A Campaign of Giants--The Battle for Petersburg
Volume 2: From the Crater's Aftermath to the Battle of Burgess Mill
A. Wilson Greene
Grant's assaults and Lee's desperate defense in the Civil War's final months
Grinding, bloody, and ultimately decisive, the Petersburg Campaign was the Civil War's longest and among its most complex. A Campaign of Giants: The Battle for Petersburg offers a gripping, comprehensive history of the decisive campaign in the eastern theater. In this second of three volumes, A. Wilson Greene narrates the critical months from August through October 1864, during which Ulysses S. Grant's army group launched three major offensives against Robert E. Lee's defenses around Petersburg and the Confederate capital in Richmond. The Confederates counterpunched after each Union advance and conducted a spectacular cavalry raid that netted almost 2,500 cattle from Federal grazing grounds. But as winter approached, Grant had captured one of Lee's primary supply routes and extended the lines around Petersburg and Richmond to some thirty-fivemiles.
Supported by thirty-four detailed maps, Greene's narrative chronicles these bloody engagements using many previously unpublished primary accounts from common soldiers and ranking officers alike. The struggle for Petersburg is often characterized as a siege, but Greene's narrative demonstrates that it was dynamic, involving maneuver and combat equal inintensitytothatofanymajor CivilWaroperation.
April 2025
$45.00
ISBN: 9781469684819 | t Cloth
704 Pages
34 maps, notes, bibl., index 9.250 in H | 6.125 in W
History / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
Civil War America Series
PrizewinningauthorA.WilsonGreenespentaforty-four-yearcareerin public history, twenty-four of them working on the Petersburg battlefields. His first volume in this trilogy, From the Crossing of the James to the Crater, was published in 2018. He lives in Walden, Tennessee.
"With the second volume of A Campaign of Giants, one of the field's finest military historians returns to the subject he knows best. Beautifully written and impeccably researched, this book is a must-read for serious students of the war."
—Susannah J. Ural, Mississippi State University
Becoming Lunsford Lane
The Lives of an American Aeneas
Craig Thompson Friend
The real life behind the mythical story of Lunsford Lane
By challenging the rules of enslavement and, later, pushing the boundaries of free citizenship in North Carolina, Lunsford Lane (1803–79) became a folk hero to many enslaved Southerners, as well as a generation of abolitionists. Author of a unique "slave narrative" and a speaking partner with some of the era's greatest orators, including William Lloyd Garrison, Henry Highland Garnett, William Wells Brown, and Frederick Douglass, Lane became a celebrity who watched as the persona he created gradually faltered and failed him and his family. Yet even as his influence waned, it was still powerful enough to cause many to see him in light of their own purposes: as a fugitive from slavery, an entrepreneur, a Christian minister, and even an abolitionist (an identity he rejected). Lane’ s enemies also continued their efforts to silence him—a white mob determined to tar and feather him, reformers who saw his contributions to abolition as a threat to their causes, and a neighbor who attempted to set fire to the Lane home while Lunsford and his family slept within.
In the first biography of Lunsford Lane based on original and extensive research, Craig Thompson Friend portrays a man who dreamed beyond his enslavement, delivered himself and his family from bondage, and spun a story of his life that brought him lasting freedom and fleeting fame. Friend casts light on Lane's family origins as well as his complex relationships with his wife, parents, children, enslavers, fellow abolitionists, and nation. Lane's story is a biography for our times: a man searching to define life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness in a changing American society scarred by contentious politics, economic challenges, class tensions, loss of political rights, and racial violence.
Craig Thompson Friend is professor of history at North Carolina State University.
June 2025
$37.50
ISBN: 9781469685342 | t Cloth
432 Pages 21 halftones, 3 maps 9.250 in H | 6.125 in W
Biography & Autobiography / African American & Black
"This is a work of true excellence, a stunning achievement that combines deep research with elegant prose. Friend's superb analysis draws a clear distinction between Lane the man and the inventive story of his life that Lane created. Though Friend goes to painstaking lengths to uncover Lane's full historical truth, it is his fascination with this intriguing person that makes this book so readable."
—Douglas R. Egerton, Le Moyne College
Black Girls and How We Fail Them
Aria S. Halliday
An indictment of how we treat Black girls and a mandate to do better
From hip-hop moguls and political candidates to talk radio and critically acclaimed films, society communicates that Black girls don't matter and their girlhood is not safe. Alarming statistics on physical and sexual abuse, for instance, reveal the harm Black girls face, yet Black girls' representation in media still heavily relies on our seeing their abuse as an important factor in others' development. In this provocative new book, Aria S. Halliday asserts that the growth of diverse representation in media since 2008 has coincided with an increase in the hatred of Black girls.
Halliday uses her astute expertise as a scholar of popular culture, feminist theory, and Black girlhood to expose how we have been complicit in the depiction of Black girls as unwanted and disposable while letting Black girls fend for themselves. She indicts the way media mistreats celebrity Black girls like Malia and Sasha Obama as well as fictional Black girls in popular shows and films like A Wrinkle in Time. Our society's inability to see or understand Black girls as girls makes us culpable in their abuse. In Black Girls and How We Fail Them, a revelatory book for political analysts, hip-hop lovers, pop culture junkies, and parents, Halliday provides the critical perspective we need to create a world that supports, affirms, and loves Black girls. Our future depends on it.
February 2025
$22.00
ISBN: 9781469686110 | t Paperback
200 Pages appends., notes, bibl., index 8.500 in H | 5.500 in W
Social Science / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies
Aria S. Halliday is associate professor of gender and women's studies and African American and Africana studies at the University of Kentucky.
"This book feels like a
conversation
that I've
been longing to have or listen in on, being held by people who are invested, hosted by a friend. Piercingly insightful. Honest. Mad. Vulnerable. Understanding. May we take heed of Aria Halliday's words and insights."
—Crystal Leigh Endsley, author of Quantum Justice: Global Girls Cultivating Disruption through Spoken Word Poetry
Shattering the Glass
The Remarkable History of Women's Basketball, Revised Edition
Pamela Grundy and Susan Shackelford
Women's basketball takes off
American women's basketball has reached new peaks of interest and popularity, thanks to spellbinding athletes, exhilarating games, and a vibrant, empowered vision of womanhood. Shattering the Glass stands as the definitive history of the sport. Combining extensive historical research with dozens of oral history interviews, Pamela Grundy and Susan Shackelford bring life and depth to stories of the many generations of female athletes who have fought for liberation on and off the court.
In this new and substantially expanded edition, Grundy and Shackelford provide a fresh view of the sport that extends to the present. They chart the expanding visibility of college programs, the growing dynamism of the WNBA, and players' courageous leadership on social issues such as sexuality and race, drawing on the actions and reflections of stars such as Seimone Augustus, Kim Mulkey, Brittney Griner, Geno Auriemma, Pat Summitt, Breanna Stewart, Dawn Staley, and Caitlin Clark. The result is a compelling story of women's empowerment through sport over the past century.
February 2025
$25.00
ISBN: 9781469674780 | t Paperback
280 Pages
62 halftones, appends., notes, bibl., index 9.250 in H | 6.125 in W
Sports & Recreation / Basketball
Pamela Grundy is a historian and author who lives in Charlotte, North Carolina. Her previous books include Teaching U.S. History through Sport and Color and Compromise: West Charlotte High and the American Struggle over Educational Equity
Susan Shackelford runs her own writing and editing business and is the author of Hoops and Heroes: The Inspiring History of Army West Point
"A must-read for anyone who loves the game. Pamela Grundy and Susan Shackelford introduce us to the women who opened the gymnasium doors for generations to come."
—Rebecca Lobo
Southern Culture on the Fizz
An Effervescent Guide to Fermented Foods and Beverages from the American South
Brett Taubman
Get cultured, Southern-style
From beer and kombucha to hot sauce and kimchi, fermented foods and drinks are everywhere. Though it once might have felt like a fleeting trend, fermentation has a long culinary history, especially in the southern United States, where the hotter climate and agricultural tradition of the region helped foster the use of fermentation as a means of preserving foods. With Southern Culture on the Fizz, Brett Taubman offers an easy-to-use and fun fermentation guide, complete with fermentations that focus on southern ingredients. Each section provides indepth coverage of the history of these ferments, the science behind the ferments, an overview of the current landscape of fermented products in the South, and a look to their future.
Filled with dozens of recipes, expert guidance on the process, and safety considerations, as well as the necessary equipment, this guide ensures readers have the information they need to start fermenting or take their fermentation game to the next level. This book also provides readers—novice and experienced fermenters alike—with the historical context and relevant scientific information lacking in other books and keeps them engaged from beginning to end.
May 2025
$35.00
ISBN: 9781469685410 | t Paperback
320 Pages
49 color plates., 4 tables, appends., bibl., index 9.000 in H | 6.000 in W
Cooking / Methods / Canning & Preserving
Brett Taubman is professor in the Department of Chemistry and Fermentation Sciences and director of the Fermentation Sciences programatAppalachianState University.
"Southern Culture on the Fizz is perfect for people looking for recipes and procedures on how to start their own home fermentations, for 'foodies' wanting to explore southern food culture, and for those who enjoy reading about the history of food and its impact on the region. Brett writes with a unique and entertaining style—a pleasure to read."
—Dana Sedin, New Belgium Brewing
The Fabulous Ordinary
Discovering the Natural Wonders of the Wild South
Georgann Eubanks
Finding the extraordinary in nature's ordinary
Georgann Eubanks offers readers a tour of the seasonal joys of ecosystems in the Southeast. The ordinary destinations and events she explores are scattered across seven states and include such wonders as a half-million purple martins roosting on an island in a South Carolina lake, the bloom of thirty acres of dimpled trout lilies in a remote Georgia forest, gnat larvae that glow like stars on the rock walls of an obscure Alabama canyon, and the overnight accumulation of elaborately patterned moths on the side of a North Carolina mountain cabin.
These phenomena and others reveal how plants, mammals, amphibians, and insects are managing to persevere despite pressures from human invasion, habitat destruction, and climate change. Their stories also shine a light on the efforts of dedicated scientists, volunteers, and aspiring young naturalists who are working to reverse losses and preserve the fabulous ordinary that's still alive in the fields, forests, rivers, and coastal estuaries of this essential and biodiverse region.
April
$35.00
2025
ISBN: 9781469685922 | t Paperback
264 Pages
36 color plates, bibl., index 9.000 in H | 6.000 in W
Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection
Georgann Eubanks is a writer, teacher, and consultant to nonprofit groups across the country. She is director of the Table Rock Writers Workshop, was a founder of the North Carolina Writers' Network, and is past chair of the North Carolina Humanities Council. She lives in Carrboro, NC.
"The Fabulous Ordinary encourages parents and children to appreciate, observe, and do what they can to preserve the natural world. Eubanks provides numerous examples, weaving her own experiences being guided and interviewing experts. The sites described are accessible to anyone who has interest, curiosity, passion, and adaptability. An absolute delight."
—Gail Fishman, author of Journeys through Paradise: Pioneering Naturalists in the Southeast
A Field Guide to Mushrooms of the Carolinas
Revised and Expanded Edition
Alan E. Bessette, Arleen R. Bessette, and Michael W. Hopping
A must-have update of a mushrooming classic
Identifying mushrooms in the wild can present an enticing challenge. Taking on unbelievable forms, some are delicious, others are deadly, but the edibility status of the majority remains unknown. In this revised and expanded edition of the classic, best-selling A Field Guide to Mushrooms of the Carolinas, readers will find over 1,000 mushroom species described in clear, simple terms, with color photographs showcasing their unique combinations of features.
What's included:
*Information on mushroom edibility and toxicity
*Basic information on spore characteristics
*Updated nomenclature and taxonomy based on the latest genetic analyses
*An overview of the Carolinas' role in the history of American mycology
*Over 1,000 color photographs of Carolina mushrooms
The unusually large number of described species makes this book a must-have for experienced mushroom hunters as well as those newly interested in mycology. Here, at last, is the definitive field guide for mushrooms in North and South Carolina, from the mountains to the coast, presented in a single portable volume.
Alan E. Bessette, professional mycologist and emeritus professor of biology, has published numerous papers and more than thirty books.
Arleen R. Bessette, mycologist and botanical photographer, has published several papers and more than twenty books.
Michael W. Hopping, retired physician and author of several books, is also an award-winning mycophotographer.
May 2025
$45.00
ISBN: 9781469685526 | t Paperback 632 Pages 1035 color plates., 20 drawings, appends., bibl., index 9.000 in H | 6.000 in W
Nature / Fungi & Mushrooms
Southern Gateways Guides
Praise for the first edition
"The unusually large number of described species makes this book a must-have for experienced mushroom hunters as well as beginners. Here, at last, is the field guide for North and South Carolina mushrooms, from the mountains to the coast, presented in one portable volume."
—Southeastern Naturalist
UNC A to
What Every Tar Heel Needs to Know about the First State University, Revised and Expanded Edition
Nicholas Graham and Cecelia Moore
An updated edition of a Tar Heel classic
In this revised and expanded edition, UNC A to Z offers more Carolina history than ever before. Covering everything from the Old Well and the Confederate monument to the COVID-19 pandemic and Roy Williams's retirement, this book is the best portable introduction to the nation's first public university, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
With an additional twenty-five mini-histories and new photographs, this book is perfect for new students getting to know the campus and alumni who want to learn more about their alma mater. Each entry is packed with fascinating facts, interesting stories, and little-known histories of the people, places, and events that have shaped the Carolina we know today.
April 2025
$28.00
ISBN: 9781469684482 | t Cloth
328 Pages 74 halftones
9.000 in H | 6.000 in W
History / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
PRAISE FOR THE FIRST EDITION
"A serious and compelling university portrait. . . . A book, not just for Carolina loyalists, but also for everyone who wants to understand the complex mix of attributes of our first state university."
—D.G. Martin, One on One
Nicholas Graham is University Archivist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Cecelia Moore is former University Historian at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Southern News, Southern Politics
How a Newspaper Defined a State for a Century
Rob Christensen
The surprising history of North Carolina's best-known newspaper
Newspapers are a tough business, and no one knows that better than Rob Christensen, who was chief political reporter at North Carolina's capital newspaper, the News and Observer, for decades. Here he tells the story of the N&O and how it helped shape modern North Carolina in complicated ways.It'salso thestoryofa familydynasty:fourgenerationsoftheDaniels family owned and ran the N&O.Theynotonlyhelpedelectgovernorsbut also played an influential role in national American politics—family members served as political lieutenants to William Jennings Bryan, Woodrow Wilson,Franklin Roosevelt,and Harry Truman.
Christensen takes readers from the N&O'searlydaysattheturnofthe twentieth centuryas the militantvoice of whitesupremacy to its denunciation by segregationist Jesse Helms for "selling out the South" in the 1960s and finally to its dwindling current fortunes.By telling the story of one important regional newspaper, Christensen shows how influence and messaging matter in influencing the politics of a state and a region for generations.
March 2025
$35.00
ISBN: 9781469685243 | t Cloth 336 Pages 15 halftones, notes, bibl., index 9.250 in H | 6.125 in W
History / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Rob Christensen wrote about North Carolina politics for forty-fiveyears for the News and Observer. He is also the author of several books, most recently The Rise and Fall of the Branchhead Boys: North Carolina's Scott Family and the Era of Progressive Politics
"Christensen correctly contends that the News and Observer and its founding family played an outsize role in the political, cultural, and civic life of North Carolina. His treatment of the Daniels family, particularly the well-known liberal southern journalist Jonathan Daniels, is subtle, nuanced, and valuable. This is a lively and engaging book that chronicles the newspaper's evolution and impact in a detailed and thoughtful way."
—Sid Bedingfield, author of Newspaper Wars: Civil Rights and White Resistance in South Carolina, 1935–1965
Language and Life on Ocracoke
The Living History of the Brogue
Jeffrey
Reaser, Walt Wolfram,
and Candy Gaskill
The Brogue and its people are not easily extinguished
In this follow-up to the celebrated Hoi Toide on the Outer Banks, Jeffrey Reaser, Walt Wolfram, and Candy Gaskill have produced the most comprehensive linguistic look at Ocracoke yet. Many visitors are drawn to Ocracoke's natural beauty and fascinating dialect, known as the Ocracoke Brogue. During the summer on the island, despite the required ferry ride to even set foot there, tourists (or as the locals might call them, dingbatters or tourons)can easily outnumber residents fifteen to one. Though small in number, O'cockers remain as iconic as the lighthouse.
The authors have continued to study Ocracoke and the Ocracoke Brogue while also participating in and partnering with the community itself. Building on the legacy of Hoi Toide, this book includes 120 new interviews with Ocracokers, documenting their evolving language and culture. With this prolonged and comprehensive approach to the region, the authors document the island's changes, providing readers with a deeply researched, empathetic, and engagingly written snapshot of one of North Carolina's most cherished places, one with a linguistic heritage worth celebrating.
May 2025
$25.00
ISBN: 9781469685298 | t Paperback
296 Pages 28 halftones, 2 maps, index 8.500 in H | 5.500 in W
History / United States State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Jeffrey Reaser is professor of English at North Carolina State University.
Walt Wolfram is William C. Friday Distinguished Professor of English at North Carolina State University. His books include Hoi Toide on the Outer Banks: The Story of the Ocracoke Brogue and Talkin' Tar Heel: How Our Voices Tell the Story of North Carolina
Candy Gaskill is a board member of the Ocracoke Preservation Society.
"A full portrait of life, voice, and work in a colorful, in many ways unique community. What makes this study so interesting, entertaining, and valuable is the way that it successfully combines history, linguistics, social and cultural analysis, and the drama of local characters. The book feeds the natural human curiosity we all have about how and why people speak the way thatthey do."
—LucindaH. MacKethan,North Carolina StateUniversity
The Sixth Wisconsin and the Long Civil War
The Biography of a Regiment
James Marten
The lives, deaths, and afterlives of a Civil War regiment
Reimagining one of the oldest genres of Civil War history, this book engagingly presents the story of the war and its aftermath through the lens of a single regiment, the Sixth Wisconsin. One of the core units of the famed Iron Brigade, the Sixth was organized in July 1861 and mustered out in summer 1865, playing major roles at Second Manassas, Antietam, and Gettysburg, and in the Overland campaign of 1864. But the regiment's full history is found in the stories of its men learning to fight and endure far from home amid violence, illness, and death, and in the lives of families that hung on every word in letters and news from the front lines. Those stories also unfolded long after the war's end, as veterans sought to make sense of their experiences and home communities struggled to care for those who returned with unhealed wounds.
Marshaling a vast archive, James Marten has crafted a compelling and highly original biography of the Sixth Wisconsin in war and peace. In seeing the fight through the eyes of the regiment's roughly 2,000 men and those connected to them, readers will understand the long history of the Civil War as never before.
April 2025
$35.00
ISBN: 9781469684239 | t Cloth 312 Pages 9 halftones, appends., notes, bibl., index 9.250 in H | 6.125 in W
History / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
Civil War America Series
James Marten is professor of history emeritus at Marquette University. He is author or editor of many books, including Sing Not War: The Lives of Union and Confederate Veterans in Gilded Age America.
"Marten skillfully recaptures the world of the Sixth Wisconsin regiment in all its diversity. He deftly handles military operations and combat with just the right combination of strategic and tactical detail. And he vividly recaptures the humanity of the common soldier, from suffering to frolic and from remembrance to recrimination. This is an outstanding piece of work by a historian of great depth and range. It should become the gold standard for any work on a Civil War regiment."
—GeorgeC.
Rable, University of Alabama
Fighting for Freedom
Black Craftspeople and the Pursuit of Independence
Edited by Torren L. Gatson, Tiffany N. Momon, and William A. Strollo
Black artisans forging their own version of freedom
As the companion to the exhibition, Fighting for Freedom places Black craftspeople at the forefront of American history, from before the Revolutionary War through the Civil War and beyond Reconstruction. Delving into diverse narratives of creativity, resilience, and triumph in the quest for freedom, this book underscores the evolution of freedom through the lens of material culture by exploring how the very concept of freedom was shaped and redefined by enslaved and free craftspeople who relentlessly fought for their rights and the recognition of their humanity.
Featuring ten essays by leading historians, museum curators, and material culture scholars and more than seventy color photographs of Black artistry, including paintings, metalwork, woodwork, pottery, and furniture, this book vividly illustrates how Black men and women persistently sought tangible expressions of liberty which have endured as symbols of their creators' legacies in the ongoing struggle for freedom.
Contributors include Lauren Applebaum, Robell Awake, Lydia Blackmore, Aleia M. Brown, R. Ruthie Dibble, Philippe L. B. Halbert, Jennifer Van Horn, Alexandra Alevizatos Kirtley, and Susan J. Rawles.
April 2025
$35.00
ISBN: 9781469686257 | s Cloth
184 Pages
74 color plates, notes, bibl., index 11.000 in H | 8.000 in W
Art / American / African American & Black
Torren L. Gatson is assistant professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Tiffany N. Momon is associate professor of history at Sewanee: The University of the South.
William A. Strollo is curator of exhibitions at the Daughters of the American Revolution Museum.
"This book showcases the vital contributions of African Americans to the American decorative arts, demonstrating that Black identity is inseparable from the nation's core ideals of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
—Hilary Green, Davidson College
The Two Georges
Parallel Lives in an Age of Revolution
Edited by Susan Reyburn and Zach Klitzman
Foreword by Carla D. Hayden
The official companion to the Library of Congress exhibition running March 2025 to March 2026 before traveling to the London Science Museum
The Two Georges: Parallel Lives in an Age of Revolution is the first book to simultaneously explore in depth the lives and contributions of two globally significant figures of the late eighteenth century: George III (1738–1820), king of Great Britain, and George Washington (1732–1799), first president of the United States. Serving as the official companion publication to the Library of Congress exhibition, the book reexamines the life of George Washington and paints a fuller picture of King George III.
In considering these men, The Two Georges contextualizes, compares, and contrasts their experiences in youth, as family men, as men of the Enlightenment, as adversaries in war, as king and president, and as figures of national myth and memory. Short essays from scholars open each chapter and examine the commonalities and differences between the two Georges as well as the forces and circumstances that informed their lives and leadership. Complementing these essays are features on specific areas of overlap and contrast, such as their military backgrounds, food preferences, and love of science, agriculture, and books; short biographies of their parents, wives, and extended families; and a variety of historic documents, maps, prints, and artwork in the Library of Congress's collections and from around the world. These supplemental pieces underscore the myriad changes the two Georges participated in and witnessed during an age of revolution.
April 2025
$24.95
ISBN: 9780844495903 | s Paperback
256 Pages
141 color images, notes, bibl., index 10.000 in H | 8.000 in W
History / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
Exhibit Companion Series
Susan Reyburn is a writer-editor in the Publishing Office at the Library of Congress. She is the author of Rosa Parks: In Her Own Words (2020), Football Nation: Four Hundred Years of America's Game (2014), Women Who Dare: Amelia Earhart (2006), and a coauthor of American Feast: Cookbooks and Cocktails from the Library of Congress (2023), Baseball Americana: Treasures from the Library of Congress (2009), The Library of Congress World War II Companion (2007), and The Library of Congress Civil War Desk Reference (2002)
Zack Klitzman is a writer-editor in the Publishing Office at the Library of Congress. He is the coauthor of American Feast: Cookbooks and Cocktails from the Library of Congress (2023) and a former Jeopardy! champion.
A Campaign of Giants--The Battle for Petersburg
Volume 1: From the Crossing of the James to the Crater
A. Wilson Greene and Gary W. Gallagher
The Civil War's epic struggle for Petersburg, retold for a new generation
Grinding, bloody, and ultimately decisive, the Petersburg Campaign was the Civil War's longest and among its most complex. Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee squared off for more than nine months in their struggle for Petersburg, the key to the Confederate capital at Richmond. Featuring some of the war's most notorious battles, the campaign played out against a backdrop of political drama and crucial fighting elsewhere, with massive costs for soldiers and civilians alike. After failing to bull his way into Petersburg, Grant concentrated on isolating the city from its communications with the rest of the surviving Confederacy, stretching Lee's defenses to the breaking point. When Lee's desperate breakout attempt failed in March 1865, Grant launched his final offensives that forced the Confederates to abandon the city on April 2, 1865. A week later, Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House.
Here A. Wilson Greene opens his sweeping new three-volume history of the Petersburg Campaign, taking readers from Grant's crossing of the James in mid-June 1864 to the fateful Battle of the Crater on July 30. Full of fresh insights drawn from military, political, and social history, A Campaign of Giants is destined to be the definitive account of the campaign. With new perspectives on operational and tactical choices by commanders, the experiences of common soldiers and civilians, and the significant role of the United States Colored Troops in the fighting, this book offers essential reading for all those interested in the history of the Civil War.
February 2025
$32.00
ISBN: 9781469688367 | t Paperback
728 Pages
34 maps, notes, bibl., index 9.250 in H | 6.125 in W
History / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
Civil War America Series
A. Wilson Greene is the former president of the Pamplin Historical Park and the National Museum of the Civil War Soldier and author of The Final Battles of the Petersburg Campaign
"A Campaign of Giants stands among the most authoritative and engagingly presented Civil War studies ever written."
Wall Street Journal
"Essential reading for future scholars of the Petersburg campaign."
Civil War Monitor
The Rise and Fall of the Branchhead Boys
North Carolina’s Scott Family and the Era of Progressive Politics
Rob Christensen
ThepoliticalfamilythatchangedNorth Carolina
Louisiana had the Longs, Virginia had the Byrds, Georgia had the Talmadges, and North Carolina had the Scotts. In this history of North Carolina's most influential political family, Rob Christensen tells the story of the Scotts and how they dominated Tar Heel politics. Three generations of Scotts—W.Kerr Scott,RobertScott,andMegScottPhipps—heldstatewide office. Despite stereotypes about rural white southerners, the Scotts led a populist and progressive movement strongly supported by rural North Carolinians—the socalled Branchhead Boys, the rural grassroots voters who lived at the heads of tributaries throughout the heart of North Carolina. Though the Scotts held power in various government positions in North Carolina for generations, they were instrumental in their own downfall. From Kerr Scott'sregression into reactionary race politics to Meg ScottPhipps's corruption trial and subsequent prison sentence, the Scott family lost favor in their home state, their influence dimmed and their legacy in question.
Weaving together interviews from dozens of political luminaries and deep archival research, Christensen offers an engaging and definitive historical account of not only the Scott family's legacy but also how race and populism informed North Carolina politics during the twentiethcentury.
February 2025
$25.00
ISBN: 9781469688459 | t Paperback
336 Pages
15 halftones, notes, bibl., index 9.250 in H | 6.125 in W
History / United States State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Rob Christensen is the former political columnist for the News and Observer in Raleigh.
"Christensen does an outstanding job of patching together what had to be hundreds of documents, letters and interviews to deliver a concisely written and thought-provoking historical account that is both rich in detail yet not overwhelming. He presents the story of the Scott political dynasty without editorial comment. In the best reporting tradition he places facts above commentary, providing just enough context to sharpen the clarity of sometimes murkyevents."
—Burlington Times-News
The Second Manassas Campaign
Edited by Caroline E. Janney and Kathryn J. Shively
From leading Civil War scholars, fresh views of Second Manassas and its significance
Waged from June 26 to September 1, 1862, the Second Manassas campaign pitted the US Armies of Virginia and the Potomac against the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and its new commander, Robert E. Lee. The campaign unfolded against a backdrop of momentous US political decisions regarding confiscation, emancipation, and Confederate civilians. These decisions dismayed and energized Confederates, sparking the debut of Lee's offensive strategy. Weeks of strategic movements were punctuated by savage fighting that culminated in a climactic battle from August 28-30. Second Manassas destroyed the careers of US army commander John Pope and corps commander Fitz John Porter. Despite the dramatic impact of the campaign, it is often forgotten in the larger history of the Civil War, and sorely understudied. The essays in this volume provide valuable attention to matters of strategy, tactics, and logistics; the performances of key commanders on each side; the campaign's political dimensions; the connections between home front and battlefield; and the memory of the campaign's aftermath.
Contributors include John Hennessy, Gary W. Gallagher, Cecily N. Zander, Peter C. Luebke, James Marten, Keith S. Bohannon, and William Marvel.
April 2025
$34.95
ISBN: 9781469685366 | s Cloth
288 Pages 10 halftones, 3 maps, notes, bibl., index 9.250 in H | 6.125 in W
History / United States / Civil war Period (1850-1877)
Military Campaigns of the Civil War Series
Caroline E. Janney is John L. Nau III Professor in the History of the American Civil War at the University of Virginia. Kathryn J. Shively is associate professor of history at Virginia Commonwealth University.
"Janney and Shively have assembled a masterful team of scholars to tackle the complicated tale of Second Manassas. This volume sheds brilliant new light on a neglected campaign, in the process adding to a landmark series and demonstrating just how rich and wide-ranging the scholarship on Civil War military history can be."
—ZacheryA. Fry,USArmyCommandandGeneralStaffCollege
Playing through Pain
The Violent Consequences of Capitalist Sport
Daniel Sailofsky
The unexpected violent effect of capitalism on sports
For many fans and casual observers, professional sports and violence are deeply connected. Violence on the field has real consequences for players, notably in the form of life-altering injuries from concussions. Off the field, in the last several decades, scores of athletes have committed violent acts, from domestic abuse and sexual assault to animal abuse and murder. Beyond athletes, sport also serves as a site of political and structural violence, from the displacement and hyperpolicing of everyday people for mega-events to the "sportswashing" of environmentally harmful industries.
Daniel Sailofsky examines the endemic violence in professional sports and argues that—while related to masculinity, misogyny, and individual factors like alcohol consumption and gambling—it is most intimately tied to capitalism and to capitalist modes of consumption and profit. Sailofsky explains how capitalism creates the conditions for violence to thrive and uncovers how sports leaders— coaches, league officials, and team owners—obfuscate these relationships to avoid accountability.
From minor league baseball exploitation to spectator hooliganism, Sailofsky shows the connections between the business of sports and violence, but also, more importantly, he imagines new forms of sport that are not places of harm.
May 2025
$24.95
ISBN: 9781469685878 | s Paperback 256 Pages 9.250 in H | 6.125 in W
Social Science / Violence in Society
Daniel Sailofsky is assistant professor of kinesiology and physical education at the University of Toronto.
"A detailed examination of the problems in sport caused by capitalism. Sailofsky takes the violence of capitalism as a central point around which to build his argument and continuously argues for a different form of sport in a socialist future. An important contribution to a field that seldom uses Marxist analysis, this is an approachable and engaging study, one that is perfect for scholars and students alike."
—Munene
Mwaniki, Western Carolina University
The Memoirs of Robert and Mabel
Williams
African American Freedom, Armed Resistance, and International Solidarity
Edited by Akinyele Omowale Umoja, Gloria Aneb House, and John H. Bracey Jr.
Robert and Mabel Williams in their own words
Born in Jim Crow–era Monroe, North Carolina, Robert F. Williams and Mabel Williams were the state's most legendary African American freedom fighters. Robert organized an armed paramilitary group to protect his community from the violent attacks of the Ku Klux Klan. The Williamses' leadership in Monroe was just the beginning of their lifelong pursuit of freedom and justice for Black people in the United States and for oppressed populations throughout the world. Their activism foreshadowed major developments in the civil rights and Black Power movements, including Malcolm X's advocacy of fighting oppression "by any means necessary," the emergence of the Black Panther Party, and Black solidarity with Third World liberation movements.
Robert documented his experiences in Monroe in his classic 1962 book, Negroes with Guns, and completed a draft of his memoir, While God Lay Sleeping, months before his death in 1996. Mabel began a memoir of her own before her death in 2014. The family estate selected John Bracey Jr., Akinyele Umoja, and Gloria Aneb House to edit and complete the manuscripts. The two are presented together in this book, offering a gripping portrait of these pioneering freedom fighters that is both deeply intimate and a fierce call to action in the ongoing fight against racial injustice.
Akinyele K. Umoja is a professor of Africana studies at Georgia State University. Gloria Aneb House is a poet, activist, and professor emerita at University of Michigan–Dearborn and associate professor emerita in African American studies at Wayne State University.
John H. Bracey Jr. (d. 2023) was a professor of Afro-American studies at University of Massachusetts Amherst.
June 2025
$34.95
ISBN: 9781469680132 | s Paperback 360 Pages 23 halftones, notes, bibl., index 9.250 in H | 6.125 in W
Social Science / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies
"The insights of the editors, established activists who were involved with the movement when the Williamses' international travel and activism was at its height, make for a truly valuable read."
—Edward Onaci, author of Free the Land: The Republic of New Afrika and the Pursuit of a Black NationState
The Breach Iran-Contra and the Assault on American Democracy
Alan McPherson
On its 40th anniversary, Iran-Contra is more relevant than ever
A president defying Congress. Disrespect for the law. Attacks on the press. Evasion in the courts. The privatization of war. Quid pro quos with foreign nations. The mounting dangers to American democracy have long been with us. But all these perils first emerged together during the Iran-Contra scandal of the Reagan-Bush era. This opaque foreign policy mess has receded from history, a minor speedbump at the triumphant end of the Cold War. With American democracy in increasing jeopardy from the inside, however, Iran-Contra must be reassessed as a major step down that dark path.
In this gripping blow-by-blow account of the 1980s efforts to trade arms with Iran illegally, fund rebels in Central America despite a congressional prohibition, and dodge political and legal consequences once the truth emerged, Alan McPherson argues for the salience of six democracy-degrading behaviors throughout the fiasco. At the time, many warned of the broad attack on democratic norms, yet no one paid a real price or learned a lesson. Those failures left the country more divided than ever before, and ill-equipped for more severe assaults to come.
March 2025
$27.95
ISBN: 9781469686349 | s Paperback
352 Pages 20 halftones, notes, bibl., index 9.250 in H | 6.125 in W
History / United States / 20th Century
Alan McPherson is professor of history at Temple University and author of Ghosts of Sheridan Circle.
"A clear, compelling narrative of the Iran-Contra scandal, the best that I have read. It makes an important contribution to our understanding of the erosion of democracy in the United States."
—AndrewJ. Kirkendall, author ofCold War Alliances: Liberal Democrats and Cold War Latin America
The Age of the Borderlands
Indians, Slaves, and the Limits of Manifest Destiny, 1790–1850
Andrew C. Isenberg
An engaging and stunning corrective to the "inevitability" of manifest destiny
In The Age of the Borderlands, acclaimed historian Andrew C. Isenberg offers a new history of manifest destiny that breaks from triumphalist narratives of US territorial expansion. Isenberg takes readers to the contested borders of Spanish Florida, Missouri, New Mexico, California, Texas, and Minnesota at critical moments in the early to mid-nineteenth century,demonstratingthatthe architectsofAmericanexpansion faced significant challenges from the diverse groups of people inhabiting each region. In other words, while the manifest destiny paradigm begins with an assumption of US strength, the government and the agents it dispatched to settle and control the frontier had only a weak presence.
Tracing the interconnected histories of Indians, slaves, antislavery reformers, missionaries, federal agents, and physicians, Isenberg shows that the United States was repeatedly forced to accommodate the presence of other colonial empires and powerful Indigenous societies. Anti-expansionists in the borderlands welcomed the precarity of the government's power: The land on which they dwelled was a grand laboratorywheretheycouldexperimentwiththeir alternativevisionsfor American society. Examining the borderlands offers an understanding not just about frontier spaces but about the nature of the early American state—ambitiously expansionist but challenged by its native and imperial competitors.
April
$35.00
2025
ISBN: 9781469685052 | s Cloth
296 Pages 6 halftones, 4 maps, notes, bibl., index 9.250 in H | 6.125 in W
History / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History
Andrew C. Isenberg is the Hall Distinguished Professor of American Historyat theUniversityofKansas.
"Isenberg offers a fresh look at well-known episodes in American expansion while also introducing new stories. This perceptive and innovative book will shift the writing on the early nation and the West."
—ElliottWest,University of Arkansas
Rebuilding New Orleans
Immigrant Laborers and Street Food Vendors in the PostKatrina Era
Sarah Fouts
Thelabor and lives of Central American migrantworkers inpostKatrina New Orleans
IntheaftermathofHurricaneKatrina,CentralAmericanandMexican immigrants arrived in New Orleans to help clean up and rebuild. When federal relief services overlooked the needs of immigrant-led construction and cleanup crews as part of post-Katrina mass feeding strategies, street food stands and taco trucks stepped in to ensure food security for these workers.Manyofthesefoodvendorssettledin thecityoverthenext decade, opening restaurants and other businesses. Yet, in a city experiencing whitewashed redevelopment, new immigrants were frequently pitted against Black poor and working-class New Orleanians for access to housing and other resources.
During Fouts's five years as a volunteer with the New Orleans Workers' Center for Racial Justice, she came to know and interview the day laborers, food workers, culture producers, and community organizers whose stories shape this book. Her work reveals how, after the storm, immigrant communities have culturally and politically reshaped New Orleans and its suburbs. Fouts also highlights how immigrants forged multiracial solidarities to foster inclusive change at the local level. By connecting migration, labor, and food, Rebuilding New Orleans centers human experiences to illustrate how immigrant and established communities of color resisted criminalization and racial capitalism to create a more just New Orleans.
June 2025
$22.95
ISBN: 9781469685021 | s Paperback 208 Pages 10 halftones, 5 maps, notes, bibl., index 9.250 in H | 6.125 in W
Social Science / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / American / General
Sarah Fouts is assistant professor in the Department of American Studies and director of the Public Humanities minor program at the University of Maryland, BaltimoreCounty.
"Fouts tells this important story with an impressive depth of knowledge, narrating events through food and food workers. That she does so by following migrant workers back and forth between New Orleans and Honduras makes it even more compelling. This book deepens our understanding of Latin American immigration and Black-Brown relations in the South."
—SteveStriffler,University of Massachusetts Boston
Affordable Housing in Charlotte
What One City's History Tells Us about America's Pressing Problem
Tom Hanchett
Understandingthehistory ofthenationwidehousingcrisis through thelensofCharlotte,NorthCarolina
Locally, regionally, and nationally, the lack of affordable housing is an urgent and ongoing issue. As elected officials rush to ramp up aid for the construction of affordable apartments, scholars and policymakers are asking how our present system of housing subsidies—both its strengths and its shortcomings—came into being. In this book, Tom Hanchett takes a case-study approach, tracking low-rent housing in the growing city of Charlotte, North Carolina, from the beginnings of public housing circa 1940 to the present.
Looking beyond policy battles in Washington, Hanchett tells an intimate history of how federal initiatives played out on the ground, making clear connections between the creation of federal housing programs and how agencies interacted with local and state forces to actually produce housing. Using Charlotte as a lens, Hanchett shows in detail how power brokers have clashed on all levels of government and yethave theability to empower both citizens and elected officials to take action toward better housing for all, in North Carolina's most populous city and beyond.
May 2025
$27.95
ISBN: 9781469686202 | s Paperback
336 Pages
48 halftones, 2 maps, 8 graphs, 8 tables, appends., notes, bibl., index 9.250 in H | 6.125 in W
History / United States State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Tom Hanchett is a community historian based in Charlotte, North Carolina, and is the author of Sorting Out the New South City
"An incredibly valuable book that explains everything that is impacting local housing markets. It links together a variety of programs, policies, and initiatives that have been used to promote the construction of affordable housing—many that are unknown by both students and policymakers. Hanchett's writing is easy to read and understand while also being incredibly well researched."
—Kenneth Chilton, Tennessee State University
Unceasing Militant
Second Edition
The Life of Mary Church Terrell
Alison M. Parker
Featuring a new preface by the author
Born into slavery during the Civil War, Mary Church Terrell (1863–1954) would become one of the most prominent activists of her time, with a career bridging the late nineteenth century to the civil rights movement of the 1950s. The first president of the National Association of Colored Women and a founding member of the NAACP, Terrell collaborated closely with the likes of Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells, and W. E. B. Du Bois. Unceasing Militant is the first fulllength biography of Terrell, bringing her vibrant voice and personality to life. Though most accounts of Terrell focus almost exclusively on her public activism, Alison M. Parker also looks at the often turbulent, unexplored moments in her life to provide a more complete account of a woman dedicated to changing the culture and institutions that perpetuated inequality throughout the United States.
Drawing on newly discovered letters and diaries, Parker weaves together the joys and struggles of Terrell's personal, private life with the challenges and achievements of her public, political career, producing a stunning portrait of an often-underrecognized political leader. This new edition includes a new preface in which Parker reflects on the resurgence of public interest in Terrell and discusses the newly available digitized files of Terrell's papers at the Library of Congress.
March 2025
$27.95
ISBN: 9781469684055 | s Paperback
464 Pages
25 halftones, bibl., index 9.250 in H | 6.125 in W
Biography & Autobiography / Women
The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
Alison M. Parker is professor of history and women and gender studies at the University of Delaware.
"Extraordinary.
...Parker'sbiography will likely standas thedefinitivework on Terrellformany years."
—American Historical Review
"Parker'srich biography of AfricanAmerican activistMary Church Terrell . . . illustrateswhat true intersectional political histories look like."
—Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
Saltwater Grief in Early America
Mary Eyring
Everyday grief in early America
Death is easy to locate in the archives of early America. Griefis not so easily pinned down. Yet it was a near constant companion for the men and women that settled in what is now New England. Their lives were a kaleidoscope of smallscale tragedies that suffused and colored everyday experiences. This pervasive suffering was exacerbated by unfamiliar environments and exposure to the anguish of Indigenous and Black Americans, unsettling well-worn frameworks to produce new dimensions ofeverydaygrief.MaryEyringtracesthesefleeting, oftenmundane, glimpses of grief in the archives—a note about a sailor maimed during a whaling voyage, the hint of a miscarriage in a court record, the suggestion of domestic violence within a tract on witchcraft, a house sent up in flames attheopeningofacaptivitynarrative—toshowhowthecumulativeweight of grief created a persistent mood that influenced public and private affairs in sweeping ways largely unexamined by previous scholars.
With piercing insights and evocative prose, Eyring follows grief across generations and oceans to reveal a language of suffering understood and shared across diverse early American communities.
February 2025
$39.95
ISBN: 9781469685380 | s Cloth
280 Pages 26 halftones, notes, index 9.250 in H | 6.125 in W
History / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775)
Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
Mary Eyring is associate professor of English and American studies at Brigham YoungUniversity.
"Both brilliant and beautiful, this book reframes grief as 'elemental rather than episodic,' seeping into the grounds of society and influencing the structures that rose from its soil. With deft theory, careful definitions, and extraordinary discernment, this book changes how we understand both early American literature and the history of emotions—a must-read book that models how scholarship pays attention to the language of suffering."
—Abram
Van Engen, Washington University in St. Louis
A Common Grave Being Catholic in English America
Susan Juster
Finding Catholics in the early English Atlantic world
From Nevis to Newfoundland, Catholics were everywhere in English America. Butoftenfearedanddistrusted,theyhidinplainsight,deftly obscuring themselves from the Protestant authorities. Their strategies of concealment, deception, and misdirection frustrated colonial census takers, and their presence has likewise eluded historians of religion, who have portrayed Catholics as isolated dots in an otherwise vast Protestant expanse.
Pushing against this long-standing narrative, Susan Juster provides the first comprehensive look at the lived experience of Catholics—whether Irish, African,French,or English—in colonial America.She reveals a vibrant community that,although oftenforced to conceal itself,maintained a rich sacramental life saturated with traditional devotional objects and structured by familiar rituals. As Juster shows, the unique pressures of colonial existence forced Catholics to adapt and transform these religious practices. By following the faithful into their homes and private chapels as they married, christened infants,buried loved ones, and prayed for their souls, Juster uncovers a confluence of European, African, and Indigenous spiritual traditions produced by American colonialism.
June
$45.00
2025
ISBN: 9781469686226 | s Cloth 312 Pages 16 halftones 9.250 in H | 6.125 in W
Religion / Christianity / Catholic
Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
"Through imaginative and assiduous research, Juster brings a mostly hidden population to life: Catholics in English America. Her remarkable study invites the reader to imagine the lived experiences of the faithful—fidgeting with a rosary, furtively recognizing a priest, or worrying about how to travel safely through a hostile jurisdiction. By moving a marginal and poorly understood population to the center of her analysis, Juster opens entirely new perspectives on the English Atlantic."
—Alison Games, Georgetown University
Susan Juster is W.M. Keck FoundationDirector of Research at the Huntington Library.
Moved by the Dead
Haunting and Devotion in São Paulo, Brazil
Michael Amoruso
Walking with the souls of the marginalized in one of the world's largest cities
In the sprawling city of São Paulo, a weekly practice known as devotion to souls (devocao as almas) draws devotees to Catholic churches, cemeteries, and other sites associated with tragic or unjust deaths. The living pray and light candles for the souls of the dead, remembering events and circumstances in a rite of collective suffering. Yet contemporary devotion to souls is not confined to Catholic adherents or fixed to specific locations. The practice is also linked to popular tours of haunted sites in the city, and it moves within an urban environment routinely marked by violence and death. While based in Catholic traditions, devotion to souls is as complex and multifaceted as religion itself in Brazil, where African, Portuguese, and other cultural forms have blended and evolved over centuries.
Michael Amoruso's insightful work uses the methods of ethnography, religious studies, and urban studies to consider how devotion to souls embodies, adapts, and challenges conventional ideas of religion as tethered to specific sites and practices. Examining devotees' varied ways of ascribing meaning to their actions, Amoruso argues that devotion to souls acts as form of what he calls "mnemonic repair," tying the living to the dead in a struggle against the forces of forgetting.
April 2025
$29.95
ISBN: 9781469685175 | s Paperback
208 Pages
12 halftones, 1 map, 1 table, notes, bibl., index 9.250 in H | 6.125 in W
Social Science / Sociology of Religion
Where Religion Lives Series
Michael Amoruso is assistant professor of religious studies at Occidental College.
"Devotion to souls is largely an individual practice motivated by personal suffering, but the object of that devotion—the suffering souls of the dead—speaks to larger histories of state violence that continue to haunt the living. Amoruso's exciting book brings careful attention to the complex ways that social memory, trauma, and identity are bound up in this commonplace practice, revealing much about religion and about the politics of race and public memory in Sao Paulo."
—Kelly E. Hayes, Indiana University
Indianapolis
Democracy Is Awkward
Grappling with Racism inside American Grassroots Political Organizing
Michael L. Rosino
A look inside local leftist politics and racism
In uncertain times, confronting pressing problems such as racial oppression and the environmental crisis requires everyday people to come together and wield political power for the greater good. Yet, as Michael Rosino shows, progressive political organizations in the United States have frequently failed to achieve social change. Why? Rosino posits that it is because of the unwillingness of white progressives at the grassroots level to share power with progressives of color.
Using rich ethnographic data, Rosino focuses on participants in a real grassroots progressive political party in the northeastern United States. While the organization's goals included racial equity and the inclusion of people of color, its membership and leadership remained disproportionately white, and the group had mixed success in prioritizing and carrying out its racial justice agenda. By highlighting the connections between racial inequality, grassroots democracy, and political participation, Rosino weaves in the voices and experiences of party members and offers insights for building more robust and empowering spaces of grassroots democratic engagement.
February
2025
$24.95
ISBN: 9781469685632 | s Paperback
224 Pages appends., notes, bibl., index 9.250 in H | 6.125 in W
Social Science / Sociology / General
"Perfect for scholars, students, and organizers, Democracy Is Awkward is a genuine contribution to the field. With rich, engaging data, Rosino shows how organizations committed to social justice must themselves contend with the inequalities they aim to challenge in the world. His findings counter assumptions about antiracism as harmonious, instead showing that actual multiracial democracy is uncomfortable and messy or, in his words, 'awkward.'"
—Sarah Mayorga, Brandeis University
Michael Rosino is assistant professor of sociology at Molloy College.
Urban Borderlands
Multiracial Histories and Gendered Borders in Los Angeles
Isabela Seong Leong Quintana
Mexican and Chinese histories collide in LA Plaza
Los Angeles in the late nineteenth century was bustling with the rise of industrialization, but the growing labor force that propelled it, mostly consisting of Mexican and Chinese men, was met with exclusion policies and deportation campaigns. Nevertheless, Chinese and Mexican women, children, and men built vibrant residential and business districts—until they were all but eradicated in the 1930s. In this compelling and textured history, Isabela Quintana unearths the entwined stories of Chinatown and Sonoratown through the everyday lives of their residents. As Quintana argues, their ordinary experiences illuminate the interlocking and gendered processes of racial segregation and border formation that built the Los Angeles we know today.
The blurry borders, geographic, cultural, and otherwise, between these communities—what Quintana calls urban borderlands—were less defined than official records would have us believe. Centering the lives of women and children, and the archival glimpses and silences that account for them, Quintana uncovers moments of familiarity, kinship, conflict, and collaboration born of proximity and shared space, particularly that of the Los Angeles Plaza. Revealing experiences of border policing, racial violence, and perceived foreignness, Quintana's dynamic narrative offers an innovative approach to understanding the layered histories of urban renewal in Mexican and Chinese Los Angeles.
Isabela Seong Leong Quintana is assistant professor of Asian American studies at the University of California, Irvine.
June 2025
$29.95 ISBN: 9781469675800 | s Paperback
224 Pages 15 halftones, 4 maps, 4 tables 9.250 in H | 6.125 in W | 1.000 in T
Social Science / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / American / General
"Theoretically
rigorous and methodologically creative, this is relational race and ethnic history at its best. A tour de force that brings Latina/o and Asian American studies into stark engagement like very few others and charts a new cartography of Chinese-Mexican relations."
—LuisAlvarez,University
of
California San Diego
Poverty Rebels
Black and Brown Protest in Post–Civil Rights America
Casey D. Nichols
The Black and Latino coalitions that shaped the nation
In 1960s Los Angeles, a powerful network within Black and Chicana/o organizations transformed the War on Poverty and Model Cities program. Black and Brown activists worked together and separately to use the US federal government's War on Poverty as an opportunity to establish programs that would counteract the neglect that led to underfunded schools, inadequate housing, and a lack of community institutions. Casey Nichols examines this diverse group of intentional and unintentional collaborators she calls "poverty rebels," which included politicians, activists, youth, professionals, community members, and local people.
Poverty rebels leveraged federal antipoverty funding to work around the limited capacity of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to address the dual impact of race and class in African American and Mexican American communities. They understood that unequal policy had created their urban realities and sought to redefine antipoverty legislation in a way that improved their material lives. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including local and federal government documents, oral histories, and organizational records, Nichols examines vital links between the nation's social and political spheres. Ultimately, she argues that Black-Brown relations gained greater national significance during the mid-1960s amid important civil rights victories and social policies to address so-called disadvantaged communities. By coming into social and political proximity, African Americans and Mexican Americans constructed a national dialogue about Black-Brown relations that had shared benefits, and that continues to shape policy debates today.
Casey D. Nichols is assistant professor of history at Texas State University.
March 2025
$34.95
ISBN: 9781469684673 | s Paperback
224 Pages 12 halftones, 1 map, 2 tables 9.250 in H | 6.125 in W
Social Science / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies
Justice, Power, and Politics Series
"A nuanced, clear argument for the central role that Black and Brown actors played in making the Los Angeles civil rights movement more racially inclusive and class-conscious."
—Sonia Song-Ha Lee, author
of Building a Latino Civil Rights Movement: Puerto Ricans, African Americans, and the Pursuit of Racial Justice in New York City
Black Movement
African American Urban History since the Great Migration
Edited by Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar
How Black urban America has changed since 1970
The Great Migration of African Americans from the South to northern and western cities between 1915 and 1970 fundamentally altered the political, social, and cultural landscapes of major cities like New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Detroit, and changed the country as well. By the late twentieth century, Black people were mayors, police chiefs, and school superintendents, at parity or overrepresented in municipal jobs in these and other cities, which were also hubs for Black literature, music, film, and politics.
Since the 1970s, migration patterns have significantly shifted away from the major urban centers of the Great Migration, leaving some iconic Black communities replaced by mostly non-Black residents. Though many books have examined Black urban experiences in America, this is the first written by historians focusing on the post–Great Migration era. It is centered on numerous facets of Black life, including popular culture, policing, suburbanization, and political organizing across multiple cities. In this landmark volume, Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar and his contributors explore the last half century of African American urban history, covering a landscape transformed since the end of the Great Migration and demonstrating how cities remain dynamic into the twenty-first century.
Contributors are Stefan M. Bradley, Scot Brown, Tatiana M. F. Cruz, Tom Davies, LaShawn D. Harris, Maurice J. Hobson, Shannon King, Melanie D. Newport, Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar, Brian Purnell, J. T. Roane, Chanelle N. Rose, Benjamin Saracco, and Fiona Vernal.
Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar is professor of history at University of Connecticut.
April 2025
$29.95
ISBN: 9781469684345 | s Paperback
376 Pages 5 halftones, 5 tables, notes, index 9.250 in H | 6.125 in W
Social Science / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies
"This is an extraordinary collection by a stellar roster of scholars. It not only marks a very significant milestone in the study of African American and US urban history; it also establishes a compelling baseline for the next generation of innovative scholarship."
—Joe William TrotterJr.,author of Workers on Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America
Closed Seasons The Transformation of Hunting in the Modern South
Julia Brock
Preserving wildlife, disrupting traditions
In a unique and personal exploration of the game and fish laws in Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi from the Progressive Era to the 1930s, JuliaBrockoffers aninnovativehistoryofhuntingintheNewSouth.The implementation of conservation laws made significant strides in protecting endangered wildlife species, but it also disrupted traditional hunting practices and livelihoods, particularly among African Americans and poor whites.
Closed Seasons highlights how hunting and fishing regulations were relativelyrare inthenineteenthcentury,buttheemergingconservation movement and the rise of a regional "sportsman" identity at the turn of the twentiethcenturyeventually ledtotheadoptionofstate-levellaws.Once passed, however, these laws, were plagued by obstacles, including insufficientfundingandenforcement.Brock tracesthedizzyingarrayof factors—propaganda, racial tensions, organizational activism, and federal involvement—thatled to effectivegame and fish laws in the South.
April 2025
$29.95
ISBN: 9781469681467 | s Paperback
240 Pages 11 halftones, 1 maps, 1 tables, notes, bibl., index 9.250 in H | 6.125 in W
Social Science / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies
"This book will be the go-to history on the rise of modern hunting in the South and the laws that shaped it."
—Albert Way, Kennesaw State University
Julia Brock is assistant professor of history at the University of Alabama.
Proximity to Power
Rethinking Race and Place in Alexandria, Virginia
Krystyn R. Moon
Agency, activism, and community building in the shadow of the nation's capital
Located just across the Potomac River from Washington,DC, Alexandria, Virginia, has long held a unique sociopolitical position due to its proximity to the nation's capital. This unexplored relationship had a profound impact on African Americans' access to schools, transportation, and other resources in comparison to other southern towns and cities. Proximity to Power examinesthe historyofAlexandria'sAfricanAmericancommunity fromthemid-nineteenth centurytothetwenty-firstcentury,focusingonits dynamic relationship with the federal government before, during, and after theCivilWar.KrystynR.Moon highlightsthelong-standingadvocacyand agency of Alexandria'sBlack residents,adding furthernuance to our understanding of the relationship between race and place.
June
$32.95
2025
ISBN: 9781469686073 | s Paperback
240 Pages 12 halftones, 3 maps, 5 tables, appends., notes, bibl., index 9.250 in H | 6.125 in W
History / United States / General
Krystyn R. Moon is professor of history and American studies at the University ofMaryWashington.
"Proximity to Power is the first major history of Alexandria, Virginia, highlighting its crucial role at the crossroads of US nationalism and the African American struggle for freedom. Krystyn Moon skillfully blends southern, urban, and suburban history with public history to explore how the Black community in Alexandria navigated its proximity to federal power, creating a deeply researched narrative that captures the city's uniquely dynamic relationship with Washington, DC."
—Andrew Friedman, Haverford College
Midwest Unrest
1960s Urban Rebellions and the Black Freedom Movement
Ashley Howard
How Black men and women rebelled to remake the heartland
In the nation's so-called heartland, racism is sometimes subtler than in other parts of the country but just as insidious. When Black communities across America went up in flames in the 1960s, Midwest cities, where racial inequity was endemic, were among those most likely to burn. Midwest Unrest explores those rebellions, paying particular attention to the ways that region, race, class, and gender all played critical and often overlapping roles in shaping Black people's resistance to racialized oppression.
Focusing on the uprisings in three midsize Midwestern cities—Cincinnati, Ohio; Omaha, Nebraska; and Milwaukee, Wisconsin—Ashley Howard argues that urban rebellions were a working-class response to the failure of traditional civil rights activism and growing fissures between the Black working and middle classes. Utilizing arrest records, Kerner Commission documents, and authorconducted oral history interviews, Howard registers the significant impact the rebellions had in transforming the consciousness of African Americans and in altering the relationship between Black urban communities and the state. Specifically, multiple parties, including municipal governments, city residents, and most importantly rebels, wielded urban revolt as a political tool to achieve their own objectives. Revealing a new dimension of the Black Freedom Movement, Howard moves the understanding of these disturbances from aberrant acts of violence to historically contingent acts of resistance, highlighting the coeval nature between organized protests and violent outbursts.
Ashley Howard is assistant professor of history and African American studiesat theUniversityofIowa.
May 2025
$27.95
ISBN: 9781469684864 | s Paperback 256 Pages 10 halftones, notes, bibl., index 9.250 in H | 6.125 in W
History / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
Justice, Power, and Politics Series
"Ashley Howard confronts head-on the myth that the Midwest is 'too nice for racism.' Her unpacking of the causes of urban uprisings and their impact on current-day race relations will resonate from the Midwest to the Rust Belt and beyond."
—NikkiBrown,authorof Private Politics and Public Voices: Black Women's Activism from World War I to the New Deal
Hardcore Punk in the Age of Reagan
The Lyrical Lashing of an American Presidency
Robert Fitzgerald
The screamed, hollered, and sung opposition to Reagan's conservative '80s
Few politicians produced the musical reaction that Ronald Reagan did. His California-branded conservatism inspired countless young people to pick up guitars and thrash out their political angst. Punk bands across the United States took aim at the man, his presidency, and the idea of America he was selling to voters nationwide. Small yet vibrant scenes across the country emerged to challenge the communal norms and social values projected on them by the popular media and consumer culture. Punk enthusiast Robert Fitzgerald argues that these songs' lyrics aren't just catchy and fun to scream along with; they also reveal the thoughts and feelings of artists reacting to their political environment in real, forthright, and uncensored time.
In candid detail, Fitzgerald shows how these lyrics illustrated what young adults felt and how they reacted to one of the most influential and divisive leaders of the era. Punk lyrics are seemingly simple, the author argues, but they sketch out a complex, musically inspired countermovement that is as canonical in the American songbook as the folk and rock protest music that came before.
May 2025
$34.95
ISBN: 9781469685458 | s
Paperback 256 Pages 10 halftones 9.250 in H | 6.125 in W
Music / Ethnomusicology
Robert Fitzgerald is assistant principal of the Thomas Metcalf Laboratory School, an admittedly un-punk position, and a lifelong punk fan.
"Hardcore Punk in the Age of Reagan is a memorable cataloging of Reagan's crimes as articulated through the lyrics of punk bands of the era. Fitzgerald's writing is entertaining and informative, and this book is a welcome and novel addition to Reagan-era studies for historians as well as anyone who loves punk music."
—Kevin C. Dunn, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Historians on Housewives
Fashion, Performance, and Power on Bravo Reality TV
Edited by Kacey Calahane, Jessica Millward, and Max Speare
The histories behind a reality TV cultural phenomenon
According to popular stereotype, Bravo reality television portrays vapid, onedimensional characters tearing each other down for viewers' enjoyment. Whether The Real Housewives taps into our voyeuristic urges, our fascination with wealth and class, or the allure of the sheer spectacle of grown women yelling at one another, the show is truly a cultural phenomenon—and a global one, with more than twenty international spin-offs. Historians on Housewives looks past the show's reputation as lowbrow, unscripted reality television and unveils deeper historical meanings behind some of Bravo's best-known programs and franchises.
This collection of ten essays is both a celebration of the bizarre behavior of the Real Housewives and a critical theorizing the importance of the shows and the Housewives themselves. Historians on Housewives explores relationships between historical topics and themes and some of Bravo's most iconic moments to demonstrate the usefulness of Bravo television as a tool for making history accessible. With contributions from scholars representing an impressive historical breadth, from the Roman Empire to the civil rights movement and beyond, the volume carves out a space for serious treatment of the franchise, fusing scholarship with pop culture to suggest interdisciplinary approaches for "doing history" that appeal to popular and academic audiences alike.
Contributors are Nicole L. Anslover, Martina Baldwin, Emilie M.Brinkman, Marcia Chatelain, Jennifer C. Edwards, Jennifer M. Fogel, Tanisha C. Ford, Noah D. Guynn, Rosemarie Jones, Haley Schroer, Kristalyn M. Shefvelend, and Serenity Sutherland.
Kacey Calahane is assistant professor of history at Chaffey College. Jessica Millward is associate professor of history and African American studies at the University of California Irvine.
Max Speare is associate professor of history at Saddleback College.
March 2025
$27.95
ISBN: 9781469686288 | s Paperback 288 Pages 5 halftones 9.250 in H | 6.125 in W
History / United States / 21st Century
"A fascinatingand smart read. A perfectbook for any Real Housewives fan—academic or not."
—Emily
D. Ryalls, author of The Culture of Mean: Representing Victims and Bullies in Popular Culture
Searching for Memory
Aluízio Palmar and the Shadow of Dictatorship in Brazil
Jacob Blanc
An arresting and intimate biography of Brazilian radical Aluízio Ferreira Palmar
Thisbiography ofBrazilianjournalistand activistAluizioFerreiraPalmar(b. 1943) tellstheremarkablestoryofarevolutionarywho,aftersurviving torture as a political prisoner during his country's military dictatorship in the 1960s and 1970s, would go on to devote his life to recovering the memory and documenting the evidence of human rights abuses in Brazil. Palmar's recounting of his life, in personal interviews with Jacob Blanc as well as from a wide array of source materials, offers a valuable window into how formeractivistsviewtheirplacein history.
Inthiscontext,Blancinitiatestheconceptof"memoryscripts,"which illustrates how scripting and performing a memory can serve as an act of perseverance and power, important for individuals and communities seeking both to heal from and redefine trauma for future activism. Blanc's book is a singular contribution to literature on dictatorship in Brazil and across Latin America by exploring not only what happened under military rule but also the contested channels through which the memories of these intense and often traumatic events have been sustained, shaped, and retold.
Jacob Blanc is associate professor of history and international development studiesatMcGillUniversity.
April 2025
$34.95
ISBN: 9781469681030 | s Paperback
304 Pages 15 halftones, 3 maps, notes, bibl., index 9.250 in H | 6.125 in W
History / Latin America / South America
"This truly unique text is clear, engaging, and well written and guarantees that the life story of Palmar is presented within the political, social, economic, and cultural context of the different periods in the protagonist's life."
—James N. Green, author of Exile within Exiles: Herbert Daniel, Gay Brazilian Revolutionary
Confederate Sympathies
Same-Sex Romance, Disunion, and Reunion in the Civil War Era
Andrew Donnelly
How male homoeroticism was enlisted in the politics of the Civil War era
The archive of the Civil War era is filled with depictions of men's same-sex affections and intimacies. Across antebellum campaign biographies, proslavery fiction, published memoirs of Confederate veterans and Union prisoners of war, Civil War novels, newspaper accounts, and the war's historiography, homoerotic symbolism and narratives shaped the era's politics, as well as the meaning and memory of the war. The Civil War, in turn, shaped the development of homosexuality in the United States. In a book full of surprising insights, Andrew Donnelly uncovers this deeply consequential queer history at the heart of nineteenth-century national culture.
Donnelly's sharp analytical eye particularly focuses on the ways Northern white men imagined their relationship with white Southerners through narratives of same-sex affection. Assessing the cultural work of these narratives, Donnelly argues that male homoeroticism enabled proslavery coalition building among antebellum Democrats, fostered sympathy for the national retreat from Reconstruction, and contributed to the victories of Lost Cause ideology. Linking the era's political and cultural history to the history of homosexuality, Donnelly reveals that male homoeroticism was not inherently radical but rather cultivated political sympathy for slavery, the Confederacy, and white supremacy.
Andrew Donnelly is assistant professor of English at the University of Memphis.
April 2025
$32.95
ISBN: 9781469685595 | s Paperback
304 Pages
19 halftones, notes, bibl., index, 89,448 words 9.250 in H | 6.125 in W
Social Science / Gender Studies
Gender and American Culture Series
"From memoirs to dime novels to Henry James's canonical writings, Donnelly excavates compelling evidence of same-sex desire during a period that most historians have rendered silent. Confederate Sympathies is a major contribution to both Civil War history and sexuality studies."
—Jim Downs, Gettysburg College
Something to Do with Power
Julian Mayfield’s Journey toward a Black Radical Thought, 1948-1984
David Romine
Unveiling an intellectual journey through art and activism
Unlike his more well-known contemporaries such as Malcolm X and Maya Angelou, Julian Hudson Mayfield (1928–1984) has remained on the periphery of mainstream historical narratives. Yet his extensive intellectual archive has been a vital resource for historians exploring Black radicalism. BycenteringMayfield's lived experiences across fivedecades and four continents, this book offers a unique lens into the complex intersections of Black communism, Black nationalism, and Black internationalism during theColdWarera.
Something to Do with Power highlightstheimportanceofMayfield'sstoryof mutual interest and solidarity in shaping literary and political activism, offering a fresh examination of the Black left's role in American culture. His legacy as a writer, propagandist, and artist committed to resisting the domination of white supremacy underscores his significant, though underappreciated,contribution toAmericanhistory.
June 2025
$34.95
ISBN: 9781469685137 | s Paperback 304 Pages notes, bibl., index 9.250 in H | 6.125 in W
Biography & Autobiography / African American & Black
The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
"By rescuing a dedicated and principled participant in the global Black liberation struggle, Romine's work offers a welcome contribution to the scholarship on the nexus between Black militancy, literary nationalism, Black arts, and radicalism."
—Christopher M.
Tinson, Saint Louis University
David Romine is lecturer of history at Winston-SalemStateUniversity.
Exceptionalism in Crisis
Faction, Anarchy, and Mexico in the US Imagination during the Civil War Era
Alys D. Beverton
How Mexico shadowed the Civil War
Before 1861, US Americans could confidently claim to belong to the New World's "exceptional" republic, unlike other self-governing nations in the Western Hemisphere such as Mexico, which struggled with political violence and unrest. Americans used such comparisons to show themselves and the world that democracy in the United States was working as designed.
The outbreak of the Civil War in 1861 exploded this illusion by showing that the United States was in fact not immune to domestic political instability. Joining a growing community of historians who study the war in a global context,AlysD. BevertonexaminesMexico'splaceintheUSimagination during the Civil War and postbellum period. Beverton reveals how pro- and antiwar Confederates and Unionists alike used Mexico's long history of politicalstrifetoalternatelyjustify andopposetheCivilWarand,after1865, various policies aimed at reuniting the states. All used Mexico as a cautionary tale of how easily a nation could slip into anarchy in the tumultuous nineteenth century, even the so-called exceptional United States.
AlysD.BevertonisseniorlecturerinAmericanhistoryatOxfordBrookes University.
April 2025
$29.95
ISBN: 9781469685212 | s Paperback
320 Pages notes, bibl., index 9.250 in H | 6.125 in W
History / United States / Civil war Period (1850-1877)
Civil War America Series
"An important and exciting book that deepens our knowledge of debates over the 'Mexican Question' during the Civil War and Reconstruction era and pushes us to reconsider the broader political and intellectual history of this period."
—AliceBaumgartner,
author of South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War
No Race, No Country
The Politics and Poetics of Richard Wright
Deborah Mutnick
Restoring Richard White to the American literary canon
No Race, No Country presents a major reconsideration of the breakthroughAfrican AmericanauthorRichardWright'sworkandlife.It challenges standard evaluations of his reputation as an autodidact, his late novels, his travel books, and his political commitments after he left the Communist Party USA. Deborah Mutnick engages a wide range of Wright's work throughout his career, providing a nuanced perspective on his complicated gender politics and his serious engagement with Marx's notions of historical materialism, alienation, and commodity fetishism. Adding to a small but growing number of studies of his ecological consciousness, it also examines both his closeness to nature, especially during his youth and late in life, and his early mapping of a racial geography of the "second nature" of the sociocultural world that overlaps with and transforms the natural world. Finally, it joins a recent surge in scholarship on Wright's later nonfiction as a progenitor of Black radical internationalism in the 1960s and 1970s.
May 2025
$34.95
ISBN: 9781469685496 | s Paperback
304 Pages 4 halftones 9.250 in H | 6.125 in W
Social Science / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies
"This much-needed book makes a number of impressive contributions. It is certainly the best reading of Wright's novel The Man Who Lived Underground and the haikus he produced late in his life. In short, I rate this as one of the very best projects on Richard Wright I have ever read."
—James
Smethurst,
author of Behold the Land: The Black Arts Movement in the South
Deborah Mutnick is professor of English at Long Island University.
Colored Women Sittin’ on High Womanist Sermonic Practice in Literature and Music
Melanie R. Hill
The literary history of Black women preachers
From blue-note turmoil to grace-note power, Black women preachers stand tall. In Colored Women Sittin' on High,Melanie R.Hill offersa new perspective on the art of the sermon in African American literature,music, and theology. Drawing on the womanist cadence of Alice Walker in literature and the rhythmical flow of named womanist theologians, Hill makes interventions at the intersections of African American literary criticism, music, and religious studies.
Pushing against the patriarchal dominance that often exists in religious spaces, Hill argues that Black women's religious practice creates a "sermonic space" that thrives inside and outside the church, allowing for a critique of sexism and antiBlack racism. She examines literature by writers such as Zora Neale Hurston and James Baldwin, music by Aretha Franklin and Ms. Lauryn Hill, and sermons by theologians Ruby Sales and Vashti M. McKenzie,andshetakesreadersintoa sermonicartworkofartists, preachers, and freedom movement activists who are, as Hill contends, the greatest"virtuosicalchemists"ofourtime.
May 2025
$29.95
ISBN: 9781469685090 | s Paperback
320 Pages 11 halftones
9.250 in H | 6.125 in W
Religion / Christian Ministry
Melanie R. Hill is Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Global Racial Justice and Assistant Professor of American Literature at Rutgers University, Newark, and a classically trained gospel violinist.
"Colored Women Sittin' on High is an expressive and passionate analysis. There is no other book-length treatment that brings together such disparate writers, speakers, and musical artists within an overarching eschatological, exegetical, and literary and cultural critical framework."
—Crystal J. Lucky, Villanova University
Sovereign Bodies, Sovereign Spaces
Urban Indigenous Health Activism in the United States and Australia
Maria John
Placing health sovereignty at the forefront of urban Indigenous activism
Statistics indicate that Indigenous people worldwide suffer disproportionately poor health outcomes. Since the mid-twentiethcentury, health activism has become increasingly central to expressions of Indigenoussovereigntyand survivance.Inthisinnovativecomparative study, Maria John assesses the histories of urban Indigenous health activism in the United States and Australia and how it has sought to counter the medical mistreatment and neglect that Indigenous people have historically faced in these nations. From the crisis of health care access in the 1970s to the strength of Indigenous community responses to COVID-19, John shows how the creation of Indigenous community-controlled health clinics has been a vital response to settler colonial structures of neglect in medical care. John illustrates that these clinics have also created a new kind of political space where Indigenous people from different tribal nations and geographies can develop and practice new ideas of nonterritorial sovereignty and pan-Indigenous solidarities across regions and nations.
John's arguments expand our understanding of the ways urban places and spaces foster possibilities for Indigenous communities, and her focus on health reveals how Indigenous people strategize, struggle, and work against systems they were never meant to survive.
March 2025
$32.95
ISBN: 9781469680415 | s Paperback 328 Pages 8 halftones, notes, index 9.250 in H | 6.125 in W
Social Science / Indigenous Studies
Critical Indigeneities Series
Maria John is assistant professor of history at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.
"John argues that we should see the huge movement of Indigenous peoples to urban centers after World War II as a medical migration. In showcasing this rarely understood facet of Indigenous history, John reveals how American Indian, Alaska Native, and Australian Aboriginal peoples define and fight within a framework of sovereignty to advance their well-being."
—Dian Million, University of Washington
Landscaping Patagonia
Spatial History and Nation-Making in Chile and Argentina
María
de los Ángeles Picone
The first history of the explorers, migrants, authorities, bandits, and tourists who forged national identity through their experiences in the Patagonian Andes
In late nineteenth-century Latin America, governments used new scientific, technological, and geographical knowledge not only to consolidate power and protect borders but also to define the physical contours of their respective nations. Chilean and Argentine authorities in particular attempted to transform northern Patagonia, a space they perceived as "desert," through a myriad of nationalizing policies, from military campaigns to hotels. But beyond the urban governing halls of Chile and Argentina, explorers, migrants, local authorities, bandits, and visitors also made sense of the nation by inhabiting the physical space of the northern Patagonian Andes. They surveyed passes, opened roads, claimed land titles or leases, traveled miles to the nearest police station, rode miles on horseback to escape the police, and hiked the landscape.
Maria de los Angeles Picone tells the story of how people living, governing, and traveling through northern Patagonia sought to construct versions of Chile and Argentina based on their ideas about and experiences in geographical space in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By repositioning the analytical focus from Santiago and Buenos Aires to northern Patagonia, Picone reveals how a wide array of actors, with varying degrees of political, economic, and social power, assigned distinctive—and sometimes conflicting—meanings to space and national identity.
February 2025
$32.95
ISBN: 9781469686141 | s Paperback
328 Pages
26 halftones, 11 maps, 2 tables, notes, bibl., index 9.250 in H | 6.125 in W
History / Latin America / South America
The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History
María de los Ángeles Picone is assistant professor of history at Boston College.
"In this masterful, field-changing work, Picone integrates Chilean and Argentine political, spatial, and environmental history. The Patagonian landscape takes center stage as Picone brings to life the people who inhabited this ecologically and culturally expansive region."
—Emily Wakild, Cecil D. Andrus Endowed Chair for Environment and Public Lands, Boise State University
Brother Outsider, Brother Insider
A Political Biography of Lawrence Guyot Jr.
Chris Danielson
From rural roots to urban power
Lawrence Thomas Guyot Jr. (1939–2012), known simply as "Guyot"(pronouncedghee-aught),wasapivotalyetunderrecognizedfigure in the civil rights movement.As a StudentNonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) field secretary in the 1960s, he battled southern poverty and racism, championing voting rights for Black Mississippians. His leadership in the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) highlighted tensions between the MFDP's electoral goals and SNCC's more radical stance. Guyot later moved into Washington,DC, politics, working alongside leaders like Marion Barry, shifting from a rural civil rights organizer to an urban political strategist.
Chris Danielson's nuanced portrayal of Guyot offers a fresh perspective on the civilrightsmovement.ThroughGuyot'sactivism, Brother Outsider, Brother Insider invites a reassessment of the era and the individuals who shaped it.
May 2025
$34.95
ISBN: 9781469685779 | s Paperback
352 Pages 6 halftones, notes, bibl., index 9.250 in H | 6.125 in W
Biography & Autobiography / African American & Black
The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
"In covering the political and activist life of Lawrence Guyot Jr., this book makes a significant contribution to the intellectual history of the civil rights movement in Mississippi and beyond."
—J. Todd Moye, University of North Texas
Chris Danielson is professor of history at Montana Technological University.
Class Warfare in Black Atlanta
Grassroots Struggles, Power, and Repression under Gentrification
Augustus Wood
A people's history of racial oppression in Atlanta
Between 1966 and 2015, the city of Atlanta was transformed. Black politicians ascended to the top of the power structure for the first time thanks to newly enfranchised Black working-class voters. The demographics of the city shifted in the late '60s and early '70s, and the combination of Black empowerment and white flight produced a growing Black working-class majority that increasingly demanded Black Power policies that often clashed with the policies supported by affluent residents. But by the 2010s, Atlanta's city core had been thoroughly gentrified, and the ability of Black working-class Atlantans to organize and build power had diminished significantly.
Tracing the history of post–civil rights Black Atlanta through rigorous class analysis, Augustus Wood argues that Black and white elites responded to an energized and politicized Black working class by forging a public-private partnership power bloc in Atlanta, positioning the relatively small but rising Black middle class as participants in the colonizing of working-class Black bodies and spaces—expanding the racial class contradictions in Black Atlanta. This bloc worked to shift state funding away from public services and toward gentrification projects that demolished subsidized housing and ramped up police surveillance to deter working-class resistance. Paying close attention to political economy and class while drawing on unexamined archival sources and oral histories of Black working-class Atlantans, especially Black women, Wood reframes our understanding of contemporary Black urban life by highlighting the centrality of intraracial class conflict in the dynamics of urban space.
Augustus Wood is assistant professor in the School of Labor and Employment Relations at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
May 2025
$32.95
ISBN: 9781469685687 | s Paperback
360 Pages
9 halftones, 1 maps, 5 tables, notes, bibl., index
9.250 in H | 6.125 in W
Social Science / Ethnic Studies / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies
Justice, Power, and Politics Series
"Sound,unapologetic,and provocative. Class Warfare in Black Atlanta is a game-changing treatment of gentrificationinAtlanta."
—WinstonA.Grady-Willis,authorof
Challenging U.S. Apartheid: Atlanta and Black Struggles for Human Rights, 1960–1977
The Work of Empire
War, Occupation, and the Making of American Colonialism in Cuba and the Philippines
Justin F. Jackson
How workers in occupied Cuba and the Philippines enabled US imperialism
In 1898, on the eve of the Spanish-American War, the US Army seemed minuscule and ill-equipped for global conflict. Yet over the next fifteen years, its soldiers defeated Spain and pacified nationalist insurgencies in both Cuba and the Philippines. Despite their lack of experience in colonial administration, American troops also ruled and transformed the daily lives of the 8 million people who inhabited these tropical islands.
How was this relatively small and inexperienced army able to wage wars in Cuba and the Philippines and occupy them? American soldiers depended on tens of thousands of Cubans and Filipinos, both for military operations and civil government. Whether compelled to labor for free or voluntarily working for wages, Cubans and Filipinos, suspended between civilian and soldier status, enabled the making of a new US overseas empire by interpreting, guiding, building, selling sex, and many other kinds of work for American troops. In The Work of Empire, Justin Jackson reveals how their labor forged the politics, economics, and culture of American colonialism in Cuba and the Philippines and left an enduring imprint on these islands and the US Army itself. Jackson offers new ways to understand the rise of American military might and how it influenced a globalizing imperial world.
May 2025
$34.95
ISBN: 9781469660325 | s Paperback
400 Pages 14 halftones, 8 maps 9.250 in H | 6.125 in W
History / Military / General
Justin Jackson is associate professor of history at Bard College at Simon's Rock.
"This is an innovative study of military-colonial labor relations in the Philippines and Cuba. . . . Jackson's perspective offers a fresh take on empire studies—truly top-tier research."
—Zach Fredman, author of The Tormented Alliance: American Servicemen and the Occupation of China, 1941–1949
Hubert Harrison
Forbidden Genius of Black Radicalism
Brian Kwoba
Recovering a pioneer of Black radical thought
The significance of Hubert Henry Harrison (1883–1927)—as a journalist, activist, and educator—lies in his innovation of radical solutions to grave injustices, especially the staggering luxury for the few alongside the crushingpovertyforthe manyinthefirstfewdecadesofthetwentieth century.Whitemobviolence continuallyhauntedAfricanAmerican communities, while imperial conquest and world wars wrought wanton destruction upon entire nations of people. These conditions sparked a global political awakening to which Harrison gave voice as a leading figure in cutting-edge struggles for socialism, in the free love movement, and in the Harlem Renaissance. He also played a pivotal role in the rise of Marcus Garvey and the establishment of the largest international organization of Black people in modern history. Because of his fierce and fearless radicalism, however, he has been erased from popular memory.
Hubert Harrison presents a historical restoration of Harrison's numerous intellectual and political breakthroughs. Offeringa fresh interpretationof his contributions to social movements for economic, racial, and sexual liberation, BrianKwoba'srichly texturednarrative highlightsthestartling and continued relevance of Harrison's visionary thinking across generations.
June 2025
$32.95
ISBN: 9781469675350 | s Paperback
392 Pages 23 halftones, 1 maps, appends., bibl 9.250 in H | 6.125 in W
Biography & Autobiography / African American & Black
The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
"Through an engagement with Hubert Harrison and his expansive ideas, this compelling book provides a theoretically nuanced account of the connections and ruptures within Black intellectual and social thought."
Claudrena Harold, University of Virginia
Brian Kwoba is associate professor of history at the University of Memphis.
Good Parents, Better Homes, and Great Schools
Selling Segregation before the New Deal
Karen Benjamin
Selling residential segregation before the New Deal
Good Parents, Better Homes, and Great Schools examines how white residential developers, planning consultants, and their allies in government strategically replaced block-level segregation with segregation at the neighborhood level in New South cities such as Atlanta, Baltimore, Birmingham, Houston, Raleigh, and Winston-Salem. Going beyond the well-known Home Owners' Loan Corporation maps of the 1930s, Karen Benjamin traces segregation tactics back to the late nineteenth century, when this public-private partnership laid the groundwork for the nationwide segregation strategies codified by the New Deal.
This book links the tactics of residential and school segregation to prevailing middle-class ideas about what constitutes good parenting, ensuring the longevity of both practices. By focusing on efforts that specifically targeted parents, Benjamin not only adds a new dimension to the history of residential segregation but also helps explain why that legacy has been so difficult to undo.
July 2025
$32.95
ISBN: 9781469684949 | s Paperback
440 Pages
32 halftones, 14 maps, 3 tables, notes, bibl., index 9.250 in H | 6.125 in W
Social Science / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies
Benjamin is associate professor of history at Elmhurst University.
"This book provides a richly detailed examination of the influence of parenting beliefs on residential segregation, introducing an innovative perspective that promises to make a meaningful impact on historical scholarship."
Elizabeth Herbin-Triant, Amherst College
Karen
Dilemmas of Authenticity
The American Muslim Crisis of Faith
Zaid Adhami
What is an authentic religious faith?
The past two decades have witnessed pervasive anxieties in US Muslim communities around a perceived crisis of faith. As Zaid Adhami argues in this richly texturedethnography,theseconcerns are fundamentallyabout the pressures and dilemmas of authenticity—what it really means to be a Muslim. While discussions about authenticity in Islam typically focus on maintaining tradition and competing claims to "true Islam," Adhami focuses instead on the powerful idea of being true to one's own self and what it means to have genuine belief. Drawing on extensive conversations with American Muslims and careful readings of broader communal discourse, Adhami shows that this drive for personal authenticity plays out in complicated ways. It can produce deep doubt while also serving as the groundstoaffirmtradition.Itcanconvergewith revivalistmodesofpiety, but it can also prompt emphatic challenges to communal orthodoxies.
Through vivid storytelling and sensitive analysis, Adhami illuminates why religious doubt is often a source of intense anxiety in today's world and how people maintain their faith despite such unsettling uncertainty.
May
2025
$34.95
ISBN: 9781469685564 | s Paperback 320 Pages 2 halftones, notes, bibl., index 9.250 in H | 6.125 in W
Religion / Islam / General
Where Religion Lives Series
"Through insightful ethnography and superb analysis, Adhami convincingly argues that a contemporary 'crisis of faith' among American Muslims stems from the convergence of global Islamic revivalism and American spirituality, both of which revolve around concerns over 'authenticity.' Expertly weaving debates in Islamic studies and American religions, Adhami shows how this crisis has generated new possibilities for individual and communal religiosity in contemporary Islam."
—Justine
Howe, Case Western Reserve University
Zaid Adhami is assistant professor of religion at Williams College.
Secular Sensibilities
Romance, Marriage, and Contemporary Algerian Immigration to France and Québec
Jennifer A. Selby
Understanding the emotional and romantic constraints of secular politics
How do secular politics work to manage the emotional, affective, and embodied nature of religion in the public sphere? Drawing on an expansive transnational ethnography in France and Canada and assessing contemporary French and Quebecois governmental legislation on secularism and immigration, Jennifer Selby considers expectations for secular bodies and sensibilities among men and women of Algerian origin. In her subjects' evocative narratives of longing and belonging, Selby charts how secular sensibilities emerge in marriage partner preferences, family relationships, rituals, dress, and more. Selby reveals how these sensibilities develop and respond to legal and other forms of state authority, with legacies of colonialism in France and Quebec playing a substantial role.
In demonstrating how secularism is expressed and experienced around intimate relationships and civil marriage, Selby persuasively argues that romance is a crucial contact zone for the politics of secularism. Her study invites readers to wrestle with their own entanglements in state and cultural expectations of secular bodies and the liberal fictions of separation between the religious and public spheres.
May 2025
$34.95
ISBN: 9781469685823 | s Paperback
280 Pages
12 halftones, 1 figs., 2 maps, notes, bibl., index
9.250 in H | 6.125 in W
Religion / Islam / General
Where Religion Lives Series
Jennifer A. Selby is professor of religious studies and political science at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
"In this
beautifully written and engaged
book,
Jennifer
Selby
explores the multiple ways in which state regulations, especially those concerning marriages among spouses whose legal and civil status is considered deficient and requiring control or examination, shape experiences and practices of romance and intimacy."
—Marian Burchardt, Leipzig University
Cold War Asia Unlearning Narratives, Making New Histories
Edited by Masuda Hajimu
A history of Cold War Asia spanning the region
Conventional narratives of the Cold War revolve around high-level diplomats and state leaders in Washington, Beijing, and Moscow, but this anthology challenges those narratives by revealing how ordinary people across Asia experienced the era. Heavily rooted in oral history, this study takes readers to the villages of rural Java; the jungles of northern Thailand; the indigenous tribal communities of Kerala, India; and many other places in this vast region.
The essays in this collection demonstrate how the world took shape far away from the voluminously analyzed epicenters of the Soviet Union, the United States, and China. Hajimu organizes each chapter around the theme of "many Cold Wars," or, more precisely, many local and social wars that were imagined as part of the global Cold War. These histories raise fundamental questions about standard Cold War narratives, encouraging readers to rethink why the Cold War still matters.
Contributors are Mary Grace Concepcion, Simon Creak, Cui Feng, David Engerman, Prasit Leepreecha, Luong Thi Hong, Muhammad Kunhi Mahin Udma, Masuda Hajimu, Alan McPherson, Imam Muhtarom, Sim Chi Yin, Kisho Tsuchiva, Odd Arne Westad, Matthew Woolgar, Kinuko Maehara Yamazato, Bin Yang, and Taomo Zhou.
May 2025
$37.95
ISBN: 9781469686318 | s Paperback 368 Pages 17 halftones, 1 map 9.250 in H | 6.125 in W
History / Modern / 2oth Century / Cold War
InterConnections: The Global Twentieth Century
Masuda Hajimu is assistant professor of history at the National University of Singapore.
"With his diverse and excellent team of scholars from around the world, Masuda makes an important and very interesting contribution to the Cold War historiography. He persuasively demonstrates that peoples in Asia most often appropriated Cold War politics for their own struggles and conflicts. This is very much the kind of intervention thatthestudyoftheColdWarinAsianeedsrightnow."
—GreggA.Brazinsky,authorof Winning the Third World: Sino-American Rivalry during the Cold War
Black Pro Se
Authorship and the Limits of Law in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature
Faith Barter
ThesurprisinginfluenceoftheUSlegalsystemonantebellum Black literature
Black thinkers in the antebellum United States grappled with what it meant to inhabit a place, a history, and a violent legal regime. In newspapers and pamphlets, political speeches, and fiction, Black writers persistently imagined alternative and liberatory legal futures. In reading these writers as architects of legal possibility, Faith Barter mobilizes the coincidental intimacy of prose and the legal term pro se, which refers to litigants who represent themselves in court. The book studies multiple literary genres—short stories, novels, freedom narratives, speeches, confessions, periodicals, and pamphlets—alongside legal historical treatises, trial transcripts, judicial opinions, and statutes.
Barter juxtaposes nineteenth-centurylaw and literature to show how Black writers counterintuitively used legal forms to reimagine their own relationships to time and place. Organized around four legal forms—appeal, confession, jurisdiction, and precedent—this book demonstrates how Black writers creatively used them to challenge the logics of their oppression. Reading Black writers not merely as witnesses or victims but as visionaries for what the legal system could be, this book excavates the importanceoflegalthinkinginthe AfricanAmericanliterarytradition.
March 2025
$34.95
ISBN: 9781469685977 | s Paperback
240 Pages 9.250 in H | 6.125 in W
Literary Criticism / American / African American & Black
Faith Barter is assistant professor of English at the University of Oregon.
"Faith Barter remakes African American literary studies as a genealogy, and she is truly doing something spectacular for law and literary connections in nineteenth-century studies. [The book] belongs alongside other important texts in nineteenth-centuryhistory and literature.Original and necessary."
—SamanthaPinto,University of TexasatAustin
Latin America and the Global Cold War
Edited by Thomas C. Field Jr., Stella Krepp, and Vanni Pettinà
Latin America in the context of the Global South
Latin America and the Global Cold War analyzes more than a dozen of Latin America's forgotten encounters with Africa, Asia, and the Communist world, and by placing the region in meaningful dialogue with the wider Global South, this volume produces the first truly global history of contemporary Latin America. It uncovers a multitude of overlapping and sometimes conflicting iterations of Third Worldist movements in Latin America, and offers insights for better understanding the region's past, as well as its possible futures, challenging us to consider how the Global Cold War continues to inform Latin America's ongoing political struggles.
Contributors: Miguel Serra Coelho, Thomas C. Field Jr., Sarah Foss, Michelle Getchell, Eric Gettig, Alan McPherson, Stella Krepp, Eline van Ommen, Eugenia Palieraki, Vanni Pettina, Tobias Rupprecht, David M. K. Sheinin, Christy Thornton, Miriam Elizabeth Villanueva, and Odd Arne Westad.
February 2025
$34.95
ISBN: 9781469684642 | s Paperback
440 Pages
11 halftones, 1 map, 1 table 9.250 in H | 6.125 in W
History / Modern / 20th Century / Cold War
New Cold War History Series
Thomas C. Field Jr. is associate professor of global security and intelligence studies at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.
Stella Krepp is assistant professor of Iberian and Latin American history at Bern University.
Vanni Pettinà is associate professor at Ca' Foscari University of Venice.
"In the tradition of the best edited volumes . . . [this book] challenges dominant historiographical trends and opens new fields of exploration. In breaking through the national and regional isolation of most of the literature on Latin America's Cold War and international relations, the volume invites historians to rethink Latin America's place in the world and in global trends and identities."
—American Historical Review
Warring for America
Cultural Contests in the Era of 1812
Edited by Nicole Eustace and Fredrika J. Teute
Defining America on the battlefield of culture
The War of 1812 was one of a cluster of events that left unsettled what is often referred to as the Revolutionary settlement. At once postcolonial and neoimperial, the America of 1812 was still in need of definition. As the imminence of war intensified the political, economic, and social tensions endemic to the new nation, Americans of all kinds fought for country on the battleground of culture. The War of 1812 increased interest in the American democratic project and elicited calls for national unity, yet the essays collected in this volume suggest that the United States did not emerge from war in 1815 having resolved the Revolution's fundamental challenges or achieved a stable national identity. The cultural rifts of the early republican period remained vast and unbridged.
Contributors: Brian Connolly, University of South Florida; Anna Mae Duane, University of Connecticut; Duncan Faherty, Queens College, CUNY; James M. Greene, Pittsburg State University; Matthew Rainbow Hale, Goucher College; Jonathan Hancock, Hendrix College; Tim Lanzendoerfer, University of Mainz; Karen Marrero, Wayne State University; Nathaniel Millett, St. Louis University; Christen Mucher, Smith College; Dawn Peterson, Emory University; Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, University of Michigan
February 2025
$45.00
ISBN: 9781469688411 | s Paperback 512 Pages 23 halftones, 2 graphs, 1 tables, notes, index 9.250 in H | 6.125 in W
History / United States /19th Century
Nicole Eustace is a professor of history at New York University. Fredrika J. Teute is retired editor of publications at the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture.
Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
"Nicely capture[s]
the
unsettled state
of American culture and national identity three to four decades after the Revolution."
—The Michigan Historical Review
"Pluralism, contestation, conflict, and ambiguity mark this volume as it examines the cultural ground before, around, during, and afterthe War of 1812."
—The Journal of American History
Citizen Spectator
Art, Illusion, and Visual Perception in Early National America
Wendy Bellion
Visual deception, illusionistic art, and citizenship
In this richly illustrated study, the first book-length exploration of illusionistic artin theearly UnitedStates,WendyBellioninvestigatesAmericans' experiences with material forms of visual deception and argues that encounters with illusory art shaped their understanding of knowledge, representation, and subjectivity between 1790 and 1825. Focusing on the work of the well-known Peale family and their Philadelphia Museum, as well as other Philadelphians, Bellion explores the range of illusions encountered in public spaces, from trompe l'oeil paintings and drawings at art exhibitions to ephemeral displays of phantasmagoria, "Invisible Ladies," and other spectacles of deception.
Bellion reconstructs the elite and vernacular sites where such art and objects appeared and argues that early national exhibitions doubled as spaces of citizenformation.Withinapost-Revolutionaryculturetroubledbythesocial and political consequences of deception, keen perception signified able citizenship. Setting illusions into dialogue with Enlightenment cultures of science, print, politics, and the senses, Citizen Spectator demonstrates that pictorial and optical illusions functioned to cultivate but also to confound discernment. Bellion reveals the equivocal nature of illusion during the early republic, mapping its changing forms and functions, and uncovers surprising links betweenearly Americanart,culture,and citizenship.
February
$45.00
Wendy Bellion is associate professor of art history at the University of Delaware.
2025
ISBN: 9781469688428 | s Paperback
376 Pages
12 color and 83 b&w illus., notes, index 9.250 in H | 6.125 in W
Art / American / General
Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
"Bellion offers here a beautifully written, handsomely produced, and challenging analysis. Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, and researchers/faculty."
—Choice
"Among the most significant book-length studies of early American art to appear in print during the past decade."
—Common-Place
Cold Harbor to the Crater
The End of the Overland Campaign
Edited by Gary W. Gallagher and Caroline E. Janney
A new look at the long, brutal, and bloody Overland campaign of 1864
Between the end of May and the beginning of August 1864, Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and Gen. Robert E. Lee oversaw the transition between the Overland campaign—a remarkable saga of maneuvering and brutal combat—and what became a grueling siege of Petersburg that many months later compelled Confederates to abandon Richmond. Although many historians have marked Grant's crossing of the James River on June 12–15 as the close of the Overland campaign, this volume interprets the fighting from Cold Harbor on June 1–3 through the battle of the Crater on July 30 as the last phase of an operation that could have ended without a prolonged siege. The contributors assess the campaign from a variety of perspectives, examining strategy and tactics, the performances of key commanders on each side, the centrality of field fortifications, political repercussions in the United States and the Confederacy, the experiences of civilians caught in the path of the armies, and how the famous battle of the Crater has resonated in historical memory. As a group, the essays highlight the important connections between the home front and the battlefield, showing some of the ways in which military and nonmilitary affairs played off and influenced one another.
Contributors include Keith S. Bohannon, Stephen Cushman, M. Keith Harris, Robert E. L. Krick, Kevin M. Levin, Kathryn Shively Meier, Gordon C. Rhea, and Joan Waugh.
February 2025
$29.95
ISBN: 9781469688350 | s Paperback
360 Pages
31 halftones, 5 maps, notes, bibl., index 9.250 in H | 6.125 in W
History / United States / Civil war Period (1850-1877)
Military Campaigns of the Civil War Series
Gary W. Gallagher is professor emeritus of history at the University of Virginia.
Caroline E. Janney is the John L. Nau III Professor in the History of the American Civil War and Director of the John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History at the University of Virginia.
"Accomplished Civil War historians who bring years of research expertise, superb analytical skills and clear, confident writing to their subjects." America's Civil War
"Add[s]
color and details . . . [and] fill[s] in some of the gaps found in other historical studies of the Overland and Petersburg campaigns."
—On Point
Dismal Freedom
A History of the Maroons of the
Great Dismal Swamp
J. Brent Morris
Freedom fighters from the heart of a southern swamp
The massive and foreboding Great Dismal Swamp sprawls over 2,000 square miles and spills over parts of Virginia and North Carolina. From the early seventeenth century, the nearly impassable Dismal frustrated settlement. However, what may have been an impediment to the expansion of slave society became an essential sanctuary for many of those who sought to escape it. In the depths of the Dismal, thousands of maroons—people who had emancipated themselves from enslavement and settled beyond the reach of enslavers— established new lives of freedom in a landscape deemed worthless and inaccessible by whites.
Dismal Freedom unearths the stories of these maroons, their lives, and their struggles for liberation. Drawing from newly discovered primary sources and archeological evidence that suggests far more extensive maroon settlement than historians have previously imagined, award-winning author J. Brent Morris uncovers one of the most exciting yet neglected stories of American history. This is the story of resilient, proud, and determined people who made the Great Dismal Swamp their free home and sanctuary and who played an outsized role in undermining slavery through the Civil War.
February 2025
$24.95
ISBN: 9781469688343 | s Paperback
256 Pages
12 halftones, 2 maps, notes, index 9.250 in H | 6.125 in W
History / United States State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
J. Brent Morris is professor of history at Clemson University.
"Morris's solid monograph skillfully presents how Great Dismal Swamp maroonage changed over time, moving from sixteenth-century slaves and servants to nineteenth-century maroons who assisted Union troops."
Journal of American History
Between Two Worlds
JewishWarBridesaftertheHolocaust
RobinJudd
Inthe wake of unspeakableloss, female Holocaustsurvivors forgednewlivesthroughmarriagetoJewishsoldiers.
Facing the harrowing task of rebuilding a life in the wake of the Holocaust, many Jewish survivors, community and religious leaders, and Allied soldiers viewed marriage between Jewish women and military personnel as a way to move forward after unspeakable loss. Proponents believed that these unions were more than just a ticketout of war-torn Europe:they would help the Jewish people repopulate after the attempted annihilation of European Jewry.
Historian Robin Judd, whose grandmother survived the Holocaust and married an American soldier after liberation, introduces us to the Jewish women who lived through genocide and went on to wed American, Canadian, and British military personnel after the war. She offers an intimate portrait of how these unions emerged and developed—from meeting and courtship to marriage and immigration to life in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom— and shows how they helped shape the postwar world by touching thousands of lives, including those of the chaplains who officiated their weddings, the Allied authorities whose policy decisions structured the couples' fates, and the bureaucrats involved in immigration and acculturation. The stories Judd tells are at once heartbreaking and restorative, and she vividly captureshow the exhilarationofthebrides'early romances coexisted with survivor's guilt, grief, and apprehension at the challenges of starting a new life in a new land.
February 2025
$24.95
ISBN: 9781469688329 | s Paperback
256 Pages
11 halftones, 3 maps, notes, bibl., index 9.250 in H | 6.125 in W
History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General
Robin Judd is associate professor of history at The Ohio State University, where she directs the Hoffman Leaders and Leadership in History Fellowship program.
"A fresh perspective on the aftermath of trauma . . . . Drawing on rich archival sources, historian Judd makes her book debut with a sensitive, well-researched history of marriages between survivors of the Holocaust and American, British, and Canadian military personnel . . . . Judd's stories of "loss,recovery, power, and unbelonging" stand as testimony to the triumph of survival."
—Kirkus Reviews
Remaking the American Patient
How Madison Avenue and Modern Medicine Turned Patients into Consumers
Nancy Tomes
Winner of the Bancroft Prize
In a work that spans the twentieth century, Nancy Tomes questions the popular —and largely unexamined—idea that in order to get good health care, people must learn to shop for it. Remaking the American Patient explores the consequences of the consumer economy and American medicine having come of age at exactly the same time. Tracing the robust development of advertising, marketing, and public relations within the medical profession and the vast realm we now think of as "health care," Tomes considers what it means to be a "good" patient. As she shows, this history of the coevolution of medicine and consumer culture tells us much about our current predicament over health care in the United States. Understanding where the shopping model came from, why it was so long resisted in medicine, and why it finally triumphed in the late twentieth century helps explain why, despite striking changes that seem to empower patients, so many Americans remain unhappy and confused about their status as patients today.
February 2025
$37.95
ISBN: 9781469688442 | s Paperback
560 Pages
25 halftones, notes, bibl., index
9.250 in H | 6.125 in W
Medical / Health Policy
Studies in Social Medicine Series
Nancy Tomes is professor of history at Stony Brook University and author of The Gospel of Germs: Men, Women, and the Microbe in American Life
"A fluent and immensely readable chronology, minutely referenced, instructive and ruefully entertaining. . . . [The] last chapter is a particular tour de force, a virtuoso summary of our present circumstances as we find ourselves both far better off, healthwise, than we have ever been and yet somehow right back where we began"
—New York Times
Stretching the Heavens
The Life of Eugene England and the Crisis of Modern Mormonism
Terryl L. Givens
A
twentieth-century life of faith and questioning
Eugene England (1933-2001)—one of the most influential and controversial intellectuals in modern Mormonism—lived in the crossfire between religious tradition and reform. This first serious biography, by leading historian Terryl L. Givens, shimmers with the personal tensions felt deeply by England during the turmoil of the late twentiethcentury. Drawing on unprecedented access to England's personal papers, Givens paints a multifaceted portrait of a devout Latter-day Saint whose precarious position on the edge of church hierarchy was instrumental to his ability to shape the study of modern Mormonism.
A professor of literature at Brigham Young University, England also taught in theChurch EducationalSystem.Andyetfromthesixtieson,he setchurch leaders' teeth on edge as he protested the Vietnam War, decried institutional racism and sexism, and supported Poland's Solidarity movement—all at a time when Latter-day Saints were ultra-patriotic and banned Black ordination. England could also be intemperate, proud of his own rectitude, and neglectful of political realities and relationships, and he was eventually forced from his academic position. His last days, as he suffered from brain cancer, were marked by a spiritual agony that church leaders were unable to help him resolve.
February 2025
$29.95
ISBN: 9781469688374 | s Paperback 344 Pages 14 halftones, notes, index 9.250 in H | 6.125 in W
Religion / Christianity / Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon)
TerrylL.GivensisNealL.MaxwellSeniorFellowatBrighamYoungUniversity and Jabez A.BostwickProfessorof English Emeritusat the University of Richmond. Among his books are Wrestling the Angel and Feeding the Flock.
"A powerful exploration of how England maintained, on the one hand, devout loyalty to and genuine belief in the institutional church and, on the other hand, an indefatigable commitment to investigation and autonomy."
—Benjamin Park, By Common Consent
Radical Sacrifice
The Rise and Ruin of Fitz John Porter
William Marvel
Biography of General Porter, revealing insights about politics, war-fighting, and memory-making
Born into a distinguished military family, Fitz John Porter (1822-1901) was educated at West Point and breveted for bravery in the war with Mexico. Already a well-respected officer at the outset of the Civil War, as a general in the Union army he became a favorite of George B. McClellan, who chose him to command the Fifth Corps of the Army of the Potomac. Porter and his troops fought heroically and well at Gaines's Mill and Malvern Hill. His devotion to the Union cause seemed unquestionable until fellow Union generals John Pope and Irvin McDowell blamed him for their own battlefield failures at Second Bull Run. As a confidant of the Democrat and limited-war proponent McClellan, Porter found himself targeted by Radical Republicans intent on turning the conflict to the cause of emancipation. He made the perfect scapegoat, and a court-martial packed with compliant officers dismissed him for disobedience of orders and misconduct before the enemy. Porter tenaciously pursued vindication after the war, and in 1879 an army commission finally reviewed his case, completely exonerating him. Obstinately partisan resistance from old Republican enemies still denied him even nominal reinstatement for six more years.
This revealing new biography by William Marvel cuts through received wisdom to show Fitz John Porter as he was: a respected commander whose distinguished career was ruined by political machinations within Lincoln's administration. Marvel lifts the cloud that shadowed Porter over the last four decades of his life, exposing the spiteful Radical Republicans who refused to restore his rank long after his exoneration and never restored his benefits. Reexamining the relevant primary evidence from the full arc of Porter's life
Award-winning historian William Marvel is the author of many books about the American Civil War, including Lincoln's Autocrat: The Life of Edwin Stanton and, most recently, Lincoln's Mercenaries: Economic Motivation among Union Soldiers during the Civil War.
February 2025
$29.95
ISBN: 9781469688435 | s Paperback
496 Pages 16 halftones, 7 maps, appends., notes, bibl., index 9.250 in H | 6.125 in W
Biography & Autobiography / Military
Civil War America Series
"No reader who picks up this book will want to put it down without finishing it. Although other authors have written about the case in the past, William Marvel has finally done justice for Fitz John Porter."
Journal of America's Military Past
Men Is Cheap
Exposing the Frauds of Free Labor in Civil
War America
Brian P. Luskey
The speculating, swindling, and scheming nature of capitalism during the Civil War
When a Civil War substitute broker told business associates that "Men is cheep here to Day,"he exposed an unsettlingcontradictionatthe heart of the Union's war effort.Despite Northerners' devotion to the principles of free labor, the war produced rampant speculation and coercive labor arrangements that many Americans labeled fraudulent. Debates about this contradiction focused on employment agencies called "intelligence offices," institutions of dubious character that nevertheless served the military and domestic necessities of the Union army and Northern households. Northerners condemned labor agents for pocketing fees above and beyond contracts for wages between employers and employees. Yet the transactions these middlemen brokered with vulnerable Irish immigrants, Union soldiers and veterans, former slaves, and Confederate deserters defined the limits of independence in the wage labor economy and clarified who could prosper in it.
Men Is Cheap shows that in the process of winning the war, Northerners were forced to grapple with the frauds of free labor. Labor brokers, by helping to staff the Union military and Yankee households, did indispensable work that helped the Northern state and Northern employers emerge victorious. They also gave rise to an economic and political system that enriched the managerial class at the expense of laborers--a reality that resonates to this day.
February 2025
$29.95
ISBN: 9781469688381 | s Paperback
296 Pages
20 halftones, notes, bibl., index 9.250 in H | 6.125 in W
History / United States / Civil war Period (1850-1877)
Civil War America Series
Brian P. Luskey is associate professor of history at West Virginia University and author of On the Make: Clerks and the Quest for Capital in Nineteenth-Century America.
"Luskey offers a genuinely original take on the Civil War era, a combination of cultural, economic, social, and labor history. . . . The cast of characters is wide, including speculators, soldiers, enslaved and emancipated black people, and headstrong Irish domestic servants. Brokers, Luskey concludes, helped the Union achieve victory in war, but as agents of capitalism, they profited at the expense of those who did the actual work and fighting, a story that seems familiar enough in our own time."
—North Carolina Historical Review
France and the American Civil War
A Diplomatic History
Stève Sainlaude
Translated by Jessica Edwards, Foreword by Don H. Doyle
An authoritative history of French engagement in the American
Civil
War
France's involvement in the American Civil War was critical to its unfolding, but the details of the European power's role remain little understood. Here, Steve Sainlaude offers the first comprehensive history of French diplomatic engagement with the Union and the Confederate States of America during the conflict. Drawing on archival sources that have been neglected by scholars up to this point, Sainlaude overturns many commonly held assumptions about French relations with the Union and the Confederacy. As Sainlaude demonstrates, no major European power had a deeper stake in the outcome of the conflict than France.
Reaching beyond the standard narratives of this history, Sainlaude delves deeply into questions of geopolitical strategy and diplomacy during this critical period in world affairs. The resulting study will help shift the way Americans look at the Civil War and extend their understanding of the conflict in global context.
February 2025
$29.95
ISBN: 9781469688398 | s Paperback
304 Pages 11 halftones, appends., notes, bibl., index 9.250 in H | 6.125 in W
History / United States / Civil war Period (1850-1877)
Civil War America
Steve Sainlaude is associate professor of history at the University of Paris IV Sorbonne.
Jessica Edwards is an independent translator. Don H. Doyle is McCausland Professor of History at the University of South Carolina.
"American scholars will find a different perspective on the Civil War's international effects as told from the viewpoint of one of the outside powers whose approach was more complex than they may have previously believed."
America's Civil War
Choctaw Confederates
TheAmericanCivilWarinIndianCountry
FayA.Yarbrough
Why did the Choctaw Nation support the Confederacy?
When the Choctaw Nation was forcibly resettledin Indian Territoryin presentday Oklahoma in the 1830s, it was joined by enslaved Black people—the tribe had owned enslaved Blacks since the 1720s. By the eve of the Civil War, 14 percent of the Choctaw Nation consisted of enslaved Blacks. Avid supporters of the Confederate States of America, the Nation passed a measure requiring all whites living in its territory to swear allegiance to the Confederacy and deemed any criticism of it or its army treasonous and punishable by death. Choctaws also raised an infantry force and a cavalry to fight alongside Confederate forces.
In Choctaw Confederates,FayA.Yarbroughrevealsthat,whilesovereignty and states' rights mattered to Choctaw leaders, the survival of slavery also determined the Nation's support of the Confederacy. Mining service records for approximately 3,000 members of the First Choctaw and Chickasaw Mounted Rifles, Yarbrough examines the experiences of Choctaw soldiers and notes that although their enthusiasm waned as the war persisted, military service allowed them to embrace traditional masculine roles that were disappearing in a changing political and economic landscape. By drawing parallels between the Choctaw Nation and the Confederate states, Yarbrough looks beyond the traditionalbinary of the Union and Confederacy and reconsiders the historical relationship between Native populations and slavery.
February 2025
$27.95
ISBN: 9781469688336 | s Paperback
280 Pages 6 halftones, 10 maps, notes, bibl., index 9.250 in H | 6.125 in W
History / United States / Civil war Period (1850-1877)
FayA.YarbroughisprofessorofhistoryatRiceUniversityandtheauthorof Race and the Cherokee Nation.
"An award-worthy feat of research and writing. Its wide-ranging treatment of the Choctaw offers much needed expansion to a literature of Civil War-era Indian Territory that remains disproportionately focused on the Cherokee."
—Civil War Books & Authors
To Address You as My Friend
African Americans' Letters to Abraham Lincoln
Edited by Jonathan W. White Foreword by Edna Greene Medford
In letters to a president, the hopes and dreams of full citizenship
Many African Americans of the Civil War era felt a personal connection to Abraham Lincoln. For the first time in their lives, an occupant of the White House seemed concerned about the welfare of their race. Indeed, despite the tremendous injustice and discrimination that they faced, African Americans now had confidence to write to the president and to seek redress of their grievances. Their letters express the dilemmas, doubts, and dreams of both recently enslaved and free people in the throes of dramatic change. For many, writing Lincoln was a last resort. Yet their letters were often full of determination, making explicit claims to the rights of U.S. citizenship in a wide range of circumstances.
This compelling collection presents more than 120 letters from African Americans to Lincoln, most of which have never before been published. They offer unflinching, intimate, and often heart-wrenching portraits of Black soldiers' and civilians' experiences in wartime. As readers continue to think critically about Lincoln's image as the "Great Emancipator," this book centers African Americans' own voices to explore how they felt about the president and how they understood the possibilities and limits of the power vested in the federal government.
February 2025
$27.95
ISBN: 9781469688404 | s Paperback
304 Pages
22 halftones, notes, bibl., index 9.250 in H | 6.125 in W
Social Science / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies
Jonathan W. White is associate professor of American studies at Christopher Newport University and author or editor of several previous books, including Midnight in America: Darkness, Sleep, and Dreams during the Civil War. Edna Greene Medford is professor of history at Howard University.
"Original and gripping. . . . These letters provide telling examples of the ways that Black Americans, free and enslaved, proactively and persistently sought liberty by word and deed and laid claim to the rights and responsibilities of citizenship: a truth as pertinent and pressing in the 21st century as during Lincoln's day. . . . White adds immeasurably to the value of the letters by providing informative historical context and relating the disposition of the letter-writers'requests." Library Journal
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14 A. Wilson Greene and Gary W. Gallagher 14 A Campaign of Giants—Te Battle for Petersburg: Volume 1: From the Crossing of the James to the Crater 1 A Campaign of Giants—Te Battle for Petersburg: Volume 2: From the Crater’s Afermath to the Battle of Burgess Mill
25 A Common Grave: Being Catholic in English America
7 A Field Guide to Mushrooms of the Carolinas:
22 Afordable Housing in Charlotte: What One City’s History Tells Us about America’s Pressing Problem
7 Alan E. Bessette, Arleen R. Bessette and Michael W. Hopping
S. Halliday
Augustus Wood
2 Becoming Lunsford Lane: Te Lives of an American Aeneas
58 Between Two Worlds: Jewish War Brides afer the Holocaust
3 Black Girls and How We Fail Tem:
30 Black Movement: African American Urban History since the Great Migration
52 Black Pro Se: Authorship and the Limits of Law in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature
5 Brett Taubman
47 Brian Kwoba
62 Brian P. Luskey
44 Brother Outsider, Brother Insider: A Political Biography of Lawrence Guyot Jr. 16 Caroline E. Janney and Kathryn J. Shively 29 Casey D. Nichols 64 Choctaw Confederates: Te American Civil War in Indian Country 44 Chris Danielson
55 Citizen Spectator: Art, Illusion, and Visual Perception in Early National America
45 Class Warfare in Black Atlanta: Grassroots Struggles, Power, and Repression under Gentrifcation
31 Closed Seasons: Te Transformation of Hunting in the Modern South
56 Cold Harbor to the Crater: Te End of the Overland Campaign
51 Cold War Asia: Unlearning Narratives, Making New Histories
41 Colored Women Sittin’ on High: Womanist Sermonic Practice in Literature and Music
37 Confederate Sympathies: Same-Sex Romance, Disunion, and Reunion in the Civil War Era
2 Craig Tompson Friend 17 Daniel Sailofsky
38 David Romine 40 Deborah Mutnick
27 Democracy Is Awkward: Grappling with Racism inside American Grassroots Political Organizing
49 Dilemmas of Authenticity: Te American Muslim Crisis of Faith
57 Dismal Freedom: A Histor y of the Maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp
39 Exceptionalism in Crisis: Faction, Anarchy, and Mexico in the US Imagination during the Civil War Era
52 Faith Barter
64 Fay A. Yarbrough
12 Fighting for Freedom: Black Crafspeople and the Pursuit of Independence
63 France and the American Civil War: A Diplomatic History
56 Gary W. Gallagher and Caroline E. Janney
6 Georgann Eubanks
48 Good Parents, Better Homes, and Great Schools: Selling Segregation before the New Deal
51 Hajimu Masuda
34 Hardcore Punk in the Age of Reagan: Te Lyrical Lashing of an American Presidency
35 Historians on Housewives: Fashion, Performance, and Power on Bravo Reality TV
47 Hubert Harrison: Forbidden
Landscaping Patagonia: Spatial History and Nation-Making in Chile and Argentina
Language and Life on Ocracoke: Te Living History of the Brogue
Latin America and the Global Cold War:
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Maria John
Mary Eyring
Melanie R. Hill
Men Is Cheap: Exposing the Frauds of Free Labor in Civil War America
Michael Amoruso
Michael Rosino
Midwest Unrest: 1960s Urban Rebellions and the Black Freedom Movement
Moved by the Dead: Haunting and Devotion in São Paulo, Brazil
Nancy Tomes
Nicholas Graham and Cecelia Moore
Nicole Eustace and Fredrika J. Teute
No Race, No Country: Te Politics and Poetics of Richard Wright
Pamela Grundy and Susan Shackelford
Playing through Pain: Te Violent Consequences of Capitalist Sport
Poverty Rebels: Black and Brown Protest in Post–Civil Rights America
Proximity to Power: Rethinking Race and Place in Alexandria, Virginia
Radical Sacrifce: Te Rise and Ruin of Fitz John Porter
Rebuilding New Orleans: Immigrant Laborers and Street Food Vendors in the Post-Katrina Era
Remaking the American Patient: How Madison Avenue and Modern Medicine
Turned Patients into Consumers
Rob Christensen
Rob Christensen
Robert F. Williams, Mabel R. Williams, Akinyele K. Umoja, Gloria Aneb House and John H. Bracey Jr.
Robert Fitzgerald
Robin Judd
Saltwater: Grief in Early America
Sarah Fouts
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Secular Sensibilities: Romance, Marriage, and Contemporary Algerian Immigration to France and Québec
Shattering the Glass: Te Remarkable History of Women’s Basketball
Something to Do with Power: Julian Mayfeld’s Journey toward a Black Radical Tought, 1948-1984
Southern Culture on the Fizz: An Efervescent Guide to Fermented Foods and Beverages from the American South
Southern News, Southern Politics: How a Newspaper Defned a State for a Century
Sovereign Bodies, Sovereign Spaces: Urban Indigenous Health Activism in the United States and Australia
Stève Sainlaude, Jessica Edwards and Don H. Doyle
Stretching the Heavens: Te Life of Eugene England and the Crisis of Modern Mormonism
Susan Juster
Susan Reyburn, Zach Klitzman and Carla D. Hayden
Terryl L. Givens
Te Age of the Borderlands: Indians, Slaves, and the Limits of Manifest Destiny, 1790-1850
Te Breach: Iran-Contra and the Assault on American Democracy
Te Fabulous Ordinary: Discovering the Natural Wonders of the Wild South
Te Memoirs of Robert and Mabel Williams: African American Freedom, Armed Resistance, and International Solidarity
Te Rise and Fall of the Branchhead Boys: North Carolina’s Scott Family and the Era of Progressive Politics
Te Second Manassas Campaign:
Te Sixth Wisconsin and the Long Civil War: Te Biography of a Regiment
Te Two Georges: Parallel Lives in an Age of Revolution
Te Work of Empire: War, Occupation, and the Making of American Colonialism in Cuba and the Philippines
Tomas C. Field Jr., Stella Krepp and Vanni Pettinà
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Tom Hanchett
Torren L. Gatson, Tifany N. Momon and William A. Strollo
UNC A to Z: What Every Tar Heel Needs to Know about the First State University
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Wendy Bellion
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