University of Illinois Press History Catalog 2021

HISTORY

2021

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SURVIVING SOUTHAMPTON

African American Women and Resistance in Nat Turner’s Community

VANESSA M. HOLDEN The local community around the Nat Turner rebellion The 1831 Southampton Rebellion led by Nat Turner involved an entire community. Vanessa M. Holden rediscovers the women and children, free and enslaved, who lived in Southampton County before, during, and after the revolt. Mapping the region’s multilayered human geography, Holden draws a fuller picture of the inhabitants, revealing not only their interactions with physical locations but also their social relationships in space and time. Her analysis recasts the Southampton Rebellion as one event that reveals the continuum of practices that sustained resistance and survival among local Black people. Holden follows how African Americans continued those practices through the rebellion’s immediate aftermath and into the future, showing how Black women and communities raised children who remembered and heeded the lessons absorbed during the calamitous events of 1831.

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A bold challenge to traditional accounts, Surviving Southampton sheds new light on the places and people surrounding Americas most famous rebellion against slavery.

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VANESSA M. HOLDEN is an assistant professor of history at the University of Kentucky.

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PHOTOGRAPHIC PRESIDENTS

Making History from Daguerreotype to Digital

CARA A. FINNEGAN Defining the Chief Executive via flash powder and selfie sticks “This narrative weaves the evolution of a technology, a communications medium, and the highest office in the land into a vivid historical panorama. In current times, in an atmosphere in which visual politics can be all too affecting and effecting, Photographic Presidents places the visual presidency into a necessary frame.”

—MICHAEL SHAW, publisher, Reading the Pictures Lincoln’s somber portraits. Lyndon Johnson’s swearing in. George W. Bush’s reaction to learning about the 9/11 attacks. Photography plays an indelible role in how we remember and define American presidents. Throughout history, presidents have actively participated in all aspects of photography, not only by sitting for photos but by taking and consuming them. Cara A. Finnegan ventures from a newly discovered daguerreotype of John Quincy Adams to Barack Obama’s selfies to tell the stories of how presidents have participated in the medium’s transformative moments. As she shows, technological developments not only changed photography but introduced new visual values that influence how we judge an image. At the same time, presidential photographs—as representations of leaders who symbolized the nation—sparked public debate on these values and their implications.

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An original journey through political history, Photographic Presidents reveals the intertwined evolution of an American institution and a medium that continues to define it.

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CARA A. FINNEGAN is a professor of communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of Making Photography Matter: A Viewer’s History from the Civil War to the Great Depression and Picturing Poverty: Print Culture and FSA Photographs.

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THE MARK OF SLAVERY

Disability, Race, and Gender in Antebellum America

JENIFER L. BARCLAY Exploring the disability history of slavery “Barclay’s deft handling of disability through her archival research, the brilliance of her scholarship on the ways that blackness becomes synonymous with disability, her skillful use of Black Critical Disability Studies as a methodological framework, and clear and persuasive prose allows us greater insight into the debilitating effects of slavery as a disabling device for its victims.”

—DEIRDRE COOPER OWENS, author of Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology Time and again, antebellum Americans justified slavery and white supremacy by linking blackness to disability, defectiveness, and dependency. Jenifer L. Barclay examines the ubiquitous narratives that depicted black people with disabilities as pitiable, monstrous, or comical, narratives used not only to defend slavery but also to argue against it. As she shows, this relationship between ableism and racism impacted racial identities during the antebellum period and played an overlooked role in shaping American history afterward. Barclay also illuminates the everyday lives of the 10 percent of enslaved people who lived with disabilities. Devalued by slaveholders as unsound and therefore worthless, these individuals nonetheless carved out an unusual autonomy. Their roles as caregivers, healers, and keepers of memory made them esteemed within their own communities and celebrated figures in song and folklore.

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Prescient in its analysis and rich in detail, The Mark of Slavery is a powerful addition to the intertwined histories of disability, slavery, and race.

A volume in the series Disability Histories, edited by Kim Nielsen and Michael Rembis

JENIFER L. BARCLAY is an assistant professor of history at the University at Buffalo.

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THE BLACK INTELLECTUAL TRADITION

African American Thought in the Twentieth Century

Edited by DERRICK P. ALRIDGE, CORNELIUS L. BYNUM, and JAMES B. STEWART Considering the development and ongoing influence of Black thought From 1900 to the present, people of African descent living in the United States have drawn on homegrown and diasporic minds to create a Black intellectual tradition engaged with ideas on race, racial oppression, and the world. This volume presents essays on the diverse thought behind the fight for racial justice as developed by African American artists and intellectuals; performers and protest activists; institutions and organizations; and educators and religious leaders. By including both women’s and men’s perspectives from the U.S. and the Diaspora, the essays explore the full landscape of the Black intellectual tradition. Throughout, contributors engage with important ideas ranging from the consideration of gender within the tradition, to intellectual products generated outside the intelligentsia, to the ongoing relationship between thought and concrete effort in the quest for liberation.

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Expansive in scope and interdisciplinary in practice, The Black Intellectual Tradition delves into the ideas that animated a people’s striving for full participation in American life.

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Contributors: Derrick P. Alridge, Keisha N. Blain, Cornelius L. Bynum, Jeffrey Lamar Coleman, Pero Gaglo Dagbovie, Stephanie Y. Evans, Aaron David Gresson III, Claudrena N. Harold, Leonard Harris, Maurice J. Hobson, La TaSha B. Levy, Layli Maparyan, Zebulon V. Miletsky, R. Baxter Miller, Edward Onaci, Venetria K. Patton, James B. Stewart, and Nikki M. Taylor

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DERRICK P. ALRIDGE is a professor of education in the School for Education and affiliate faculty in the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies at the University of Virginia. He is the author of The Educational Thought of W. E. B. DuBois: An Intellectual History. CORNELIUS L. BYNUM is an associate professor of history at Purdue University and the author of A. Philip Randolph and the Struggle for Civil Rights. JAMES B. STEWART is a professor emeritus of labor studies and employment relations and African American studies at Penn State University. His books include Flight in Search of Vision.

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FROM FOOTBALL TO SOCCER

The Early History of the Beautiful Game in the United States

BRIAN D. BUNK Rediscovering soccer’s long history in the U.S. “This excellent and timely history on the origins of football in North America fills an important gap. As soccer grows in popularity today, Brian Bunk shows that it has been part of the sporting scene for many centuries. This book is especially welcome for its thorough discussion of Native American football's long history, and the alltoo-often understated role of women in the early development of the game on the continent. This book is essential reading for historians of sport, and an absorbing read for the casual soccer/football fan."

—STEFAN SZYMANSKI, coauthor of Soccernomics: Why England Loses, Why Germany, Spain, and France Win, and Why One Day Japan, Iraq, and the United States Will Become Kings of the World's Most Popular Sport

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Across North America, native peoples and colonists alike played a variety of kicking games long before soccer’s emergence in the late 1800s. Brian D. Bunk examines the development and social impact of these sports through the rise of professional soccer after World War I. As he shows, the various games called football gave women an outlet as athletes and encouraged men to form social bonds based on educational experience, occupation, ethnic identity, or military service. Football also followed young people to college as higher education expanded in the nineteenth century. University play, along with the arrival of immigrants from the British Isles, helped spark the creation of organized soccer in the United States—and the beautiful game’s transformation into a truly international sport.

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A multilayered look at one game’s place in American life, From Football to Soccer refutes the notion of the U.S. as a land outside of football history.

BRIAN D. BUNK is a senior lecturer in the history department at the University of Massachusetts. He is the author of Ghosts of Passion: Martyrdom, Gender, and the Origins of the Spanish Civil War and coeditor of Nation and Conflict in Modern Spain: Essays in Honor of Stanley G. Payne.

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TENNIS

A History from American Amateurs to Global Professionals

GREG RUTH Analyzing how tennis turned pro “This book is for tennis pros, serious amateurs, hackers, lovers of the game, and anyone interested in sport history.

Greg Ruth shows us how tennis evolved from England’s royal court to L.A.’s public courts to the U.S. Open’s billionaire courts. Featuring big personalities and terrific storytelling, Tennis shows us how and why the game evolved over the years. This is excellent sport history.”

—ELLIOTT J. GORN, coauthor of A Brief History of American Sports, Second Edition The arrival of the Open era in 1968 was a watershed in the history of tennis—the year that marked its advent as a professionalized sport. Merging wide-angle history with individual stories of players and off-the-court figures, Greg Ruth charts tennis’s evolution into the game we watch today. His vivid account moves from the cloistered world of nineteenth-century lawn tennis through the longtime amateur-professional divide and the battles over commercialization that raged from the 1920s until 1968. From there, Ruth details the post-1968 expansion of the game as it was transformed by bankable superstars, a popular women’s tour, rival governing bodies, and sponsorship money. What emerges is a fascinating history of the economics and politics that made tennis a decisive, if unlikely, force in the creation of modern-day sports entertainment.

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Comprehensive and engaging, Tennis tells the interlocking stories of the figures and factors that birthed the professional game.

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GREG RUTH is an independent scholar.

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SPOON RIVER AMERICA

Edgar Lee Masters and the Myth of the American Small Town

JASON STACY From Main Street to Stranger Things, how poetry changed our idea of small town life “Cogent and persuasive. By situating Spoon River Anthology within a number of contexts—literary, biographical, historical, political, performance, reception history—Stacy shows us why the book has become an American classic and how it has maintained its staying power for more than one hundred years.”

—MARCIA NOE, author of Susan Glaspell: Voice from the Heartland A literary and cultural milestone, Spoon River Anthology captured an idea of the rural Midwest that became a bedrock myth of life in small-town America. Jason Stacy places the book within the atmosphere of its time and follows its progress as the poetry took root and thrived. Published by Edgar Lee Masters in 1915, Spoon River Anthology won praise from modernists while becoming an ongoing touchstone for American popular culture. Stacy charts the ways readers embraced, debated, and reshaped Masters’s work in literary controversies and culture war skirmishes; in films and other media that over time saw the small town as idyllic then conflicted then surreal; and as the source of three archetypes—populist, elite, and exile—that endure across the landscape of American culture in the twenty-first century.

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A wide-ranging reconsideration of a literary landmark, Spoon River America tells the story of how a Midwesterner’s poetry helped change a nation’s conception of itself.

JASON STACY is a professor of history and social science pedagogy at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville. He is the author of Walt Whitman’s Multitudes: Labor Reform and Persona in Whitman’s Journalism and the First Leaves of Grass, 1840–1855 and editor of Leaves of Grass, 1860: The 150th Anniversary Facsimile Edition.

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A MATTER OF MORAL JUSTICE

Black Women Laundry Workers and the Fight for Justice

JENNY CARSON A long-overlooked group of workers and their battle for rights and dignity “An engaging book on a workforce that has received surprisingly little attention from labor historians. Carson provides a highly readable analysis of how racialized and gendered were job assignments, union organizing campaigns, and labor politics.”

—DENNIS DESLIPPE, author of Protesting Affirmative Action: The Struggle over Equality after the Civil Rights Revolution JULY 2021

Like thousands of African American women, Charlotte Adelmond and Dollie Robinson worked in New York’s power laundry industry in the 1930s. Jenny Carson tells the story of how substandard working conditions, racial and gender discrimination, and poor pay drove them to help unionize the city’s laundry workers.

Laundry work opened a door for African American women to enter industry, and their numbers allowed women like Adelmond and Robinson to join the vanguard of a successful unionization effort. But an affiliation with the powerful Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) transformed the union from a radical, community-­ based institution into a bureaucratic organization led by men. It also launched a difficult battle to secure economic and social justice for the mostly women and people of color in the plants. As Carson shows, this local struggle highlighted how race and gender shaped worker conditions, labor organizing, and union politics across the country in the twentieth century.

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by James R. Barrett, Julie Greene, William P. Jones, Alice Kessler-Harris, and Nelson Lichtenstein

Meticulous and engaging, A Matter of Moral Justice examines the role of African American and radical women activists and their collisions with labor organizing and union politics.

Publication supported by a grant from the Howard D. and Marjorie I. Brooks Fund for Progressive Thought

JENNY CARSON is an associate professor of history at Ryerson University.

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GRAND ARMY OF LABOR

Workers, Veterans, and the Meaning of the Civil War

MATTHEW E. STANLEY Enlisting memory in a new fight for freedom “This powerful and judicious study changes how we think about Civil War memories and working-class histories. Sure grasp of the multiplicity of United States labor—African American and white, native-born and newcoming, female and male, North and South, veteran and not—illuminates how a constantly recreated remembrance of the emancipatory side of the war could produce a broad language of freedom, one bound to contain its own contradictions and limitations.”

—DAVID ROEDIGER, author of Seizing Freedom: Slave Emancipation and Liberty for All

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From the Gilded Age through the Progressive era, labor movements reinterpreted Abraham Lincoln as a liberator of working people while workers equated activism with their own service fighting for freedom during the war. Matthew E. Stanley explores the wide-ranging meanings and diverse imagery used by Civil War veterans within the sprawling radical politics of the time. As he shows, a rich world of rituals, songs, speeches, and newspapers emerged among the many strains of working-class cultural politics within the labor movement. Yet tensions arose even among allies.

Some people rooted Civil War commemoration in nationalism and reform, and in time, these conservative currents marginalized radical workers who tied their remembering to revolution, internationalism, and socialism.

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An original consideration of meaning and memory, Grand Army of Labor reveals the complex ways workers drew on themes of emancipation and equality in the long battle for workers’ rights.

MATTHEW E. STANLEY is an associate professor of history at Albany State University. He is the author of The Loyal West: Civil War and Reunion in Middle America.

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TECHNOLOGY AND THE HISTORIAN

Transformations in the Digital Age

ADAM CRYMBLE Charting the evolution of practicing digital history “This book explodes many of the foundation myths upon which digital history has been built and replaces them with a clear-eyed account that melds historiography, technology, and pedagogy. In beautiful prose, Crymble has identified the streams of influence that have shaped the field.”

—TIM HITCHCOCK, University of Sussex Historians have seen their field transformed by the digital age. Research agendas, teaching and learning, scholarly communication, the nature of the archive—all have undergone a sea change that in and of itself constitutes a fascinating digital history.

Yet technology’s role in the field’s development remains a glaring blind spot among digital scholars.

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Adam Crymble mines private and web archives, social media, and oral histories to show how technology and historians have come together. Using case studies, Crymble merges histories and philosophies of the field, separating issues relevant to historians from activities in the broader digital humanities movement. Key themes include the origin myths of digital historical research; a history of mass digitization of sources; how technology influenced changes in the curriculum; a portrait of the self-learning system that trains historians and the problems with that system; how blogs became a part of outreach and academic writing; and a roadmap for the continuing study of history in the digital era.

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ADAM CRYMBLE is an editor of Programming Historian and a lecturer of digital humanities at University College London.

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WHEN SUNDAY COMES

Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras

CLAUDRENA N. HAROLD Gospel music after the Golden Age “When Sunday Comes is the book we’ve been waiting for—a thoughtful and thought-provoking analysis of the impact contemporary singers, songwriters, and musicians have made, and continue to make, on gospel music.”

—ROBERT M. MAROVICH, author of A City Called Heaven: Chicago and the Birth of Gospel Music Gospel music evolved in often surprising directions during the post– Civil Rights era. Claudrena N. Harold’s in-depth look at late-century gospel focuses on musicians like Yolanda Adams, Andraé Crouch, the Clark Sisters, Al Green, Take 6, and the Winans, and on the network of black record shops, churches, and businesses that nurtured the music.

Harold details the creative shifts, sonic innovations, theological tensions, and political assertions that transformed the music, and revisits the debates within the community over groundbreaking recordings and gospel’s incorporation of rhythm and blues, funk, hip-hop, and other popular forms. At the same time, she details how sociopolitical and cultural developments like the Black Power Movement and the emergence of the Christian Right shaped both the art and attitudes of African American performers.

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Weaving insightful analysis into a collective biography of gospel icons, When Sunday Comes explores the music’s essential place as an outlet for African Americans to express their spiritual and cultural selves.

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CLAUDRENA N. HAROLD is a professor of African American and African studies and history at the University of Virginia. She is the author of New Negro Politics in the Jim Crow South and The Rise and Fall of the Garvey Movement in the Urban South, 1918–1942.

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NFL FOOTBALL

A History of America’s New National Pastime NFL Centennial Edition

RICHARD C. CREPEAU The evolution of an American passion Praise for the previous edition: “[Crepeau] has brought together from a great many sources the information necessary to anyone who wants to understand the origins and the workings of the powerful and profitable entertainment vehicle the NFL has become.”

—BILL LITTLEFIELD, NPR’s Only a Game A multibillion-dollar entertainment empire, the National Football League is a coast-to-coast obsession that borders on religion and dominates our sports-mad culture. But today’s NFL also provides a stage for playing out important issues roiling American society.

This updated and expanded edition of NFL Football observes the league’s centennial by following the NFL into the twenty-first century, where off-the-field concerns compete with touchdowns and goal line stands for headlines. Richard C. Crepeau delves into the history of the league and breaks down the new era with an in-depth look at the controversies and dramas swirling around pro football today:

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• Tensions

between players and Commissioner Roger Goodell over collusion, drug policies, and revenue, including analysis of the 2020 collective bargaining agreement

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• The firestorm surrounding Colin Kaepernick and protests of police violence and inequality

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Luck and others choosing early retirement over the threat to their long-term health

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• Paul Tagliabue’s role in covering up information on concussions • The Super Bowl’s evolution into a national holiday Authoritative and up to the minute, NFL Football continues the epic American success story.

RICHARD C. CREPEAU is a professor emeritus of history at the University of Central Florida and former president of the North American Society for Sports History. He is the author of Baseball: America’s Diamond Mind, 1919–1941.

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PASSING THE BATON

Black Women Track Stars and American Identity

CAT M. ARIAIL How African American women athletes tested a nation’s image of itself "Ariail pinpoints how important the women of track and field were to changing opinions in both white and black communities about the accomplishments of women of color. But she also powerfully argues that this story does not end with victory. Rather, she reminds us how much work gender did (and does) to undergird racism."

—KATHERINE C. MOONEY, author of Race Horse Men: How Slavery and Freedom Were Made at the Racetrack After World War II, the United States used international sport to promote democratic values and its image of an ideal citizen. But African American women excelling in track and field upset such notions. Cat M. Ariail examines how athletes such as Alice Coachman, Mae Faggs, and Wilma Rudolph forced American sport cultures—both white and Black—to reckon with the athleticism of African American women. Marginalized still further in a low-profile sport, young Black women nonetheless bypassed barriers to represent their country. Their athletic success soon threatened postwar America’s dominant ideas about race, gender, sexuality, and national identity. As Ariail shows, the wider culture defused these radical challenges by locking the athletes within roles that stressed conservative forms of femininity, blackness, and citizenship.

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A rare exploration of African American women athletes and national identity, Passing the Baton reveals young Black women as active agents in the remaking of what it means to be American.

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CAT M. ARIAIL is a lecturer in the Department of History at Middle Tennessee State University.

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FROM SLAVE CABINS TO THE WHITE HOUSE

Homemade Citizenship in African American Culture

KORITHA MITCHELL African American mothers and wives navigating double standards Koritha Mitchell analyzes canonical texts by and about African American women to lay bare the hostility these women face as they invest in traditional domesticity. Instead of the respectability and safety granted white homemakers, black women endure pejorative labels, racist governmental policies, attacks on their citizenship, and aggression meant to keep them in “their place.”

Tracing how African Americans define and redefine success in a nation determined to deprive them of it, Mitchell plumbs the works of Frances Harper, Zora Neale Hurston, Lorraine Hansberry, Toni Morrison, Michelle Obama, and others. These artists honor black homes from slavery and post-emancipation through the Civil Rights era to “post-racial” America. Mitchell follows black families asserting their citizenship in domestic settings while the larger society and culture marginalize and attack them, not because they are deviants or failures but because they meet American standards.

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Powerful and provocative, From Slave Cabins to the White House illuminates the links between African American women’s homemaking and citizenship in history and across literature.

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KORITHA MITCHELL is an associate professor of English at The Ohio State University and the author of Living with Lynching: African American Lynching Plays, Performance, and Citizenship, 1890–1930.

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MADAM C. J. WALKER’S GOSPEL OF GIVING

Black Women’s Philanthropy during Jim Crow

TYRONE MCKINLEY FREEMAN Foreword by A’Lelia Bundles The iconic businesswoman’s life of generosity and inspiration “This is no simple story of Madam Walker’s charitable giving.

Instead, by spanning the course of Walker’s remarkable life from the daughter of enslaved parents to beauty culture mogul, Tyrone McKinley Freeman’s brilliant and impeccably researched book demonstrates that wealth did not drive Walker to give, but that she was the embodiment of a much longer, though often hidden, tradition of black philanthropy. This book will forever change the way we understand Walker’s importance and provides a much needed context for contemporary calls for economic justice.”

—TIFFANY GILL, author of Beauty Shop Politics: African American Women's Activism in the Beauty Industry

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Founder of a beauty empire, Madam C. J. Walker was celebrated as America’s first self-made female millionaire in the early 1900s. Known as a leading African American entrepreneur, Walker was also devoted to an activist philanthropy aimed at empowering African Americans and challenging the injustices inflicted by Jim Crow.

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Tyrone McKinley Freeman’s biography highlights how giving shaped Walker’s life before and after she became wealthy. Poor and widowed when she arrived in St. Louis in her twenties, Walker found mentorship among black churchgoers and working black women. Her adoption of faith, racial uplift, education, and self-help soon informed her dedication to assisting black women’s entrepreneurship, financial independence, and activism. Walker embedded her philanthropy in how she grew her business, forged alliances with groups like the National Association of Colored Women, funded schools and social service agencies led by African American women, and enlisted her company’s sales agents in local charity and advocacy work.

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Illuminating and dramatic, Madam C. J. Walker’s Gospel of Giving broadens our understanding of black women’s charitable giving and establishes Walker as a foremother of African American philanthropy.

TYRONE MCKINLEY FREEMAN is an assistant professor of philanthropic studies at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy.

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WEST OF JIM CROW

The Fight against California’s Color Line

LYNN M. HUDSON African American resistance to white supremacy from California statehood to the 1950s “By tracing the metamorphosis of white supremacy in the Golden State and the fierce resistance to it over the long span from statehood to the 1950s, Lynn Hudson has brilliantly plumbed the depth, complexity, and variability of American racial formations and added a new chapter to our understanding of the long black freedom movement and of women’s centrality to it.”

—JACQUELYN DOWD HALL, author of Sisters and Rebels: A Struggle for the Soul of America African Americans who moved to California in hopes of finding freedom and full citizenship instead faced all-too-familiar racial segregation. As one transplant put it, “The only difference between Pasadena and Mississippi is the way they are spelled.”

From the beaches to streetcars to schools, the Golden State—in contrast to its reputation for tolerance—perfected many methods of controlling people of color.

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Lynn M. Hudson deepens our understanding of the practices that African Americans in the West deployed to dismantle Jim Crow in the quest for civil rights prior to the 1960s. Faced with institutionalized racism, black Californians used both established and improvised tactics to resist and survive the state’s color line.

Hudson rediscovers forgotten stories like the experimental all-black community of Allensworth, the California Ku Klux Klan’s campaign of terror against African Americans, the bitter struggle to integrate public swimming pools in Pasadena and elsewhere, and segregationists’ preoccupation with gender and sexuality.

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LYNN M. HUDSON is an associate professor of history at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is the author of The Making of “Mammy Pleasant”: A Black Entrepreneur in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco.

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SWEET GREEKS

First-Generation Immigrant Confectioners in the Heartland

ANN FLESOR BECK Making candy—and a new life—in the Midwest “This remarkable story is both unique and universal. It is the story of tenacious immigrant entrepreneurs overcoming enormous odds to find that sweet spot, making candy that would become a permanent feature of American daily life.”

—KEN ALBALA, author of Noodle Soup: Recipes, Techniques, Obsession and grandson of an immigrant from Greece Gus Flesor came to the United States from Greece in 1901. His journey led him to Tuscola, Illinois, where he learned the confectioner’s trade and opened a business that still stands on Main Street. Sweet Greeks sets the story of Gus Flesor’s life as an immigrant in a small town within the larger history of Greek migration to the Midwest.

Ann Flesor Beck’s charming personal account re-creates the atmosphere of her grandfather’s candy kitchen with its odors of chocolate and popcorn and the comings-and-goings of family members. “The Store” represented success while anchoring the business district of Gus’s chosen home. It also embodied the Midwest émigré experience of chain migration, immigrant networking, resistance and outright threats by local townspeople, food-related entrepreneurship, and tensions over whether later generations would take over the business.

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An engaging blend of family memoir and Midwest history, Sweet Greeks tells how Greeks became candy makers to the nation, one shop at a time.

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ANN FLESOR BECK is a third-generation Greek confectioner and independent scholar. With her sister, she co-owns and operates Flesor’s Candy Kitchen in Tuscola, Illinois.

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INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH BLUEGRASS

Southwestern Ohio’s Musical Legacy

Edited by FRED BARTENSTEIN and CURTIS W. ELLISON Foreword by Neil V. Rosenberg High lonesome in the heartland “A new urban folk music, nurtured and shaped by a folk community in an industrial setting, has made the world familiar with southwestern Ohio’s bluegrass. Many facets of the region’s rich musical heritage are explored and celebrated in this book, a welcome addition to the literature on bluegrass.”

—NEIL V. ROSENBERG, from the foreword JANUARY 2021

In the twentieth century, Appalachian migrants seeking economic opportunities relocated to southwestern Ohio, bringing their music with them. Between 1947 and 1989, they created an internationally renowned capital for the thriving bluegrass music genre, centered on the industrial region of Cincinnati, Dayton, Hamilton, Middletown, and Springfield. Fred Bartenstein and Curtis W. Ellison edit a collection of eyewitness narratives and in-depth analyses that explore southwestern Ohio’s bluegrass musicians, radio broadcasters, recording studios, record labels, and performance venues, along with the music’s contributions to religious activities, community development, and public education. As the bluegrass scene grew, southwestern Ohio’s distinctive sounds reached new fans and influenced those everywhere who continue to play, produce, and love roots music.

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Revelatory and multifaceted, Industrial Strength Bluegrass shares the inspiring story of a bluegrass hotbed and the people who created it.

Publication supported by a grant from the Judith McCulloh Endowment for American Music.

Contributors: Fred Bartenstein, Curtis W. Ellison, Jon Hartley Fox, Rick Good, Lily Isaacs, Ben Krakauer, Mac McDivitt, Nathan McGee, Daniel Mullins, Joe Mullins, Larry Nager, Phillip J. Obermiller, Bobby Osborne, and Neil V. Rosenberg.

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FRED BARTENSTEIN is an adjunct instructor in music at the University of Dayton. He is the editor of Bluegrass Bluesman, The Bluegrass Hall of Fame, and two anthologies of writings by folk arts impresario Joe Wilson.

CURTIS W. ELLISON is a professor emeritus of history and American studies at Miami University. He is the author of Country Music Culture: From Hard Times to Heaven and editor of Donald Davidson’s The Big Ballad Jamboree.

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MOBILIZING BLACK GERMANY

Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement

TIFFANY N. FLORVIL The women and groups behind Black German thought and resistance of the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries “Florvil’s magisterial Mobilizing Black Germany is a must-read for all scholars of the Black and African diasporas who are interested in the history of Black activism. Mobilizing Black Germany takes you to the very beginning of the Afrodeutsch movement, some years before Audre Lorde’s arrival, and puts you right inside. Florvil’s deep research crafts an unforgettable history rich with famous figures who stride the global stage and local heroes whose sacrifices and achievements were no less monumental.”

—MICHELLE M. WRIGHT, author of Physics of Blackness: Beyond the Middle Passage Epistemology

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In the 1980s and 1990s, Black German women began to play significant roles in challenging the discrimination in their own nation and abroad. Their grassroots organizing, writings, and political and cultural activities nurtured innovative traditions, ideas, and practices. These strategies facilitated new, often radical bonds between people from disparate backgrounds across the Black Diaspora.

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Tiffany N. Florvil examines the role of queer and straight women in shaping the contours of the modern Black German movement as part of the Black internationalist opposition to racial and gender oppression. Florvil shows the multifaceted contributions of women to movement making, including Audre Lorde’s role in influencing their activism; the activists who inspired Afro-German women to curate their own identities and histories; and the evolution of the activist groups Initiative of Black Germans and Afro-German Women. These practices and strategies became a rallying point for isolated and marginalized women (and men) and shaped the roots of contemporary Black German activism.

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Richly researched and multidimensional in scope, Mobilizing Black Germany offers a rare in-depth look at the emergence of the modern Black German movement and Black feminists’ politics, intellectualism, and internationalism.

TIFFANY N. FLORVIL is an associate professor in the Department of History at the University of New Mexico.

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A HISTORY OF THE OZARKS, VOLUME 1

The Old Ozarks

BROOKS BLEVINS The Ozarks before they were the Ozarks “Brooks Blevins is an expert in weaving many diverse strands into a seamless tapestry.”

—ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT GAZETTE The Ozarks reflect the epic tableau of the American people—the native Osage and would-be colonial conquerors, the determined settlers and on-the-make speculators, the hardscrabble farmers and visionary entrepreneurs. Brooks Blevins begins his three-volume history of the region and its inhabitants in deep prehistory, charting how the highlands came to exist. From there he turns to the political and economic motivations behind the eagerness of many peoples to possess the Ozarks. Blevins places these early proto-Ozarkers within the context of the economic, social, and political forces that drove American history. But he also tells the colorful human stories that fill the region’s storied past—and contribute to the powerful myths and misunderstandings that even today distort our views of the Ozarks’ places and people.

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A monumental history in the grand tradition, A History of the Ozarks, Volume 1: The Old Ozarks is essential reading for anyone who cares about the highland heart of America.

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BROOKS BLEVINS is the Noel Boyd Professor of Ozarks Studies at Missouri State University. He is the author or editor of nine books, including A History of the Ozarks, Volume 2: The Conflicted Ozarks; Ghost of the Ozarks: Murder and Memory in the Upland South; and Arkansas, Arkansaw: How Bear Hunters, Hillbillies, and Good Ol’ Boys Defined a State.

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A HISTORY OF THE OZARKS, VOLUME 2

The Conflicted Ozarks

BROOKS BLEVINS Slavery, civil war, and the birth of the modern Ozarks “Brooks Blevins’s second volume of A History of the Ozarks is the work of a premier historian and a master storyteller. Whether the topic is Civil War guerrillas or postwar Bald Knobbers, Blevins peels away the layers of myth and legend to reveal the region’s heritage and history in all its ­complexity. Highly recommended for both the scholar and the general reader.”

—WILLIAM GARRETT PISTON, coauthor of Wilson’s Creek: The Second Battle of the Civil War and the Men Who Fought It The Ozarks of the mid-1800s was a land of divisions. The uplands and its people inhabited a geographic and cultural borderland straddling Midwest and West, North and South, frontier and civilization, and secessionist and Unionist. As civil war raged across the region, neighbor turned against neighbor, unleashing a generation of animus and violence that lasted long after 1865.

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The second volume of Brooks Blevins’s history of the Ozarks begins with the region’s distinctive relationship to slavery. Because the Ozarks were largely unsuitable for plantation farming, residents used enslaved persons on a smaller scale or, in some places, not at all. Blevins moves on to the devastating Civil War years where the dehumanizing, personal nature of Ozark conflict was made uglier by the predations of marching armies and criminal gangs. Blending personal stories with a wide narrative scope, he examines how civilians and soldiers alike experienced the war, from brutal partisan warfare to ill-advised refugee policies to women’s struggles to safeguard farms and stay alive in an atmosphere of constant danger. The war stunted the region’s growth, delaying the development of Ozarks society and the processes of physical, economic, and social reconstruction. More and more, striving uplanders dedicated to modernization fought an image of the Ozarks as a land of mountaineers and hillbillies hostile to the idea of progress. Yet the dawn of the twentieth century saw the uplands emerge as an increasingly uniform culture forged, for better and worse, in the tumult of a conflicted era.

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BROOKS BLEVINS is the Noel Boyd Professor of Ozarks Studies at Missouri State University. He is the author or editor of nine books, including A History of the Ozarks, Volume 1: The Old Ozarks and Ghost of the Ozarks: Murder and Memory in the Upland South.

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MAYOR HAROLD WASHINGTON

Champion of Race and Reform in Chicago

ROGER BILES The political biography of the African American mayor and reformer “This is a must read for all who seek valuable insight into Mayor Harold Washington—the man, his administration, and the power struggle that accompanied the election of Chicago’s first African American mayor.”

—DAVID ORR In 1983, Harold Washington made history by becoming Chicago’s first African American mayor. The racially charged campaign and election heralded an era of bitter political divisiveness that obstructed his efforts to change city government.

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Roger Biles’s sweeping biography provides a definitive account of Washington and his journey. Once in City Hall, Washington confronted the backroom deals, aldermanic thuggery, open corruption, and palm greasing that fueled the Chicago machine’s autocratic political regime. His alternative: a vision of fairness, transparency, neighborhood empowerment, and balanced economic growth at one with his emergence as a dynamic champion for African American uplift and a crusader for progressive causes. Biles charts the countless infamies of the Council Wars era and Washington’s own growth through his winning of a second term—a promise of lasting reform left unfulfilled when the mayor died in 1987.

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Original and authoritative, Mayor Harold Washington redefines a pivotal era in Chicago’s modern history.

ROGER BILES is Professor Emeritus of History at Illinois State University.

His books include Richard J. Daley: Politics, Race, and the Governing of Chicago and The Fate of Cities: Urban America and the Federal Government, 1945–2000.

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STARRING WOMEN

Celebrity, Patriarchy, and American Theater, 1790–1850

SARA E. LAMPERT Women pushing the limits of public life in antebellum America “An excellent intervention in women’s history and theater history, with significant new insights into the precarious gender politics that accompanied star female actors’ appearance and the ways the economic underpinnings of the business of theater colored those politics. This is an important book.”

—CAROLYN EASTMAN, author of A Nation of Speechifiers: Making an American Public after the Revolution Women performers played a vital role in the development of American and transatlantic entertainment, celebrity culture, and gender ideology. Sara E. Lampert examines the lives, careers, and fame of overlooked figures from Europe and the United States whose work in melodrama, ballet, and other stage shows shocked and excited early U.S. audiences. These women lived and performed the tensions and contradictions of nineteenth-century gender roles, sparking debates about women’s place in public life. Yet even their unprecedented wealth and prominence failed to break the patriarchal family structures that governed their lives and conditioned their careers. Inevitable contradictions arose. The burgeoning celebrity culture of the time forced women stage stars to don the costumes of domestic femininity even as the unsettled nature of life in the theater defied these ideals.

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by Susan Cahn, Wanda A. Hendricks, and Deborah Gray White

A revealing foray into a lost time, Starring Women returns a generation of performers to their central place in the early history of American theater.

SARA E. LAMPERT is an associate professor of history at the University of South Dakota.

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EMOTIONAL LANDSCAPES

Love, Gender, and Migration

Edited by MARCELO J. BORGES, SONIA CANCIAN, and LINDA REEDER Epilogue by Donna R. Gabaccia Love and the human side of migration “This is a fascinating collection, giving us access to the emotional experience of groups we have not yet seen from this angle and amplifying our understanding of a key emotion as well.”

—PETER STEARNS, author of Shame: A Brief History Love and its attendant emotions not only spur migration—they forge our response to the people who leave their homes in search of new lives. Emotional Landscapes looks at the power of love, and the words we use to express it, to explore the immigration experience. The authors focus on intimate emotional language and how languages of love shape the ways human beings migrate but also create meaning for migrants, their families, and their societies. Looking at sources ranging from letters of Portuguese immigrants in the 1880s to tweets passed among immigrant families in today’s Italy, the essays explore the sentimental, sexual, and political meanings of love. The authors also look at how immigrants and those around them use love to justify separation and loss, and how love influences us to privilege certain immigrants—wives, children, lovers, refugees—over others.

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Affecting and perceptive, Emotional Landscapes moves from war and transnational families to gender and citizenship to explore the crossroads of migration and the history of emotion.

E-BOOK, 978-0-252-05237-8 A volume in the series Studies of World Migrations, edited by Madeline Hsu and Marcelo J. Borges

Contributors: María Bjerg, Marcelo J. Borges, Sonia Cancian, Tyler Carrington, Margarita Dounia, Alexander Freund, Donna R. Gabaccia, A. James Hammerton, Mirjam Milharčič Hladnik, Emily Pope-Obeda, Linda Reeder, Roberta Ricucci, Suzanne M. Sinke, and Elizabeth Zanoni

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MARCELO J. BORGES is a professor of history at Dickinson College.

He is the author of Chains of Gold: Portuguese Migration to Argentina in Transatlantic Perspective. SONIA CANCIAN is an independent scholar affiliated with McGill University’s Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Montreal. She is the author of Families, Lovers, and Their Letters: Italian Postwar Migration to Canada. LINDA REEDER is an associate professor of history and chair of women’s and gender studies at the University of Missouri. She is the author of Widows in White: Migration and the Transformation of Rural Italian Women, Sicily, 1880–1920.

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ETHNIC DISSENT AND EMPOWERMENT

Economic Migration between Vietnam and Malaysia

ANGIE NG Ọ C TR ẦN The lives of migrant workers from Vietnam and the systems that use them “Focusing on Vietnam’s labor export policy to Malaysia, Angie Trần shows us why gender and ethnic hierarchies matter in remaking the politics of control and dissent.

Essential reading for all those interested in South-South labor brokerage and temporary migration.”

—BRENDA S. A. YEOH, coeditor of Routledge Handbook of Asian Migrations FEBRUARY 2021

Vietnam annually sends a half million laborers to work at low-skill jobs abroad.

Angie Ngọc Trần concentrates on ethnicity, class, and gender to examine how migrant workers belonging to the Kinh, Hoa, Hrê, Khmer, and Chăm ethnic groups challenge a transnational process that coerces and exploits them. Focusing on migrant laborers working in Malaysia, Trần looks at how they carve out a third space that allows them a socially accepted means of resistance to survive and even thrive at times. She also shows how the Vietnamese state uses Malaysia as a place to send poor workers, especially from ethnic minorities; how it manipulates its rural poor into accepting work in Malaysia; and the ways in which both countries benefit from the arrangement.

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A rare study of labor migration in the Global South, Ethnic Dissent and Empowerment answers essential questions about why nations send and use migrant workers and how the workers protect themselves not only within the system, but by circumventing it altogether.

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ANGIE NG Ọ C TR ẦN is a professor of political economy at California State University, Monterey Bay. She is the author of Ties That Bind: Cultural Identity, Class, and Law in Vietnam’s Labor Resistance.

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WORKERS AGAINST THE CITY

The Fight for Free Speech in Hague v. CIO

DONALD W. ROGERS Labor organizing, machine politics, and a turning point in constitutional law “Skillfully blending the histories of American civil liberties, organized labor, and urban politics, Rogers shows us how a complex set of forces has shaped and limited the rights of modern Americans to assemble and speak their minds in public.”

—JAMES J. CONNOLLY, author of An Elusive Unity: Urban Democracy and Machine Politics in Industrializing America The 1939 Supreme Court decision Hague v. CIO was a constitutional milestone that strengthened the right of Americans, including labor organizers, to assemble and speak in public places. Donald W. Rogers eschews the prevailing view of the case as a morality play pitting Jersey City, New Jersey, political boss Frank Hague against the Committee for Industrial Organization (CIO) and allied civil libertarian groups. Instead, he draws on a wide range of archives and evidence to re-evaluate Hague v. CIO from the ground up. Rogers’s review of the case from district court to the Supreme Court illuminates the trial proceedings and provides perspectives from both sides. As he shows, the economic, political, and legal restructuring of the 1930s refined constitutional rights as much as the court case did. The final decision also revealed that assembly and speech rights change according to how judges and lawmakers act within the circumstances of a given moment.

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Clear-eyed and comprehensive, Workers against the City revises the view of a milestone case that continues to impact Americans’ constitutional rights today.

DONALD W. ROGERS is a lecturer in the Department of History at Central Connecticut State University. He is the author of Making Capitalism Safe: Work Safety and Health Regulation in America, 1880–1940 and editor of Voting and the Spirit of American Democracy: Essays on the History of Voting and Voting Rights in America.

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THE LABOR BOARD CREW

Remaking Worker-Employer Relations from Pearl Harbor to the Reagan Era

RONALD W. SCHATZ Members of the National War Labor Board and the world they made “A learned, engaging, and important book on a subject about which most labor historians today, I suspect, know relatively little. Ron Schatz demonstrates convincingly, through clear and absorbing case studies, that the officials responsible for operationalizing a labor-relations system in these years also brought their worldviews, desires for stability, and passions to many other arenas ranging from higher education to baseball to Gorbachev and the end of the Cold War.” —ERIC ARNESEN, author of Brotherhoods of Color: Black Railroad Workers and the Struggle for Equality

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Ronald W. Schatz tells the story of the team of young economists and lawyers recruited to the National War Labor Board to resolve union-management conflicts during the Second World War. The crew (including Clark Kerr, John Dunlop, Jean McKelvey, and Marvin Miller) exerted broad influence on the U.S. economy and society for the next forty years. They handled thousands of grievances and strikes.

They founded academic industrial relations programs. When the 1960s student movement erupted, universities appointed them as top administrators charged with quelling the conflicts. In the 1970s, they developed systems that advanced public sector unionization and revolutionized employment conditions in Major League Baseball.

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Schatz argues that the Labor Board vets, who saw themselves as disinterested technocrats, were in truth utopian reformers aiming to transform the world. Beginning in the 1970s stagflation era, they faced unforeseen opposition, and the cooperative relationships they had fostered withered. Yet their protégé George Shultz used mediation techniques learned from his mentors to assist in the integration of Southern public schools, institute affirmative action in industry, and conduct Cold War negotiations with Mikhail Gorbachev.

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RONALD W. SCHATZ is a professor of history at Wesleyan University. He is the author of The Electrical Workers: A History of Labor at General Electric and Westinghouse, 1923–60.

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UPON THE ALTAR OF WORK

Child Labor and the Rise of a New American Sectionalism

BETSY WOOD The North-South divide over child labor, 1850–1939 “Betsy Wood manages to say highly original things about an old subject—the movement to abolish child labor. Was the labor of children a new form of slavery or an embodiment of the free labor ideal sanctified by the Civil War? Wood shows how, despite (white) sectional reconciliation, a deep divide between reform-minded northerners and rural southerners over child labor, and the power of the government to abolish it, persisted well into the twentieth century. At a time when millions of children are at work throughout the world, the book is extraordinarily timely.”

—ERIC FONER Rooted in the crisis over slavery, disagreements about child labor broke down along sectional lines between the North and South. For decades after emancipation, the child labor issue shaped how Northerners and Southerners defined fundamental concepts of American life such as work, freedom, the market, and the state.

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Betsy Wood examines the evolution of ideas about child labor and the on-theground politics of the issue against the backdrop of broad developments related to slavery and emancipation, industrial capitalism, moral and social reform, and American politics and religion. Wood explains how the decades-long battle over child labor created enduring political and ideological divisions within capitalist society that divided the gatekeepers of modernity from the cultural warriors who opposed them. Tracing the ideological origins and the politics of the child labor battle over the course of eighty years, this book tells the story of how child labor debates bequeathed an enduring legacy of sectionalist conflict to modern American capitalist society.

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BETSY WOOD is a professor of history at Hudson County Community College.

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UNION RENEGADES

Miners, Capitalism, and Organizing in the Gilded Age

DANA M. CALDEMEYER The self-interest behind joining, or not joining, a union “With brilliant, incisive empathy, Caldemeyer reconstructs the complex pragmatism of Midwestern coal-mining families as they navigated Gilded Age capitalism, often outside and against organized labor. This original, persuasive study is essential for anyone trying to understand the rural-­ industrial working class.”

—JAROD ROLL, author of Spirit of Rebellion: Labor and Religion in the New Cotton South In the late nineteenth century, Midwestern miners often had to decide if joining a union was in their interest. Arguing that these workers were neither pro-union nor anti-union, Dana M. Caldemeyer shows that they acted according to what they believed would benefit them and their families. As corporations moved to control coal markets and unions sought to centralize their organizations to check corporate control, workers were often caught between these institutions and sided with whichever one offered the best advantage in the moment. Workers chased profits while paying union dues, rejected national unions while forming local orders, and broke strikes while claiming to be union members. This pragmatic form of unionism differed from what union leaders expected of rank-and-file members, but for many workers the choice to follow or reject union orders was a path to better pay, stability, and independence in an otherwise unstable age.

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Nuanced and eye-opening, Union Renegades challenges popular notions of workers attitudes during the Gilded Age. DANA M. CALDEMEYER is an assistant professor of history at South Georgia State College.

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LUCRETIA MOTT SPEAKS

The Essential Speeches and Sermons

LUCRETIA MOTT Edited by Christopher Densmore, Carol Faulkner, Nancy Hewitt, and Beverly Wilson Palmer An invaluable collection of the iconic reformer’s words and works “This book lays excellent groundwork for much-needed scholarship. . . . General readers will be pleasantly surprised to find a lively, spirited, radical, complex woman who defies common stereotypes.”

—QUAKER STUDIES Best known as one of the organizers of the Seneca Falls Women’s Rights Convention in 1848, Lucretia Mott (1793–1880) engaged in the broad sisterhood of reforms over six decades. Drawing on widely scattered archives and other sources, Lucretia Mott Speaks collects the essential speeches and remarks from Mott’s remarkable career as one of the great activists in American history. The selections represent important themes and events in her public life, including her prominent role in the antislavery and women’s rights movements, and illuminate her passionate belief that her many causes were intertwined. Helpful annotations provide vibrant context and show Mott’s engagement with allies, critics, and opponents. The result is an authoritative resource, one that enriches our understanding of Mott’s views and still-powerful influence on American society.

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by Susan Cahn, Wanda A. Hendricks, and Deborah Gray White

CHRISTOPHER DENSMORE was the curator of the Friends Historical Library at Swarthmore College and is the author of Red Jacket: Iroquois Diplomat and Orator. CAROL FAULKNER is a professor of history at Syracuse University and the author of Lucretia Mott’s Heresy: Abolition and Women’s Rights in Nineteenth-Century America. NANCY HEWITT is Distinguished Professor Emerita of History and Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University. Her books include Radical Friend: Amy Kirby Post and Her Activist Worlds. BEVERLY WILSON PALMER is a research associate at Pomona College and the editor or coeditor of numerous documentary editions, including Selected Letters of Lucretia Coffin Mott.

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HERNDON’S INFORMANTS Letters, Interviews, and Statements about Abraham Lincoln

Edited by DOUGLAS L. WILSON and RODNEY O. DAVIS With the assistance of Terry Wilson The indispensable collection of sources on Lincoln’s early life “[Wilson and Davis] have done a service of inestimable value to historians by the complete, accurately transcribed, indexed, and annotated edition of the written accounts of Herndon’s interviews with 264 people. . . . It is a monumental achievement of scholarship. That is true not simply because of the editorial skill and effort required to complete it, but mainly because this material is the basis for most of what we know about the first half of Lincoln’s life.”

—JAMES M. MCPHERSON, New York Review of Books 864 PAGES, 6.125 X 9.25 INCHES

Women to whom Lincoln proposed marriage, political allies and adversaries, judges and fellow attorneys, longtime comrades, erstwhile friends—all speak out here in words first gathered by William H. Herndon, Lincoln’s law partner, between 1865 and 1890. Historian David Herbert Donald has called Herndon’s materials “the basic source for Abraham Lincoln’s early years.”

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Winner of the Abraham Lincoln Institute Book Award

Now available in paperback, Herndon’s Informants collects and annotates more than 600 letters and interviews providing information about Abraham Lincoln’s prepolitical and prelegal careers. Some of the people Herndon questioned were illiterate. Others could read but barely write. The editors’ undertaking took them to three major collections for the mammoth task of transcribing aged documents that often were barely legible.

A priceless resource for scholars and anyone curious about Lincoln and his times, Herndon’s Informants includes an introduction, scholarly annotations, a registry of the informants, and a detailed topical index.

DOUGLAS L. WILSON is the director of the Lincoln Studies Center at Knox College, in Galesburg, Illinois. RODNEY O. DAVIS (d. 2019) was co-director of the Lincoln Studies Center at Knox College. They are the coeditors of Lincoln’s Confidant: The Life of Noah Brooks, Herndon on Lincoln: Letters, Herndon’s Lincoln, and The Lincoln-Douglas Debates.

TERRY WILSON is an assistant in Reference and Special Collections, Knox College Library.

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MAKING AN ANTISLAVERY NATION

Lincoln, Douglas, and the Battle over Freedom

GRAHAM A. PECK The politics and political battles spawned by slavery “Sure to interest anyone looking for a fine-grained account of pre–Civil War politics.”

—PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY This sweeping narrative presents an original and compelling explanation for the triumph of the antislavery movement in the United States prior to the Civil War. Graham A. Peck meticulously traces the conflict over slavery in Illinois from the Northwest Ordinance in 1787 to Lincoln’s defeat of his archrival Stephen A. Douglas in the 1860 election. Douglas’s attempt in 1854 to persuade Northerners that slavery and freedom had equal national standing stirred a political earthquake that brought Lincoln to the White House. Yet Lincoln’s framing of the antislavery movement as a conservative return to the country’s founding principles masked what was in fact a radical and unprecedented antislavery nationalism that justified slavery’s destruction but triggered the Civil War.

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Presenting pathbreaking interpretations of Lincoln, Douglas, and the Civil War’s origins, Making an Antislavery Nation reveals how battles over slavery paved the way for freedom’s triumph in America.

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GRAHAM A. PECK is the Wepner Distinguished Professor of Lincoln Studies in the Department of History at the University of Illinois at Springfield. He is the writer, director, and producer of the award-winning documentary Stephen A. Douglas and the Fate of American Democracy. His film, podcasts, and publications are available at civilwarprof.com.

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BLACK FLAG BORICUAS

Anarchism, Antiauthoritarianism, and the Left in Puerto Rico, 1897–1921

KIRWIN R. SHAFFER Transnational networks of radicalism in the Caribbean “An important contribution to the historiography of labor, radicalism, and political culture in Puerto Rico, with important implications for our understanding of the broader history of radicalism in the Spanish-speaking Caribbean and within Cuban and Puerto Rican diasporas.”

—JOURNAL OF AMERICAN ETHNIC HISTORY This pathbreaking study examines the radical Left in Puerto Rico from the final years of Spanish rule into the 1920s. Positioning the island as part of a regional anarchist network that stretched from Puerto Rico and Cuba to Tampa and New York City, Kirwin R. Shaffer illustrates how Caribbean anarchists linked their struggle to international campaigns against religion, governments, and industrial capitalism. These groups spearheaded the development of an anarchist vision for Puerto Ricans at a time when the island was a political no-man’s-land. Shaffer follows the anarchist alliance with the Federación Libre de Trabajadores, the largest labor organization in Puerto Rico, and tells the story of the Bayamón Bloc, the most successful Puerto Rican anarchist organization until the United States government unraveled it during the Red Scare.

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KIRWIN R. SHAFFER is a professor of Latin American studies at Penn State University Berks College. He is the author of Anarchist Cuba: Countercultural Politics in the Early Twentieth Century and Anarchists of the Caribbean: Countercultural Politics and Transnational Networks in the Age of US Expansion.

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AMERICAN UNEMPLOYMENT

Past, Present, and Future

FRANK STRICKER Lies your economists told you—and the truths that can change the nation “Frank Stricker has done the nation an important service, wisely analyzing the history of unemployment, and our attempts to redress this problem. By exposing our failures as well as our successes, he provides a badly needed template for action.”

—ROBERT SLAYTON, author of Empire Statesman: The Rise and Redemption of Al Smith The history of unemployment and concepts surrounding it remain a mystery to many Americans. Frank Stricker believes we need to understand this essential thread in our shared past. American Unemployment is an introduction for everyone that takes aim at misinformation, willful deceptions, and popular myths to set the record straight:

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• Workers do not normally choose to be unemployed.

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• In our current system, persistent unemployment is not an aberration. It is much more common than full employment, and the outcome of elite policy choices.

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• Labor

surpluses propped up by flawed unemployment numbers have helped to keep real wages stagnant for more than forty years.

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to the New Deal and the era of big government, laissez-faire policies repeatedly led to depressions with heavy, even catastrophic, job losses.

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the unemployed sabotages the creation of government job programs that can lead to more high-paying jobs and full employment.

Written for non-economists, American Unemployment is a history and primer on vital economic topics that also provides a roadmap to better jobs and economic security.

FRANK STRICKER is a professor emeritus of history, interdisciplinary studies, and labor studies at California State University, Dominguez Hills. He is the author of Why America Lost the War on Poverty—and How to Win It.

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DEGREES OF DIFFERENCE

Reflections of Women of Color on Graduate School

Edited by KIMBERLY D. McKEE and DENISE A. DELGADO Foreword by Karen J. Leong A go-to resource for helping women of color survive, and thrive, in grad school “The personal and the political are addressed in this multi­ faceted collection, which is a blanket of resources for graduate students and tenure-track academics, as well as for seasoned and tenured committee members, serving on university rank and tenure committees. Bravas! This is a great addition to a collection of groundbreaking literature in this area.”

—GABRIELLA GUTIÉRREZ Y MUHS, editor of Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia 232 PAGES 6 X 9 INCHES

University commitments to diversity and inclusivity have yet to translate into support for women of color graduate students. Sexism, classism, homophobia, racial microaggressions, alienation, disillusionment, a lack of institutional and departmental support, limited help from family and partners, imposter syndrome, narrow reading lists—all remain commonplace. Indifference to the struggles of women of color in graduate school and widespread dismissal of their work further poison an atmosphere that suffocates not only ambition but a person’s quality of life.

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In Degrees of Difference, women of color from diverse backgrounds give frank, unapologetic accounts of their battles—both internal and external—to navigate grad school and fulfill their ambitions. At the same time, the authors offer strategies for surviving the grind via stories of their own hard-won successes with self-care, building supportive communities, finding like-minded mentors, and resisting racism and unsupportive faculty and colleagues.

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Contributors: Aeriel A. Ashlee, Denise A. Delgado, Nwadiogo I. Ejiogu, Delia Fernández, Regina Emily Idoate, Karen J. Leong, Kimberly D. McKee, Délice Mugabo, Carrie Sampson, Arianna Taboada, Jenny Heijun Wills, and Soha Youssef KIMBERLY D. MCKEE is an associate professor in the Integrative, Religious, and Intercultural Studies Department at Grand Valley State University and the author of Disrupting Kinship: Transnational Politics of Korean Adoption in the United States. DENISE A. DELGADO received her Ph.D. from the Ohio State University and works as an analyst and trainer.

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THE MERCHANT PRINCE OF BLACK CHICAGO

Anthony Overton and the Building of a Financial Empire

ROBERT E. WEEMS JR. The journey of the African American entrepreneur “Weems has produced a pioneering study of Chicago’s preeminent financial titan of the Black Metropolis Era of the 1920s and beyond. This first full-length, thoroughly documented account of Anthony Overton meticulously details how he amassed a business fortune while building an empire that became a major source of empowerment for women ranging from executive and managerial appointments to essential clerical positions.”

—CHRISTOPHER R. REED, The Rise of Chicago’s Black Metropolis, 1920–1929 248 PAGES 6 X 9 INCHES 18 BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS, 5 TABLES

Born to enslaved parents, Anthony Overton became one of the leading African American entrepreneurs of the twentieth century. Overton’s Chicago-based empire ranged from personal care products and media properties to insurance and finance.

Yet, despite success and acclaim as the first business figure to win the NAACP’s Spingarn Medal, Overton remains an enigma.

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Robert E. Weems Jr. restores Overton to his rightful place in American business history. Dispelling stubborn myths, he traces Overton’s rise from mentorship by Booker T. Washington, through early failures, to a fateful move to Chicago in 1911.

There, Overton started a popular magazine aimed at African American women that helped him dramatically grow his cosmetics firm. Overton went on to become the first African American to head a major business conglomerate, only to lose significant parts of his businesses—and his public persona as “the merchant prince of his race”—in the Depression, before rebounding once again in the early 1940s.

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Revealing and panoramic, The Merchant Prince of Black Chicago weaves the fascinating life story of an African American trailblazer through the eventful history of his times.

ROBERT E. WEEMS JR. is the Willard W. Garvey Distinguished Professor of Business History at Wichita State University. His books include Business in Black and White: American Presidents and Black Entrepreneurs in the Twentieth Century and Building the Black Metropolis: African American Entrepreneurship in Chicago.

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EBONY MAGAZINE AND LERONE BENNETT JR.

Popular Black History in Postwar America

E. JAMES WEST How Ebony educated African Americans about their history “A well-researched and accessible study situated within the growing field of black intellectual history, Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr. is a major contribution to our understanding of what West aptly calls ‘popular black history.’”

—PERO G. DAGBOVIE, author of Revisiting the Black Past: The Use and Misuse of African American history in the Twenty-First Century From its launch in 1945, Ebony magazine was politically and socially influential. However, the magazine also played an important role in educating millions of African Americans about their past. Guided by the pen of Lerone Bennett Jr., the magazine’s senior editor and in-house historian, Ebony became a key voice in the popular black history revival that flourished after World War II. Its content helped push representations of the African American past from the margins to the center of the nation’s cultural and political imagination.

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E. James West’s fresh and fascinating exploration of Ebony’s political, social, and historical content illuminates the intellectual role of the iconic magazine and its contribution to African American scholarship. He also uncovers a paradox. Though Ebony provided Bennett with space to promote a militant reading of black history and protest, the magazine’s status as a consumer publication helped to mediate its representation of African American identity in both the past and present.

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Mixing biography, cultural history, and popular memory, West restores Ebony and Bennett to their rightful place in African American intellectual, commercial, and political history.

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E. JAMES WEST is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in American History at Northumbria University.

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AFRICAN ART REFRAMED

Reflections and Dialogues on Museum Culture

BENNETTA JULES-ROSETTE and J.R. OSBORN Foreword by Simon Njami New ideas on display and diffusion “This book is nothing less than a major breakthrough in museum studies. It is the first to systematically connect museum display practice to the recalibration of ‘ethnic identity’ that happens after colonialism. Its focus is on the global display of art and crafts from Africa and the African diaspora. But it is essential reading for anyone who wonders about what we want to hear from our forebears as we compel them to speak from behind glass, standing on plinths, and hanging on walls.”

—DEAN MacCANNELL, author of The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class 392 PAGES 6.125 X 9.25 INCHES 23 COLOR PHOTOGRAPHS, 42 BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS, 8 CHARTS, 3 TABLES

Once seen as a collection of artifacts and ritual objects, African art now commands respect from museums and collectors. Bennetta Jules-Rosette and J.R. Osborn explore the reframing of African art through case studies of museums and galleries in the United States, Europe, and Africa.

The authors take a three-pronged approach. Part One ranges from curiosity cabinets to virtual websites to offer a history of ethnographic and art museums and look at their organization and methods of reaching out to the public. In Part Two, the authors examine museums as ecosystems and communities within communities, and they use semiotic methods to analyze images, signs, and symbols drawn from the experiences of curators and artists. Part Three introduces innovative strategies for displaying, disseminating, and reclaiming African art.

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Drawing on extensive conversations with curators, collectors, and artists, African Art Reframed is an essential guide to building new exchanges and connections in the dynamic worlds of African and global art.

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BENNETTA JULES-ROSETTE is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and director of the African and African-American Studies Research Center at the University of California, San Diego. Her books include Josephine Baker in Art and Life: The Icon and Image, Black Paris: The African Writers’ Landscape, and The Messages of Tourist Art. J.R. OSBORN is an associate professor of communication, culture, and technology at Georgetown University. He is the author of Letters of Light: Arabic Script in Calligraphy, Print, and Digital Design.

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ROOTS OF THE BLACK CHICAGO RENAISSANCE

New Negro Writers, Artists, and Intellectuals, 1893–1930

Edited by RICHARD A. COURAGE and CHRISTOPHER ROBERT REED Foreword by Darlene Clark Hine The origins of an African American cultural vanguard “An important work of intellectual and cultural recovery. It brings to the surface corners of Chicago’s vibrant intellectual and cultural life that we have never considered or simply heard about in passing. The archival depth and artistic breadth will powerfully add to a much broader understanding of black cultural renaissance both geographically and conceptually.”

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

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The Black Chicago Renaissance emerged from a foundational stage that stretched from the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition to the start of the Great Depression.

During this time, African American innovators working across the landscape of the arts set the stage for an intellectual flowering that redefined black cultural life.

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Richard A. Courage and Christopher Robert Reed have brought together essays that explore the intersections in the backgrounds, education, professional affiliations, and public lives and achievements of black writers, journalists, visual artists, dance instructors, and other creators working in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Organized chronologically, the chapters unearth transformative forces that supported the emergence of individuals and social networks dedicated to work in arts and letters. The result is an illuminating scholarly collaboration that remaps African American intellectual and cultural geography and reframes the concept of urban black renaissance.

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RICHARD A. COURAGE is a Distinguished Teaching Professor at the State University of New York and a professor of English at Westchester Community College/SUNY. He is the coauthor of The Muse in Bronzeville: African American Creative Expression in Chicago, 1932–1950. CHRISTOPHER ROBERT REED is a professor emeritus of history at Roosevelt University. His books include Knock at the Door of Opportunity: Black Migration to Chicago, 1900–1919 and The Rise of Chicago’s Black Metropolis, 1920–1929.

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AUTOCHTHONOMIES

Transnationalism, Testimony, and Transmission in the African Diaspora

MYRIAM J. A. CHANCY A new approach to understanding African diasporic culture “In its critique of Western rationality, Enlightenment categories, and hierarchical orderings, this book makes a significant contribution. Chancy uses race and gender theory in smart and provocative ways. Her elucidation of difficult texts and contexts is clear and convincing. The research is well presented, the arguments well developed, and the conclusions intellectually satisfying.”

—FRANÇOISE LIONNET, author of Writing Women and Critical Dialogues: Subjectivity, Gender, and Irony In Autochthonomies, Myriam J. A. Chancy engages readers in an interpretive journey.

She lays out a radical new process that invites readers to see creations by artists of African descent as legible within the context of African diasporic historical and cultural debates. By invoking a transnational African/diasporic lens and negotiating it through a lakou or “yard space,” we can see such identities transfigured, recognized, and exchanged. Chancy demonstrates how the process can examine the salient features of texts and art that underscore African/diasporic sensibilities and render them legible. What emerges is a potential for richer readings of African diasporic works that also ruptures the Manichean binary dynamics that have dominated previous interpretations of the material. The result: an enriching interpretive mode focused on the transnational connections between subjects of African descent as the central pole for reader investigation.

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A bold challenge to established scholarship, Autochthonomies ranges from Africa to Europe and the Americas to provide powerful new tools for charting the transnational interactions between African cultural producers and sites.

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MYRIAM J. A. CHANCY is the Hartley Burr Alexander Chair of the Humanities at Scripps College. Her books include From Sugar to Revolution: Women’s Visions of Haiti, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic and Framing Silence: Revolutionary Novels by Haitian Women.

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PLEASURE IN THE NEWS

African American Readership and Sexuality in the Black Press

KIM GALLON How sex and sensation fueled the power of the black press “Blending unprecedented research into the African American press, and the journalists and editors who put the papers out, with a careful synthesis of the existing scholarship, Pleasure in the News shows how opinions about sex behavior impacted reading publics over several decades of profound change in the black experience. Kim Gallon’s systematic analysis of an almost endless news cycle of marital infidelities, scandalous divorces, celebrity drag queens, and low-down queers of all kinds provides a fresh angle on what are now classic questions in the field.”

—KEVIN MUMFORD, author of Not Straight, Not White: Black Gay Men from the March on Washington to the AIDS Crisis

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Critics often chastised the twentieth-century black press for focusing on sex and scandal rather than African American achievements. In Pleasure in the News, Kim Gallon takes an opposing stance—arguing that African American newspapers fostered black sexual expression, agency, and identity.

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Gallon discusses how journalists and editors created black sexual publics that offered everyday African Americans opportunities to discuss sexual topics that exposed class and gender tensions. While black churches and black schools often encouraged sexual restraint, the black press printed stories that complicated notions about respectability. Sensational coverage also expanded African American women’s sexual consciousness and demonstrated the tenuous position of female impersonators, black gay men, and black lesbians in early twentieth-century African American urban communities.

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Informative and empowering, Pleasure in the News redefines the significance of the black press in African American history and advancement while shedding light on the important cultural and social role that sexuality played in the power of the black press.

KIM GALLON is an assistant professor in the Department of History at Purdue University.

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PROPHETIC AUTHORITY

Democratic Hierarchy and the Mormon Priesthood

MICHAEL HUBBARD MACKAY A prophet’s voice in early Mormonism “In Prophetic Authority, MacKay gives us the most ­thorough and painstaking description of the slow blossoming of the Mormon priesthood hierarchy available, embedding the story in the raucous context of antebellum American democracy. Valuable for anyone who wants to understand either of those worlds better.”

—MATTHEW BOWMAN, author of Christian: The Politics of a Word in America The Mormon tradition’s emphasis on prophetic authority makes the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints unique within America’s religious culture. The religion that Joseph Smith created established a kingdom of God in a land distrustful of monarchy while positioning Smith as Christ’s voice on earth, with the power to form cities, establish economies, and arrange governments.

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Michael Hubbard MacKay traces the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ claim to religious authority and sets it within the context of its times. Delving into the evolution of the concept of prophetic authority, MacKay shows how the Church emerged as a hierarchical democracy with power diffused among leaders Smith chose. At the same time, Smith’s settled place atop the hierarchy granted him an authority that spared early Mormonism the internal conflict that doomed other religious movements. Though Smith faced challenges from other leaders, the nascent Church repeatedly turned to him to decide civic plans and define the order of both the cosmos and the priesthood.

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MICHAEL HUBBARD MACKAY is an associate professor at Brigham Young University and a former historian for the Joseph Smith Papers Project. He is the author of Sacred Space: Exploring the Birthplace of Mormonism and coauthor of Joseph Smith’s Seer Stones.

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CHICAGO CATÓLICO

Making Catholic Parishes Mexican

DEBORAH E. KANTER How churches transformed Mexican communities and an American city “Chicago Católico is the first book of its kind, a superb history of Mexican parish life in a city of diverse Catholic immigrants. Kanter relates a fascinating tale of faith, identity, and the transformation of a city’s largest religious institution.”

—TIMOTHY MATOVINA, author of Latino Catholicism: Transformation in America’s Largest Church Today, over one hundred Chicago-area Catholic churches offer Spanish-language mass to congregants. How did the city’s Mexican population, contained in just two parishes prior to 1960, come to reshape dozens of parishes and neighborhoods?

Deborah E. Kanter tells the story of neighborhood change and rebirth in Chicago’s Mexican American communities. She unveils a vibrant history of Mexican American and Mexican immigrant relations as remembered by laity and clergy, schoolchildren and their female religious teachers, parish athletes and coaches, European American neighbors, and by the immigrant women who organized as guadalupanas and their husbands who took part in the Holy Name Society. Kanter shows how the newly arrived mixed memories of home into learning the ways of Chicago to create new identities. In an ever-evolving city, Mexican immigrants and Mexican Americans’ fierce devotion to their churches transformed neighborhoods such as Pilsen.

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The first-ever study of Mexican-descent Catholicism in the city, Chicago Católico illuminates a previously unexplored facet of the urban past and provides present-­ day lessons for American communities undergoing ethnic integration and succession.

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DEBORAH E. KANTER is John S. Ludington Endowed Professor of History at Albion College. She is the author of Hijos del Pueblo: Gender, Family, and Community in Rural Mexico, 1730–1850.

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BEFORE MARCH MADNESS

The Wars for the Soul of College Basketball

KURT EDWARD KEMPER Idealism, power, and the campaign to monetize college hoops “A well-researched and provocative inquiry into the contentious early development of college basketball. Kemper lucidly exposes the numerous conflicts over fundamental principles and specific policies that repeatedly erupted before the NCAA seized complete control of the sport in 1957.”

—CHARLES MARTIN, author of Benching Jim Crow: The Rise and Fall of the Color Line in Southern College Sports, 1890–1980 Big money NCAA basketball had its origins in a many-sided conflict of visions and agendas. On one side stood large schools focused on a commercialized game that privileged wins and profits. Opposing them was a tenuous alliance of liberal arts colleges, historically black colleges, and regional state universities, and the competing interests of the NAIA, each with distinct interests of their own.

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Kurt Edward Kemper tells the dramatic story of the clashes that shook college basketball at mid-century—and how the repercussions continue to influence college sports to the present day. Taking readers inside the competing factions, he details why historically black colleges and regional schools came to embrace commercialization. As he shows, the NCAA’s strategy of co-opting its opponents gave each group just enough to play along—while the victory of the big-time athletics model handed the organization the power to seize control of college sports.

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An innovative history of an overlooked era, Before March Madness looks at how promises, power, and money laid the groundwork for an American sports institution.

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KURT EDWARD KEMPER is a professor of history and the director of the General Beadle Honors Program at Dakota State University. He is the author of College Football and American Culture in the Cold War Era.

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GRAPHIC NEWS

How Sensational Images Transformed Nineteenth-Century Journalism

AMANDA FRISKEN Pictures, profits, and peril in the yellow journalism era “A deeply researched and acutely observed social and cultural history of journalism that, with particular attention to popular visual media, delineates the ways publications’ reportorial conventions and practices shaped and were shaped by the era’s gender, race, and class relations.”

—JOSHUA BROWN, author of Beyond the Lines: Pictorial Reporting, Everyday Life, and the Crisis of Gilded Age America “You furnish the pictures and I’ll furnish the war.” This famous but apocryphal quote, long attributed to newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, encapsulates fears of the lengths to which news companies would go to exploit visual journalism in the late nineteenth century. From 1870 to 1900, newspapers disrupted conventional reporting methods with sensationalized line drawings. A fierce hunger for profits motivated the shift to emotion-driven, visual content. But the new approach, while popular, often targeted, and further marginalized, vulnerable groups.

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Amanda Frisken examines the ways sensational images of pivotal cultural events— obscenity litigation, anti-Chinese bloodshed, the Ghost Dance, lynching, and domestic violence—changed the public’s consumption of the news. Using intersectional analysis, Frisken explores how these newfound visualizations of events during episodes of social and political controversy allowed newspapers and social activists alike to communicate—or challenge—prevailing understandings of racial, class, and gender identities and cultural power.

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AMANDA FRISKEN is a professor of American Studies at SUNY College at Old Westbury. She is the author of Victoria Woodhull’s Sexual Revolution: Political Theater and the Popular Press in Nineteenth-Century America.

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FIGHTING FASCIST SPAIN

Worker Protest from the Printing Press

MONTSE FEU Publishing a vision of freedom and democracy “A detailed and comprehensive history of [a] network of artists, intellectuals, and common folk who worked together for some four decades to combat fascism in Franco’s Spain. . . . Feu has successfully brought to light an important chapter in the making of the US Latino community and its transnational impact. Taking the combative periodical España Libre as the axis around which community organizations in New York coalesced and found common cause, Feu identifies all of the major actors and their ideologies.”

—NICOLÁS KANELLOS, author of Hispanic Immigrant Literature: El Sueño del Retorno In the 1930s, anarchists and socialists among Spanish immigrants living in the United States created the publication España Libre (Free Spain) as a response to the Nationalist takeover in their homeland. Worker-oriented and avowedly antifascist, the grassroots periodical raised money for refugees and political prisoners while advancing left-wing culture and politics. España Libre proved both visionary and durable, charting an alternate path toward a modern Spain and enduring until democracy’s return to the country in 1977.

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Montse Feu merges España Libre’s story with the drama of the Spanish immigrant community’s fight against fascism. The periodical emerged as part of a transnational effort to link migrants and new exiles living in the United States to antifascist networks abroad. In addition to showing how workers’ culture and politics shaped their antifascism, Feu brings to light creative works that ranged from literature to satire to cartoons to theater. As España Libre opened up radical practices, it encouraged allies to reject violence in favor of social revolution’s potential for joy and inclusion.

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MONTSE FEU is an associate professor of Hispanic studies and co-advisor of graduate studies for the Spanish program at Sam Houston State University. She is the author of Jesús González Malo: Correspondencia personal y política de un anarcosindicalista exiliado (1943–1965).

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BETWEEN FITNESS AND DEATH

Disability and Slavery in the Caribbean

STEFANIE HUNT-KENNEDY Challenging how we think about race and disability “Slavery relied on the ever-present humanity of the enslaved. By suggesting a framework of disability, Hunt-Kennedy presents a conceptual shift that centers the human, while showing how the conditions of slavery undermined the abilities of Africans. Required reading for Caribbean scholars and scholars around the globe interested in slavery.”

—SASHA TURNER, author of Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, Childrearing, and Slavery in Jamaica Long before the English became involved in the African slave trade, they imagined Africans as deformed beings. The English drew on pre-existing European ideas about monstrosity and deformity to argue that Africans were a monstrous race, suspended between human and animal, and as such only fit for servitude. Joining blackness to disability transformed English ideas about defective bodies and minds.

It also influenced understandings of race and ability even as it shaped the embodied reality of people enslaved in the British Caribbean.

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Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy provides a three-pronged analysis of disability in the context of Atlantic slavery. First, she examines the connections of enslavement and representations of disability and the parallel development of English anti-black racism. From there, she moves from realms of representation to reality in order to illuminate the physical, emotional, and psychological impairments inflicted by slavery and endured by the enslaved. Finally, she looks at slave law as a system of enforced disablement.

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Audacious and powerful, Between Fitness and Death is a groundbreaking journey into the entwined histories of racism and ableism.

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STEFANIE HUNT-KENNEDY is an associate professor at the University of New Brunswick.

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MONEY, MARRIAGE, AND MADNESS

The Life of Anna Ott

KIM E. NIELSEN A female physician battling oppression and the law in the nineteenth-century Midwest “The book brilliantly renders the complex life of Dr. Anna Ott. Nielsen brings impassioned analysis to the ways that ableism, patriarchy, violence, and money shaped the life of one reputedly mad woman. Under Nielsen’s penetrating eye, Ott’s story illuminates the messy historical forces that shaped nineteenth-century women’s encounters with money, marriage, and madness.”

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Anna Ott died in the Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane in 1893. She had enjoyed status and financial success first as a physician’s wife and then as the only female doctor in Madison. Throughout her first marriage, attempts to divorce her abusive second husband, and twenty years of institutionalization, Ott determinedly shaped her own life.

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Kim E. Nielsen explores a life at once irregular and unexceptional, revealing a woman whose whiteness and privileged place in society still failed to protect her.

Historical and institutional structures, like laws that liberalized divorce and women’s ability to control their property, opened up uncommon possibilities for Ott. Other structures, from domestic violence in the home to rampant sexism and ableism outside of it, remained a part of even affluent women’s lives. Money, Marriage, and Madness tells a forgotten story of how the legal and medical cultures shaped one woman—and what her life tells us about power and society in nineteenth century America.

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KIM E. NIELSEN is a professor and director of the disability studies program at the University of Toledo. Her books include A Disability History of the United States and Beyond the Miracle Worker: The Remarkable Life of Anne Sullivan Macy and Her Extraordinary Friendship with Helen Keller.

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DISABILITY RIGHTS AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY IN EDUCATION

The Story behind Zobrest v. Catalina Foothills Schools District

BRUCE J. DIERENFIELD and DAVID A. GERBER A clash between disability rights and church-state separation “By delving into one family’s pursuit of disability rights, Dierenfield and Gerber offer a provocative and accessible examination of a broad set of issues related to disability rights. A valuable resource for scholars and the classroom.”

—ALLISON C. CAREY, author of On the Margins of Citizenship: Intellectual Disability and Civil Rights in Twentieth-Century America

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In 1988, Sandi and Larry Zobrest sued a suburban Tucson, Arizona, school district that had denied their hearing-impaired son a taxpayer-funded interpreter in his Roman Catholic high school.

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Bruce J. Dierenfield and David A. Gerber use the Zobrests’ story to examine the complex history and jurisprudence of disability accommodation and educational mainstreaming. They look at the family’s effort to acquire educational resources for their son starting in early childhood and the choices the Zobrests made to prepare him for life in the hearing world rather than the deaf community. Dierenfield and Gerber also analyze the thorny church-state issues and legal controversies that informed the case, its journey to the U.S. Supreme Court, and the impact of the high court’s ruling on the course of disability accommodation and religious liberty.

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BRUCE J. DIERENFIELD is a professor of history and director of the all-college honors program at Canisius College. His books include the The Battle over School Prayer: How Engel v. Vitale Changed America.

DAVID A. GERBER is a University at Buffalo Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus and Director Emeritus of the University at Buffalo Center for Disability Studies. He is the author of Authors of Their Lives: The Personal Correspondence of British Immigrants to North America in the Nineteenth Century and editor of Disabled Veterans in History.

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WORKERS IN HARD TIMES

A Long View of Economic Crises Edited by LEON FINK, JOSEPH A. McCARTIN, and JOAN SANGSTER Historical perspectives on workers, capitalism, and the Great Recession “This is the rare edited collection that makes readers wish they were at the original conference at which the papers first appeared. . . . Present there and in this volume are some of the biggest names in labor and industrial history.”

—JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY This award-winning volume of essays connects the Great Recession of 2007–2009 to economic crises that took place in various industrialized nations across the globe.

The authors find parallels and cause-and-effect possibilities that push readers to rethink the relationship between capital and labor, the waged and unwaged, and the employed and jobless. They also predict an uncertain future for workers, and although the essays do not offer concrete solutions, the essayists provide an understanding of the causes of recession that will aid in the pursuit of effective remedies during future crises.

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PAPER, 978-0-252-08512-3 $30.00x £23.99 E-BOOK, 978-0-252-09597-9 A volume in the series The Working Class in American History, edited by James R. Barrett, Julie Greene, William P. Jones, Alice Kessler-Harris, and Nelson Lichtenstein

Contributors: Sven Beckert, Sean Cadigan, Leon Fink, Alvin Finkel, Wendy Goldman, Gaetan Heroux, Joseph A. McCartin, David Montgomery, Edward Montgomery, Scott Reynolds Nelson, Melanie Nolan, Bryan D. Palmer, Joan Sangster, Judith Stein, Hilary Wainright, and Lu Zhang LEON FINK is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the author of Sweatshops at Sea: Merchant Seamen in the World’s First Globalized Industry, from 1812 to 2000. JOSEPH A. MCCARTIN is a professor of history at Georgetown University and the author of Collision Course: Ronald Reagan, the Air Traffic Controllers, and the Strike that Changed America. JOAN SANGSTER is a professor of gender and women’s studies at Trent University and the author of Transforming Labour: Women and Work in Postwar Canada.

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OWEN LOVEJOY AND THE COALITION FOR EQUALITY

Clergy, African Americans, and Women United for Abolition

JANE ANN MOORE and WILLIAM F. MOORE An Illinois activist and his abolitionist alliance “The Moores have now given us the most thorough biography of Lovejoy to date. Grounded in deep research and an unparalleled familiarity with the ins and outs of Illinois politics, the Moores demonstrate Lovejoy’s crucial role in the creation of the ‘coalition for equality’ that eventually brought slavery down.”

—JAMES OAKES, author of The Scorpion’s Sting: Antislavery and the Coming of the Civil War

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Antislavery white clergy and their congregations. Radicalized abolitionist women.

African Americans committed to ending slavery through constitutional political action. These diverse groups attributed their common vision of a nation free from slavery to strong political and religious values. Owen Lovejoy’s gregarious personality, formidable oratorical talent, probing political analysis, and profound religious convictions made him the powerful leader the coalition needed.

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Owen Lovejoy and the Coalition for Equality examines how these three distinct groups merged their agendas into a single antislavery religious and political campaign for equality, with Lovejoy at the helm. Combining scholarly biography, historiography, and primary source material, Jane Ann Moore and William F. Moore demonstrate Lovejoy’s crucial role in nineteenth-century politics, the rise of antislavery sentiment in religious spaces, and the emerging congressional commitment to end slavery.

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JANE ANN MOORE and WILLIAM F. MOORE are codirectors of the Lovejoy Society. They are the authors of Collaborators for Emancipation: Abraham Lincoln and Owen Lovejoy and the editors of Owen Lovejoy’s His Brother’s Blood: Speeches and Writings, 1838–64. They manage the website www.increaserespect.com, which applies the concepts of this book.

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REIMAGINING LIBERATION How Black Women Transformed Citizenship in the French Empire

ANNETTE K. JOSEPH-GABRIEL The work and thought of seven black women in the fight against colonialism “A transformative and unprecedented contribution. It recovers material, heretofore mostly unexamined, to identify each woman’s local and global positionalities, that is, their national circumstances as well as the areas where they and their struggles intersect. Readers eager to learn about this historical and literary era will discover gems in this book.”

—RENÉE LARRIER, author of Autofiction and Advocacy in the Francophone Caribbean Black women living in the French empire played a key role in the decolonial movements of the mid-twentieth century. As thinkers and activists, these women lived lives of commitment and risk that landed them in war zones and concentration camps and saw them declared enemies of the state.

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Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel mines published writings and untapped archives to reveal the anticolonialist endeavors of seven women. Though often overlooked today, Suzanne Césaire, Paulette Nardal, Eugénie Éboué-Tell, Jane Vialle, Andrée Blouin, Aoua Kéita, and Eslanda Robeson took part in a forceful transnational movement. Their activism and thought challenged France’s imperial system by shaping forms of citizenship that encouraged multiple cultural and racial identities.

Expanding the possibilities of belonging beyond national and even Francophone borders, these women imagined new pan-African and pan-Caribbean identities informed by black feminist intellectual frameworks and practices. The visions they articulated also shifted the idea of citizenship itself, replacing a single form of collective identity and political participation with an expansive plurality of forms of belonging.

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ANNETTE K. JOSEPH-GABRIEL is an assistant professor of French at University of Michigan.

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100 YEARS OF WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE

A University of Illinois Press Anthology

COMPILED BY DAWN DURANTE Introduction by Nancy A. Hewitt Celebrating the work that women did and do to secure equal voting rights “100 Years of Women’s Suffrage highlights rarely discussed regional and racial approaches in the fight for women’s ‘first class citizenship’ through a fascinating mix of primary accounts and historical and gender studies essays.

A recommended anthology that rightly honors the Nineteenth Amendment’s centennial.”

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100 Years of Women’s Suffrage commemorates the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment by bringing together essential scholarship on the women’s suffrage movement and women’s voting previously published by the University of Illinois Press. With an original introduction by Nancy A. Hewitt, the volume illuminates the lives and work of key figures while uncovering the endeavors of all women— across lines of gender, race, class, religion, and ethnicity—to gain, and use, the vote. Beginning with works that focus on cultural and political suffrage battles, the chapters then look past 1920 at how women won, wielded, and continue to fight for access to the ballot.

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A curation of important scholarship on a pivotal historical moment, 100 Years of Women’s Suffrage captures the complex and enduring struggle for fair and equal voting rights.

Contributors: Laura L. Behling, Erin Cassese, Mary Chapman, M. Margaret Conway, Carolyn Daniels, Bonnie Thornton Dill, Ellen Carol DuBois, Julie A. Gallagher, Barbara Green, Nancy A. Hewitt, Leonie Huddy, Kimberly Jensen, Mary-Kate Lizotte, Lady Constance Lytton, and Andrea G. Radke-Moss DAWN DURANTE is editor in chief at the University of Texas Press.

NANCY A. HEWITT is Distinguished Professor Emerita at Rutgers University.

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SOPHONISBA BRECKINRIDGE

Championing Women’s Activism in Modern America

ANYA JABOUR The accomplished life and tireless work of a feminist educator and reformer “A compelling biography that resurrects the life and times of this noteworthy feminist.”

—BOOKLIST

“In propulsive prose, Anya Jabour brings to life progressive feminist Sophonisba Breckinridge, whose forty-­year career as an advocate for social justice provides a model of ‘passionate patience’ for progressives in the twenty-­first century.”

—ROBYN MUNCY, author of Relentless Reformer: Josephine Roche and Progressivism in Twentieth-­Century America

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Sophonisba Breckinridge’s remarkable career stretched from the Civil War to the Cold War. She took part in virtually every reform campaign of the Progressive and New Deal eras and became a nationally and internationally renowned figure. Her work informed women’s activism for decades and continues to shape progressive politics today.

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Anya Jabour’s biography rediscovers this groundbreaking American figure. After earning advanced degrees in politics, economics, and law, Breckinridge established the University of Chicago’s School of Social Service Administration, which became a feminist think tank that promoted public welfare policy and propelled women into leadership positions. In 1935, Breckinridge’s unremitting efforts to provide government aid to the dispossessed culminated in her appointment as an advisor on programs for the new Social Security Act. A longtime activist in international movements for peace and justice, Breckinridge also influenced the formation of the United Nations and advanced the idea that “women’s rights are human rights.”

Her lifelong commitment to social justice created a lasting legacy for generations of progressive activists.

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by Susan Cahn, Wanda A. Hendricks, and Deborah Gray White Publication of this book was supported in part by a grant from the Baldridge Book Subvention Fund through the Humanities Institute of the College of Humanities and Sciences at the University of Montana.

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ANYA JABOUR is Regents Professor of History at the University of Montana. Her books include Topsy-­Turvy: How the Civil War Turned the World Upside Down for Southern Children.

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HERNDON ON LINCOLN

Letters

WILLIAM H. HERNDON, edited by DOUGLAS L. WILSON and RODNEY O. DAVIS The paperback edition of important primary source materials on Abraham Lincoln “A major scholarly achievement that will be of great value to Lincoln biographers and scholars.”

—JAMES M. MCPHERSON, author of War on the Waters: The Union and Confederate Navies, 1861–1865 After Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, William Herndon, his former law partner, began exhaustive research on what would become his influential biography of the late president. As Herndon’s biographer David Donald said, “To understand Herndon’s own rather peculiar approach to Lincoln biography, one must go back to his letters.”

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Herndon carried on an extensive correspondence with people who wanted to know more about the late president. In Herndon on Lincoln: Letters, Douglas L. Wilson and Rodney O. Davis collect the fruits of those exchanges. This invaluable resource offers unique insights into Lincoln’s life and career from someone close to him during Lincoln’s time as a lawyer, Republican Party founder, and candidate for office, all rendered in Herndon’s own authoritative and distinctive voice. A trove of primary source material, Herndon on Lincoln: Letters is a must for libraries, research institutions, and scholars of a towering American figure and his times.

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WILLIAM H. HERNDON (1818–1891) was Abraham Lincoln’s law partner from 1844 until Lincoln became president in 1861. DOUGLAS L. WILSON and RODNEY O. DAVIS are co-­directors of the Lincoln Studies Center at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, and the co-­editors of Herndon’s Informants, Herndon’s Lincoln, and The Lincoln-­D ouglas Debates.

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DEFINING GIRLHOOD IN INDIA

A Transnational History of Sexual Maturity Laws

ASHWINI TAMBE Tracking the moving line that separates girlhood from womanhood ”A fascinating book on the politics of girlhood in India within the contexts of a global morality discourse, national interests, and international law. Tambe makes an exceptional contribution to girlhood studies.”

—SYLVANNA M. FALCÓN, author of Power Interrupted: Antiracist and Feminist Activism inside the United Nations At what age do girls gain the maturity to make sexual choices? This question provokes especially vexed debates in India, where early marriage is a widespread practice. India has served as a focal problem site in NGO campaigns and intergovernmental conferences setting age standards for sexual maturity. Over the last century, the country shifted the legal age of marriage from twelve, among the lowest in the world, to eighteen, at the high end of the global spectrum.

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Ashwini Tambe illuminates the ideas that shaped such shifts: how the concept of adolescence as a sheltered phase led to delaying both marriage and legal adulthood; how the imperative of population control influenced laws on marriage age; and how imperial moral hierarchies between nations provoked defensive postures within India. Tambe’s transnational feminist approach to legal history shows how intergovernmental debates influenced Indian laws and how expert discourses in India changed UN terminology about girls. Ultimately, the well-meaning focus on child marriage became tethered less to the well-being of girls themselves and more to parents’ interests, population control targets, and the preservation of national reputation.

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ASHWINI TAMBE is an associate professor of women’s studies at the University of Maryland College Park, where she is also affiliate faculty in history and Asian American studies. She is the author of Codes of Misconduct: Regulating Prostitution in Late Colonial Bombay and editorial director of Feminist Studies.

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RACED TO DEATH IN 1920S HAWAI‘I

Injustice and Revenge in the Fukunaga Case

JONATHAN Y. OKAMURA An infamous murder case and racism in 1920s Hawai‘i “Okamura’s work opens the door for further reflection on how this history fits into larger patterns of U.S. race relations.”

—NICHI BEI WEEKLY

“The color line in the United States has historically been and continues to be White vs. Black, yet the salient strength of Raced to Death is to make evident that the color line is, more accurately, White vs.

Non-­White.”

—KAREN L. ISHIZUKA, author of Serve the People: Making Asian America in the Long Sixties

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On September 18, 1928, Myles Yutaka Fukunaga kidnapped and brutally murdered ten-year-old George Gill Jamieson in Waikîkî. Fukunaga, a nineteen-year-old nisei, or second-generation Japanese American, confessed to the crime. Within three weeks, authorities had convicted him and sentenced him to hang, despite questions about Fukunaga’s sanity and a deeply flawed defense by his court-appointed attorneys.

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Jonathan Y. Okamura argues that officials “raced” Fukunaga to death—first viewing the accused only as Japanese, despite the law supposedly being colorblind, and then hurrying to satisfy the Haole (white) community’s demand for revenge. Okamura sets the case against an analysis of the racial hierarchy that undergirded Hawai’ian society, which was dominated by Haoles who saw themselves most threatened by the islands’ sizable Japanese American community. The Fukunaga case and others like it in the 1920s reinforced Haole supremacy and maintained the racial boundary that separated Haoles from non-Haoles, particularly through racial injustice. As Okamura challenges the representation of Hawai‘i as a racial paradise, he reveals the ways Haoles usurped the criminal justice system and reevaluates the tense history of anti-Japanese racism in Hawai‘i.

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JONATHAN Y. OKAMURA is a professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of Hawai‘i. He is the author of several books, most recently From Race to Ethnicity: Interpreting Japanese American Experiences in Hawai‘i.

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OVER HERE, OVER THERE

Transatlantic Conversations on the Music of World War I

Edited by WILLIAM BROOKS, CHRISTINA BASHFORD, and GAYLE MAGEE Enlisting music to fight the war to end all wars “With its stimulating blend of revealing music interpretation and compelling historical context, this volume brings the music of World War I to life in fascinating detail.”

—CHRISTINA BAADE, author of Victory through Harmony: The BBC and Popular Music in World War II During the Great War, composers and performers created music that expressed common sentiments like patriotism, grief, and anxiety. Yet music also revealed the complexities of the partnership between France, Great Britain, Canada, and the United States. Sometimes, music reaffirmed a commitment to the shared wartime mission. At other times, it reflected conflicting views about the war from one nation to another or within a single nation.

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Over Here, Over There examines how composition, performance, publication, recording, censorship, and policy shaped the Atlantic allies’ musical response to the war. The first section of the collection offers studies of individuals. The second concentrates on communities, whether local, transnational, or on the spectrum in between. Essay topics range from the sinking of the Lusitania through transformations of the entertainment industry to the influenza pandemic.

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Contributors: Christina Bashford, William Brooks, Deniz Ertan, Barbara L. Kelly, Kendra Preston Leonard, Gayle Magee, Jeffrey Magee, Michelle Meinhart, Brian C. Thompson, and Patrick Warfield

Publication of this book was supported in part by the Otto Kinkeldey Endowment of the American Musicological Society, funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

WILLIAM BROOKS is a professor of music at the University of York and an associate professor emeritus of composition at the University of Illinois at Urbana-­Champaign. CHRISTINA BASHFORD is an associate professor of musicology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-­Champaign, and the author of The Pursuit of High Culture: John Ella and Chamber Music in Victorian London. GAYLE MAGEE is a professor of musicology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-­Champaign, and the author of Charles Ives Reconsidered.

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THE CASHAWAY PSALMODY Transatlantic Religion and Music in Colonial Carolina

STEPHEN A. MARINI Reviving spirit and music from the pages of a once-lost text “Offering a microhistory of meticulous precision, Marini forges through it a study of broad interdisciplinary scope, a rare synthesizing perspective on the musical, religious, commercial, and educational cultures of the eighteenth-century colonies. I know of no one else in the field who could have pulled off this feat the way Marini has— an exceptional combination of indefatigable archival research with practiced musical expertise.”

—LEIGH ERIC SCHMIDT, author of Restless Souls: The Making of American Spirituality Singing master Durham Hills created The Cashaway Psalmody to give as a wedding present in 1770. A collection of tenor melody parts for 152 tunes and sixty-three texts, the Psalmody is the only surviving tunebook from the colonial-era South and one of the oldest sacred music manuscripts from the Carolinas. It is all the more remarkable for its sophistication: no similar document of the period matches Hills’s level of musical expertise, reportorial reach, and calligraphic skill.

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Stephen A. Marini, discoverer of The Cashaway Psalmody, offers the fascinating story of the tunebook and its many meanings. From its musical, literary, and religious origins in England, he moves on to the life of Durham Hills; how Carolina communities used the book; and the Psalmody’s significance in understanding how ritual song—transmitted via transatlantic music, lyrics, and sacred singing—shaped the era’s development. Marini also uses close musical and textual analyses to provide a critical study that offers music historians and musicologists valuable insights on the Psalmody and its period.

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Meticulous in presentation and interdisciplinary in scope, The Cashaway Psalmody unlocks an important source for understanding life in the Lower South in the eighteenth century.

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STEPHEN A. MARINI is the Elisabeth Luce Moore Professor of Christian Studies and a professor of American religion and ethics at Wellesley College.

He is the author of Sacred Song in America: Religion, Music, and Public Culture and contributing editor for sacred music for The Grove Dictionary of American Music, second edition, and singing-master of Norumbega Harmony, a choral ensemble specializing in eighteenth-century AngloAmerican psalmody.

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WRITING REVOLUTION

Hispanic Anarchism in the United States

Edited by CHRISTOPHER J. CASTAÑEDA and MONTSE FEU Spanish-­language print culture and the anarchist quest for a new world “High-quality and worth reading.”

—ANARCHO-SYNDICALIST REVIEW

“Essential reading for anyone interested in either anarchism or Hispanic labor and radicalism.”

—KENYON ZIMMER, author of Immigrants against the State: Yiddish and Italian Anarchism in the United States In the late nineteenth through mid-twentieth centuries, the anarchist effort to promote free thought, individual liberty, and social equality relied upon an international Spanish-language print network. These channels for journalism and literature promoted anarchist ideas and practices while fostering transnational solidarity and activism from Buenos Aires to Los Angeles to Barcelona.

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Christopher J. Castañeda and Montse Feu edit a collection that examines many facets of Spanish-language anarchist history. Arranged chronologically and thematically, the essays investigate anarchist print culture’s transatlantic origins; Latina/o labor-oriented anarchism in the United States; the anarchist print presence in locales like Mexico’s borderlands and Steubenville, Ohio; the history of essential publications and the individuals behind them; and the circulation of anarchist writing from the Spanish-American War to the twenty-first century.

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Contributors: Jon Bekken, Christopher Castañeda, Jesse Cohn, Sergio Sánchez Collantes, María José Domínguez, Antonio Herrería Fernández, Montse Feu, Sonia Hernández, Jorell A. Meléndez-Badillo, Javier Navarro Navarro, Michel Otayek, Mario Martín Revellado, Susana Sueiro Seoane, Kirwin R. Shaffer, Alejandro de la Torre, and David Watson CHRISTOPHER J. CASTAÑEDA is a professor in the Department of History at California State University, Sacramento. His books include River City and Valley Life: An Environmental History of the Sacramento Region.

MONTSE FEU is an assistant professor of Spanish and co-­director of graduate studies for the Spanish Program at Sam Houston State University.

She is the author of Fighting Fascist Spain: Worker Protest from the Printing Press.

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EMOTIONAL BODIES

The Historical Performativity of Emotions

Edited by DOLORES MARTÍN-MORUNO and BEATRIZ PICHEL What emotional bodies teach us about past and present societies “This wide-­ranging and rigorously historicized collection of essays gives new insights into how emotions have changed and been deployed over time. The stress on emotions as a practical engagement with the world that has tangible effects is especially welcome.”

—JO LABANYI, editor of Constructing Identity in Contemporary Spain: Theoretical Debates and Cultural Practice What do emotions actually do? Recent work in the history of emotions and its intersections with cultural studies and new materialism has produced groundbreaking revelations around this fundamental question. In Emotional Bodies, contributors pick up these threads of inquiry to propose a much-needed theoretical framework for further study of materiality of emotions, with an emphasis on emotions’ performative nature. Drawing on diverse sources and wide-ranging theoretical approaches, they illuminate how various persons and groups—patients, criminals, medieval religious communities, revolutionary crowds, and humanitarian agencies—perform emotional practices. A section devoted to medical history examines individual bodies while a section on social and political histories studies the emergence of collective bodies.

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Contributors: Jon Arrizabalaga, Rob Boddice, Leticia Fernández-Fontecha, Emma Hutchison, Dolores Martín-Moruno, Piroska Nagy, Beatriz Pichel, María Rosón, Pilar León-Sanz, Bertrand Taithe, and Gian Marco Vidor.

A volume in the series History of Emotions, edited by Peter N. Stearns and Susan Matt

DOLORES MARTÍN-MORUNO holds a Swiss National Science Foundation Professorship at the Institute for Ethics, History, and the Humanities at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Geneva. Her books include On Resentment: Past and Present. BEATRIZ PICHEL is VC2020 Lecturer in Photographic History at the Photographic History Research Centre at De Montfort University.

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CLEAR IT WITH SID!

Sidney R. Yates and Fifty Years of Presidents, Pragmatism, and Public Service

MICHAEL C. DORF and GEORGE VAN DUSEN Ten presidents, eight Speakers, one political powerhouse “A bracing and insightful read.”

—RICK KOGAN, Chicago Tribune

“With an electorate so polarized today, the life and political career of Sidney R. Yates reminds us of a time when being a congressman meant being willing to reach across the aisle and work toward bipartisan solutions.“ —CHICAGO JEWISH NEWS The son of a Lithuanian blacksmith, Sidney R. Yates rose to the pinnacle of Washington power and influence. As chair of a House Appropriations subcommittee, Yates was a preeminent national figure involved in issues that ranged from the environment and Native American rights to Israel and support for the arts. Speaker Tip O’Neill relied on the savvy Chicagoan in the trenches and advised anyone with controversial legislation to first “clear it with Sid!”

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Michael C. Dorf and George Van Dusen draw on scores of interviews and unprecedented access to private papers to illuminate the life of an Illinois political icon.

Wise, energetic, charismatic, petty, stubborn—Sid Yates presented a complicated character to constituents and colleagues alike. Yet his get-it-done approach to legislation allowed him to bridge partisan divides in the often-polarized House of Representatives. Following Yates from the campaign trail to the negotiating table to the House floor, Dorf and Van Dusen offer a rich portrait of a dealmaker extraordinaire and tireless patriot on a fifty-year journey through postwar American politics.

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MICHAEL C. DORF is a practicing lawyer and an adjunct professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He was Congressman Yates’s Special Counsel in Washington and remained his lawyer and campaign chairman until the congressman’s death. GEORGE VAN DUSEN is Mayor of Skokie, Illinois, and an adjunct professor at Oakton Community College. He oversaw Yates’s Ninth District Operations for over twenty-five years.

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BUILDING THE BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT

Hoyt Fuller and the Cultural Politics of the 1960s

JONATHAN FENDERSON A revolution in African American culture and the figure who helped bring it to fruition “Jonathan Fenderson’s book is a masterwork of African American intellectual and cultural history, bringing to light a man whose name should be mentioned more often in the histories of contemporary America.”

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“Jonathan Fenderson’s Building the Black Arts Movement is a brilliant study of one of the key figures of the Black Arts and Black Power movements. Fenderson’s account of Fuller is also a history of Black Arts and Black Power in Chicago that in turn illuminates the ideological, aesthetic, and institutional development of black political and cultural radicalism in the 1960s and 1970s.”

—JAMES SMETHURST, author of The Black Arts Movement: Literary Nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s

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As both an activist and the dynamic editor of Negro Digest, Hoyt Fuller stood at the nexus of the Black Arts Movement and the broader black cultural politics of his time. Jonathan Fenderson uses historical snapshots of Fuller’s life and achievements to rethink the period and establish Fuller’s important role in laying the foundation for the movement. In telling Fuller’s story, Fenderson provides provocative new insights into the movement’s international dimensions, the ways the movement took shape at the local level, the impact of race and other factors, and the challenges—corporate, political, and personal—that Fuller and others faced in trying to build black institutions.

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An innovative study that approaches the movement from a historical perspective, Building the Black Arts Movement is a much-needed reassessment of the trajectory of African American culture over two explosive decades.

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JONATHAN FENDERSON is an assistant professor of African and African American studies at Washington University in St. Louis.

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Black Women and Internationalism

Edited by KEISHA N. BLAIN and TIFFANY M. GILL Afterword by Michael O. West Expanding the contours of black internationalism “Thorough, critical, and well-executed.”

—MS. MAGAZINE Black women undertook an energetic and unprecedented engagement with internationalism from the late nineteenth century to the 1970s. In many cases, their work reflected a complex effort to merge internationalism with issues of women’s rights and with feminist concerns. To Turn the Whole World Over examines these and other issues with a collection of cutting-­ edge essays on black women’s internationalism in this pivotal era and beyond.

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Analyzing the contours of gender within black internationalism, scholars examine the range and complexity of black women’s global engagements. At the same time, they focus on these women’s remarkable experiences in shaping internationalist movements and dialogues. The essays explore the travels and migrations of black women; the internationalist writings of women from Paris to Chicago to Spain; black women advocating for internationalism through art and performance; and the involvement of black women in politics, activism, and global freedom struggles.

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Contributors: Nicole Anae, Keisha N. Blain, Brandon R. Byrd, Stephanie Beck Cohen, Anne Donlon, Tiffany N. Florvil, Kim Gallon, Dayo F. Gore, Annette K. JosephGabriel, Grace V. Leslie, Michael O. West, and Julia Erin Wood

A volume in the series Black Internationalism, edited by Keisha N. Blain and Quito Swan

KEISHA N. BLAIN teaches history at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the author of Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom. TIFFANY M. GILL is an associate professor of history and Africana studies at the University of Delaware. She is the author of Beauty Shop Politics: African American Women’s Activism in the Beauty Industry.

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Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to End Violence

EMILY L. THUMA A grassroots history of resistance to gender violence and the carceral state “A timely account.”

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“Thuma packs tremendous detail and insight into this short, well-written book. I recommend it!”

—CHRIS DIXON, Writing with Movements During the 1970s, grassroots women activists in and outside of prisons forged a radical politics against gender violence and incarceration. Emily L. Thuma traces the making of this anticarceral feminism at the intersections of struggles for racial and economic justice, prisoners’ and psychiatric patients’ rights, and gender and sexual liberation.

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All Our Trials explores the organizing, ideas, and influence of those who placed criminalized and marginalized women at the heart of their antiviolence mobilizations. This activism confronted a “tough on crime” political agenda and clashed with the mainstream women’s movement’s strategy of resorting to the criminal legal system as a solution to sexual and domestic violence. Drawing on extensive archival research and first-person narratives, Thuma weaves together the stories of mass defense campaigns, prisoner uprisings, broad-based local coalitions, national gatherings, and radical print cultures that cut through prison walls. In the process, she illuminates a crucial chapter in an unfinished struggle—one that continues in today’s movements against mass incarceration and in support of transformative justice.

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EMILY L. THUMA is an assistant professor of gender and sexuality studies at the University of California, Irvine.

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The War Years, 1939–1945

ROGER DANIELS A Choice Outstanding Academic Title How FDR twice re-won the presidency while managing strategy during World War II “A fine, fully fleshed portrait of Franklin Roosevelt during his final years, in his own words. The author does a fine historical service in allowing FDR’s rich, wise, moving words to emerge here, giving an illuminating portrait of a president in time of unprecedented world crisis.

An excellent resource that hews to the president’s words as reflecting or obscuring his actions.”

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Having guided the nation through the worst economic crisis in its history, Franklin Delano Roosevelt by 1939 was turning his attention to a world on the brink of war.

The second part of Roger Daniels’s biography focuses on FDR’s growing mastery in foreign affairs. Relying on FDR’s own words to the American people and eyewitness accounts of the man and his accomplishments, Daniels reveals a chief executive orchestrating an immense wartime effort. Roosevelt had effective command of military and diplomatic information and unprecedented power over strategic military and diplomatic affairs. He simultaneously created an arsenal of democracy that armed the Allies while inventing the United Nations intended to ensure a lasting postwar peace. FDR achieved these aims while expanding general prosperity, limiting inflation, and continuing liberal reform despite an increasingly conservative and often hostile Congress. Although fate robbed him of the chance to see the victory he had never doubted, events in 1944 assured him that the victory he had done so much to bring about would not be long delayed.

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A compelling reconsideration of Roosevelt the president and campaigner, The War Years, 1939–1945 provides new views and vivid insights about a towering figure-and six years that changed the world.

ROGER DANIELS is the Charles Phelps Taft Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Cincinnati. His many books include Franklin D. Roosevelt: Road to the New Deal, 1882–1939 and Prisoners without Trial: Japanese Americans in World War II.

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COLLABORATORS FOR EMANCIPATION

Abraham Lincoln and Owen Lovejoy

WILLIAM F. MOORE and JANE ANN MOORE How a unique relationship aided the fight to end slavery “A useful corrective to those historians and others who have overemphasized Lincoln’s cautious temperament at the expense of his radical leanings, or his alleged timidity regarding emancipation, or his substantive disagreements, such as they were, with abolitionists. . . . A book worth reading and pondering.”

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Few expected politician Abraham Lincoln and Congregational minister Owen Lovejoy to be friends when they met in 1854. One was a cautious lawyer who deplored abolitionists’ flouting of the law, the other an outspoken antislavery activist who captained a stop on the Underground Railroad. Yet the two built a relationship that, in Lincoln’s words, “was one of increasing respect and esteem.”

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In Collaborators for Emancipation: Abraham Lincoln and Owen Lovejoy, the authors examine the thorny issue of the pragmatism typically ascribed to Lincoln versus the radicalism of Lovejoy, and the role each played in ending slavery. Exploring the men’s politics, personal traits, and religious convictions, the book traces their separate paths in life as well as their frequent interactions. Collaborators for Emancipation shows how Lincoln and Lovejoy influenced one another and analyzes the strategies and systems of belief each brought to the epic controversies of slavery versus abolition and union versus disunion.

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Moore and Moore, editors of a previous volume of Lovejoy’s writings, use their deep knowledge of his words and life to move beyond mere politics to a nuanced perspective on the fabric of religion and personal background that underlay the minister’s worldview. Their multifaceted work of history and biography reveals how Lincoln embraced the radical idea of emancipation, and how Lovejoy shaped his own radicalism to wield the pragmatic political tools needed to reach that ultimate goal.

WILLIAM F. MOORE and JANE ANN MOORE are co-directors of the Lovejoy Society. They are the authors of Owen Lovejoy and the Coalition for Equality: Clergy, African Americans, and Women United for Abolition, and editors of Owen Lovejoy’s His Brother’s Blood: Speeches and Writings, 1838–64. They manage the website www.increaserespect.com, which applies the concepts of this book.

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RADICALS IN THE HEARTLAND

The 1960s Student Protest Movement at the University of Illinois

MICHAEL V. METZ When change a long time coming arrived on the U. of I. campus “Thoughtful, provocative, and powerful, filled with both painful memories and humorous anecdotes, Metz’s book about the upheaval of one college campus during the radical Sixties is a real work of history.”

—ROGER SIMON In 1969, the campus tumult that defined the Sixties reached a flash point at the University of Illinois. Out-of-town radicals preached armed revolution. Students took to the streets and fought police and National Guardsmen. Firebombs were planted in lecture halls while explosions rocked a federal building on one side of town and a recruiting office on the other. Across the state, the powers-that-be expressed shock that such events could take place at Illinois’s esteemed, conservative, flagship university—how could it happen here, of all places?

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Positioning the events in the context of their time, Michael V. Metz delves into the lives and actions of activists at the center of the drama. A participant himself, Metz draws on interviews, archives, and newspaper records to show a movement born in demands for free speech, inspired by a movement for civil rights, and driven to the edge by a seemingly never-ending war. If the sudden burst of irrational violence baffled parents, administrators, and legislators, it seemed inevitable to students after years of official intransigence and disregard. Metz portrays campus protesters not as angry, militant extremists but as youthful citizens deeply engaged with grave moral issues, embodying the idealism, naiveté, and courage of a minority of a generation.

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MICHAEL V. METZ is retired from a career in high-tech marketing.

He took part in the student movement at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1965 to 1970.

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BLACK HUNTINGTON

An Appalachian Story

CICERO M. FAIN III How African Americans thrived in a West Virginia city “This most welcome study provides great insights into the urban experience of Affrilachians. It is highly recommended for collections in African American studies, Appalachian studies, civil rights, and urban studies.”

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“A well-written account that documents an area often overlooked in studies of slavery, Reconstruction, and the struggle for racial equality.”

—JOURNAL OF SOUTHERN HISTORY By 1930, Huntington had become West Virginia’s largest city. Its booming economy and relatively tolerant racial climate attracted African Americans from across Appalachia and the South. Prosperity gave these migrants political clout and spurred the formation of communities that defined black Huntington—factors that empowered blacks to confront institutionalized and industrial racism on the one hand and the white embrace of Jim Crow on the other.

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Cicero M. Fain III illuminates the unique cultural identity and dynamic sense of accomplishment and purpose that transformed African American life in Huntington. Using interviews and untapped archival materials, Fain details the rise and consolidation of the black working class as it pursued, then fulfilled, its aspirations. He also reveals how African Americans developed a host of strategies—strong kin and social networks, institutional development, property ownership, and legal challenges—to defend their gains in the face of the white status quo.

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Eye-opening and eloquent, Black Huntington makes visible another facet of the African American experience in Appalachia.

CICERO M. FAIN III is a professor of history at the College of Southern Maryland.

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CRIME AND PUNISHMENT IN THE JIM CROW SOUTH Edited by AMY LOUISE WOOD and NATALIE J. RING The history of white supremacy and criminal justice “These essays provide a nuanced and necessary picture of the racialized nature of southern law enforcement in the Jim Crow era beyond the common tropes of convict lease, the chain gang, and police complicity in local lynchings.”

—JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY

“Thoroughly researched, cogently argued, and well written. With its judicious blend of established and rising young scholars working at the cutting-edge of carceral studies, this breaks new ground.”

—CLAUDRENA N. HAROLD, author of The Rise and Fall of the Garvey Movement in the Urban South, 1918–1942

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Policing, incarceration, capital punishment: these forms of crime control were crucial elements of Jim Crow regimes. White southerners relied on them to assert and maintain racial power, which led to the growth of modern state bureaucracies that eclipsed traditions of local sovereignty. Friction between the demands of white supremacy and white southern suspicions of state power created a distinctive criminal justice system in the South, elements of which are still apparent today across the United States.

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In this collection, Amy Louise Wood and Natalie J. Ring present nine groundbreaking essays about the carceral system and its development over time. Topics range from activism against police brutality to the peculiar path of southern prison reform to the fraught introduction of the electric chair. The essays tell nuanced stories of rapidly changing state institutions, political leaders who sought to manage them, and African Americans who appealed to the regulatory state to protect their rights.

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Contributors: Pippa Holloway, Tammy Ingram, Brandon T. Jett, Seth Kotch, Talitha L. LeFlouria, Vivien Miller, Silvan Niedermeier, K. Stephen Prince, and Amy Louise Wood AMY LOUISE WOOD is a professor of history at Illinois State University.

She is the author of Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890–1940. NATALIE J. RING is an associate professor of history at University of Texas at Dallas. She is the author of The Problem South: Region, Empire, and the New Liberal State, 1880–1930.

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HOSTILE HEARTLAND

Racism, Repression, and Resistance in the Midwest

BRENT M. S. CAMPNEY Retracing the contours of racist violence beyond the South “In this very smart book, Brent Campney builds upon his vast research unearthing the history of racist violence in America’s heartland. Hostile Heartland is a thorough and impressive work that challenges midwesterners’ time-honored penchant for claiming progressive superiority over the South when it comes to matters of racial egalitarianism and violence. Any reader who has ever contemplated race relations or racist violence in the Midwest today will find clear answers and lines linking the present to the past within these pages. Hostile Heartland opens much-needed windows onto the histories of race relations in the Midwest and the Great Migrations of African Americans to the region.”

—KIDADA E. WILLIAMS, author of They Left Great Marks on Me: African American Testimonies about Racial Violence from Emancipation to World War I

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We forget that racist violence permeated the lower Midwest from the pre–Civil War period until the 1930s. From Kansas to Ohio, whites orchestrated extraordinary events like lynchings and riots while engaged in a spectrum of brutal acts made all the more horrific by being routine. Also forgotten is the fact African Americans forcefully responded to these assertions of white supremacy through armed resistance, the creation of press outlets and civil rights organizations, and courageous individual activism.

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Drawing on cutting-edge methodology and a wealth of documentary evidence, Brent M. S. Campney analyzes the institutionalized white efforts to assert and maintain dominance over African Americans. Though rooted in the past, white violence evolved into a fundamentally modern phenomenon, driven by technologies such as newspapers, photographs, automobiles, and telephones. Other surprising insights challenge our assumptions about sundown towns, the people targeted by whites, law enforcement’s role in facilitating and perpetrating violence, and the details of African American resistance.

BRENT M. S. CAMPNEY is an associate professor of history at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. He is the author of This Is Not Dixie: Racist Violence in Kansas, 1861–1927.

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THUNDER FROM THE RIGHT

Ezra Taft Benson in Mormonism and Politics

Edited by MATTHEW L. HARRIS The controversial life of a Mormon leader “Thunder From the Right is an outstanding book by an excellent group of scholars who have written a collection of essays that will amaze, fascinate, inform and probably trouble you.”

—ASSOCIATION OF MORMON LETTERS Ezra Taft Benson’s ultra-conservative vision made him one of the most polarizing leaders in the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. His willingness to mix religion with extreme right-wing politics troubled many. Yet his fierce defense of the traditional family, unabashed love of country, and deep knowledge of the faith endeared him to millions.

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In Thunder from the Right, a group of veteran Mormon scholars probes aspects of Benson’s extraordinary life. Topics include how Benson’s views influenced his actions as Secretary of Agriculture in the Eisenhower administration; his dedication to the conservative movement, from alliances with Barry Goldwater and the John Birch Society to his condemnation of the civil rights movement as a communist front; how his concept of the principle of free agency became central to Mormon ­theology; and the events and implications of Benson’s term as Church president.

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MATTHEW L. HARRIS is a professor of history at Colorado State UniversityPueblo. He is the author of The Founding Fathers and the Debate over Religion in Revolutionary America.

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THE WORLD IN A CITY

Multiethnic Radicalism in Early Twentieth-Century Los Angeles

DAVID M. STRUTHERS How working people from around the world imagined a new Los Angeles “David Struthers’s fresh and fascinating look at Los Angeles radicalism shows us long-forgotten facets of city history.

Dedicated anarchist activists, an alphabet soup of radical organizations, an interracial rank-and-file—all had a profound impact on Los Angeles’s transformation into a modern city. Struthers’s mix of research and fluid storytelling takes us back to an era of soaring hopes and racial togetherness that, for a time, sustained a grand vision of a Los Angeles that might have been.”

—Mike Davis, author of City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles 310 PAGES. 6.125 X 9.25 INCHES 10 BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS, 2 MAPS, 1 CHART, 3 TABLES

A massive population shift transformed Los Angeles in the first decades of the twentieth century. Americans from across the country relocated to the city even as an unprecedented transnational migration brought people from Asia, Europe, and Mexico. Together, these newcomers forged a multiethnic alliance of anarchists, labor unions, and leftists dedicated to challenging capitalism, racism, and often the state.

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David M. Struthers draws on the anarchist concept of affinity to explore the radicalism of Los Angeles’s interracial working class from 1900 to 1930. Uneven economic development created precarious employment and living conditions for laborers.

The resulting worker mobility led to coalitions that, inevitably, remained short lived.

As Struthers shows, affinity helps us understand how individual cooperative actions shaped and reshaped these alliances. It also reveals social practices of resistance that are often too unstructured or episodic for historians to capture. What emerges is an untold history of Los Angeles and a revolutionary movement that, through myriad successes and failures, produced powerful examples of racial cooperation.

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DAVID M. STRUTHERS is an adjunct assistant professor at the Copenhagen Business School.

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FOSTERING ON THE FARM Child Placement in the Rural Midwest

MEGAN BIRK A somber chapter in the history of American childhood “Birk forcefully describes the power of ideology and its tragic consequences, using institution records, newspapers, and reformers’ publications. Recommended.”

—CHOICE

“A richly detailed picture of child welfare in the period from 1870 to the Great Depression. The study’s timeframe captures a significant period in the history of child welfare policy, while its geographical boundaries allow the author to examine the ground-level practices that resulted from those policies. . . . An informative, interesting, and well-researched book that merits attention from historians in a broad range of fields.”

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From 1870 until after World War I, reformers led an effort to place children from orphanages, asylums, and children’s homes with farming families. The reformers believed children would learn lessons in family life, citizenry, and work habits that institutions simply could not provide.

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Drawing on institution records, correspondence from children and placement families, and state reports, Megan Birk scrutinizes how the farm system developed—and how the children involved became some of America’s last indentured laborers.

Birk reveals how the nostalgia attached to misplaced perceptions about healthy, family-based labor masked the cruel realities of abuse, overwork, and loveless upbringings. She also considers how rural people cared for their own children while being bombarded with dependents from elsewhere. Finally, Birk traces how the ills associated with rural placement eventually forced reformers to transition to a system of paid foster care, adoptions, and family preservation.

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Winner of the Vincent De Santis First Book Prize, Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

MEGAN BIRK is an associate professor at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.

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LATIN AMERICAN MIGRATIONS TO THE U.S. HEARTLAND

Changing Social Landscapes in Middle America

Edited by LINDA ALLEGRO and ANDREW GRANT WOOD New perspectives on a hot-button issue “Allegro and Wood organized a volume that provides a more humane depiction of Latin American immigrants by carefully documenting the challenges and possibilities they present in the region. . . . They also do an excellent job of positioning the Midwest as a dynamic region where complex and often contradictory politics coexist.”

—THE ANNALS OF IOWA

“Allegro and Wood have assembled an interesting and informative set of essays useful to any scholar interested in the history of immigration to the United States and its regional, local, and national implications for the present and the future. A welcome assessment of what can happen when globalization disrupts rural communities on both sides of the border.”

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This collection examines Latina/o immigrants and the movement of the Latin American labor force to the central states of Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Arkansas, Missouri, and Iowa. Contributors look at outside factors affecting migration, including corporate agriculture, technology, globalization, and government. They also reveal how cultural affinities like religion, strong family ties, farming, and cowboy culture attract these newcomers to the Heartland.

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LINDA ALLEGRO is an independent scholar engaged in immigrant and worker advocacy in Tulsa, Oklahoma. ANDREW GRANT WOOD is the Stanley Rutland Professor of American History at the University of Tulsa.

He is the author of Agustín Lara: A Cultural Biography.

A volume in the series The Working Class in American History, edited by James R. Barrett, Julie Greene, William P. Jones, Alice Kessler-Harris, and Nelson Lichtenstein

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HOCKEY

A Global History

STEPHEN HARDY and ANDREW C. HOLMAN Cold steel, cold war, and the epic of hockey “Hockey: A Global History is a major hit. . . . If you want to delve deep into the sport you love and have an interest in being educated and immersing yourself in a great story, it is for you, and you’ll enjoy it.”

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“Hardy and Holman provide a highly readable account of the story of hockey. Recommended.”

—CHOICE Long considered Canadian, ice hockey is in truth a worldwide phenomenon—and has been for centuries. In Hockey: A Global History, Stephen Hardy and Andrew C. Holman draw on twenty-five years of research to present THE monumental end-toend history of the sport.

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Here is the story of on-ice stars and organizational visionaries, venues and classic games, the evolution of rules and advances in equipment, and the ascendance of corporations and instances of bureaucratic chicanery. Hardy and Holman chart modern hockey’s “birthing” in Montreal and follow its migration from Canada south to the United States and east to Europe. The story then shifts from the sport’s emergence as a nationalist battlefront to the movement of talent across international borders to the game of today, where men and women at all levels of play lace ’em up on the shinny ponds of Saskatchewan, the wide ice of the Olympics, and across the breadth of Asia.

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Sweeping in scope and vivid with detail, Hockey: A Global History is the saga of how the coolest game changed the world—and vice versa.

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STEPHEN HARDY is a retired professor of kinesiology and affiliate professor of history at the University of New Hampshire. His publications include Sport Marketing, Fourth Edition and How Boston Played: Sport, Recreation, and Community. ANDREW C. HOLMAN is a professor of history and the director of Canadian studies at Bridgewater State University. His publications include Canada’s Game: Hockey and Identity and The Same but Different: Hockey in Quebec.

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BASEBALL

A History of America’s Game Fourth Edition

BENJAMIN G. RADER The pastime from its origins to analytics, now in an updated new edition “The best single-volume history of the sport. . . . Tackles the business and organizational evolution of the professional game, while not losing sight of how it was played on the field.”

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“Baseball reflects Rader’s firm grasp of the best and latest scholarship and his insightful understanding of American sport history.”

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Long celebrated as a classic, Baseball returns in a new fourth edition that follows the game from its murky origins to the current era of unprecedented prosperity.

Benjamin G. Rader updates the text with a portrait of baseball’s new order. He charts an on-the-field game transformed by analytics, an influx of Latino and Asian players, and a generation of players groomed for brute power both on the mound and at the plate. He also analyzes the behind-the-scenes revolution that brought in billions of dollars from a synergy of marketing and branding prowess, visionary media development, and fan-friendly ballparks abuzz with nonstop entertainment.

The result is an entertaining and comprehensive tour of a game that, whatever its changes, always reflects American society and culture.

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BENJAMIN G. RADER is James L. Sellers Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, and the coauthor of American Sports: From the Age of Folk Games to the Age of Televised Sports, Seventh Edition.

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RESHAPING WOMEN’S HISTORY

Voices of Nontraditional Women Historians

Edited by JULIE A. GALLAGHER and BARBARA WINSLOW Afterword by Nupur Chaudhuri Eighteen unstoppable women and the quest to become a scholar “One gasps at the life-threatening illnesses, the wrong turns, and the array of discrimination these authors face. At the next moment, the reader cheers them on, wanting to celebrate every success and intellectual discovery.

The combined elements of horrific challenges, in some cases, and redemption in all of them make for a rich autobiographical experience that powerfully stirs the reader.”

—Bonnie G. Smith, author of The Gender of History: Men, Women, and Historical Practice

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Award-winning women scholars from nontraditional backgrounds have often negotiated an academic track that leads through ­figurative—and sometimes literal—minefields. Their life stories offer inspiration but also describe heartrending struggles and daunting obstacles.

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Reshaping Women’s History presents autobiographical essays by eighteen accomplished scholar-activists who persevered through poverty or abuse, medical malpractice or family disownment, civil war or genocide. As they illuminate their own unique circumstances, the authors also address issues all-too-familiar to women in the academy: financial instability, the need for mentors, explaining gaps in resumes caused by outside events, and coping with gendered family demands, biases, and expectations.

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by Susan Cahn, Wanda A. Hendricks, and Deborah Gray White All rights: University of Illinois

Contributors: Frances L. Buss, Nupur Chaudhuri, Lisa DiCaprio, Julie R. Enszer, Catherine Fosl, Midori Green, La Shonda Mims, Stephanie Moore, Grey Osterud, Barbara Ransby, Linda Reese, Annette Rodriguez, Linda Rupert, Kathleen Sheldon, Donna Sinclair, Rickie Solinger, Pamela Stewart, Waaseyaa’sin Christine Sy, and Ann Marie Wilson.

JULIE A. GALLAGHER is an associate professor of history and women’s studies at Penn State Brandywine. She is the author of Black Women and Politics in New York City. BARBARA WINSLOW is a professor emerita of Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. She is the author of Sylvia Pankhurst: Sexual Politics and Political Activism and Shirley Chisholm: Catalyst for Change.

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THE REVOLT OF THE BLACK ATHLETE

50th Anniversary Edition

HARRY EDWARDS The pioneering study of sport and struggle in an updated new edition “A useful addition to any syllabus for students of American politics or of journalism and, in particular, sports journalism.”

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“Edwards’s essential position in the movement, his memory of the events, and his ability to connect them to present-day activism make this book a must-read.”

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In 1968, The Revolt of the Black Athlete hit sport and society like an Ali combination. This 50th Anniversary edition of Harry Edwards’s classic of activist scholarship offers a new introduction and afterword that revisits the revolts by athletes like Muhammad Ali, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Tommie Smith, and John Carlos. At the same time, Edwards engages with the struggles of a present still rife with racism, double standards, and economic injustice. Again relating the rebellion of black athletes to a larger spirit of revolt among black citizens, Edwards moves his story forward to our era of protests, boycotts, and the dramatic politicization of athletes

by Black Lives Matter.

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Incisive yet ultimately hopeful, The Revolt of the Black Athlete is the still-essential study of the conflicts at the interface of sport, race, and society.

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HARRY EDWARDS is a professor emeritus of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley; founder of the San Jose State University Institute for the Study of Sport, Society, and Social Change; and a 2018 inductee into the Academic All-America Hall of Fame. His other books include The Sociology of Sport and The Struggle that Must Be: An Autobiography.

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MYTHS AMERICA LIVES BY

White Supremacy and the Stories That Give Us Meaning Second Edition

RICHARD T. HUGHES Foreword by Robert N. Bellah New Foreword by Molefi Kete Asante Confronting and undoing the dark side of American identity “Fresh and stunning.”

—CHRISTIAN CENTURY

“For those of us who struggle to understand the racially charged polarities of today as well as the highs and lows of our American past, this book paints a heartbreaking, damning, and intimately clear picture.”

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Six myths lie at the heart of the American experience. Taken as aspirational, four of those myths remind us of our noblest ideals, challenging us to realize our nation’s promise while galvanizing the sense of hope and unity we need to reach our goals.

Misused, these myths allow for illusions of innocence that fly in the face of white supremacy, the primal American myth that stands at the heart of all the others.

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In this revised second edition of his celebrated work, Richard T. Hughes delves anew into the thought of black critics dissatisfied with America’s betrayal of its foundational beliefs. Speaking for people often marginalized in American life, thinkers like Malcolm X, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Yolanda Pierce, Carol Anderson, Charles Blow, Toni Morrison, and Martin Luther King Jr. offer important perspectives on African American experiences, the pervasiveness of white supremacy, and the ways America can embrace, and deliver on, its egalitarian promise. Hughes’s updated text and new introduction investigate past and present intersections of white supremacy with our shared American mythology.

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RICHARD T. HUGHES is a professor emeritus at both Pepperdine University and Messiah College. He is the author, coauthor, or editor of more than a dozen books including Illusions of Innocence: Protestant Primitivism in America, 1630–1875 and Christian America and the Kingdom of God.

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Feminism, Conservatism, and Conspiracy in the Heartland

ERIN M. KEMPKER Paranoia versus women’s equality “Kemper provides a fascinating look into the history of conservative women, feminist women, and the relationship between the two groups in the post-WW II US. Highly recommended.”

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“This book is useful for understanding why so many Americans found conspiracy theories appealing in the postwar period. . . . Big Sister opens the door for scholars to investigate understudied topics.”

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The mid-seventies represented a watershed era for feminism. A historic National Women’s Conference convened in Houston in 1977. The Equal Rights Amendment inched toward passage. Conservative women in the Midwest, however, saw an event like the International Year of the Woman not as a celebration but as part of a conspiracy that would lead to radicalism and one-world government.

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Erin M. Kempker delves into how conspiracy theories affected—and undermined— second-wave feminism in the Midwest. Focusing on Indiana, Kempker views this phenomenon within the larger history of right-wing fears of subversion during the Cold War. Feminists and conservative women each believed they spoke in women’s best interests. Though baffled by the conservative dread of “collectivism,” feminists compromised by trimming radicals from their ranks. Conservative women, meanwhile, proved adept at applying old fears to new targets. Kempker’s analysis places the women’s opposing viewpoints side by side to unlock the differences that separated the groups, explain one to the other, and reveal feminism’s fate in the Midwest.

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ERIN M. KEMPKER is department chair and professor of history at the Mississippi University for Women.

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FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

Road to the New Deal, 1882–1939

ROGER DANIELS Reappraising the rise and impact of a political titan “A vigorous, thorough examination of the New Deal programs, pinpointing Franklin Roosevelt’s successes and failures and much improvisation. Finely delineated history, authoritative and skillfully fashioned.”

—KIRKUS REVIEWS

“This outstanding study is essential reading for anyone who really wants to know and understand Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal. There is massive research, an extensive bibliography, and a profound understanding of the times. Essential.”

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Franklin D. Roosevelt, consensus choice as one of three great presidents, led the American people through the two major crises of modern times. The first volume of an epic two-part biography, Franklin D. Roosevelt: Road to the New Deal, 1882– 1939 presents FDR from a privileged Hyde Park childhood through his leadership in the Great Depression to the ominous buildup to global war.

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Roger Daniels revisits the sources and closely examines Roosevelt’s own words and deeds to create a twenty-first-century analysis of how Roosevelt forged the modern presidency. Daniels’s close analysis yields new insights into the expansion of Roosevelt’s economic views; FDR’s steady mastery of the complexities of federal administrative practices and possibilities; the ways the press and presidential handlers treated questions surrounding his health; and his genius for channeling the lessons learned from an unprecedented collection of scholars and experts into bold political action.

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Revelatory and nuanced, Franklin D. Roosevelt: Road to the New Deal, 1882–1939 reappraises the rise of a political titan and his impact on the country he remade.

ROGER DANIELS is the Charles Phelps Taft Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Cincinnati. His many books include Franklin D. Roosevelt: The War Years, 1939–1945 and Prisoners without Trial: Japanese Americans in World War II.

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LINCOLN’S CONFIDANT

The Life of Noah Brooks

WAYNE C. TEMPLE Edited by Rodney O. Davis and Douglas L. Wilson Introduction by Michael Burlingame The unknown story of one of Lincoln’s closest friendships “The complete story of a reporter’s interesting life . . . with dutiful attention to detail.”

—WALL STREET JOURNAL

“Lincoln’s Confidant is the work of a rigorous scholar.

Temple excels at describing the friendship between Lincoln and Brooks.”

—ANNALS OF IOWA From the legendary Lincoln scholar Wayne C. Temple comes the long-awaited fulllength biography of Noah Brooks, the influential Illinois journalist who championed Abraham Lincoln in Illinois state politics and became his almost daily companion at the White House.

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Best remembered as one of the president’s few true intimates, Brooks was also a nationally recognized man of letters, who mingled with the likes of Mark Twain and Bret Harte. Temple draws on archives and papers long thought lost to re-create Brooks’s colorful life and relationship with Lincoln. Brooks’s closeness to the president made him privy to Lincoln’s thoughts on everything from literature to spirituality. Their frank conversations contributed to the wealth of journalism and personal observations that would make Brooks’s writings a much-quoted source for historians and biographers of Lincoln.

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A carefully researched and well-documented scholarly resource, Lincoln’s Confidant is the story of an extraordinary friendship by one of the luminaries of Lincoln scholarship.

WAYNE C. TEMPLE worked at the Illinois State Archives from 1964 to 2016. The latest in his long list of Lincoln publications is Lincoln’s Surgeons at His Assassination. DOUGLAS L. WILSON is the director of the Lincoln Studies Center at Knox College, in Galesburg, Illinois. RODNEY O. DAVIS (d. 2019) was co-director of the Lincoln Studies Center at Knox College.

They are coeditors of Herndon’s Informants, Herndon on Lincoln: Letters, The Lincoln-Douglas Debates, and Herndon’s Lincoln.

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TO LIVE HERE, YOU HAVE TO FIGHT

How Women Led Appalachian Movements for Social Justice

JESSICA WILKERSON Bringing Appalachian tradition to the national stage “Astonishing.”

—THE CUT

“A bold new examination of women’s struggles in Appalachia rests on a concept that is both simple and profound: the caregiver as activist. . . . Thanks to Wilkerson’s efforts, histories of women’s bravery and persistence are here brought to life and preserved to inspire new generations.”

—WOMEN’S REVIEW OF BOOKS 280 PAGES. 6 X 9 INCHES 10 BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS

Launched in 1964, the War on Poverty quickly took aim at the coalfields of southern Appalachia. There, the federal government found unexpected allies among working-class white women devoted to a local tradition of citizen caregiving and seasoned by decades of activism and community service.

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Jessica Wilkerson tells their stories within the larger drama of efforts to enact change in the 1960s and 1970s. She shows white Appalachian women acting as leaders and soldiers in a grassroots war on poverty—shaping and sustaining programs, engaging in ideological debates, offering fresh visions of democratic participation, and facing personal political struggles. Their insistence that caregiving was valuable labor clashed with entrenched attitudes and rising criticisms of welfare. Their persistence, meanwhile, brought them into unlikely coalitions with black women, disabled miners, and others to fight for causes that ranged from poor people’s rights to community health to unionization.

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Inspiring yet sobering, To Live Here, You Have to Fight reveals Appalachian women as the indomitable caregivers of a region—and overlooked actors in the movements that defined their time.

Publication supported by a grant from the Howard D. and Marjorie I. Brooks Fund for Progressive Thought.

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JESSICA WILKERSON is an associate professor and Joyce and Stuart Robbins Chair in the department of history at West Virginia University.

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LABOR’S MIND

A History of Working-Class Intellectual Life

TOBIAS HIGBIE Stoking the fires of inquiry and activism “Recommended.”

—CHOICE

“Labor’s Mind cogently demonstrates how democratic education plays a key role in improving the daily and future lives of working people.”

—H-NET REVIEWS

“Higbie’s book helps us understand people like Williams, Mills, and Keylor. They—and the men and women featured in his book—belong to a long and continuing tradition among working-class people. Such folks fascinate me and, if you read this book, they will come to fascinate you as well.”

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Business leaders, conservative ideologues, and even some radicals of the early twentieth century dismissed working people’s intellect as stunted, twisted, or altogether missing. They compared workers toiling in America’s sprawling factories to animals, children, and robots. Working people regularly defied these expectations, cultivating the knowledge of experience and embracing a vibrant subculture of self-education and reading.

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Labor’s Mind uses diaries and personal correspondence, labor college records, and a range of print and visual media to recover this social history of the working-class mind. As Higbie shows, networks of working-class learners and their middle-class allies formed nothing less than a shadow labor movement. Dispersed across the industrial landscape, this movement helped bridge conflicts within radical and progressive politics even as it trained workers for the transformative new unionism of the 1930s.

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Revelatory and sympathetic, Labor’s Mind reclaims a forgotten chapter in working-class intellectual life while mapping present-day possibilities for labor, higher education, and digitally enabled self-study.

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TOBIAS HIGBIE is an associate professor of history at UCLA. He is the author of Indispensable Outcasts: Hobo Workers and Community in the American Midwest, 1880–1930.

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REMEMBERING LATTIMER

Labor, Migration, and Race in Pennsylvania Anthracite Country

PAUL A. SHACKEL The meaning of a massacre “Shackel’s contribution provides a deeply researched discussion about an often-neglected event in labor history.”

—INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HERITAGE STUDIES On September 10, 1897, a group of 400 striking coal miners—workers of Polish, Slovak, and Lithuanian descent or origin—marched on Lattimer, Pennsylvania. There, law enforcement officers fired without warning into the protesters, killing nineteen miners and wounding thirty-eight others. The bloody day quickly faded into history.

Paul A. Shackel confronts the legacies and lessons of the Lattimer event. Beginning with a dramatic retelling of the incident, Shackel traces how the violence, and the acquittal of the deputies who perpetrated it, spurred membership in the United Mine Workers. By blending archival and archaeological research with interviews, he weighs how the people living in the region remember—and forget—what happened. Now in positions of power, the descendants of the slain miners have themselves become rabidly anti-union and anti-immigrant as Dominicans and other Latinos change the community. Shackel shows how the social, economic, and political circumstances surrounding historic Lattimer connect in profound ways to the riven communities of today.

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Compelling and timely, Remembering Lattimer restores an American tragedy to our public memory.

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PAUL A. SHACKEL is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Maryland-College Park. His books include Archaeology, Heritage and Civic Engagement: Working Toward the Public Good.

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DOCKWORKER POWER

Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area

PETER COLE Waterfront battles for rights and justice “Peter Cole has written a cutting-edge work that combines labor, maritime, comparative, and global history in brilliantly illuminating ways. The edge is the waterfront, whose workers make the world economy go ’round.”

—MARCUS REDIKER, author of The Slave Ship: A Human History Dockworkers have power. Often missed in commentary on today’s globalizing economy, workers in the world’s ports can harness their role, at a strategic choke point, to promote their labor rights and social justice causes. Peter Cole brings such overlooked experiences to light in an eye-opening comparative study of Durban, South Africa, and the San Francisco Bay Area, California. Pathbreaking research reveals how unions effected lasting change in some of the most far-reaching struggles of modern times. First, dockworkers in each city drew on longstanding radical traditions to promote racial equality. Second, they persevered when a new technology—container ships—sent a shockwave of layoffs through the industry. Finally, their commitment to black internationalism and leftist politics sparked transnational work stoppages to protest apartheid and authoritarianism.

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Dockworker Power brings to light surprising parallels in the experiences of dockers half a world away from each other. It also offers a new perspective on how workers can change their conditions and world.

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PETER COLE is a professor of history at Western Illinois University. He is the author of Wobblies on the Waterfront: Interracial Unionism in Progressive-Era Philadelphia.

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MAKING THE WORLD SAFE FOR WORKERS

Labor, the Left, and Wilsonian Internationalism

ELIZABETH MCKILLEN Labor and Woodrow Wilson’s international agenda “A masterpiece of historical scholarship that blends finely grained institutional analysis of the labor movement, a ­bottom-up account of foreign policy, and a fascinating story of policy making. Highly recommended.”

—CHOICE

“A well-written narrative that draws on diverse schools of scholarship, including labour, gender, Black, borderland, immigration, and international relations. Making the World Safe for Workers is an enlightening study of an undeservedly forgotten chapter in modern history.”

—LABOUR/LE TRAVAIL 320 PAGES. 6.125 X 9.25 INCHES 13 BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS

Elizabeth McKillen explores the significance of Wilsonian internationalism for workers and the ways American labor both shaped and undermined Wilson’s foreign policies and war mobilization efforts. Her analysis highlights the fault lines that emerged within labor circles as Wilson pursued his agenda in the context of Mexican and European revolutions, World War I, and the Versailles Peace Conference. She also traces how labor’s choice to collaborate with or resist US foreign policy remains an important one in the twenty-first century, as debates raged over globalism, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the impact of US policies on workers at home and abroad.

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ELIZABETH MCKILLEN is a professor of history at the University of Maine and the author of Chicago Labor and the Quest for a Democratic Diplomacy: 1914–1924.

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DISRUPTION IN DETROIT

Autoworkers and the Elusive Postwar Boom

DANIEL J. CLARK Waking up from our American Dream of 1950s Detroit “Its careful consideration of large economic trends balanced with personal interviews provides readers with a good portrait of the actual struggles of what some have (perhaps mistakenly) called the ‘aristocracy of American labor.’”

—MICHIGAN HISTORICAL REVIEW

“Essential.”

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“Disruption in Detroit breaks ground for exciting new research questions and debates in this crucial period of working-class history. Clark’s work should prompt historians of the United States, Canada, and beyond to rethink and re-examine postwar working-class lives.”

—LABOUR/LE TRAVAIL 266 PAGES. 6 X 9 INCHES 1 TABLE

It is a bedrock American belief: the 1950s were a golden age of prosperity for autoworkers. Flush with high wages and enjoying the benefits of generous union contracts, these workers became the backbone of a thriving blue-collar middle class.

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It is also a myth. Daniel J. Clark began by interviewing dozens of former autoworkers in the Detroit area and found a different story—one of economic insecurity marked by frequent layoffs, unrealized contract provisions, and indispensable second jobs. Disruption in Detroit is a vivid portrait of workers and an industry that experienced anything but stable prosperity. As Clark reveals, the myths—whether of rising incomes or hard-nosed union bargaining success—came later. In the 1950s, ordinary autoworkers, union leaders, and auto company executives recognized that although jobs in their industry paid high wages, they were far from steady and often impossible to find.

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DANIEL J. CLARK is an associate professor of history at Oakland University, Michigan. He is the author of Like Night and Day: Unionization in a Southern Mill Town.

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ASSASSINS AGAINST THE OLD ORDER

Italian Anarchist Violence in Fin de Siècle Europe

NUNZIO PERNICONE and FRASER M. OTTANELLI Blowing up ideas of a radical movement “Pernicone’s posthumously published work will open many eyes about Italian anarchists and their attentats (actions). Readers who want a clear understanding of Italian anarchism and anarchists will be well repaid by reading Assassins against the Old Order. Highly recommended.”

—CHOICE The image of the anarchist assassin haunted the corridors of power and the popular imagination in the late nineteenth century. Fear spawned a gross but persistent stereotype: a swarthy “Italian” armed with a bloody knife or revolver and bred to violence by a combination of radical politics, madness, innate criminality, and poor genes. That Italian anarchists targeted—and even killed—high-profile figures added to their exaggerated, demonic image.

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Nunzio Pernicone and Fraser M. Ottanelli dig into the transnational experiences and the historical, social, cultural, and political conditions behind the phenomenon of anarchist violence in Italy. Looking at political assassinations in the 1890s, they illuminate the public effort to equate anarchy’s goals with violent overthrow.

Throughout, Pernicone and Ottanelli combine a cutting-edge synthesis of the intellectual origins, milieu, and nature of Italian anarchist violence with vivid portraits of its major players and their still-misunderstood movement.

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A bold challenge to conventional thinking, Assassins against the Old Order demolishes a century of myths surrounding anarchist violence and its practitioners.

NUNZIO PERNICONE (D. 2013)was professor emeritus in the Department of History and Politics at Drexel University. He is the author of Italian Anarchism, 1864–1892 and Carlo Tresca: Portrait of a Rebel. FRASER M. OTTANELLI is a professor of history at the University of South Florida. His books include The Communist Party of the United States from the Depression to World War II.

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SCANDINAVIANS IN CHICAGO

The Origins of White Privilege in Modern America

ERIKA K. JACKSON The story of an immigrant group considered white on arrival “Recommended.”

—CHOICE

“Jackson’s book makes a very welcome and thought-­ provoking contribution to the study of both Scandinavian America and the social construction of whiteness.”

—H-NET REVIEWS Scandinavian immigrants encountered a strange paradox in 1890s Chicago.

Though undoubtedly foreign, these newcomers were seen as Nordics—the “race” proclaimed by the scientific racism of the era as the very embodiment of white superiority. As such, Scandinavians from the beginning enjoyed racial privilege and the success it brought without the prejudice, nativism, and stereotyping endured by other immigrant groups.

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Erika K. Jackson examines how native-born Chicagoans used ideological and gendered concepts of Nordic whiteness and Scandinavian ethnicity to construct social hegemony. Placing the Scandinavian American experience within the context of historical whiteness, Jackson delves into the processes that created the Nordic ideal.

She also details how the city’s Scandinavian immigrants repeated and mirrored the racial and ethnic perceptions disseminated by American media.

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An insightful look at the immigrant experience in reverse, Scandinavians in Chicago bridges a gap in our understanding of how whites constructed racial identity in America.

ERIKA K. JACKSON is an associate professor of history at Colorado Mesa University.

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A NATION OF IMMIGRANTS RECONSIDERED US Society in an Age of Restriction, 1924–1965

Edited by MADDALENA MARINARI, MADELINE Y. HSU, and MARIA CRISTINA GARCIA A decades-long drama of immigration reform “This important collection revises our understanding of a relatively understudied period in the historiography of US immigration and citizenship, the years between the institution of national origins quotas in the 1920s and their abrogation in the 1960s. As such, it deserves wide scholarly attention.”

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Scholars, journalists, and policymakers have long argued that the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act dramatically reshaped the demographic composition of the United States. In A Nation of Immigrants Reconsidered, leading scholars of immigration explore how the political and ideological struggles of the “age of restriction”—from 1924 to 1965—paved the way for the changes to come. The essays examine how geopolitics, civil rights, perceptions of America’s role as a humanitarian sanctuary, and economic priorities led government officials to facilitate the entrance of specific immigrant groups, thereby establishing the legal precedents for future policies. Eye-opening articles discuss Japanese war brides and changing views of miscegenation, the recruitment of former Nazi scientists, a temporary workers program with Japanese immigrants, the emotional separation of Mexican immigrant families, Puerto Rican youth’s efforts to claim an American identity, and the restaurant raids of conscripted Chinese sailors during World War II.

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Contributors: Eiichiro Azuma, David Cook-Martín, David FitzGerald, Monique Laney, Heather Lee, Kathleen López, Laura Madokoro, Ronald L. Mize, Arissa H. Oh, Ana Elizabeth Rosas, Lorrin Thomas, Ruth Ellen Wasem, and Elliott Young MADDALENA MARINARI is an associate professor of history at Gustavus Adolphus College. She is the author of From Unwanted to Restricted: Italian and Jewish Mobilization against Restrictive Immigration Laws, 1882–1965.

MADELINE Y. HSU is a professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.

She is the author of The Good Immigrants: How the Yellow Peril Became the Model Minority. MARIA CRISTINA GARCIA is the Howard A. Newman Professor of American Studies at Cornell University. Her most recent book is The Refugee Challenge in Post-Cold War America.

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WOMEN’S POLITICAL ACTIVISM IN PALESTINE

Peacebuilding, Resistance, and Survival

SOPHIE RICHTER-DEVROE A sobering yet hopeful view of the ongoing struggle in Palestine “Richter-Devroe’s book navigates many complex trajectories and dispels the notion of understanding the Palestinian anti-colonial struggle from a Western liberal viewpoint.”

—MIDDLE EAST MONITOR

“A narrative that is rich with fresh insights and enlightening anecdotes and affords a cluster of new solutions to old problems.”

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During the last twenty years, Palestinian women have practiced creative and often informal everyday forms of political activism. Sophie Richter-Devroe reflects on their struggles to bring about social and political change.

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Richter-Devroe’s ethnographic approach draws from revealing in-depth interviews and participant observation in Palestine. The result: a forceful critique of mainstream conflict resolution methods and the failed woman-to-woman peacebuilding projects so lauded around the world. The liberal faith in dialogue as core of “the political” and the assumption that women’s “nurturing” nature makes them superior peacemakers collapse in the face of past and ongoing Israeli state violences.

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Winner of the National Women’s Studies Association / University of Illinois Press First Book Prize

Instead, women confront Israeli settler colonialism directly and indirectly in their popular and everyday acts of resistance. Richter-Devroe’s analysis zooms in on the intricate dynamics of daily life in Palestine, tracing the emergent politics that women articulate and practice there. In shedding light on contemporary gendered “politics from below” in the region, the book invites a rethinking of the workings, shapes, and boundaries of the political.

SOPHIE RICHTER-DEVROE is an associate professor of politics and international relations at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies and an honorary fellow at the European Centre for Palestine Studies, University of Exeter. She is the coeditor of Gender, Governance, and International Security.

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REFORMATION OF THE SENSES

The Paradox of Religious Belief and Practice in Germany

JACOB M. BAUM The triumph of sensual worship after the Protestant Reformation “Based on a broad array of sources, the author illuminates vital aspects of sensory culture—norms, ritual practices, beliefs, intellectual assumptions, and lived experiences. His conclusions offer a probing critique and correction of traditional theories about the nature and impact of the German Reformation.”

—WIETSE DE BOER, coeditor of Religion and the Senses in Early Modern Europe We see the Protestant Reformation as the dawn of an austere, intellectual Christianity that uprooted a ritualized religion steeped in stimulating the senses— and by extension the faith—of its flock. Historians continue to use the idea as a potent framing device in presenting not just the history of Christianity but the origins of European modernity.

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Jacob M. Baum plumbs a wealth of primary source material from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries to offer the first systematic study of the senses within the religious landscape of the German Reformation. Concentrating on urban Protestants, Baum details the engagement of Lutheran and Calvinist thought with traditional ritual practices. His surprising discovery: Reformation-era Germans echoed and even amplified medieval sensory practices. Yet Protestant intellectuals simultaneously cultivated the idea that the senses had no place in true religion. Exploring this paradox, Baum illuminates the sensory experience of religion and daily life at a crucial historical crossroads.

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Provocative and rich in new research, Reformation of the Senses reevaluates one of modern Christianity’s most enduring myths.

JACOB M. BAUM is an assistant professor of history at Texas Tech University.

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THIS IS NOT DIXIE

Racist Violence in Kansas, 1861–1927

BRENT M. S. CAMPNEY Imposing and resisting white supremacy in the Midwest “When discussing lynching, race riots, and other forms of racist violence in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the emphasis often turns southward. Brent Campney’s This Is Not Dixie builds on current historiography by challenging these assumptions. . . . This work provides timely insights into racist violence in the North.”

—CIVIL WAR BOOK REVIEW

“Deeply attentive to African American resistance to white violence, this landmark book is required reading for all interested in the sadly pivotal role of racist violence in America’s past.”

—MICHAEL J. PFEIFER, author of The Roots of Rough Justice: Origins of American Lynching 296 PAGES. 6.125 X 9.25 INCHES 6 MAPS

Often defined as a mostly southern phenomenon, racist violence existed everywhere. Brent M. S. Campney explodes the notion of the Midwest as a so-called land of freedom with an in-depth study of assaults both active and threatened faced by African Americans in post–Civil War Kansas.

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Campney’s capacious definition of white-on-black violence encompasses not only sensational demonstrations of white power like lynchings and race riots, but acts of threatened violence and the varied forms of pervasive routine violence—property damage, rape, forcible ejection from towns—used to intimidate African Americans.

As he shows, such methods were a cornerstone of efforts to impose and maintain white supremacy. Yet Campney’s broad consideration of racist violence also lends new insights into the ways people resisted threats. African Americans spontaneously hid fugitives and defused lynch mobs while using newspapers and civil rights groups to lay the groundwork for forms of institutionalized opposition that could fight racist violence through the courts and via public opinion.

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Winner of the Jan Garton Prairie Heritage Book Award A Choice Outstanding Academic Title

Ambitious and provocative, This Is Not Dixie rewrites fundamental narratives on mob action, race relations, African American resistance, and racism’s grim past in the heartland.

BRENT M. S. CAMPNEY is a professor in the Department of History at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.

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RE-ANNOUNCING

THE SELECTED PAPERS OF JANE ADDAMS

Volume 3: Creating Hull-House and an International Presence, 1889–1900

JANE ADDAMS Edited by Mary Lynn McCree Bryan, Maree de Angury, and Ellen Skerrett From neophyte to icon in eleven incredible years “This volume will become the indispensable work to understand Jane Addams and Hull-House.”

—ALLEN F. DAVIS, author of American Heroine: The Life and Legend of Jane Addams The third volume in this acclaimed series documents Jane Addams’s creation of Hull-House and her rise to worldwide fame as the female leader of progressive reform. Here we see Addams, a force of thought, action, and commitment, forming lasting relationships with her Hull-House neighbors and the Chicago community of civic, political, and social leaders, even as she matured as an organizer, leader, and fund-raiser and as a sought-after speaker and writer. The papers reveal her positions on reform challenges while illuminating her strategies, successes, and responses to failures. At the same time, the collection brings to light Addams’s private life.

Letters and other documents trace how many of her Hull-House and reform alliances evolved into deep, lasting friendships and also explore the challenges she faced as her family life became more complex.

984 PAGES. 6.125 X 9.25 INCHES 81 BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS

HARDCOVER, 978-0-252-04097-9 $150.00x £124.00 E-BOOK, 978-0-252-09952-6 All rights: University of Illinois

MARY LYNN MCCREE BRYAN is editor of The Jane Addams Papers project.

Her other books include The Jane Addams Papers: A Comprehensive Guide.

MAREE DE ANGURY is a member of the editorial team that produced The Jane Addams Papers: A Comprehensive Guide. ELLEN SKERRETT is the author of The Irish in Chicago.

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