English Identities and Anglophilia in the U.S.
Katharine W. Jones
What happens when immigration, privilege, and Anglophilia collide?
304 pages
| 6 x 9
Russell H. Conwell
A new edition of the classic inspirational speech
102 pages
| 5 x 7
| 1 halftone
Inside Stories
Marianne Novy
Forthcoming Spring 2024
Bringing together birthmothers’, adoptees’, and adoptive parents’ portrayals of their experiences in memoirs
262 pages
| 6 x 9
Appeals for Justice in America
David Howard-Pitney
An enduring verbal tradition links African American leaders from Frederick Douglass to Malcolm X to Alan Keyes
288 pages
| 5.5 x 8.25
A Literary Approach
Werner Sollors
Essays that honor the achievement of African American writers from the Enlightenment to the present
296 pages
| 6 x 9
| 4 color photos, 1 line drawing, 8 halftones
Municipal Workers and Urban Power in the Twentieth Century
Francis Ryan
A history of the largest union in the AFL-CIO and its growth in a major American city
320 pages
| 6 x 9
| 2 figures, 30 halftones
American Work Ideals and the Comic Plays of the Federal Theatre Project
Paul Gagliardi
How comic plays of the Federal Theatre Project challenged work norms promoted by the federal government during the Great Depression
216 pages
| 6 x 9
| 11 halftones
The Talkshow in Media Culture
Wayne Munson
The postmodern phenomenon of the talkshow and its place in American culture
288 pages
| 6 x 9
Trade, Treaties, Opium, and Salvation
John R. Haddad
A lively account of the brash men who chased their American Dreams all the way to China
296 pages
| 6 x 9
| 10 halftones
An Annotated Edition
Yone Noguchi, Laura E. Franey, and Edward Marx
A ground-breaking work of Asian-American fiction in a brand new edition
224 pages
| 6 x 9
| 1 figure, 11 halftones
Edited by Sandra L. Hanson, and John K. White
A multidisciplinary conversation on the state of the American Dream
168 pages
| 5.5 x 8.25
| 7 tables, 7 figures
The Waterborne Evacuation of Manhattan on 9/11
James Kendra and Tricia Wachtendorf
How an unplanned maritime response to the 9/11 disaster showed creativity, improvisation, and the power of community-based resources
196 pages
| 5.5 x 8.25
| 12 halftones, 1 map
Intellectuals and Public Responsibility in the Postwar United States
David Paul Haney
A controversial explanation for sociology's isolation from American society
296 pages
| 6 x 9
Chinese Americans and the Second World War
K. Scott Wong
The Second World War’s role in bringing Chinese Americans into the mainstream of American society
268 pages
| 5.5 x 8.25
Outrage in Order
Kate Eichhorn
A window into the preservation of contemporary feminist documents and artifacts, and how this archival activism has advanced intergenerational political alliance
208 pages
| 5.5 x 8.5
| 1 figure, 4 halftones