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The Sonic South
Nineteenth-century Plantation Literature
Price: $64.95
ISBN: 9781512829921
Pub Date: September 2026
Format: Hardcover
256 Pages
Before Disability
A History of American Citizenship
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781512829518
Pub Date: June 2026
Format: Hardcover
384 Pages
The Atlantic Republic of Letters
Knowledge and Colonialism in the Age of Franklin
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9781512829310
Pub Date: May 2026
Format: Hardcover
336 Pages
Frederick Douglass’s Newspapers
Black Organizing and the Press for Freedom
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9781512829235
Pub Date: May 2026
Format: Hardcover
280 Pages
Extinction and the Human
Four American Encounters
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512829631
Pub Date: March 2026
Format: Paperback
224 Pages
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.
Philosophical Siblings
Varieties of Playful Experience in Alice, William, and Henry James
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.
The Textual Effects of David Walker's "Appeal"
Print-Based Activism Against Slavery, Racism, and Discrimination, 1829-1851
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.
The Future of American Jewish Pasts
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.
Insensible of Boundaries
Studies in Mary Ann Shadd Cary
Price: $44.95
ISBN: 9781512826616
Pub Date: January 2025
Format: Hardcover
280 Pages
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.
Captive City
Meditations on Slavery in the Urban South
Price: $44.95
ISBN: 9781512826685
Pub Date: December 2024
Format: Hardcover
224 Pages
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.

The Sonic South
Nineteenth-century Plantation Literature
Price: $64.95
ISBN: 9781512829921
Pub Date: September 2026
Format: Hardcover
256 Pages
Before Disability
A History of American Citizenship
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781512829518
Pub Date: June 2026
Format: Hardcover
384 Pages
The Atlantic Republic of Letters
Knowledge and Colonialism in the Age of Franklin
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9781512829310
Pub Date: May 2026
Format: Hardcover
336 Pages
Frederick Douglass’s Newspapers
Black Organizing and the Press for Freedom
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9781512829235
Pub Date: May 2026
Format: Hardcover
280 Pages
Extinction and the Human
Four American Encounters
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512829631
Pub Date: March 2026
Format: Paperback
224 Pages
Philosophical Siblings
Varieties of Playful Experience in Alice, William, and Henry James
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512829624
Pub Date: February 2026
Format: Paperback
312 Pages
The Textual Effects of David Walker's "Appeal"
Print-Based Activism Against Slavery, Racism, and Discrimination, 1829-1851
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781512828801
Pub Date: November 2025
Format: Paperback
312 Pages
The Future of American Jewish Pasts
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9781512828245
Pub Date: November 2025
Format: Hardcover
264 Pages
Insensible of Boundaries
Studies in Mary Ann Shadd Cary
Price: $44.95
ISBN: 9781512826616
Pub Date: January 2025
Format: Hardcover
280 Pages
Captive City
Meditations on Slavery in the Urban South
Price: $44.95
ISBN: 9781512826685
Pub Date: December 2024
Format: Hardcover
224 Pages