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American History

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Corpse Crusaders

The Zombie in American Comics

By Chera Kee
Subjects: American Studies, Media Studies, New Media, Literary Studies, American Literature, History, American History, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Writing, Race and Ethnicity

Unearthing the undead stalking the panels of action/adventure and superhero comics

In Contempt

Defending Free Speech, Defeating HUAC

By Ed Yellin & Jean Fagan Yellin
Subjects: Memoir, History, American History, Political Science, Judicial Politics

How an American Family Went to the Supreme Court with a First Amendment Defense and Beat HUAC

Stamping American Memory

Collectors, Citizens, and the Post

By Sheila Brennan
Subjects: American Studies, History, American History
Series: Digital Humanities

Awarded the University of Michigan Press / Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory (HASTAC) publication prize for Notable Work in the Digital Humanities

A Player and a Gentleman

The Diary of Harry Watkins, Nineteenth-Century U.S. American Actor

Edited by Amy E. Hughes & Naomi J. Stubbs
Subjects: Theater and Performance, History, American History, Biography, Writing

Recaptures antebellum history by tracing the journey of actor and prodigious journal-keeper Harry Watkins

Guns, Democracy, and the Insurrectionist Idea

By Joshua Horwitz & Casey Anderson
Subjects: Law, Supreme Court and Constitutional Law, American Studies, History, American History, Political Science, American Politics

Does the gun lobby threaten the democratic institutions safeguarding individual liberty in America?

Learning Legacies

Archive to Action through Women's Cross-Cultural Teaching

By Sarah Ruffing Robbins
Subjects: History, American History, Intellectual History, Literary Studies, American Literature
Series: The New Public Scholarship

Examines pedagogy as a toolkit for social change, and the urgent need for cross-cultural collaborative teaching methods

The Black Musician and the White City

Race and Music in Chicago, 1900-1967

By Amy Absher
Subjects: African American Studies, Music, American Studies, History, American History, Urban Studies, Sociology, African American History, Michigan and the Great Lakes

An exploration of the history of African American musicians in Chicago during the mid-20th century

Civic Engagement in the Wake of Katrina

By Amy Koritz & George J. Sanchez
Subjects: American Studies, Cultural Studies, History, American History
Series: The New Public Scholarship

Constituting Workers, Protecting Women

Gender, Law and Labor in the Progressive Era and New Deal Years

By Julie Lavonne Novkov
Subjects: Law, History, American History, Political Science, American Politics, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Class Studies

Studies historical constitutional development in relation to protective laws for women in the U.S. during the Progressive Era and early New Deal years

Passing Performances

Queer Readings of Leading Players in American Theater History

Edited by Robert A. Schanke & Kimberley Bell Marra
Subjects: Sexuality Studies, Theater and Performance, History, American History, Cultural Studies
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance

Recovers the hidden history of theater professionals who transgressed gendered expectations of their time

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