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The Peace Movement at American State Universities in the Vietnam Era
"At the same time that the dangerous war was being fought in the jungles of Vietnam, Campus Wars were being fought in the United States by antiwar pro...
The Quakers in America is a multifaceted history of the Religious Society of Friends and a fascinating study of its culture and controversies today. L...
The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin
A biographical tour de force on one of the 20th century's bravest civil rights champions. Critically heralded American historian D'Emilio brings Bayar...
Quakers, Communists, and the Children's Librarian
In 1953, Mary Knowles was fired as a branch librarian for the Morrill Memorial Library, a public library in Norwood, Massachusetts. She had been calle...
Seeking Social Justice in a Northern Suburb
2017 Wilbur Non-Fiction Award Recipient Winner of the 2018 Author's Award in scholarly non-fiction, presented by the New Jersey Studies Academic Allia...
The 121st New York Infantry in the Civil War
The harsh realities of Civil War life as seen through the eyes of the hard-fighting upstate New York regiment (the 121st New York State Volunteer Infa...
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Culture and Struggle in Postwar Los Angeles
From postwar efforts to end discrimination in the motion-picture industry, recording studios, and musicians’ unions, through the development of comm...
Their Lives and Times
North Carolina has had more than its share of accomplished, influential women—women who have expanded their sphere of influence or broken through ba...
Autobiography of Moses Adekoyejo Majekodunmi
Art, Money, and Modern Time
In the early decades of the twentieth century, almost everyone in modern theater, literature, or film knew of Otto Kahn (1867-1934), and those who rea...
Mary Calderone and the Fight for Sexual Health
A comprehensive history of the battle over sex education in the United States Mid-century America had a problem talking about sex. Dr. Mary Calderone ...
Thomas Volney Munson and the origins of American viticulture
Grape Man of Texas is the first biography of Thomas Volney Munson (1843-1913), the internationally recognized horticulturist who developed over 300 ne...
Miracles occupied a unique place in medieval and Byzantine life and thought. This volume makes available three collections of miracle tales never befo...
History, Challenges, Issues, and Developments [4 volumes]
This four-volume set provides a history of veterans' healthcare that examines programs of care and veterans' special needs, and offers insight into fu...
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...
In 1963, the Sunday after four black girls were killed by a bomb in a Birmingham church, George William Floyd, a Church of Christ minister, preached a...
Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD NOMINEE • The riveting history of how Pauli Murray—a brilliant writer-turned-activist—and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt forge...
Anne Braden and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Cold War South
With a Foreword by Angela Y. Davis Winner of the 2003 Oral History Association Book AwardWinner of the 2003 Gustavus Myers Center for Human Rights Out...
This handbook provides an in-depth survey of historical readings of Quakerism; a treatment of its key theological premises and its links with wider Ch...
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A Chronological Bibliography, 1832–1899
This bibliography of more than three thousand entries, often extensively annotated, lists books and pamphlets that illuminate evolving British views o...
The Rhetoric of Opposition Meets the Realities of Governing
In the 1790s, the Jeffersonian Republicans were the party of "no." They opposed attempts to expand the government’s role in society, criticized the ...
A Photographic History of a Southwestern Canyon
Sabino Canyon, a desert canyon in the American Southwest near Tucson, Arizona, is enjoyed yearly by thousands of city residents as well as visitors fr...
This work takes a look at the cases that have had a significant influence on the game of baseball, such as Flood v. Kuhn and Garvey v. MLB, which eith...
Gloria Richardson and Black Liberation
Many prominent and well-known figures greatly impacted the civil rights movement, but one of the most influential and unsung leaders of that period wa...
From Victory to Collapse
A history of the Confederate troops under Robert E. Lee presents portraits of soldiers from all walks of life, offers insight into how the Confederacy...
Hoyt Fuller and the Cultural Politics of the 1960s
As both an activist and the dynamic editor of Negro Digest, Hoyt W. Fuller stood at the nexus of the Black Arts Movement and the broader black cultura...
Racial Violence and America's Civil Rights Century
Spanning three generations, Hanging Bridge reveals what happened in Clarke County, Mississippi in 1919 and 1942, when two horrific lynchings took plac...
Harold Nicolson called her 'the greatest Queen since Cleopatra', while Cecil Beaton called her 'a marshmallow made on a welding machine'. Stephen Tenn...
Cuban Studies has been published annually by the University of Pittsburgh Press since 1985. Founded in 1970, it is the preeminent journal for scholarl...
Contains analyses of characters that appear in novels, plays, epics, and other classics of world literature, providing lengthy descriptions of central...
The Mysterious Deaths of Marilyn Monroe and Dorothy Kilgallen, and the Ties that Bind Them to Robert Kennedy and the JFK Assassination
If there had been no cover-up of Robert Kennedy’s complicity in the murder of Marilyn Monroe in 1962 and he had been prosecuted based on compelling ...
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Highly Effective Hacks From Totally True Facts! Could you be happier at work . . . in love . . . in life? You may not need a total overhaul—just a f...
A Concise History of 9/11
On September 11, 2001, author J. Samuel Walker was far from home when he learned of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. ...
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