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Category: American History & Studies

Jesus Is Female–Now Available

Jesus Is Female: Moravians and Radical Religion in Early America Aaron Spencer Fogleman 328 pages | 6 x 9 | 8 color, 19 b/w illus. Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3992-8… READ MORE

Middleton Awarded BAAS Prize

The British Association for American Studies has awarded its Book Prize for the best published book in American Studies in 2006 to Simon Middleton’s From Privileges to Rights: Work and… READ MORE

EH.Net Review of Brides Inc.

"Well-written and engaging, Brides, Inc. is a welcome addition to the fields of twentieth-century business as well as cultural history, " wrote Janice Traflet in a recent EH.Net review. In… READ MORE

Nightclub City–Now Available

Nightclub City: Politics and Amusement in Manhattan Burton W. Peretti 304 pages | 6 x 9 | 14 illus. Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3997-3 | $39.95 | £26.00 This dark… READ MORE

Lustick Responds to Brzezinski Op-Ed

Ian S. Lustick, author of Trapped in the War on Terror, noticed something familiar in Zbigniew Brzezinski’s recent Washington Post editorial. In his blog, Lustick wrote: In a long op-ed… READ MORE

Matter, Magic & Spirit–Now Available

Matter, Magic, and Spirit: Representing Indian and African American Belief David Murray 224 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3996-6 | $59.95 | £39.00 Matter, Magic, and… READ MORE

Atlantic Virginia–Now in Paperback

Atlantic Virginia: Intercolonial Relations in the Seventeenth Century April Lee Hatfield 320 pages | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 | 9 maps Paper 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-1997-5 | $22.50 |… READ MORE

Doctor Franklin’s Medicine Excerpt Available

In Doctor Franklin’s Medicine, Stanley Finger uncovers the instrumental role that Benjamin Franklin–scientist, inventor, publisher, and statesman–played in the development of the healing arts, giving preventive and bedside medicine, hospital… READ MORE

Chicago Tribune Reviews Jackson

In a recent Chicago Tribune review of Thomas F. Jackson’s From Civil Rights to Human Rights, Eric Arnesen writes: Jackson . . . goes farther than many historians in arguing… READ MORE