Before Disability is a literary, legal, and cultural history of disability, race, and citizenship between the Revolution and the Civil War. It shows how disability helped to shape US citizenship as it developed as well as how the formation of US citizenship, in turn, fundamentally shaped disability.
Frederick Douglass’s Newspapers offers a detailed history of the newspapers that Frederick Douglass edited during his lifetime and highlights how his periodicals were collective productions. Benjamin Fagan places Black organizing at the center of the story of Douglass’s newspapers, and his newspapers at the center of the story of Black organizing.
In Extinction and the Human Timothy Sweet ponders the realities of animal extinction and endangerment and the often divergent Native American and Euro-American narratives that surround them, focusing especially on the force of human impact on megafauna—mammoths, whales, and the North American bison.
Varieties of Playful Experience in Alice, William, and Henry James
Jane F. Thrailkill
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512829624
Pub Date: February 2026
Format: Paperback
312 Pages
This collective study of the James siblings—Alice, William, and Henry—lights up their shared intellectual project: showing how minds meet in a world teeming with possibilities and risks. Philosophical Siblings offers a fresh way of thinking about literary encounters, one that approaches even the most iconic texts with serious lightness.
Print-Based Activism Against Slavery, Racism, and Discrimination, 1829-1851
Marcy J. Dinius
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781512828801
Pub Date: November 2025
Format: Paperback
312 Pages
In The Textual Effects of David Walker's "Appeal" Marcy J. Dinius offers the first in-depth analysis of Walker's argumentatively and typographically radical pamphlet and its direct influence on five Black and Indigenous activist authors, Maria W. Stewart, William Apess, William Paul Quinn, Henry Highland Garnet, and Paola Brown.
Edited by Lila Corwin Berman, Deborah Dash Moore and Beth Wenger
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9781512828245
Pub Date: November 2025
Format: Hardcover
264 Pages
What happens when scholars from diverse disciplines connect to explore the American Jewish experience? The Future of American Jewish Pasts shines a penetrating light on some of the most provocative questions of historical interpretation. These essays reconceive traditional approaches to American Jewish life to reimagine American Jewish studies.
Mary Ann Shadd Cary (1823–1893) was a trailblazing Black feminist, activist, journalist, and educator and the first Black woman to edit a newspaper, the Provincial Freeman, in North America. Insensible of Boundaries is the first collection of essays dedicated to Shadd Cary’s cultural significance and intellectual contributions.
To outsiders, there are two Souths: the South of the cross and the gun in the region’s interior, and the tourist’s South of Creole food and fine linen on the region’s coasts. Captive City explores the Souths between, mapping the legacy of slavery in the cities on the Gulf and Atlantic coasts.
