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Awakening the Ashes
The Haitian Revolution was a powerful blow against colonialism and slavery, and as its thinkers and fighters blazed the path to universal freedom, they forced anticolonial, …
Who Is Muhammad?
Combining insights from the best published historical and religious studies scholarship, original research, and rich first-person perspective, this highly readable book offers a …
A New History of the American South
For at least two centuries, the South's economy, politics, religion, race relations, fiction, music, foodways and more have figured prominently in nearly all facets of American …
New History of the American South
For at least two centuries, the South's economy, politics, religion, race relations, fiction, music, foodways and more have figured prominently in nearly all facets of American …
Beyond the Kitchen Table
Over the last decade, there has been an increasing amount of scholarship focused on race and food inequity. Much of this research is focused on the United States and its densely …
Gun Country
Just as World War II transformed the United States into a global military and economic superpower, so too did it forge the gun country America is today. After 1945, war-ravaged …
Medicine, Science, and Making Race in Civil War America
Black Union soldiers and refugees fleeing enslavement during the Civil War faced dire circumstances when they fell ill or were injured. During the war, white Northerners routinely …
Country Capitalism
The rural roads that led to our planet-changing global economy ran through the American South. That region's impact on the interconnected histories of business and ecological …
Far from the Rooftop of the World
In 2008, the Chinese government cracked down on protests throughout Tibet, and journalist Amy Yee found herself covering a press conference with the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, his …
Empty Fields, Empty Promises
The right to farm is essential to everyone's survival. Since the late 1970s, states across the nation have adopted so-called right-to-farm laws to limit nuisance suits loosely …
Wild, Tamed, Lost, Revived
For anyone who's ever picked an apple fresh from the tree or enjoyed a glass of cider, writer and orchardist Diane Flynt offers a new history of the apple and how it changed the …
Citizens of a Stolen Land
This concise and revealing history reconsiders the Civil War era by centering one Native American tribe's encounter with citizenship. In 1837, eleven years before Wisconsin's …