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Trouble in Censorville

The Far Right's Assault on Public Education and the Teachers Who are Fighting Back

By Nadine M. Kalin & Rebekah Modrak
Subjects: Education, General, Political Science, Censorship, History, 21st Century

A teacher’s-eye view of the radical right’s crusade to take down public education

Unlocking the Treasury

Elementary Learning for Boys in Qing China

By Katherine Ngo
Subjects: History, China, Education, History
Series: ASIANetwork Books

The first major study in English of the Qing era textbook on elementary education

Ordering Tang China

Cultural Memory, Emperor Taizong, and the Essentials

By Kelly Ngo
Subjects: History, China, Education, History
Series: ASIANetwork Books

Analysis of a seventh-century Chinese anthology on imperial governance

Abortion Pills

US History and Politics

By Carrie N. Baker
Subjects: History, Women, Social Science, Women's Studies

The Hero and the Victim

Narratives of Criminality in Iraq War Fiction

By Gregory Brazeal
Subjects: Literary Criticism, General, Social Science, General, History, Iraq War (2003-2011)

How American fiction represents soldiers—and soldier criminality—in depictions of the Iraq War

Shredding the Map

Imagined Geographies of Revolutionary Russia, 1914-1922

By Edith Clowes
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Russian & Former Soviet Union, Historical Events, History, Russia & The Former Soviet Union

Mixing Oil and Water

The Beginnings of Chautauqua at Fair Point

By Richard P. Heitzenrater
Subjects: History, General, Middle Atlantic

Race and the Law in South Carolina

From Slavery to Jim Crow

By John Wertheimer
Subjects: History, South, Law, Legal History

Women Making History

The Revolutionary Feminist Postcard Art of Helaine Victoria Press

By Julia M. Allen & Jocelyn H. Cohen
Subjects: History, Women

Tells the story of Helaine Victoria Press, the first publisher of women’s history postcards

The Politics of India under Modi

An Introduction to India’s Democracy, Economy, and Foreign Policy

By Vikash Yadav & Jason A. Kirk
Subjects: Political Science, Asian, History, India & South Asia
Series: ASIANetwork Books

A detailed, readable overview of India’s political trends, economic prospects, and foreign policy since 2014

South End Shout

Boston’s Forgotten Music Scene in the Jazz Age

By Roger House
Subjects: Music, Jazz, History, African American

Chronicles the power of music in Boston’s African American community

Casa Pueblo

A Puerto Rican Model of Self-Governance

By Alexis Massol González
Translated by Ashwin Ravikumar & Paul Schroeder Rodríguez
Subjects: Social Science, Caribbean & Latin American Studies, History, Social History

A manifesto on sustainable community organizing and development by a winner of the "Green Nobel" Goldman Prize

Radical Roots

Public History and a Tradition of Social Justice Activism

By Denise D. Meringolo
Subjects: History, General

The Border of Lights Reader

Bearing Witness to Genocide in the Dominican Republic

By Megan Jeanette Myers & Edward Paulino
Subjects: History, General, Political Science, Genocide & War Crimes

Mahan and Baekje

The Complex Origins of Korean Kingdoms

By Rory Walsh
Subjects: Social Science, Archaeology, History, Korea

Migraciones raciales

La ciudad de Nueva York y la política revolucionaria en el Caribe hispánico

By Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof
Subjects: History, General, 19th Century

A Journey to Inner Africa

By Egor Kovalevsky
Translated by Anna Aslanyan
Subjects: History, General, Russia & The Former Soviet Union

New Materials

Towards a History of Consistency

By Amy E. Slaton
Subjects: History, General

A collection of eight essays on the cultural and political history of industrial materials and the development of global capitalism

Amherst in the World

By Martha Saxton
Subjects: Education, Higher, History, General

Engineering Manhood

Race and the Antebellum Virginia Military Institute

By Jonson Miller
Subjects: History, 19th Century, Education, History

A groundbreaking case study on the cultivation of whiteness and manhood in the engineering profession at an antebellum southern military college

The Boundaries of Pluralism

The World of the University of Michigan's Jewish Students from 1897 to 1945

By Andrei S. Markovits & Kenneth Garner
Subjects: History, Jewish, Education, Higher