and with writing the war resonate with nineteenth century American culture.”

—Shirley Samuels, Cornell University

“There is no place quite like South Carolina for Civil War and Confederate memory. Thomas J. Brown brings a sophisticated, critical eye and a witty pen to this enduring controversy, showing a host of ways over 150 years that the Confederacy has endured and changed as it collided with modernity on the artistic and civic landscapes of the first state to secede. This book is a brilliant new turn in our quest to know why that war and its results have never gone away.”

—David W. Blight, Yale University, author of Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory

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Adventurism and Empire

A History of Stepfamilies in Early America

The Struggle for Mastery in the Louisiana-Florida Borderlands, 1762-1803

LISA WILSON

DAVID NARRETT

Stepfamilies are not a modern phenomenon, but despite this reality, the history of stepfamilies in America has yet to be fully explored. Wilson examines the stereotypes and actualities of colonial stepfamilies and reveals them to be important factors in early United States domestic history.

Narrett shows how the United States emerged as a successor empire to Great Britain through rivalry with Spain in the Mississippi Valley and Gulf Coast. As he traces currents of peace and war over four critical decades—from the close of the Seven Years War through the Louisiana Purchase—Narrett sheds new light on individual colonial adventurers and schemers who shaped history through cross-border trade, settlement projects involving slave and free labor, and military incursions into Spanish and Indian territories.

lisa wilson is the Charles J. MacCurdy Professor of American history at Connecticut College.

“Well-researched and fascinating, A History of Stepfamilies in Early America does a fine job of challenging enduring stereotypes and contributes to current-day conversations about the experiences of children, women, and men within stepfamilies.”

—Anne M. Boylan, University of Delaware

david narrett is professor of history at the University of Texas at Arlington.

“Wilson tackles an unquestionably important topic at the intersection of the history of the family, the history of childhood, gender history, and a range of other subjects. This book will assuredly launch a sustained historiographical discussion about the complexity of American familism in the past and present.”

—Wayne Bodle, Indiana University of Pennsylvania

Published in association with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University

“Narrett’s work will be an important addition to the existing literature on the subject, one that weaves complex issues into a cohesive story. It is an insightful work with a challenging subject. This will be an immensely useful study, and I look forward to having it on my shelf.”

—Samuel Hyde, Southeastern Louisiana University

October 2014 978-1-4696-1842-5 $29.95 Paper 172 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 6 halftones, appends., notes, index

“Adventurism and Empire expands upon the current knowledge of the Louisiana–West Florida borderlands, while emphasizing its relevance to the wider world. . . . A strength of this work is the broad diversity of the sources upon which the author draws. Many American historians, and a surprising number of borderlands historians, avoid foreign-language sources. That Narrett was able to use these to the extent that he has sets this work apart.”

—Andrew McMichael, Western Kentucky University

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Why You Can’t Teach United States History without American Indians

Native American Whalemen and the World

EDITED BY SUSAN SLEEPER-SMITH, JULIANA BARR, JEAN M. O’BRIEN, NANCY SHOEMAKER, AND SCOTT MANNING STEVENS

Indigenous Encounters and the Contingency of Race NANCY SHOEMAKER

A resource for all who teach and study history, this book illuminates the unmistakable centrality of American Indian history to the full sweep of American history. The nineteen essays gathered in this collaboratively produced volume, written by leading scholars in the field of Native American history, reflect the newest directions of the field and are organized to follow the chronological arc of the standard American history survey.The uniqueness of Indigenous history, as interwoven more fully in the American story, will challenge students to think in new ways about larger themes in U.S. history, such as settlement and colonization, economic and political power, citizenship and movements for equality, and the fundamental question of what it means to be an American.

In the nineteenth century, nearly all Native American men living along the southern New England coast made their living traveling the world’s oceans on whaleships. Many were career whalemen, spending twenty years or more at sea Highlighting the shifting racial ideologies that shaped the lives of these whalemen, Nancy Shoemaker shows how the category of “Indian” was as fluid as the whalemen were mobile. nancy shoemaker is professor of history at the University of Connecticut.

“This fascinating study of Native American whalemen is an impressive achievement: a careful, deeply informed, and insightful analysis of the complexities and variable nature of identity. Shoemaker successfully recovers the lives of some of the most elusive historical subjects, working-class men from marginalized communities, whose names, residences, nationalities, and ethnicities all varied dramatically from place to place and over the course of their lives. Identifying and locating these shape-shiftings is at the center of Shoemaker's persuasive argument about the contingency of race.”

—Lisa Norling, author of Captain Ahab Had a Wife: New England Women and the Whalefishery, 1720–1870

susan sleeper-smith is professor of history at Michigan State University. juliana barr is associate professor of history at the University of Florida. jean m. o’brien is professor of history at the University of Minnesota. Nancy Shoemaker is professor of history at the University of Connecticut. scott manning stevens is associate professor of Native American studies at Syracuse University.

“Native American Whalemen and the World is one of the most original studies of race making that I’ve read. It is distinguished in its focus on American Indians—both in terms of their racial thoughts and actions and in how whites thought about and treated them—and in its tracing of American Indian whalers wherever they sailed. Shoemaker challenges easy categories of indigeneity while taking the reader on a global tour that extends from the shores of New England and Long Island to the Arctic, the Azores, California, Hawaii, Tahiti, Fiji, and beyond. A superb piece of scholarship.”

—David J. Silverman, George Washington University

“An absolutely essential book, Why You Can’t Teach United States History without American Indians reveals a powerful truth: that the experiences of Indigenous peoples should be central rather than peripheral in American history classrooms.

This guidebook for teachers who want to reshape their pedagogy brings together ideas from leading scholars in the field of Native American studies. With their beautifully written essays, the authors will change how readers think about the past.”

—Ari Kelman, McCabe Greer Professor, Penn State University

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Tribal Television

Carolina in Crisis

Viewing Native People in Sitcoms

Cherokees, Colonists, and Slaves in the American Southeast, 1756-1763

DUSTIN TAHMAHKERA

DANIEL J. TORTORA

Native Americans have been a constant fixture on television, from the dawn of broadcasting, when the iconic Indian head test pattern was frequently used during station sign-ons and sign-offs, to the present. In this first comprehensive history of indigenous people in television sitcoms, Tahmahkera examines the way Native people have been represented in the genre.

Analyzing dozens of television comedies from the United States and Canada, Tahmahkera questions assumptions that Native representations on TV are inherently stereotypical and escapist. He argues that sitcoms not only represent Native people as objects of humor but also provide a forum for social and political commentary on indigenous-settler relations and competing visions of America.

In this engaging history, Daniel J. Tortora explores how the Anglo-Cherokee War reshaped the political and cultural landscape of the colonial South. Tortora chronicles the series of clashes that erupted from 1758 to 1761 between Cherokees, settlers, and British troops. The conflict, no insignificant sideshow to the French and Indian War, eventually led to the regeneration of a BritishCherokee alliance. Tortora reveals how the war destabilized the South Carolina colony and threatened the white coastal elite, arguing that the political and military success of the Cherokees led colonists to a greater fear of slave resistance and revolt and ultimately nurtured South Carolinians’ rising interest in the movement for independence.

dustin tahmahkera (Comanche Nation) is assistant professor of communication studies at Southwestern University.

daniel j. tortora is assistant professor of history at Colby College.

“Highlighting strange but telling moments in the history of indigenous representation on U.S. and Canadian television, Dustin Tahmahkera makes a real contribution to our understanding of television and race. What might seem lighter than a soufflé—take The Brady Bunch, for instance—becomes a serious and interesting subject in the author's hands.”

—Randolph Lewis, University of Texas at Austin

“This is without a doubt a defining contribution on the AngloCherokee War of 1759–1761. Until now, there has never been such a broadly conceived investigation of the Seven Years’ War in South Carolina and how it shaped the intertwined histories of Anglo, Cherokee, and African peoples. Daniel J. Tortora weaves together a deeply researched and persuasive narrative on how the Seven Years’ War shaped Carolina, its peoples, and indeed, the very origins of the American Revolution.”

—David L. Preston, The Citadel

“Focusing on the need for critical indigenous popular cultural studies, this ambitious book offers an important and timely frame through which to consider how discourses on indigenous identities and relations between Natives and non–Natives have been shaped by decades of situational comedies. Providing important insights into an archive that is generally dismissed as frivolous, Tahmahkera assesses television history to chart some of the major developments in twentieth-century federal Indian policy and their impact on popular culture.”

—Jodi Byrd, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign

“Daniel J. Tortora’s Carolina in Crisis is an original and insightful work with impressive scope. That the author is able to synthesize from such a vast array of sources a coherent and engaging narrative is truly extraordinary. I've only encountered a handful of books that come close to matching Tortora’s work—a remarkable achievement.”

—Jim Piecuch, Kennesaw State University

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Traders and Raiders

Remembering the Modoc War

The Indigenous World of the Colorado Basin, 1540-1859

Redemptive Violence and the Making of American Innocence

NATALE A. ZAPPIA

BOYD COTHRAN

The Colorado River region looms large in the history of the American West, vitally important in the designs and dreams of Euro–Americans since the first Spanish journey up the river in the sixteenth century.

But as Zappia argues in this expansive study, the Colorado River basin must be understood first as home to a complex Indigenous world. Zappia shows how this world pulsated throughout the centuries before and after Spanish contact, solidifying to create an autonomous, interethnic Indigenous space that expanded and adapted to an ever-encroaching global market economy.

On October 3, 1873, the U.S. Army hanged four Modoc headmen at Oregon’s Fort Klamath. The condemned had supposedly murdered the only U.S. Army general to die during the Indian wars of the nineteenth century. Their much-anticipated execution marked the end of the Modoc War of 1872–73. But as Cothran demonstrates, the conflict’s close marked the beginning of a new struggle over the memory of the war. Examining representations of the Modoc War in the context of rapidly expanding cultural and commercial marketplaces, Cothran shows how settlers created and sold narratives of the conflict that blamed the Modocs.

These stories portrayed Indigenous people as the instigators of violence and white Americans as innocent victims.

natale a. zappia is assistant professor of history at Whittier College.

“Presented with nuance and style, Traders and Raiders picks up geographically where a number of recent award-winning monographs have left off. Going beyond those earlier works, this project is a major contribution to the fields of Native American history, borderlands history, and early California history.”

—David Igler, University of California, Irvine

boyd cothran is assistant professor of history at York University.

A project of First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies

“Located at the intersection of Indigenous and Euro–American memories of violence, and focused on the myriad ways that the market shaped those recollections, Boyd Cothran's brilliant book will change the way readers think about Western history, Native American studies, collective memory, and the culture of consumerism.”

—Ari Kelman, University of California, Davis

“In Traders and Raiders, Zappia advances the scholarly discussion of indigenous systems of economic and political power separate from systems of colonial European and Euro-American powers. This book expands comparative understandings of indigenous people as independent political actors in narratives of colonialism and imperialism in the Americas.”

—Juliana Barr, University of Florida

“Part of a growing trend to revisit the military history of colonial and American expansion through the lenses of cultural history and Indigenous studies, Boyd Cothran's fluently written new book is effective in its use of a rich array of sources and in its critique of settler colonialism.”

—Coll Thrush, University of British Columbia

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Seasons of Change

Metis and the Medicine Line

Labor, Treaty Rights, and Ojibwe Nationhood

Creating a Border and Dividing a People

CHANTAL NORRGARD

MICHEL HOGUE

From the 1870s to the 1930s, the Lake Superior Ojibwes of Minnesota and Wisconsin faced dramatic economic, political, and social changes. Examining a period that began with the tribe's removal to reservations and closed with the Indian New Deal, Norrgard explores the critical link between Ojibwes’ efforts to maintain their tribal sovereignty and their labor traditions and practices.Norrgard shows how the tribe strategically used treaty rights claims over time to uphold its right to work and to maintain the rhythm and texture of traditional Ojibwe life.

Born of encounters between Indigenous women and EuroAmerican men in the first decades of the nineteenth century, the Plains Metis people occupied contentious geographic and cultural spaces. Living in a disputed area of the northern Plains inhabited by various Indigenous nations and claimed by both the United States and Great Britain, the Metis emerged as a people with distinctive styles of speech, dress, and religious practice, and occupational identities forged in the intense rivalries of the fur and provisions trade. Michel Hogue explores how, as fur trade societies waned and as state officials looked to establish clear lines separating the United States from Canada and Indians from non-Indians, these communities of mixed Indigenous and European ancestry were profoundly affected by the efforts of nation-states to divide and absorb the North American West.

chantal norrgard is an independent scholar based in Vancouver, British Columbia.

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“Effectively using government reports, newspaper accounts, memoirs and biographies, and a wonderful set of Works Progress Administration documents, Norrgard tells the story and discusses the cultural and political meanings of diverse Ojibwe economic actions, effectively demonstrating how labor facilitated cultural production and social reproduction.”

—Jessica R. Cattelino, University of California, Los Angeles

michel hogue is assistant professor of history at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.

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“The complexity of this history is daunting, yet it could not be in more capable and confident hands. On one level, Michel Hogue's study constitutes a rigorous analysis of the Metis as a borderland people. But it is also a micro-history of families and individuals who are vividly brought to life—a demonstration of how the stories of the Metis people are inextricably bound to larger narratives of race and nation.”

—Sarah Carter, University of Alberta

“Seasons of Change shows us why labor is significant for indigenous history. Norrgard pushes beyond existing work in this burgeoning field to show how culture, environment, treaty rights, and colonialism shaped Indian workers’ experience and their demands for social change.”

—Colleen O’Neill, Utah State University

August 2014 978-1-4696-1729-9 $29.95 Paper

“This book makes a crucial contribution to Metis studies and to literature on state formation. Bringing to the fore the important role of the border and the unique problems and solutions tied to race making at the time, this book is an important and noteworthy read.”

—Gerhard Ens, University of Alberta

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environmental history

Urban Green

Southern Water, Southern Power

Nature, Recreation, and the Working Class in Industrial Chicago

How the Politics of Cheap Energy and Water Scarcity Shaped a Region

COLIN FISHER

CHRISTOPHER J. MANGANIELLO Rachel Carson Prize, American Society for Environmental History

In early twentieth-century America, affluent city-dwellers made a habit of venturing out of doors and vacationing in resorts and national parks. Yet the rich and the privileged were not the only ones who sought respite in nature. In this pathbreaking book, historian Colin Fisher demonstrates that working-class white immigrants and African Americans in rapidly industrializing Chicago also fled the urban environment during their scarce leisure time. While narrating a crucial era in the history of Chicago's urban development, Fisher makes important interventions in debates about working-class leisure, the history of urban parks, environmental justice, the African American experience, immigration history, and the cultural history of nature.

Why has the American South—a place with abundant rainfall—become embroiled in intrastate wars over water?

Why did unpredictable flooding come to characterize southern waterways, and how did a region that seemed so rich in this all-important resource become derailed by drought and the regional squabbling that has tormented the arid American West? To answer these questions, policy expert and historian Christopher J. Manganiello moves beyond the well-known accounts of flooding in the Mississippi Valley and irrigation in the West to reveal the contested history of southern water. christopher j. manganiello is an environmental historian and Policy Director at Georgia River Network.

colin fisher is associate professor of history at the University of San Diego.

“Christopher J. Manganiello's first-rate scholarship focuses much-needed attention on the crucial role of water in the environmental history and development of the South. Southern Water, Southern Power fills a critical void in our understanding of the relationship between southerners and their water resources.”

—Timothy Silver, Appalachian State University

“Colin Fisher’s smart, ambitious history shows how Chicago’s underclasses—immigrants, African Americans, and laborers— understood and appreciated nature through leisure. Bringing together carefully considered empirical evidence with an absorbing analysis of working-class Chicagoans and their affinities for nature in the city, Fisher vividly reimagines Chicago’s past.”

—Matthew Klingle, author of Emerald City: An Environmental History of Seattle

“Southern Water, Southern Power greatly enriches the historiography of southern industrial development. The story Manganiello has chosen to tell is important, and he’s produced a fine piece of historical scholarship on this vastly understudied topic.”

—Kari Frederickson, University of Alabama

“Urban Green brings a whole new perspective to historians working on race, class, and immigration in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century city. Colin Fisher has written a pioneering book that will make a significant impact in a number of fields and should become required reading for anyone working at the intersection of environmental and social history.”

—Andrew Diamond, Université Paris-Sorbonne

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An Agrarian Republic

Agriculture and the Confederacy

Farming, Antislavery Politics, and Nature Parks in the Civil War Era

Policy, Productivity, and Power in the Civil War South

ADAM WESLEY DEAN

R. DOUGLAS HURT

The familiar story of the Civil War tells of a predominately agricultural South pitted against a rapidly industrializing North. However, Adam Wesley Dean argues that the Republican Party’s political ideology was fundamentally agrarian. Believing that small farms owned by families for generations led to a model society, Republicans supported a northern agricultural ideal in opposition to southern plantation agriculture, which destroyed the land’s productivity, required constant western expansion, and produced an elite landed gentry hostile to the Union. Dean shows how agrarian republicanism shaped the debate over slavery’s expansion, spurred the creation of the Department of Agriculture and the passage of the Homestead Act, and laid the foundation for the development of the earliest nature parks.

In this comprehensive history, R. Douglas Hurt traces the decline and fall of agriculture in the Confederate States of America. The backbone of the southern economy, agriculture was a source of power that southerners believed would ensure their independence.

But, season by season and year by year, Hurt convincingly shows how the disintegration of southern agriculture led to the decline of the Confederacy’s military, economic, and political power. r. douglas hurt is professor and head of the department of history at Purdue University.

Civil War America

“In a memorable and massively researched book, R. Douglas Hurt sheds new light on agriculture in the Civil War. He brings this aspect of history into much sharper focus, resituating the analysis within an agrarian context, something from which historians unfamiliar with such terrain will undoubtedly benefit. It stands to make an important contribution to agricultural history and will provide Civil War historians interested in the social and economic factors associated with the Confederacy’s defeat with a deeper and richer context.”

—Jeannie M. Whayne, University of Arkansas

adam wesley dean is assistant professor of history at Lynchburg College.

Civil War America

“Adam Dean artfully and convincingly reveals the agrarian roots of not only the Republican Party, but all the major conflicts of the Civil War era. Tracing the party’s political ideology to a firm belief that progress, prosperity, and civilization arose from the proper management of the nation’s soil, Dean demonstrates that debates over slavery, territorial expansion, and even nature preservation rested on notions of agricultural improvement. An Agrarian Republic melds intellectual, political, and environmental history and deserves a wide readership."

—Lisa Brady, Boise State University

“Examining the deeply intertwined relationship between agriculture and power, this extraordinary book gives a definitive account of Confederate optimism and defeat. Steeped in remarkable research, Hurt offers statistics and facts showing agricultural complexities on an annual basis, while also relying on the voices of the people at the heart of the story—men and women, black and white. The wider story of the Confederacy is now more complete, and this book will take its place as the best work to date on Confederate agriculture.”

—Orville Vernon Burton, author of The Age of Lincoln

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Back Channel to Cuba

Rethinking Slave Rebellion in Cuba

The Hidden History of Negotiations between Washington and Havana

La Escalera and the Insurgencies of 1841-1844 AISHA K. FINCH

WILLIAM M. LEOGRANDE AND PETER KORNBLUH

Envisioning La Escalera —an underground rebel movement largely composed of Africans living on farms and plantations in rural western Cuba—in the larger context of the long emancipation struggle in Cuba, Aisha Finch demonstrates how organized slave resistance became critical to the unraveling not only of slavery but also of colonial systems of power during the nineteenth century.

A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year

Challenging the conventional wisdom of perpetual hostility between the United States and Cuba—beyond invasions, covert operations, assassination plots using poison pens and exploding seashells, and a grinding economic embargo—this fascinating book chronicles a surprising, untold history of bilateral efforts toward rapprochement and reconciliation. Since 1959, conflict and aggression have dominated the story of U.S.-Cuban relations. Now, LeoGrande and Kornbluh present a new and increasingly more relevant account. From Kennedy’s offering of an olive branch to Castro after the missile crisis, to Kissinger’s top secret quest for normalization, to Obama’s promise of a “new approach,” LeoGrande and Kornbluh reveal a fifty-year record of dialogue and negotiations, both open and furtive, indicating a path toward better relations in the future.

aisha k. finch is assistant professor of gender studies and African American studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Envisioning Cuba

“An innovative and pioneering study of Cuban slave rebellions in the 1840s written with passion and insight. Aisha Finch makes important contributions to nineteenth-century Cuban historiography yet at the same time allows the historical actors themselves to take center stage and tell their story in a dramatic fashion. Finch's groundbreaking analysis of the neglected and crucial role of women in the rebellion has wide-reaching implications for reframing the study of slave revolts throughout the Atlantic World.”

—Matt D. Childs, University of South Carolina

william m. leogrande, professor of government at American University, is the author of Our Own Backyard: The United States in Central America, 1977–1992, among other books. peter kornbluh, director of the Cuba Documentation Project at the National Security Archive in Washington, D.C., is the author of The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability, among other books.

“Intellectually ambitious and impressively executed, this study offers compelling reading that simultaneously navigates the complex terrain of historiography and historical reconceptualization. By gendering slavery, Finch offers a major corrective to our understanding of insurgencies: scholars of La Escalera can never again imagine nor narrate that story without acknowledging the role of women and centrality of gender.”

—Herman Bennett, The Graduate Center, CUNY

“Challenging the prevailing narrative of U.S.-Cuba relations, this book investigates the history of the secret, and often surprising, dialogue between Washington and Havana. The authors, who spent more than a decade examining classified files, provide a comprehensive account of negotiations beginning in 1959. . . . suggesting that the past holds lessons for future negotiators.”

—The New Yorker

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Rhythms of Race

The Weston Sisters

Cuban Musicians and the Making of Latino New York City and Miami, 1940-1960

An American Abolitionist Family LEE V. CHAMBERS

CHRISTINA D. ABREU Among the nearly 90,000 Cubans who settled in New York City and Miami in the 1940s and 1950s were numerous musicians and entertainers, black and white, who did more than fill dance halls with the rhythms of the rumba, mambo, and cha cha chá. In her history of music and race in midcentury America, Christina D. Abreu argues that these musicians, through their work in music festivals, nightclubs, social clubs, and television and film productions, played central roles in the development of Cuban, Afro-Cuban, Latino, and Afro-Latino identities and communities. Abreu draws from previously untapped oral histories, cultural materials, and Spanish-language media to uncover the lives and broader social and cultural significance of these vibrant performers.

tic to the public sphere.

lee v. chambers is professor of history at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

“Compelling and bounds ahead of previous studies of the Westons, Lee V. Chambers makes an important contribution to antebellum scholarship with The Weston Sisters. A pivotal text that makes a much-needed contribution to our understanding of abolitionism and the importance of sisterly ties.”

—Julie Roy Jeffrey, Goucher College

christina d. abreu is assistant professor of history at

“The Weston Sisters presents a fresh and illuminating portrait of how the sibling bond facilitated the sisters’ radical antislavery activism and demonstrates the inextricable tie between their domestic and political labors. Scholars of abolitionism, gender, families, and antebellum politics will learn from this deeply researched book.”

—Anne M. Boylan, University of Delaware

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Envisioning Cuba

“A much-needed contribution to the understanding of the establishment of Cuban identity in the United States, which—until now—has been largely focused on the self-presentation of the Cuban-American community that developed in southern Florida following the 1959 revolution. Christina Abreu persuasively excavates the earlier development of Cuban, Afro-Cuban, and Hispano/Latino identity in the 1940s and 1950s.”

—Raul A. Fernandez, University of California, Irvine

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“In this exceptional work of historical analysis, Christina Abreu's nuanced, insightful argument draws on a range of compelling materials—some of which, thanks to her outstanding research discoveries, readers will be encountering for the first time. This is a remarkable, painstaking reconstruction of the story of music and race in Cuban America from 1940 to 1960 as it played out in the everyday spaces and institutions of halls, dance floors, and print culture.”

—Antonio López, The George Washington University

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The Westons were among the most well-known abolitionists in antebellum Massachusetts, and each of the Weston sisters played an integral role in the family’s work.

Chambers argues that it was the familial cooperation and support between sisters, dubbed “kin-work,” that allowed women like the Westons to participate in the political process, marking a major change in women’s roles from the domes-

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Guaranteed Pure

Progressive Evangelicals and the Pursuit of Social Justice

The Moody Bible Institute, Business, and the Making of Modern Evangelicalism

BRANTLEY W. GASAWAY

TIMOTHY GLOEGE

In this compelling history of progressive evangelicalism, Gasaway examines a dynamic though often overlooked movement within American Christianity today. Gasaway focuses on left-leaning groups, such as Sojourners and Evangelicals for Social Action, that emerged in the early 1970s, prior to the rise of the more visible Religious Right. He identifies the distinctive “public theology”—a set of biblical interpretations regarding the responsibility of Christians to promote social justice—that has animated progressive evangelicals’ activism and bound together their unusual combination of political positions.

American evangelicalism has long walked hand in hand with modern consumer capitalism. Timothy Gloege shows us why, through an engaging story about God and big business at the Moody Bible Institute.

Founded in Chicago by shoe-salesman-turned-revivalist Dwight Lyman Moody in 1889, the institute became a center of fundamentalism under the guidance of the innovative promoter and president of Quaker Oats, Henry Crowell. Gloege explores the framework for understanding humanity shared by these business and evangelical leaders, whose perspectives clearly differed from those underlying modern scientific theories. At the core of their “corporate evangelical” framework was a modern individualism understood primarily in terms of economic relations.

brantley w. gasaway is assistant professor of religion at Bucknell University.

“I see Progressive Evangelicals and the Pursuit of Social Justice as the ‘go-to’ book on this subject. Fair-minded, comprehensive, well organized, and accessible, the story opens up to many tantalizing topics. Against all odds, these progressives, while they did not prevail, endured, had many victories, and eclipsed the many better known mainline Protestants in American public life. These progressives did find ways to cohere, witness, and have impact. This is not a story of a final victory, but one with a kind of suspense.”

—Martin E. Marty, The University of Chicago Divinity School

timothy gloege is an independent scholar living in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

“The single most important work on Protestant fundamentalism written in the past decade, Timothy Gloege’s learned, far-reaching text is phenomenally researched and beautifully written, providing a Gilded Age history that links powerfully to the present story of American religions. It will inspire debate and admiration.”

—Kathryn Lofton, author of Oprah: The Gospel of an Icon

“A significant contribution to our understanding of progressive evangelicalism, Progressive Evangelicals and the Pursuit of Social Justice is a very good book on an important and timely topic. Grounded in extensive research, Gasaway’s analysis demonstrates with skill and understanding the vitality and relevance of progressive evangelicalism.”

—Randall Balmer, Dartmouth College

“American church history fans will relish this work.”

—Library Journal

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religious history

Christian Reconstruction

The Lives of Chang and Eng

R. J. Rushdoony and American Religious Conservatism

Siam’s Twins in Nineteenth-Century America JOSEPH ANDREW ORSER

MICHAEL J. MCVICAR Connected at the chest by a band of flesh, Chang and Eng Bunker toured the United States and the world from the 1820s to the 1870s, placing themselves and their extraordinary bodies on exhibit as “freaks of nature” and “Oriental curiosities.” More famously known as the Siamese twins, they eventually settled in rural North Carolina, married two white sisters, became slave owners, and fathered twenty-one children between them.

Though the brothers constantly professed their normality, they occupied a strange space in nineteenth-century America. They spoke English, attended church, became American citizens, and backed the Confederacy during the Civil War. Yet in life and death, the brothers were seen by most Americans as “monstrosities,” an affront they were unable to escape.

Joseph Andrew Orser chronicles the twins’ history, their sometimes raucous journey through antebellum America, their domestic lives in North Carolina, and what their fame revealed about the changing racial and cultural landscape of the United States. More than a biography of the twins, the result is a study of nineteenth-century American culture and society through the prism of Chang and Eng that reveals how Americans projected onto the twins their own hopes and fears.

This is the first critical history of Christian Reconstruction and its founder and champion, theologian and activist Rousas John Rushdoony (1916–2001).

Drawing on exclusive access to Rushdoony’s personal papers and extensive correspondence, Michael J. McVicar demonstrates the considerable role Reconstructionism played in the development of the radical Christian Right and an American theocratic agenda. As a religious movement, Reconstructionism aims at nothing less than “reconstructing” individuals through a form of Christian governance that, if implemented in the lives of U.S. citizens, would fundamentally alter the shape of American society. michael j. mcvicar is assistant professor of religion at Florida State University.

“McVicar’s groundbreaking book is a welcome addition to our understanding of recent American history. McVicar explicates R. J. Rushdoony’s role in late-twentieth-century debates over religion and politics, as well as his influence among religious conservatives and in the culture at large. An invaluable contribution to the study of American politics, religion, and the intersection of the two.”

—Diane Winston, University of Southern California “This book is the most comprehensive study of Christian Reconstructionism to date, and the most detailed study of its founder R. J. Rushdoony. Making use of extensive, previously untapped archival materials, it details the movement’s influence on post–World War II American conservatism, an issue that has been much discussed but little documented by previous writers. It sets the standard for scholarship on this important and still timely topic.”

—Michael Lienesch, University of North Carolina

joseph andrew orser teaches history at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire.

“Joseph Andrew Orser’s history of Chang and Eng Bunker sensitively illuminates the social contexts in which they traveled and the many shifting representations of them in American culture. Through careful research in previously untapped archives, Orser gleans fresh details about their work and reception as they toured, helping us understand the decisions they made and what they endured as self-promoting curiosities in a commercially driven, racialized culture.”

—John Kuo Wei Tchen, New York University

“McVicar . . . has produced a landmark work describing the rise and eventual fall of Reconstructionist thought. This fine work is highly recommended.”

—Publishers Weekly, starred review

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The Edible South

Intellectual Manhood

The Power of Food and the Making of an American Region

University, Self, and Society in the Antebellum South

MARCIE COHEN FERRIS

TIMOTHY J. WILLIAMS

A 2014 Okra Summer Pick: Great Southern Books Fresh Off the Vine, Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance

Williams reveals that antebellum southern higher education did more than train future secessionists and proslavery ideologues. It also fostered a growing world of intellectualism flexible enough to marry the era’s middle-class value system to the honor–bound worldview of the southern gentry.

By focusing on the students’ perspective and drawing from a rich trove of their letters, diaries, essays, speeches, and memoirs, Williams narrates the under examined story of education and manhood at the University of North Carolina, the nation’s first public university.

Ferris presents food as a new way to chronicle the American South’s larger history.

Ferris tells a richly illustrated story of southern food and the struggles of whites, blacks, Native Americans, and other people of the region to control the nourishment of their bodies and minds, livelihoods, lands, and citizenship. The experience of food serves as an evocative lens onto colonial settlements and antebellum plantations, New South cities and Civil Rights–era lunch counters, chronic hunger and agricultural reform, counterculture communes and iconic restaurants as Ferris reveals how food--as cuisine and as commodity—has expressed and shaped southern identity to the present day.

timothy j. williams is a visiting assistant professor of history in the Robert D. Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon.

"Essential reading for scholars of the antebellum South and the history of education, Intellectual Manhood is a deeply researched and thought-provoking study of gender, power, and Southern intellectual culture."

—Nicholas L. Syrett, author of The Company He Keeps: A History of White College Fraternities

marcie cohen ferris, associate professor of American studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is author of Matzoh Ball Gumbo: Culinary Tales of the Jewish South.

“The Edible South will garner readers who want to understand class and power through food in a culture. The need for this comprehensive and ambitious account of southern food--including the lesser known stories of the countercultural sixties and seventies in the South—has grown only more pressing.

Ferris listens carefully to the whole southern food story.”

—Elizabeth S. Engelhardt, University of Texas at Austin

“Timothy J. Williams offers a rich and meaningful vision of college life. His is the best study we have of college education in the Antebellum South, thoroughly and thoughtfully researched. Intellectual Manhood# sets the research agenda for all future studies of antebellum education.”

—Steven M. Stowe, Indiana University Bloomington

“Not only does Ferris pinpoint and chronicle evocative moments throughout the South’s larger history, but she manages to eloquently express how this history shaped Southern cuisine and, to a greater extent, Southern identity.”

—Oxford American

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The Life of William Apess, Pequot

Censoring Racial Ridicule

PHILIP F. GURA

Irish, Jewish, and African American Struggles over Race and Representation, 1890-1930

The Pequot Indian intellectual, author, and itinerant preacher William Apess (1798–1839) was one the most important voices of the nineteenth century. Here, Philip F. Gura offers the first booklength chronicle of Apess’s fascinating and consequential life.

Following Apess from his early life through the development of his political radicalism to his tragic early death and enduring legacy, this much-needed biography showcases the accomplishments of an extraordinary Native American.

M. ALISON KIBLER A drunken Irish maid slips and falls. A greedy Jewish pawnbroker lures his female employee into prostitution. An African American man leers at a white woman. These and other, similar images appeared widely on stages and screens across America during the early twentieth century. In this provocative study,Kibler uncovers, for the first time, powerful and concurrent campaigns by Irish, Jewish and African Americans against racial ridicule in popular culture at the turn of the twentieth century.

philip f. gura is William S. Newman Distinguished Professor of American Literature and Culture at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His many books include Truth’s Ragged Edge: The Rise of the American Novel and American Transcendentalism: A History, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

m. alison kibler is associate professor of American studies and women’s and gender studies at Franklin and Marshall College.

She is author of Rank Ladies: Gender and Cultural Hierarchy in American Vaudeville.

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“Censoring Racial Ridicule makes a signal contribution to the history of censorship and free speech, showing that calls to ban or to revise controversial theater and film productions were often based on a gender- and class-inflected antiracism.

The history of opposition to hate speech is thus greatly deepened by this study, which demonstrates that what we take to be a very modern concern with political correctness is heir to longstanding controversies.”

—David Roediger, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign

“Extensively researched and absorbingly written, The Life of William Apess, Pequot delivers by far the most thorough cultural-historical reconstruction to date of the life, career, and significance of antebellum New England's most important Native American writer-activist.”

—Lawrence Buell, Powell M. Cabot Research Professor of American Literature, Harvard University, author of New England Literary Culture and Emerson

“This meaningfully interdisciplinary new book enriches our understanding of the earliest civil rights efforts of Irish, Jewish, and African Americans, and helps us to understand how ‘civil rights’ came to be defined so broadly as to include stage and screen performances and visual representations. Censoring Racial Ridicule will further cement Kibler’s reputation as one of the very finest historians of popular culture.”

—Matthew Pratt Guterl, Brown University

“Through painstaking research, Philip Gura’s remarkable book brings to life a legendary figure in American letters. He does it by portraying William Apess as a player in the dynamic history of Indigenous New England and the nation as a whole. I love this work and I recommend it highly, not only as literary knowledge but also as cultural, social, and historical knowledge.”

—Simon J. Ortiz, Arizona State University, author of From Sand Creek, Out There Somewhere, and Beyond the Reach of Time and Change

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“This outstanding biography is essential reading for those interested in either Native American studies or American literature.”

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Hotel Life

Born to Be Wild

The Story of a Place Where Anything Can Happen

The Rise of the American Motorcyclist

CAROLINE FIELD LEVANDER AND MATTHEW PRATT GUTERL

RANDY D. MCBEE In 1947, 4,000 motorcycle hobbyists converged on Hollister, California. As images of dissolute bikers graced the pages of newspapers and magazines, the three-day gathering sparked the growth of a new subculture while also touching off national alarm. In the years that followed, the stereotypical leather-clad biker emerged in the American consciousness as a menace to law-abiding motorists and small towns. Yet a few short decades later, the motorcyclist, once menacing, became mainstream. To understand this shift, Randy D. McBee narrates the evolution of motorcycle culture since World War II.

What is a hotel? As Caroline Field Levander and Matthew Pratt Guterl show us in this thought-provoking book, even though hotels are everywhere around us, we rarely consider their essential role in our modern existence and how they help frame our sense of who and what we are.

They are, in fact, as centrally important as other powerful places like prisons, hospitals, or universities. Guiding readers through the story of hotels as places of troublesome possibility, as mazelike physical buildings, as inspirational touchstones for art and literature, and as unsettling, even disturbing, backdrops for the drama of everyday life, Levander and Guterl ensure that we will never think about this seemingly ordinary place in the same way again.

randy d. mcbee is associate professor of history at Texas Tech University.

“This book is at once a social history of the motorcycle and a provocation for rethinking the political realignments of the second half of the twentieth century. A rich sense of contradiction and a deep understanding of how political struggle can inflect the same slogans and themes with widely divergent meanings together elevate this book beyond a useful and interesting study of a hobby into a profound rumination on the role of culture in political life.”

—George Lipsitz, University of California, Santa Barbara

caroline field levander is the Carlson Professor in the Humanities and professor of English at Rice University, and

matthew pratt guterl is professor of Africana Studies and American Studies at Brown University.

“Hotel Life” is truly a joy to read. With razor-sharp attention to the historical incidentals of our many modern hotels, Caroline Field Levander and Matthew Pratt Guterl essentially undo what you think you know about a night at the inn. Sharing entertaining insights captured in striking prose, the two have written a page-turner that probes the comings and goings of luxury resorts, casino giants, and down-on-your-luck single-room occupancies. The takeaway is a bracing look at how hospitality makes, breaks, and remakes the weary traveler in us all.”

—Scott Herring, Indiana University, Bloomington

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“Hotel Life is a dazzling, carefully crafted, and beautifully written book, full of original insights. In it, Caroline Field Levander and Matthew Pratt Guterl show us new and thought-provoking ways we can look at hotels as a central, undeniable part of modern existence. An agile, imaginative work that will spark debate for years to come.”

—Howard Gillette, Rutgers University–Camden

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Alcohol

Wayfaring Strangers

A History

The Musical Voyage from Scotland and Ulster to Appalachia

ROD PHILLIPS

FIONA RITCHIE AND DOUG ORR

2014 Gourmand Drinks Awards, USA Winner

Foreword by Dolly Parton; Includes a CD with 20 Tracks

Whether as wine, beer, or spirits, alcohol has had a constant and often controversial role in social life. In his innovative book on the attitudes toward and consumption of alcohol, Phillips surveys a 9,000-year cultural and economic history, uncovering the tensions between alcoholic drinks as healthy staples of daily diets and as objects of social, political, and religious anxiety.

A New York Times Bestseller!

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Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a steady stream of Scots migrated to Ulster and eventually onward across the Atlantic to resettle in the United States. Many of these Scots-Irish immigrants made their way into the mountains of the southern Appalachian region. They brought with them a wealth of traditional ballads and tunes from the British Isles and Ireland, a carrying stream that merged with sounds and songs of English, German, Welsh, African American, French, and Cherokee origin. Their enduring legacy of music flows today from Appalachia back to Ireland and Scotland and around the globe. Ritchie and Orr guide readers on a musical voyage across oceans, linking people and songs through centuries of adaptation and change.

rod phillips is professor of history at Carleton University and the author of A Short History of Wine.

“Rod Phillips has created what will be the standard book on the cultural history of alcohol. A significant contribution.”

—David Fahey, Miami University of Ohio “Alcohol: A History is well written, entertaining, deeply informative, and thoroughly researched. In this magisterial text, Rod Phillips offers a broad vision and a rich treatise on cultural history. Its focus on consumption as a social and cultural act distinguishes it from books that focus on taste or geography, and it is a profound pleasure to have this much excellent, up-to-date scholarship devoted to a subject that touches all of our lives.”

—Thomas Brennan, The United States Naval Academy

fiona ritchie is the founder, producer, and host of National

“An enthralling piece of research that considers the history of alcohol from the ancient world right through to trends in modern regulation and consumption.”

—Jancis Robinson, wine expert and editor of The Oxford Companion to Wine

Public Radio’s The Thistle & Shamrock®. She was awarded an MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) in 2014. doug orr is president emeritus of Warren Wilson College, where he founded the Swannanoa Gathering music workshops.

“Exploring the historic ties between Scotland, Ireland, and Appalachia through music, Fiona Ritchie and Doug Orr weave together the story of migration through the lyrics of ballads and other music that reflects on this history. Wayfaring Strangers will touch a powerful chord in the lives of readers who appreciate the music of Scotland and Appalachia, as well as those whose families have ties to this rich historical journey.”

—William Ferris, author of The Storied South: Voices of Writers and Artists

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20th century

Empowering Revolution

Innocent Weapons

America, Poland, and the End of the Cold War

The Soviet and American Politics of Childhood in the Cold War

GREGORY F. DOMBER

MARGARET PEACOCK Utilizing archival research and interviews with Polish and American government officials and opposition leaders, Domber argues that the United States empowered a specific segment of the Polish opposition and illustrates how Soviet leaders unwittingly fostered radical, pro-democratic change through their policies.

The result is fresh insight into the global impact of the Polish pro-democracy movement.

In the 1950s and 1960s, images of children appeared everywhere, from movies to milk cartons, their smiling faces used to sell everything, including war. In this provocative book, Peacock offers an original account of how Soviet and American leaders used emotionally charged images of children in an attempt to create popular support for their policies at home and abroad.

gregory f. domber is associate professor of history at University of North Florida.

margaret peacock is assistant professor of history at the

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University of Alabama.

“Empowering Revolution is well written, well structured, lapidary in its arguments, and very thoroughly researched. There is nothing like it in either English or Polish (or German or French). It is by far the most comprehensive treatment of this important subject, and Domber will be the most authoritative source on the late-twentieth-century Polish state’s transition to democracy for many years to come.”

—Mark Kramer, Director, Cold War Studies, Harvard University

“For much of the twentieth century, the United States and the Soviet Union were superpowers engaged in a struggle against one another in which children were held up as symbols of each state’s successes and failures. Margaret Peacock examines visual and textual images of children that appeared in the propaganda and public rhetoric of the Cold War from approximately 1945 to 1968 in order to understand how Soviet and American politicians, propagandists, and supporters depicted children in film, television, radio, and print as objects of changing Cold War anxieties and symbols for new forms of mobilization . . . This book adds another dimension to our understanding the Cold War and the Thaw.”

—Jacqueline Olich, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

“This is an excellent study of the United States’ reaction to the 1981 martial law crisis in Poland and its subsequent role in the democratic transformation of the Polish People’s Republic through 1989. Domber provides a multi–perspective analysis that weaves into one compelling narrative both official and private views and actions based on pathbreaking research in governmental and private American and Polish archives and other sources. This is international history at its best.”

—Dr. Christian Ostermann, Director of the History and Public Policy Program at the Woodrow Wilson Center

“Innocent Weapons is smart, innovative, and well written. . . . It is, in fact, one of the deepest and most balanced works that I have read on the international history of U.S.-Soviet relations and stands as a path-breaking contribution to studies of the Cold War, popular culture, and comparative history. This is a first@-rate and original work.”

—Jeremi Suri, University of Texas at Austin

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Mapping the Cold War

Longing for the Bomb

Cartography and the Framing of America’s International Power

Oak Ridge and Atomic Nostalgia LINDSEY A. FREEMAN

TIMOTHY BARNEY

Tucked into the folds of Appalachia and kept off all commercial maps, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, was created for the Manhattan Project by the U.S. government in the 1940s.

The city has experienced the entire lifespan of the Atomic Age, from the fevered wartime enrichment of the uranium that fueled Little Boy, through a brief period of atomic utopianism after World War II when it began to brand itself as “The Atomic City,” to the anxieties of the Cold War, to the contradictory contemporary period of nuclear unease and atomic nostalgia. Lindsey Freeman shows how a once-secret city is visibly caught in an uncertain present, no longer what it was historically yet still clinging to the hope of a nuclear future. It is a place where history, memory, and myth compete and conspire to tell the story of America’s atomic past and to explain the nuclear present.

In this fascinating history of Cold War cartography, Barney considers maps as central to the articulation of ideological tensions between American national interests and international aspirations. Barney argues that the borders, scales, projections, and other conventions of maps prescribed and constrained the means by which foreign policy elites, popular audiences, and social activists navigated conflicts between North and South, East and West. timothy barney is assistant professor of rhetoric and communication studies at the University of Richmond.

“This original and important contribution, the first substantial history of Cold War cartography, adds a geographical dimension to a period and a conflict crying out for such an approach.”

—Matthew Farish, University of Toronto

lindsey a. freeman is assistant professor of sociology at SUNY–Buffalo State.

“Timothy Barney intelligently and sensitively interprets maps, the practices of mapping, and discourses about both, providing rich and nuanced readings of particular maps and making a compelling argument for the central place they held in the Cold War. His book captures masterfully that central paradox of the Cold War: it was at once a highly fluid and distinctly artificial geopolitical affair that managed to produce a remarkably resilient sense of a fixed, enduring, bipolar conflict.”

—Ned O'Gorman, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign

“This engaging, creative, and well-researched investigation of the strange emergence of Oak Ridge represents the best of sociocultural history. Retaining a deep commitment to both fact and myth, Freeman shows how rendering the truth of a place requires far more than data, but rather demands a careful analysis of both stories and systems.”

—Karen Engle, University of Windsor “Placing an emphasis on elements of memory and their construction and preservation, Longing for the Bomb makes clear how a new understanding of the history of Oak Ridge can provide insights to be extended to American nuclear history more generally, and to our ongoing flirtations with nuclear technology.”

—Bruce Hevly, University of Washington

“Maps matter, and Cold War cartographies matter more than most. Barney has written an impressive overview of how American maps came to reflect U.S. global expansion. His discussion of the ideology and the political visions of the world implicit in Cold War maps is original and enlightening.”

—O.A. Westad, coeditor of The Cambridge History of the Cold War

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Alien Nation

Carolina Israelite

Chinese Migration in the Americas from the Coolie Era through World War II

How Harry Golden Made Us Care about Jews, the South, and Civil Rights

ELLIOTT YOUNG

KIMBERLY MARLOWE HARTNETT

Young traces the pivotal century of Chinese migration to the Americas, beginning with the 1840s at the start of the “coolie” trade and ending during World War II. This book is the first transnational history of Chinese migration to the Americas. By focusing on the fluidity and complexity of border crossings throughout the Western Hemisphere, Young shows us how Chinese migrants constructed alternative communities and identities through these transnational pathways.

This first comprehensive biography of Jewish American writer and humorist Harry Golden (1903–1981)—author of the 1958 national best-seller Only in America—illuminates a remarkable life intertwined with the rise of the civil rights movement, Jewish popular culture, and the sometimes precarious position of Jews in the South and across America during the 1950s. kimberly marlowe hartnett is a writer living in Portland, Oregon. She worked as a journalist for more than thirty years in New England and the Pacific Northwest.

elliott young is professor of Latin American and borderlands

“Kimberly Marlowe Hartnett’s fascinating new book, Carolina Israelite, reminds us of the old aphorism that truth is sometimes stranger than fiction. Written in sparkling prose and bristling with insight, her authoritative biography of Harry Golden reconstructs the extraordinary life of a Jewish ex-con from New York who, after resettling in North Carolina in 1941, became a best-selling author and a powerful voice for civil rights and social justice. The author’s gift for storytelling rivals that of her protagonist, and the book is a joy to read from start to finish.”

—Raymond Arsenault, author of Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice#

history at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon.

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“Hannah Arendt once described migrants, refugees, and exiles as ‘rightless,’ a category that helps clarify its supposed opposites: citizenship, rights, and sovereignty. Alien Nation, a superb book by Elliott Young on Chinese migration in the Americas, brings the method and insight of transnational social history to bear on Arendt’s formulation, redefining terms scholars often take for granted and giving us an entirely new way to think about the categories alien and citizen.”

—Greg Grandin, author of Fordlândia

“This highly readable portrait makes the case for Harry Golden as both a historically significant and truly inimitable character.”

—Leonard Rogoff, author of Down Home: Jewish Life in North Carolina

“In the best tradition of the new transnational history, Elliott Young immerses us into the world of border-crossing immigrants and remaps Chinese migration history and the history of the Americas along the way. At a time when immigration, xenophobia, and debates over the rights of ‘aliens’ versus citizens are on the rise, Alien Nation is a timely reminder of how Chinese immigrants were made into perpetual aliens in the Americas and how their alienation shaped both the Chinese diaspora and our modern system of immigration restriction.”

—Erika Lee, author of At America’s Gates and co-author of Angel Island

“Much more than the biography of one man . . . this is a welltold account of the civil rights movement, describing significant milestones in its history, the splits among its leaders, and the various forms that activism took. A solid piece of research.”

—Kirkus Reviews

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In the Cause of Freedom

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Whiting Up

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Whiteface Minstrels and Stage Europeans in African American Performance MARVIN MCALLISTER

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Crossroads at Clarksdale

The Black Freedom Struggle in the Mississippi Delta after World War II FRANÇOISE N. HAMLIN

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A Statistical Portrait of the Troops Who Served under Robert E. Lee JOSEPH T. GLATTHAAR

From the Bullet to the Ballot

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The Civil War in the West

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Victory and Defeat from the Appalachians to the Mississippi EARL J. HESS

West Pointers and the Civil War The Old Army in War and Peace WAYNE WEI-SIANG HSIEH

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Geographies of Race, Region, and Literature THADIOUS M. DAVIS

Sing Not War

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The Lives of Union and Confederate Veterans in Gilded Age America JAMES MARTEN

Music from the True Vine

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Mike Seeger’s Life and Musical Journey BILL C. MALONE

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Lincoln’s Forgotten Ally

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The Strange Career of Porgy and Bess

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War on the Waters

The Death and Life of Main Street

The Union and Confederate Navies, 1861-1865 JAMES M. MCPHERSON

Small Towns in American Memory, Space, and Community MILES ORVELL 2014 978-1-4696-1755-8 $27.95 Paper 316 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 12 color plates., 90 halftones, notes, index

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When We Were Free to Be

Lincoln and the Triumph of the Nation

Prologue by Marlo Thomas

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Looking Back at a Children’s Classic and the Difference It Made EDITED BY LORI ROTSKOFF AND LAURA L. LOVETT

Constitutional Conflict in the American Civil War MARK E. NEELY JR.

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The Civil War as a Theological Crisis

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The Peninsula Campaign and the Necessity of Emancipation African Americans and the Fight for Freedom GLENN DAVID BRASHER

God’s Almost Chosen Peoples

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The Won Cause

Black and White Comradeship in the Grand Army of the Republic BARBARA A. GANNON

Wars within a War

Controversy and Conflict over the American Civil War EDITED BY JOAN WAUGH AND GARY W. GALLAGHER

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Blowout!

Sal Castro and the Chicano Struggle for Educational Justice MARIO T. GARCÍA AND SAL CASTRO

The Politics of Fashion in Eighteenth-Century America

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The Literary Left and the Antifascist Crusade KATE HAULMAN Gender and American Culture 2014 978-1-4696-1901-9 $29.95 Paper 304 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 28 halftones, notes, index

Visions of Power in Cuba

Martha Jefferson Randolph, Daughter of Monticello

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Sexual Revolutions in Cuba

Revolution, Redemption, and Resistance, 1959-1971 LILLIAN GUERRA

Her Life and Times CYNTHIA A. KIERNER

Passion, Politics, and Memory CARRIE HAMILTON Foreword by Elizabeth Dore

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Crabgrass Crucible

Climate and Catastrophe in Cuba and the Atlantic World in the Age of Revolution

Suburban Nature and the Rise of Environmentalism in Twentieth-Century America CHRISTOPHER C. SELLERS

The Literary Left and the Antifascist Crusade SHERRY JOHNSON

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How Local Politics Shape Federal Policy

Business, Power, and the Environment in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles SARAH S. ELKIND

Black Political Activism and the Cuban Republic

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The Literary Left and the Antifascist Crusade MELINA PAPPADEMOS

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The Color of Christ

The Son of God and the Saga of Race in America EDWARD J. BLUM AND PAUL HARVEY

Crooked Paths to Allotment

The Fight over Federal Indian Policy after the Civil War C. JOSEPH GENETIN-PILAWA

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Sponsored by First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies 2014 978-1-4696-1751-0 $27.95 Paper 248 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 10 halftones, notes, bibl., index

Across God’s Frontiers

Catholic Sisters in the American West, 1850-1920 ANNE M. BUTLER

Reimagining Indian Country

Native American Migration and Identity in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles NICOLAS G. ROSENTHAL

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Original Sin and Everyday Protestants

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The Theology of Reinhold Niebuhr, Billy Graham, and Paul Tillich in an Age of Anxiety ANDREW S. FINSTUEN

Anetso, the Cherokee Ball Game

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At the Center of Ceremony and Identity MICHAEL J. ZOGRY

Into the Pulpit

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Southern Baptist Women and Power since World War II ELIZABETH H. FLOWERS 2014 978-1-4696-1892-0 $29.95 Paper 280 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, notes, bibl., index

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“A Peculiar People”

Anti-Mormonism and the Making of Religion in NineteenthCentury America J. SPENCER FLUHMAN

From Coveralls to Zoot Suits

The Lives of Mexican American Women on the World War II Home Front ELIZABETH R. ESCOBEDO

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The Furnace of Affliction

Creating Consumers

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Prisons and Religion in Antebellum America JENNIFER GRABER

Home Economists in Twentieth-Century America CAROLYN M. GOLDSTEIN

The Gospel of Freedom and Power

Transpacific Field of Dreams

Protestant Missionaries in American Culture after World War II SARAH E. RUBLE

How Baseball Linked the United States and Japan in Peace and War SAYURI GUTHRIE-SHIMIZU

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Dixie Dharma

Imagining the Middle East

Inside a Buddhist Temple in the American South JEFF WILSON

The Building of an American Foreign Policy, 1918-1967 MATTHEW F. JACOBS

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Armed with Abundance

Consumerism and Soldiering in the Vietnam War MEREDITH H. LAIR

Families in Crisis in the Old South

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Divorce, Slavery, and the Law LOREN SCHWENINGER

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Commonsense Anticommunism

Labor and Civil Liberties between the World Wars JENNIFER LUFF

ACC Basketball

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The Story of the Rivalries, Traditions, and Scandals of the First Two Decades of the Atlantic Coast Conference J. SAMUEL WALKER

The United States and the Making of Modern Greece

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History and Power, 1950-1974 JAMES EDWARD MILLER

William Alexander Percy

2014 978-1-4696-2216-3 $32.95 Paper 320 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, notes, bibl., index

The Curious Life of a Mississippi Planter and Sexual Freethinker BENJAMIN E. WISE Sponsored by the Center for the Study of the American South at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 2014 978-1-4696-1910-1 $34.95 Paper 368 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 19 halftones, notes, index

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Newspaper Women and the Making of Modern Public Space ALICE FAHS

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2014 978-1-4696-2196-8 $34.95 Paper 376 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 21 halftones, notes, bibl., index

Chasing Phantoms

Living with History / Making Social Change

Reality, Imagination, and Homeland Security Since 9/11 MICHAEL BARKUN

The Literary Left and the Antifascist Crusade GERDA LERNER

2014 978-1-4696-2226-2 $24.95 Paper 208 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, notes, bibl., index

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The Roots of Modern Conservatism

Hearts Beating for Liberty

Dewey, Taft, and the Battle for the Soul of the Republican Party MICHAEL BOWEN

Women Abolitionists in the Old Northwest STACEY M. ROBERTSON

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Confronting America

The Cold War between the United States and the Communists in France and Italy ALESSANDRO BROGI The New Cold War History 2014 978-1-4696-2211-8 $45.00 Paper 552 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 17 halftones, notes, bibl., index

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