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American History

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Pleasure Grounds of Death

The Rural Cemetery in Nineteenth-Century America

By Joy M. Giguere
Subjects: American Studies, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, History, American History, Cultural Studies, Class Studies

Revealing how landscapes dedicated to the perpetual care of the dead mirrored the transformations and conflicts of the nineteenth century in American society

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

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

Henry Ford and Grass-roots America

By Reynold M. Wik
Subjects: History, American History, Cultural Studies, Michigan and the Great Lakes, History, American Studies
Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks

A study of Henry Ford and rural America in the 1920s

Sit-Down

The General Motors Strike of 1936-1937

With a New Foreword by Kim Moody

By Sidney Fine
Subjects: History, American History, Class Studies, American Studies, Michigan and the Great Lakes, History
Series: Class : Culture

Studies the most significant American labor conflict of the 20th century

Performing Flight

From the Barnstormers to Space Tourism

By Scott Magelssen
Subjects: Theater and Performance, American Studies, History, American History

A century of human aviation and space travel, seen through the lens of performance

Adoption, Memory, and Cold War Greece

Kid pro quo?

By Gonda Van Steen
Subjects: American Studies, History, American History, European History, Classical Studies, Greek, Literary Studies, European Literature

Reveals the history of how 3,000 Greek children were shipped to the United States for adoption in the postwar period

Provocative Eloquence

Theater, Violence, and Antislavery Speech in the Antebellum United States

By Laura L. Mielke
Subjects: Theater and Performance, American Studies, History, American History, Literary Studies

Shows how theater was essential to the anti-slavery movement’s consideration of forceful resistance

Provocative Eloquence

Theater, Violence, and Anti-Slavery Speech in the Antebellum United States

By Laura L. Mielke
Subjects: Theater and Performance, American Studies, History, American History, Literary Studies

Shows how theater was essential to the anti-slavery movement’s consideration of forceful resistance

The Harvest of American Racism

The Political Meaning of Violence in the Summer of 1967

Edited by Robert Shellow
Subjects: American Studies, History, American History, African American Studies, Class Studies, Sociology, Political Science, Political History

In print for the first time--the document that the Kerner Commission did not want to see released

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?

Middle Class Union

Organizing the ‘Consuming Public’ in Post-World War I America

By Mark W. Robbins
Subjects: History, American History, American Studies, Class Studies
Series: Class : Culture

Examines the birth of the American middle class as white-collar workers used their growing consumer identity to organize politically

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

Jean Paton and the Struggle to Reform American Adoption

By E. Wayne Carp
Subjects: History, American History, Psychology, Literary Studies, American Literature, Biography, American Studies, Sociology

One woman’s tireless crusade for better understanding and social justice for adopted people

Detroit Country Music

Mountaineers, Cowboys, and Rockabillies

By Craig Maki & Keith Cady
Subjects: American Studies, Music, History, American History

The first book to tell the story of country music in Detroit

Spectacles of Reform

Theater and Activism in Nineteenth-Century America

By Amy E. Hughes
Subjects: Theater and Performance, American Studies, History, American History

Reveals the crucial role that spectacle played in American activism and reform movements in the 1800s

New York-Paris

Whitman, Baudelaire, and the Hybrid City

By Laure Katsaros
Subjects: American Studies, Cultural Studies, History, American History, European History, Intellectual History, European Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, European Literature, 19th Century Literature

A comparison of the mid-19th-century city in the poetry of Walt Whitman and Charles Baudelaire and their responses to the inescapable push of modernization

Industry and the Creative Mind

The Eccentric Writer in American Literature and Entertainment, 1790-1860

By Sandra Tomc
Subjects: American Studies, History, American History, Literary Studies, 19th Century Literature, Cultural Studies

A new look at the "eccentric author" figure in early nineteenth-century America

Paul Robeson and the Cold War Performance Complex

Race, Madness, Activism

By Tony Perucci
Subjects: Theater and Performance, American Studies, African American Studies, Cultural Studies, History, American History
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

Two key performances by Paul Robeson shed light on the Cold War era

To Shake Their Guns in the Tyrant's Face

Libertarian Political Violence and the Origins of the Militia Movement

By Robert H Churchill
Subjects: American Studies, History, American History, Political Science

Did a long-standing and libertarian understanding of the American Revolution create the perfect climate for the militia movement in the United States?

Devils and Rebels

The Making of Hawthorne's Damned Politics

By Larry J. Reynolds
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, American Studies, History, American History

Was Nathaniel Hawthorne a racist? A compelling second look at a canonical American author

Risk Culture

Performance and Danger in Early America

By Joseph Fichtelberg
Subjects: American Studies, History, American History, Literary Studies, American Literature, 18th Century Literature, Cultural Studies

Close textual analysis explores the culture of risk in our country's early days

Envisioning Asia

On Location, Travel, and the Cinematic Geography of U.S. Orientalism

By Jeanette Roan
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Media Studies, American Studies, History, American History

Film provides a window into American culture and its attitudes toward Asia of the first half of the 20th century

Grassroots at the Gateway

Class Politics and Black Freedom Struggle in St. Louis, 1936-75

By Clarence Lang
Subjects: History, American History, African American Studies, Class Studies, Political Science, American Studies
Series: Class : Culture

Offers a new conceptualization of black workingclass participation in the civil rights movement

Ellery's Protest

How One Young Man Defied Tradition and Sparked the Battle over School Prayer

By Stephen D. Solomon
Subjects: History, American History, American Studies, Law, Supreme Court and Constitutional Law, Media Studies, Journalism, Religion, American Religious History

An engrossing story of one of the landmark cases in First Amendment history

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