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Spaces of Creative Resistance

This edited volume brings together an exciting cross-regional inter-disciplinary group of scholars, scholar activists, artists and others. Each chapter focuses on a different form of "creative resist…

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Deborah N Archer
Dividing Lines

Our nation's transportation system is crumbling: highways are collapsing, roads are pockmarked, and commuter trains are unreliable. But as acclaimed scholar and ACLU president Deborah Archer warns in Divi…

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Roony Keefe
Grime

A special collectors edition, GRIME is packed with never-before-seen archival material, candid interviews with artists, and striking photography. Featuring some of the most important names to ever touch t…

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Helena Hansen, Jules Netherland, David Herzberg
Whiteout

The first critical analysis of how Whiteness drove the opioid crisis.In the past two decades, media images of the surprisingly white "new face" of the US opioid crisis abounded. But why was the …

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Dominic A Pacyga
Clout City

Unearths the religious and cultural roots of a powerful political machine that empowered some everyday Chicagoans but ruled all of the city for decades.In politics, clout is essential. Too often, it deter…

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David Alff
The Northeast Corridor

All aboard for the first comprehensive history of the hard-working and wildly influential Northeast Corridor.Traversed by thousands of trains and millions of riders, the Northeast Corridor might be Americ…

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Jonathan Butler
Join the Conspiracy

Dive into the electrifying tale of a Brooklyn-born patriot turned radical activist, in an era when America was torn by its ideological extremesIn the shadow of recent turmoil, Join the Conspiracy transpor…

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Joe William Trotter Jr
From Enslavement to Covid-19

During the COVID- 9 pandemic, commentators opined that the high concentration of African Americans in dangerous and unsafe work and living environments exposed them to the virus at higher and more deadly …

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Teresa Ghilarducci
Work, Retire, Repeat

A damning portrait of the dire realities of retirement in the United States--and how we can fix it.While the French went on strike in 2023 to protest the increase in the national retirement age, workers i…

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Emily Hauser
Penelope's Bones

Weaving together literary and archaeological evidence, Emily Hauser illuminates the rich, intriguing lives of the real women behind Homer's Iliad and Odyssey.Achilles. Agamemnon. Odysseus. Hector. The liv…

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Nicholas L Caverly
Demolishing Detroit

Pioneering field work reveals how infrastructural systems-buildings, laws, algorithms, excavators, regulations, toxins-maintain white supremacy within the urban landscapeFor decades, Detroit residents, po…

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René Esparza
From Vice to Nice

Shifting the focus of AIDS history away from the coasts to the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, this impressive book uncovers how homonormative political strategies weaponized the AIDS crisis to f…

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An Atlantic City Reader

As Atlantic City grew to become one of the largest tourist destinations on the East Coast, it loomed ever larger in the imaginations of American writers. Generation upon generation of novelists, journalis…

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An Atlantic City Reader

As Atlantic City grew to become one of the largest tourist destinations on the East Coast, it loomed ever larger in the imaginations of American writers. Generation upon generation of novelists, journalis…

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Omar G Encarnación
Framing Equality

The book explains why the struggle over gay marriage differed among democratic countries, especially in the severity of the conservative backlash and the legacy for LGBTQ equality.

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Maggie Helwig
Encampment

WINNER OF THE 2025 TORONTO BOOK AWARD"Striking, elegant." -- Publishers Weekly, ★ STARRED ReviewAn activist priest provides sanctuary for an encampment of unhoused people in her churchyardThe ho…

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Dorothy Lazard
Behind the Desk at the Main

From a celebrated librarian and public historian, a memoir about the promise of public libraries in a fractured world.When Dorothy Lazard became a public librarian, she returned to the building that had s…

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Robert A. Caro
The Power Broker

Everywhere acknowledged as a modern American classic, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and chosen by the Modern Library as one of the hundred greatest books of the twentieth century, The Power Broker is a hu…

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Rebecca Jo Kinney
Mapping Asiatown Cleveland

Forthcoming Spring 2025This book examines the tensions that emerged between Asian American racial identity formation and the establishment of organized urban community in Cleveland. Moving from 1943 to th…

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Rebecca Jo Kinney
Mapping Asiatown Cleveland

Forthcoming Spring 2025This book examines the tensions that emerged between Asian American racial identity formation and the establishment of organized urban community in Cleveland. Moving from 1943 to th…

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