Lynching and Spectacle

Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940

By Amy Louise Wood

Public reinforcement of white supremacy Learn More »

ISBN(c): 978-0-8078-3254-7

Columbia Rising

Civil Life on the Upper Hudson from the Revolution to the Age of Jackson

By John L. Brooke

A capstone work that revolutionizes our understanding of civil society in the early American republic Learn More »

ISBN(c): 978-0-8078-3323-0

Right to Ride

Streetcar Boycotts and African American Citizenship in the Era of Plessy v. Ferguson

By Blair L. M. Kelley

A civil rights movement in an earlier generation Learn More »

ISBN(c): 978-0-8078-3354-4 | ISBN(p): 978-0-8078-7101-0

David Ruggles

A Radical Black Abolitionist and the Underground Railroad in New York City

By Graham Russell Gao Hodges

The first biography of a pioneering activist, mentor to Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth Learn More »

ISBN(c): 978-0-8078-3326-1

U. S. Grant

American Hero, American Myth

By Joan Waugh

The biography and legacy of the Civil War general and eighteenth U.S. President Learn More »

ISBN(c): 978-0-8078-3317-9

Fields of Blood

The Prairie Grove Campaign

By William L. Shea

A detailed examination of the battles tactical and strategic elements Learn More »

ISBN(c): 978-0-8078-3315-5 | ISBN(l): 978-0-8078-6602-3

Give My Poor Heart Ease

Voices of the Mississippi Blues

By William Ferris

A multimedia introduction to the blues and its roots Learn More »

ISBN(c): 978-0-8078-3325-4

Examining Tuskegee

The Infamous Syphilis Study and Its Legacy

By Susan M. Reverby

Facts and fictions of race, medicine, and trust Learn More »

ISBN(c): 978-0-8078-3310-0

The Price of Defiance

James Meredith and the Integration of Ole Miss

By Charles W. Eagles

The effects of one man's confrontation with segregation Learn More »

ISBN(c): 978-0-8078-3273-8

In the Trenches at Petersburg

Field Fortifications and Confederate Defeat

By Earl J. Hess

The Petersburg campaign, viewed from the parapets Learn More »

ISBN(c): 978-0-8078-3282-0

Emancipation's Diaspora

Race and Reconstruction in the Upper Midwest

By Leslie A. Schwalm

Reconstruction-era struggles for civil rights and citizenship Learn More »

ISBN(c): 978-0-8078-3291-2 | ISBN(p): 978-0-8078-5950-6

A Savage Conflict

The Decisive Role of Guerrillas in the American Civil War

By Daniel E. Sutherland

The boon and bane of irregular warfare Learn More »

ISBN(c): 978-0-8078-3277-6 | ISBN(l): 978-0-8078-6603-0

Red and Black in Haiti

Radicalism, Conflict, and Political Change, 1934-1957

By Matthew J. Smith

The first comprehensive political history of postoccupation Haiti Learn More »

ISBN(c): 978-0-8078-3265-3 | ISBN(p): 978-0-8078-5937-7

A Movement Without Marches

African American Women and the Politics of Poverty in Postwar Philadelphia

By Lisa Levenstein

Government benefits and services come with strings attached Learn More »

ISBN(c): 978-0-8078-3272-1 | ISBN(p): 978-0-8078-7164-5

Long, Obstinate, and Bloody

The Battle of Guilford Courthouse

By Lawrence E. Babits and Joshua B. Howard

The first book-length study of one of the Revolutionary War's most important battles Learn More »

ISBN(c): 978-0-8078-3266-0

New Women of the Old Faith

Gender and American Catholicism in the Progressive Era

By Kathleen Sprows Cummings

Female power within a religious patriarchy Learn More »

ISBN(c): 978-0-8078-3249-3 | ISBN(p): 978-0-8078-7152-2

Terror in the Heart of Freedom

Citizenship, Sexual Violence, and the Meaning of Race in the Postemancipation South

By Hannah Rosen

Gender and sexuality at the center of the story of Reconstruction Learn More »

ISBN(c): 978-0-8078-3202-8 | ISBN(p): 978-0-8078-5882-0

Mutiny at Fort Jackson

The Untold Story of the Fall of New Orleans

By Michael D. Pierson

Reconsidering the largest mutiny of the Civil War Learn More »

ISBN(c): 978-0-8078-3228-8

Linthead Stomp

The Creation of Country Music in the Piedmont South

By Patrick Huber

The urban and industrial roots of American country music Learn More »

ISBN(c): 978-0-8078-3225-7

Upbuilding Black Durham

Gender, Class, and Black Community Development in the Jim Crow South

By Leslie Brown

How diversity and dissent strengthened the black community Learn More »

ISBN(c): 978-0-8078-3138-0 | ISBN(p): 978-0-8078-5835-6

The Adventures of Molly Whuppie and Other Appalachian Folktales

By Anne Shelby

A new kind of Appalachian folktale Learn More »

ISBN(c): 978-0-8078-3163-2

Masterless Mistresses

The New Orleans Ursulines and the Development of a New World Society, 1727-1834

By Emily Clark

Ursuline nuns employ female piety to shape a colonial society Learn More »

ISBN(c): 978-0-8078-3122-9 | ISBN(p): 978-0-8078-5822-6