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Linking archival research, ethnographic fieldwork, and oral history, Karilyn Crockett in People before Highways offers ground-level analysis of the social, political, and environmental significance of a local anti-highway protest and its lasting national implications.

John Paul Jones is now considered a Revolutionary War hero and the father of the American Navy. It has not always been so. When the Revolutionary War ended, Jones's celebrity vanished. In What Remains, Robert Hornick explores why Jones was forgotten, the subsequent recovery of his memory, and the much delayed commemoration of his achievement.

An examination of how the law and legal discourse have shaped American culture. It demonstrates that when conflicts occur, Americans turn to jurists rather than to politicians or clergy, and it looks at a variety of cultural evidence, such as the novels of Scott Turow and Sara Paretsky.

For many black writers, racial violence seems to be a persistent theme in their work. This book discusses 83 novels by 64 writers, and explores how changes in the social and political climate have shaped various authors' attitudes towards violence, and the moral issues they have faced.

When twelve year old Jesse Pomeroy tortured seven small boys in the Boston area and then went on to brutally murder two other children, one of the most striking aspects of his case was his inability ever to answer the question of why he did what he did. In this book, Dawn Keetley details the story of Pomeroy's crimes and the intense public outcry.

How racist government policies helped define Harlem renaissance literature

First published in 1995, I Am Because We Are has been recognized as a major, canon-defining anthology. In this revised and expanded edition, Hord and Lee build on the strengths of the earlier anthology while enriching the selection of readings to bring the text into the twenty-first century.

During the 1920s the Ku Klux Klan experienced a remarkable resurgence, drawing millions of American men and women into its ranks. In Not a Catholic Nation, Mark Paul Richard examines the KKK's largely ignored growth in the six states of New England and details the reactions of the region's Catholic population, the Klan's primary targets.

Susan Muaddi Darraj's short story collection about the inhabitants of a Palestinian West Bank village, Tel al-Hilou, spans generations and continents to explore ideas of memory, belonging, connection, and, ultimately, the deepest and richest meaning of home. A Curious Land gives voice to the experiences of Palestinians in the last century.

How did the 1950s become "The Sixties"? This is the question at the heart of Daniel Horowitz's On the Cusp. Part personal memoir, part collective biography, and part cultural history, the book illuminates the dynamics of social and political change through the experiences of a small, and admittedly privileged, generational cohort.

is the first book to systematically document and thoroughly investigate Audre Lorde's influence beyond the United States. Arranged in three thematically interrelated sections - Archives, Connections, and Work - the volume brings together scholarly essays, interviews, Lorde's unpublished speech about Europe, and personal reflections and testimonials from key figures throughout the world.

A bullet that brought a nation to its knees

A searching portrait of a city battered by the collapse of the textile industry woven into a spirited coming of age story

A Portuguese immigrant family falls apart when the matriarch's death leaves their dairy-farm legacy up for grabs

A western, agrarian novel that conjures the world of the small dairy farms of California and the Portuguese immigrants who worked them

Offering the dilemma of the hyphenated American, these poems speak from a place of beauty between two worlds, the old and the new

A realistic look at Mozambique and the possibility of it determining its own destiny

An in-depth look at how Machado de Assis affirms his uniqueness through the role of a reflective reader who eventually becomes a self-reflective author, whose text is primarily the written memory of his private library

With rhetorical estrangements that recall John Ashbery, and rhythms and ambitions that recall Wallace Stevens and Walt Whitman, the voice in these poems is nonetheless distinct, aware that its own time is finite but striving with each movement for the sublime.

Focusing on the social dissatisfaction with the modern American suburb, Langdon interviewed designers, developers, planners and residents across the USA to see how suburbs are being built. It examines how the typical suburban design of the past 50 years has exacerbated the stress of daily life.

Franklin Publications was started in 1953 as a form of cultural diplomacy. Until it folded in the 1970s, Franklin translated, printed, and distributed American books around the world. Amanda Laugesen tells the story of this purposeful enterprise, demonstrating the mix of goodwill and political drive behind its efforts to create modern book industries in developing countries.

A turning point for Cape Verdean American culture, one in which a partially forgotten past becomes a starting point for possible futures

Revisits the clash known as "Lovewell's Fight" and thus illuminating the themes of war, death, and memory in early New England. It shows how a military operation plagued from the outset by poor decision-making, and further marred by less-than-heroic battlefield behavior, came to be remembered as early America's version of the Alamo.