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Attic Archaeology

Village and Family in Another Vermont

By Charles Fish
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography, Personal Memoirs, History, New England

A Vermont native looks back on his idyllic upbringing and beloved hometown.

Dealmaking Detroit

Two Essays About White Privilege, Private Gain, and Public Loss

By Jamon Jordan & Craig Regester
Introduction by Stephen M Ward
Subjects: History, General, African American

Two essays about the millions in public funds diverted annually to subsidize Detroit corporate development.

“Sing for the Pro-Palestinian Student Activists.” A Commencement Speech and the Fight to Protect the Freedom of Expression

Edited by Rebekah Modrak
Contributions by Derek Peterson, Samuel R. Bagenstos, John Carson, Jonathan Chait, Juan Cole, Gabe Efros, Gayle Kirshenbaum, Shamai Leibowitz, Rima Mohammed, Rogério M. Pinto, Qasim Rashid, Carina Ray, Davey Rosen, Lauren Barrett Smith, Alan Wald, Silke-Maria Weineck, John K. Wilson, Yi-Li Wu, and Basit Zafar
Subjects: History, General, Political Science, Democracy

Collects commentary on university commencement controversy: academic freedom, institutional neutrality, Palestine exception to speech

Ruth Ben-Ghiat

Intellectual Freedom in an Authoritarian Age

By Ruth Ben-Ghiat
Contributions by Karima Bennoune, Ji Yeon Hong, and Ronald Grigor Suny
Subjects: History, General, Political Science, Democracy

Explores the anti-democratic forces targeting universities and campus as key to protecting democratic values

In the Spirit of H. Chandler Davis

Activism and the Struggle for Academic Freedom

Edited by Michael Atzmon, John Cheney-Lippold, Gary D. Krenz, Melanie S. Tanielian
Contributions by Michael Bérubé, Juan Cole, H. Chandler Davis, Stefan Hanß, Marjorie Heins, Dima Khalidi, Gene Nichol, Henry Reichman, Ellen Schrecker, Joan Scott, Catharine Stimpson, Alan Wald, Silke-Maria Weineck, and Natalie Zemon Davis
Subjects: Political Science, Essays, Censorship, History, General

The Ruin of Souls

A Religious History of Italian Catholic Immigrants in the United States (1853-1921)

By Massimo Di Gioacchino
Subjects: Religion, Catholic, Social Science, Emigration & Immigration, History, 19th Century
Series: GLIRN: Global Italian Religious Networks

Mixing Oil and Water

The Beginnings of Chautauqua at Fair Point

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

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

Race and the Law in South Carolina

From Slavery to Jim Crow

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

Radical Roots

Public History and a Tradition of Social Justice Activism

By Denise D. Meringolo
Subjects: History, General

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

Migraciones raciales

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

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

The University of Michigan & China, 1845 – 2017

By Neal McKenna
Subjects: History, Midwest, China, Education, Higher

Hillel at Michigan, 1926/27-1945

Struggles of Jewish Identity in a Pivotal Era

By Andrei S. Markovits & Kenneth Garner
Subjects: Religion, History, History, 20th Century

The Lost World of John Witherspoon

Unravelling the Snodgrass affair, 1762 to 1776

By Ronald Lyndsay Crawford
Subjects: History, Colonial Period (1600-1775), Scotland

John Witherspoon (1723 – 1794) is remembered today as one of only two Scots among the 56 ‘signers’ of the Declaration of American Independence. This book focuses on his earlier career in Scotland and his involvement in the Snodgrass affair in Edinburgh.