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Explores how protest libraries - labour-intensive, temporary installations in parks and city squares, poorly protected from the weather, at odds with security forces - continue to arise. In telling the stories of these inspiring spaces through interviews and other research, Sherrin Frances confronts the complex history of American public libraries.

Drawing on primary texts, paratexts, audio and visual recordings, and archival sources, James Smethurst looks at how Amiri Baraka's writing on and performance of music envisioned the creation of an African American people or nation, as well as the growth and consolidation of a black working class within that nation, that resonates to this day.

Interrogating the movement's alleged atheistic underpinnings, David Faflik contends that transcendentalism reconstituted the religious sensibilities of 1830s and 1840s New England, producing a dynamic and complex array of beliefs and behaviours that cannot be categorized as either religious or non-religious.

The sale of authors' papers to archives has become big news. Amy Hildreth Chen offers the history of how this multimillion dollar business developed from the mid-twentieth century onward and considers what impact authors, literary agents, curators, archivists, and others have had on this burgeoning economy.

At turns lyrical, poignant, and alluring, The Memory Eaters tells the story of a family's cyclical and intergenerational incidents of trauma, secret-keeping, and forgetting in the context of 1970s and 1980s New York City.

Offers a provocative critique of sexual justice language and policy in higher education around the concept of consent. This book shows how inaccurate concepts about gender, gender identity, and sexuality erase queer or trans students' experiences and perpetuate narrow, regressive gender norms and individualist frameworks for understanding violence.

Examines gender and power as it charts an archival journey connecting the least remembered writers and readers of the early twentieth century with one of its most renowned literary figures, Gertrude Stein.

The ascendance of television news in the 1960s as America's top choice for information threatened the self-defined supremacy of print journalism. In Contested Ground, Mike Conway argues that the production and reception of television news and documentaries during this period reveals a major upheaval in American news communications.

Poems written by children are not typically part of the literary canon. Because of cultural biases, these works are often excluded or dismissed as juvenilia. Rachel Conrad contends that youth-composed poems should be read as literary works in their own right - works that are deserving of greater respect in literary culture.

Female loyalists occupied a nearly impossible position during the American Revolution. Unlike their male counterparts, loyalist women were effectively silenced. In this book, Kacy Dowd Tillman argues that women's letters and journals are the key to recovering these voices, as these private writings were used as vehicles for public engagement.

This text looks at the 1675 war between the English colonists and the indigenous people of New England, which decimated the region's native population. The author examines the causes of the conflict, and its effects on the relationship between the two cultures.

This epic novel presents a sweeping portrait of war and peace in northern Vietnam from the defeat of the French to the mid-1980s. The story follows the odyssey of Giang Minh Sai, the son of a Confucian scholar in the rural Red River delta, from his early childhood through his decorated service during the American War and his later efforts to adapt to the postwar world of urban Ha Noi.

An analysis of the Pequot War (1636-1637), a pivotal event in New England colonial history. After years of peace, Puritan settlers mounted a brutal assault on the Pequot Indians of Connecticut. This book refutes claims that the settlers acted defensively to counter a Pequot conspiracy.

Interdisciplinary in content, this collection of essays looks at the ecology of urban communities, exploring issues of geography, ecology, landscape architecture, urban forestry, law and environmental education. Broad overviews of common problems are accompanied by specific case studies.

An examination of the perception of lesbians in American culture, this work focuses on the subversion and of both steriotyped representations and some ""straight"" texts. It is divided into three principal parts - inventing the lesbian, forms of ressistance, and writing in the margins.

The Vietnam War as seen through the eyes of an Army nurse. In this powerful story collection - the first such work of fiction by a woman who served in Vietnam - Susan O'Neill offers a remarkable view of the war from a female perspective.

Community cookbooks were usually compiled by women and sold to raise money for charity. Contributors contend that the texts tell us much about the lives of those who wrote them. The volume is in three sections; a historical overview; essays about particular cookbooks; consideration of context.

This work presents an examination of the political philosophy of Martin Heidegger. It uncovers the political content of Heidegger's thinking on such topics as the temporality of Being, the role of science in the crisis of the West and the presumed special status and destiny of the German people.

Boston marriage was first used to describe single women living together, with the presumption that their liaisons were non-sexual. The authors argue that in a sexually preoccupied society, we have no understanding of the intensely romantic but asexual friendships formed by some lesbians.

This volume presents a survey of the rich heritage of the city of Massachusetts, showing how it has long exerted an influence disproportionate to its size. The authors argue that the experiences of the people of Massachusetts have been emblematic of larger themes in American history.

Scholar, author, editor, teacher, reformer and civil rights leader, W.E.B. Du Bois (1888-1963) was a major figure in American life and one of the earliest proponents of equality for black Americans. This is the second volume of three and incorporates correspondence from 1934 to 1944.

This work presents the memoirs of Gordon Heath (1918-1991), an actor whose career spanned five decades on the stages of New York, London and Paris. He achieved prominence in 1945 for his role in Broadway's ""Deep are the Roots"", an exploration of American race-relations at the end of World War II.

Nearly 1.5 million Irish women, men and children sailed to America to escape the Great Famine, triggered by successive years of potato blight. This volume commemorates these epochal events and sheds new light on both the consequences of the famine and the experience of the Irish in America.