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The Other Jazz
Jazz has always been a genre built on the blending of disparate musical cultures. Latin jazz illustrates this perhaps better than any other style in t...
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His Life and Times from the Hoo Doo War to Tombstone
Few names in the lore of western gunmen are as recognizable. Few lives of the most notorious are as little known. Romanticized and made legendary, Joh...
Essays in Honor of J. Deotis Roberts
Leading contemporary theologians and scholars present essays on the themes of liberation and reconciliation in tribute to J. Deotis Roberts. The essay...
An Archaeological History of Philadelphia
The Buried Past presents the most significant archaeological discoveries made in one of America's most historic cities. Based on more than thirty year...
The Complete Encyclopedia [3 volumes]
The book provides a comprehensive discussion of the major issues and events surrounding all American presidential elections, from the earliest years o...
Denzel Washington is one of Hollywood's best-known actors and personalities. His role in the 2001 film Training Day earned him an Academy Award for Be...
Ronald Reagan and the Campaign That Changed America
“A first-rate work of insider history . . . A monumental accomplishment.” —National Review The election that changed everything: Craig Shirley...
The Revolutionary Communist Party and its Curious Afterlives, 1976-2020
This book employs a history of ideas approach to trace the complex journey of the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) and its afterlives. Although the...
Struggling over the Memory of Sand Creek
On November 29, 1864, over 150 Native Americans, mostly women, children, and elderly, were slaughtered in one of the most infamous cases of state-spon...
"Most Americans first heard of Michael Harrington with the publication of The Other America, his seminal book on American poverty. Isserman expertly t...
Cultural Frontiers in the Urban West, 1846-1906
Focuses on the 19th-century transformation in San Francisco--from Gold Rush to earthquake--to show how the city's diverse residents created a modern A...
Politics, Literature, Science and Art
Violent Legality and the Politics of Rights
In Struggles for the Human, Lara Montesinos Coleman blends ethnography, political philosophy, and critical theory to reorient debates on human rights ...
A Bibliography of Published Sources
The Genealogy Annual is a comprehensive bibliography of the year's genealogies, handbooks, and source materials. It is divided into three main section...
William Anderson “Devil Anse” Hatfield in the Civil War
A little known fact about the Hatfield and McCoy Feud is that nearly all of the men involved were also Civil War veterans. The Hatfield patriarch, Wil...
The CIA and the Filming of Animal Farm
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Country Music in West Virginia
Jamboree! To many country music fans the word conjures up memories of Saturday nights around the family radio listening to live broadcasts from that h...
Ahebi Ugbabe
While providing critical perspectives on women, gender, sex and sexuality, and the colonial encounter, she considers how it was possible for this woma...
The twentieth could easily be Utah’s most interesting, complex century, yet popular ideas of what is history seem mired in the nineteenth. One reaso...
Fake News and Fake Journalism in American History
Winner, 2023 Columbia University Press Distinguished Book Award Winner, 2023 Frank Luther Mott / Kappa Tau Alpha Research Award Winner, 2023 Journalis...
Trench Names of the Western Front, 1914–1918
When first published in 2006, Rats Alley was a ground-breaking piece of research, the first-ever study of trench names of the Western Front. Now, in t...
The Scopes Trial, Textbooks, and the Antievolution Movement in American Schools
In Trying Biology, Adam R. Shapiro convincingly dispels many conventional assumptions about the 1925 Scopes “monkey” trial. Most view it as an eve...
Bitterness over the 1950s split between Catholics and anti-Communists has never gone away. The importance of this book in defining Labor politics for ...
"Historians and sliders have not been kind to either [General Douglas] MacArthur or the soldiers whom he placed in harm's way in the summer of 1950 .....
Cultural Newcomers to Lukumi and Santería in the United States
In the Afro-Cuban Lukumi religious tradition—more commonly known in the United States as Santería—entrants into the priesthood undergo an extraor...
Music in the Spiritual Lives of Americans
Stowe traces the evolution of sacred music from colonial times to the present, from the Puritans to Sun Ra, and shows how these cultural encounters ha...
The Peace Movement At American State Universities in the Vietnam Era
Heineman examined student newspapers, government documents, and personal archives, interviewed activists, and attended activist reunions to recreate t...
A Memoir of History, Hope, and Human Rights
From 1994 to 2006, William F. Schulz headed Amnesty International USA. During this time, he and the organization confronted some of the greatest chall...
Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows
The massacre at Mountain Meadows on September 11, 1857, was the single most violent attack on a wagon train in the thirty-year history of the Oregon a...
How James Cleveland and the Angelic Choir Created a Gospel Classic
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2022 In September of 1963, Reverend Lawrence Roberts and the Angelic Choir of the First Baptist Church of Nutl...
Pennsylvania, 4000 to 3000 BP
Three thousand to four thousand years ago, the Native Americans of the mid-Atlantic region experienced a groundswell of cultural innovation. This rema...
Merriam Press World War 2 History Series. A History of the 316th Troop Carrier Group, 1942-1945. Complete history utilizing the author's personal reco...
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This two-volume set examines women's contributions to religious and moral development in America, covering individual women, their faith-related organ...
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The Rise and Fall of Community Policing in New York Public Housing
In recent years, community policing has transformed American law enforcement by promising to build trust between citizens and officers. Today, three-q...
The Official Journal of the Mathematical Association of America