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Michael B. Ballard on The Battle of Vicksburg Victoria E. Bynum on Rebels Against Confederate Mississippi Drew Gilpin Faust on Confederate Women and Yankee Men Robert K. Krick on The Mortal Wounding of Stonewall Jackson George C. Rable on The Battle of Fredericksburg Carol Reardon On Pickett’s Charge Johanna Schoen on Women and the Politics of Sterilization Available now for Kindle, Nook, and Sony eReader.

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Omnibus E-Book Editions We are pleased to announce the first of our Omnibus E-Book Editions — The Harry Pfanz Gettysburg Trilogy, The Earl J. Hess Fortifications Trilogy, and The Gary W. Gallagher Shenandoah Valley Campaigns. Others are on their way. They bundle definitive, closely related volumes into one searchable, comprehensive e-book.

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Announcing DocSouth Books UNC Press and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library are pleased to introduce DocSouth Books. The project brings some of the most popular books in the Documenting the American South online library back into print and makes them available as e-books and print-on-demand publications.

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We are proud to partner with the George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center at Penn State University and the Society for Civil War Historians to publish The Journal of the Civil War Era. The journal is a means of publishing creative work and fresh perspectives on military, political, and legal history, with new research and understanding of the struggles in that period. www.thejournalofthecivilwarera.com

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african american history Benjamin Elijah Mays, Schoolmaster of the Movement A Biography Randal Maurice Jelks “This book is essential in filling out the picture of African American intellectual and cultural life through much of the twentieth century.”

—Paul Harvey, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs 2012 368 pp., 23 illus.

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Death Blow to Jim Crow The National Negro Congress and the Rise of Militant Civil Rights Erik S. Gellman “Perceptive and persuasive, beautifully written and meticulously researched.”

—Darlene Clark Hine, Northwestern University The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture 2012 368 pp., 22 illus., 2 maps 978-0-8078-3531-9 $39.95 hardcover | Now $31.96

My Southern Home The South and Its People William Wells Brown

Edited and with an Introduction by John Ernest “This superb volume will instantly emerge as the very best edition of My Southern Home and as one of the finest editions of Brown’s fascinating writings.”

—Robert S. Levine, University of Maryland 2011 304 pp., 14 illus.

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Freedom’s Teacher The Life of Septima Clark Katherine Mellen Charron

2010 Julia Cherry Spruill Prize, Southern Association of Women Historians 2010 George C. Rogers Jr. Book Award, South Carolina Historical Society

“Charron’s richly suggestive biography of Septima Clark will surely stimulate more work on the African American women who made the possibilities of the movement realities.”

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Crossroads at Clarksdale The Black Freedom Struggle in the Mississippi Delta after World War II Françoise N. Hamlin “Truly valuable work. This book is as important a contribution to understanding Mississippi’s freedom struggle and to bringing attention to many aspects of the movement as any I know.”

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Integrating Schools in a Changing Society

Help Me to Find My People The African American Search for Family Lost in Slavery

New Policies and Legal Options for a Multiracial Generation Edited by Erica Frankenberg and Elizabeth DeBray “Offers creative thinking, important research, and innovative strategies that will help stimulate advocacy to redeem Brown’s promise in today’s complex political and legal environment.”

—John Payton, president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund 2011 352 pp., 6 figs., 13 tables

Heather Andrea Williams “A study of real importance.”

—Michael Tadman, University of Liverpool The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture 2012 272 pp., 7 illus.

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In the Cause of Freedom Radical Black Internationalism from Harlem to London, 1917-1939

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Minkah Makalani “Nuanced and deeply internationalist, as wideranging and far-flung as the struggles for black liberation in the interwar years that it charts.”

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War! What Is It Good For? Black Freedom Struggles and the U.S. Military from World War II to Iraq Kimberley L. Phillips “Challenges us to rethink the very meaning of integration in the postwar United States.”

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The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture

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Princess Noire

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The Tumultuous Reign of Nina Simone Nadine Cohodas “The most comprehensive and thoughtfully researched biography on Simone to date.”

—Women’s Review of Books

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American Congo The African American Freedom Struggle in the Delta

2012 464 pp., 37 illus.

Nan Elizabeth Woodruff “A masterful account of life in the Mississippi Delta in the era of Jim Crow.”

—Journal of Southern History 2012 288 pp.

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If We Could Change the World Young People and America’s Long Struggle for Racial Equality

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Brown’s Battleground

Pursuit of Unity

Students, Segregationists, and the Struggle for Justice in Prince Edward County, Virginia

A Political History of the American South

Jill Ogline Titus “An extraordinary accomplishment, this book is the definitive account of Prince Edward County’s abandonment of public education and its consequences for the county’s children.”

—James R. Sweeney, Old Dominion University

Michael Perman “In lucid prose and with a clear and compelling analysis, Michael Perman presents a unique and valuable synthesis of southern political history from the 1790s to the 1990s” —Michael F. Holt, University of Virginia 2010 408 pp., 20 illus., 4 maps

2011 296 pp., 12 illus., 2 maps

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Defending White Democracy The Making of a Segregationist Movement and the Remaking of Racial Politics, 1936-1965

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Jason Morgan Ward “An elegant and incisive examination of the forces that shaped white reaction in this critical period in the political life of the South and the nation.”

—Joseph Crespino, Emory University 2011 264 pp., 9 illus.

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Civil War 150 UNC Press Commemorates the 150th Anniversary of the Civil War

1861-1865

To commemorate the sesquicentennial of the Civil War, we’ve launched UNCPressCivilWar150.com, featuring our Civil War books, authors, and other anniversary-related information and links.

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diplomatic history Arc of Empire America’s Wars in Asia from the Philippines to Vietnam Michael H. Hunt and Steven I. Levine “A lucid, persuasive, path-breaking study by two historians keenly attuned to both past and present U.S. military engagements. . . . Absorbing and provocative start to finish.”

—John W. Dower, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2012 352 pp., 24 illus., 6 maps 978-0-8078-3528-9 $35.00 hardcover | Now $28.00

Hanoi’s War An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam Lien-Hang T. Nguyen “An international history of the war, with new Vietnamese sources and serious attention to international actors. Scholars of the Vietnam War and the Cold War will be in [Nguyen’s] debt.”

—Andrew Preston, Cambridge University The New Cold War History 2012 336 pp., 15 illus.

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Imagining the Middle East The Building of an American Foreign Policy, 1918-1967 Matthew F. Jacobs “A must-read for anyone seeking to understand the background to America’s collision with radical Islam during the last quarter of the twentieth century.”

—Douglas Little, Clark University 2011 336 pp.

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Transpacific Field of Dreams How Baseball Linked the United States and Japan in Peace and War Sayuri Guthrie-Shimizu “Beautifully written and richly researched in English- and Japaneselanguage sources, this book reveals that ‘America’s pastime’ was truly a transnational game, one with power to bind two very disparate nations.”

—Barbara Keys, University of Melbourne 2012 336 pp., 18 illus.

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Allende’s Chile and the Inter-American Cold War Tanya Harmer “An exemplary work of international history. Deeply researched and well argued.”

—James G. Hershberg, George Washington University The New Cold War History 2011 400 pp., 8 illus., 2 maps 978-0-8078-3495-4 $45.00 hardcover | Now $36.00

Nationalism in Europe and America Politics, Cultures, and Identities since 1775 Lloyd S. Kramer “A brilliant comparative analysis.”

—Martin A. Miller, Duke University 2011 272 pp., 28 illus., 6 maps 978-0-8078-3484-8 $65.00 hardcover | Now $52.00 978-0-8078-7200-0 $24.95 paperback | Now $19.96

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early american history

Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia

The Science of the Soul in Colonial New England

Bonds of Alliance Indigenous and Atlantic Slaveries in New France Brett Rushforth “A highly original, thoroughly researched, and strongly argued study that forces us to rethink the received wisdom on Native-French relations.”

—Allan Greer, McGill University

Sarah Rivett “A ‘must read’ for historians of science and religion alike, as well as for all scholars of early American literature.”—Ralph Bauer, University of Maryland 2011 384 pp., 20 illus.

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Fatal Revolutions

White Over Black

Natural History, West Indian Slavery, and the Routes of American Literature

American Attitudes toward the Negro, 1550-1812 Winthrop D. Jordan

Second Edition With new forewords by Christopher Leslie Brown and Peter H. Wood “As essential to the study of slavery and the development of race in the United States as it was when it first appeared. Jordan’s insightful analysis, marvelous writing style, and deep humanity shine through on every page.”

—Annette Gordon-Reed, Harvard University

Christopher P. Iannini “No reader of this extraordinary and ambitious book will see the world of American letters in quite the same way again.”

—Laura Dassow Walls, University of Notre Dame 2012 328 pp., 8 color plates., 17 illus.

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A Harmony of the Spirits Translation and the Language of Community in Early Pennsylvania

2012 696 pp., 1 map 978-0-8078-3402-2 $70.00 hardcover | Now $56.00 978-0-8078-7141-6 $29.95 paperback | Now $23.96

Early American Cartographies Edited by Martin Brückner “This volume will transform scholars’ own mental maps of the early American geographical imagination.”

—Neil Safier, University of British Columbia

Patrick M. Erben “Restore[s] our understanding of the utopian culture shared by the linguistically diverse believers drawn to William Penn’s ‘Holy Experiment.’”

—Mark Peterson, University of California, Berkeley 2012 352 pp., 18 illus.

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James Madison A Son of Virginia and a Founder of the Nation Jeff Broadwater “With lively and fast-paced prose, this succinct synthesis of recent scholarship will appeal to historians, political scientists, and general readers alike.”

—Stuart Leibiger, LaSalle University 2012 296 pp., 10 illus.

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Martha Jefferson Randolph, Daughter of Monticello Her Life and Times Cynthia A. Kierner “A beautifully sourced biography of a woman who has long needed one.

Kierner's clean, clear writing style shines.”

—Catherine Allgor, University of California, Riverside 2012 400 pp., 30 illus.,1 map, 1 family tree 978-0-8078-3552-4 $35.00 hardcover | Now $28.00

Dining with the Washingtons Historic Recipes, Entertaining, and Hospitality from Mount Vernon Edited by Stephen A. McLeod

Foreword by Walter Scheib “A compelling portrait of nascent American culinary identity.”

—John T. Edge 2011 224 pp., 230 color illus.

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The Politics of Fashion in Eighteenth-Century America Kate Haulman “Novel, richly detailed, and deeply researched . . . a revolutionary history of the meaning of fashionability in early America and a chronicle of the evolution of the transatlantic fashion system.”

—David Shields, University of South Carolina Gender and American Culture 2011 304 pp., 28 illus.

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John Tyler, the Accidental President Edward P. Crapol

With a New Foreword by the Author “This revelatory study adds a welcomed fresh dimension to the history and historiography of antebellum expansion and diplomacy.”

—Journal of Southern History 2012 360 pp.

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civil war Lincoln and the Triumph of the Nation Constitutional Conflict in the American Civil War Mark E. Neely Jr. “Neely has opened vast new terrain and harvested it with his unparalleled skill for sharp analysis in his distinctive and convincing voice. Here is the finest Lincoln scholar in the country at his very best—and there is nothing better.”

—Harold Holzer Littlefield History of the Civil War Era 2011 416 pp.

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Lincoln’s Forgotten Ally Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt of Kentucky Elizabeth D. Leonard

Winner of the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize A Selection of the History Book Club, Military Book Club, and Book-of-the-Month Club online

“Elizabeth Leonard has done a superb job of capturing the life of one of the Civil War era's most significant and intriguing public men.”

—J. Matthew Gallman, University of Florida Civil War America 2011 432 pp., 22 illus.

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The Revolution of 1861 The American Civil War in the Age of Nationalist Conflict Andre M. Fleche “A signal contribution to the literature on nationalism, revolution, and the Civil War.” —Michael A. Morrison, Purdue University Civil War America 2012 224 pp., 15 illus.

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Battle Hymns The Power and Popularity of Music in the Civil War Christian McWhirter “No historian has done more than Christian McWhirter to open our ears to Civil War music as a powerful expression of political action.”

—Peter S. Carmichael, Gettysburg College Civil War America 2012 336 pp., 26 illus.

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The Civil War in the West Victory and Defeat from the Appalachians to the Mississippi Earl J. Hess

A Main Selection of the History Book Club and a Selection of the Military Book Club and BOMC2 online

“No historian is better equipped than Earl Hess to tell the important story of the Civil War in the West and none does a better job of explaining why it was important and how it decided the outcome of the broader conflict.”

—Steven E. Woodworth Littlefield History of the Civil War Era 2012 424 pp., 39 illus., 1 map 978-0-8078-3542-5 $40.00 hardcover | Now $32.00

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civil war With a Sword in One Hand and Jomini in the Other The Problem of Military Thought in the Civil War North Carol Reardon “This excellent book will change the perceptions of military historians in general and Civil War historians in particular.”

—John F. Marszalek, Mississippi State University The Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era 2012 224 pp.

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The Peninsula Campaign and the Necessity of Emancipation African Americans and the Fight for Freedom Glenn David Brasher “In vivid, deeply researched detail, Glenn David Brasher presents a crucial but almost unchronicled chapter of Civil War history. Anyone seeking to understand how the war to save the Union became a struggle for African American freedom should read this important book.”

—Adam Goodheart Civil War America 2012 304 pp., 22 illus., 2 maps 978-0-8078-3544-9 $39.95 hardcover | Now $31.96

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Burying the Dead but Not the Past Ladies’ Memorial Associations and the Lost Cause Caroline E. Janney “This excellent and well-written book illuminates the work of an important group in the South’s Lost Cause movement.”

—American Historical Review Civil War America 2012 304 pp., 11 illus., 2 tables 978-0-8078-7225-3 $24.95 paperback | Now $19.96

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Lincoln’s Proclamation Emancipation Reconsidered Edited by William A. Blair and Karen Fisher Younger “An excellent history of the proclamation.”

—The Federal Lawyer The Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era 2012 248 pp., 20 illus.

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Retreat from Gettysburg Lee, Logistics, and the Pennsylvania Campaign Kent Masterson Brown

2005 James I. Robertson Jr. Literary Prize, The Civil War Library and Research Center 2005 Distinguished Writing Award, Army Historical Foundation An Alternate Selection of the History Book Club and the Military Book Club

“A tour-de-force.”—America’s Civil War Civil War America 2011 552 pp., 43 illus., 21 maps 978-0-8078-7209-3 $27.00 paperback | Now $21.60

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the new encyclopedia of southern culture

The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture Charles Reagan Wilson, General Editor

Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi

This planned 25-volume series retains the broad cultural perspective of the original best-selling Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, supplemented by new scholarship on emerging topics.

Volume 1: Religion

Volume 7: Foodways

Samuel S. Hill, Editor

John T. Edge, Editor

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Volume 2: Geography

Volume 8: Environment

Richard Pillsbury, Editor

Martin Melosi, Editor

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Volume 3: History

Volume 9: Literature

Charles Reagan Wilson, Editor

M. Thomas Inge, Editor

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Volume 4: Myth, Manners, and Memory

Volume 10: Law and Politics

Charles Reagan Wilson, Editor

James W. Ely Jr. and Bradley G. Bond, Editors

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Volume 5: Language

Volume 11: Agriculture and Industry

Michael Montgomery and Ellen Johnson, Editors

Melissa Walker and James C. Cobb, Editors

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Volume 6: Ethnicity

Volume 12: Music

Celeste Ray, Editor

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the new encyclopedia of southern culture Volume 13: Gender

Volume 15: Urbanization

Nancy Bercaw and Ted Ownby, Editors

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Volume 16: Sports and Recreation

Volume 14: Folklife Glenn Hinson and William Ferris, Editors

Harvey H. Jackson III, Editor

2010 480 pp., 40 illus.

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Volume 18: Media Allison Graham and Sharon Monteith, Editors “A fascinating mosaic of the mass media’s role in the culture of the South.”

—Maxwell McCombs, University of Texas at Austin 2011 464 pp., 30 illus.

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Volume 19: Violence Amy Louise Wood, Editor “A superb encyclopedia, so comprehensive and compelling that it can be read as the definitive study of Southern violence.”

—Randolph Roth, Ohio State University 2011 320 pp., 26 illus.

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Volume 20: Social Class Larry J. Griffin and Peggy G. Hargis, editors “Splendid. . . . Not just for reference but for reading and reflection.”

—John Shelton Reed 2012 656 pp., 18 illus., 20 figs., 12 tables 978-0-8078-3559-3 $49.95 hardcover | Now $39.96 978-0-8078-7232-1 $27.95 paperback | Now $22.36

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20th century america Armed with Abundance Consumerism and Soldiering in the Vietnam War Meredith H. Lair “With crisp prose and her hands on seemingly every relevant source, [Lair] tells the neglected (but fully American) story of a militaristic society’s war machine in full bloom.”

—Michael S. Foley 2011 320 pp., 12 illus.,1 map 978-0-8078-3481-7 $34.95 hardcover | Now $27.96

National Insecurities Immigrants and U.S. Deportation Policy since 1882 Deirdre M. Moloney “An authoritative and important interpretation of the shifting grounds for deportation and exclusion policies.”

—Desmond King, Oxford University 2012 352 pp., 11 illus., 1 fig.

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Commonsense Anticommunism Labor and Civil Liberties between the World Wars Jennifer Luff “This well-written and provocative book is evenhanded in its approach to controversial issues—readers will learn a great deal from it.”

—Eric Arnesen, George Washington University 2012 272 pp., 10 illus.

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Chinese Mexicans Transpacific Migration and the Search for a Homeland, 1910-1960 Julia María Schiavone Camacho “Transforms our vision of transnational history.”

—Elliott Young, Lewis & Clark College Published in association with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University 2012 256 pp., 11 illus., 2 maps, 4 tables 978-0-8078-3540-1 $39.95 hardcover | Now $31.96

The Roots of Modern Conservatism Dewey, Taft, and the Battle for the Soul of the Republican Party Michael Bowen “A must read for anyone interested in the emergence of our modern two-party system.”

—Senator Bob Graham 2011 272 pp.

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In This Timeless Time Living and Dying on Death Row in America Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian “Through unforgettable stories and photos, we come to feel the suffering, guilt, and confusion of these men, as well as their inextinguishable human dignity.”

—Sister Helen Prejean Documentary Arts and Culture, Published in association with the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University 2012 256 pp., 113 duotones 978-0-8078-3539-5 $35.00 hardcover | Now $28.00

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North Carolina and the Problem of AIDS Advocacy, Politics, and Race in the South Stephen J. Inrig “An extremely important contribution to the history of AIDS not only in North Carolina, but in the United States as a whole.”

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Infectious Ideas U.S. Political Responses to the AIDS Crisis Jennifer Brier “Helps readers make sense of political history as more than just red or blue states. . . . Redefines our understanding of the mainstream. . . .

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Into the Pulpit Southern Baptist Women and Power since World War II Elizabeth H. Flowers “[An] elegant examination of modern religious history.”

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Whiting Up Whiteface Minstrels and Stage Europeans in African American Performance Marvin McAllister “Provides critical insight into how race has been and continues to be performed.”

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John Brown Still Lives!

America’s Long Reckoning with Violence, Equality, and Change R. Blakeslee Gilpin

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What America Read Taste, Class, and the Novel, 1920-1960 Gordon Hutner

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Forging Freedom Black Women and the Pursuit of Liberty in Antebellum Charleston Amrita Chakrabarti Myers “An outstanding contribution to our understanding of black women’s negotiated freedoms . . . will have a lasting influence in African American, emancipation, and slavery studies.”

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Creating Consumers Home Economists in Twentieth-Century America Carolyn M. Goldstein “Combines analyses of the role of the state, corporate product development, the history of food, and gender to create a full history of the shaping of public as well as private market policy.”

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Sweet Tea Black Gay Men of the South E. Patrick Johnson

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Making Marriage Work A History of Marriage and Divorce in the Twentieth-Century United States Kristin Celello “An intellectual and cultural history of modern marriage and divorce leavened with rich insights into married love and labor.”

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Living the Revolution Italian Women’s Resistance and Radicalism in New York City, 1880-1945 Jennifer Guglielmo

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The Company He Keeps A History of White College Fraternities Nicholas L. Syrett “[An] engaging, readable, and ultimately disturbing history of white college fraternities.”

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Cuba in the American Imagination Metaphor and the Imperial Ethos Louis A. Pérez Jr. “One can hope that tomorrow’s policymakers will learn from this illuminating account.”

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Sexual Revolutions in Cuba Passion, Politics, and Memory Carrie Hamilton

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Black Political Activism and the Cuban Republic Melina Pappademos “A wonderfully fresh and data-rich text on Black Cubans, their debates, and their activism during the early days of the Cuban Republic.”

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