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No Common Ground, Second Edition
Custom Made Woman
Opium Slavery
Torn Asunder
The Surgeon's Battle
A Campaign of Giants--The Battle for Petersburg
Citizen Spectator
To Address You as My Friend
Cold War Country
The Trinity
John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Civil Rights in African American Memory
The Mask of Memory
White Racial Fantasy After the Civil War
It Is Not Enough to Survive
The Young Patriots Story
White Power
Policing American Slavery
Against Heritage
The Reinvention of Traditional Foods
Grounds for Exclusion
Race, Health, and Disability in Argentine Immigration Policy, 1876–1932
A Proxy Africa
Guyana, African Americans, and the Radical 1970s
Deadly Divide
How Insects, Pathogens, and People Defied the US-Mexico Border
The Power to Harm and Heal
Intercultural Medicine in Modern Mexico
The Ancient House
Constructing Community in the Seventeenth-Century New York Borderlands
Out of This Strife Will Come Freedom
Free People of Color and the Fight for Equal Rights in the Civil War Era
White, Black, Brown
Becoming Puerto Rican in Chicago
Rolling Stone and the Rise of Hip Capitalism
How a Magazine Born in the 1960s Changed America
Stewards of the Land
Race and Reclaiming Environmental Labor in the American West
Jesse Helms
Modern Conservatism and the Politics of Opposition
The Detroit Model
Manufacturing American Men and Women in the Industrial City
Radical Reconstruction in New Orleans, 1868–1876
God Bless the Pill
The Surprising History of Contraception and Sexuality in American Religion
Thy Will Be Done
George Washington's Legacy of Slavery and the Fight for American Memory
The American Revolution
Essays on the Founding Era
Irreconcilable
Indigeneity and the Violence of Colonial Erasure in Contemporary Canada
Perilous Waters
Settlers, Swamps, and the State, 1775–1920
Spirits of Empire
How Settler Colonialism Made American Religion
One True Church
An American Story of Race, Family, and Religion
Waging Sovereignty
Native Americans and the Transformation of Work in the Twentieth Century
A Mother's Work
Mary Bickerdyke, Civil War–Era Nurse
Prince's Minneapolis
A Biography of Sound and Place
The Legend of Wyatt Outlaw
From Reconstruction through Black Lives Matter
Land, Language, and Women
A Cherokee and American Educational History
Take Freedom
Recovering the Fugitive History of the Denmark Vesey Affair
Jim Crow in the Asylum
Psychiatry and Civil Rights in the American South
Short of a Revolution
The Fusion Insurgency and the Triumph of Jim Crow in North Carolina
A Nation Unraveled
Clothing, Culture, and Violence in the American Civil War Era
Requiem for Reconstruction
Black Countermemory and the Legacy of the Lowcountry's Lost Political Generation
The Home Front
Revolutionary Households, Military Occupation, and the Making of American Independence
Brown and Blue
Mexican Americans, Law Enforcement, and Civil Rights in the Southwest, 1935–2025
Reclaiming Clio
Making American Women's History, 1900-2000
High School Students Unite!
Teen Activism, Education Reform, and FBI Surveillance in Postwar America
The Judicial Politics of Abortion in Latin America
Argentina, Colombia, Costa Rica, and Mexico
A Brief History of Violence in Mexico
Archie Bunker for President
How One Television Show Remade American Politics
The Reconstruction Diary of Frances Anne Rollin
A Critical Edition
Chasing Bandits
America's Long War on Terror
A Precarious Balance
Firearms, Race, and Community in North Carolina, 1715–1865
The Undesirable Many
Black Women and Their Struggles against Displacement and Housing Insecurity in the Nation’s Capital
Mexican Watchdogs
The Rise of a Critical Press since the 1980s
Opium Slavery
Civil War Veterans and America's First Opioid Crisis
Damned Whiteness
How White Christian Allies Failed the Black Freedom Movement
Intrepid Girls
The Complicated History of the Girl Scouts of the USA
Fearless, Sleepless, Deathless
What Fungi Taught Me about Nourishment, Poison, Ecology, Hidden Histories, Zombies, and Black Survival
From Vice to Nice
Midwestern Politics and the Gentrification of AIDS
Mississippi Law
Policing and Reform in America’s Jim Crow Countryside
Sex and the Office, Second Edition
A History of Gender, Power, and Desire
The Fate of the Americas
The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Hemispheric Cold War
For a Spell
Sissie Collectivism and Radical Witchery in the Southeast
AIDS in the Heartland
How Unlikely Coalitions Created a Blueprint for LGBTQ Politics
Jesus Springs
Evangelical Capitalism and the Fate of an American City
From Enslavement to COVID-19
A History of African American Health and Labor
Caught in the Current
Mexico's Struggle to Regulate Emigration, 1940–1980
Sink or Swim
Capitalist Selfhood and Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Fighting with the Past
How Seventeenth-Century History Shaped the American Civil War
Torn Asunder
Republican Crises and Civil Wars in the United States and Mexico, 1848–1867
Cassius Marcellus Clay
The Life of an Antislavery Slaveholder and the Paradox of American Reform
House of Diggs
The Rise and Fall of America's Most Consequential Black Congressman, Charles C. Diggs Jr.
Go Back and Fetch It
Recovering Early Black Music in the Americas for Fiddle and Banjo
Sanctioned Savagery
A History of Violence in American Football
The Surgeon's Battle
How Medicine Won the Vicksburg Campaign and Changed the Civil War
Canal Dreamers
The Epic Quest to Connect the Atlantic and Pacific in the Age of Revolutions
Counting the Cost of Freedom
The Fight Over Compensated Emancipation after the Civil War
Dictatorship across Borders
Brazil, Chile, and the South American Cold War
The Vice President's Black Wife
The Untold Life of Julia Chinn
Frank Porter Graham
Southern Liberal, Citizen of the World
Blood, Sweat, and Tears
Jake Gaither, Florida A&M, and the History of Black College Football
Atlantic Crescent
Building Geographies of Black and Muslim Liberation in the African Diaspora