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.
Edited by Josh Garrett-Davis and Linde B. Lehtinen
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9780873282741
Pub Date: June 2026
Format: Hardcover
176 Pages
Richly illustrated with documents, photographs, and artworks spanning from before 1776 into the twenty-first century, This Land Is . . . tells a story about place in US history and culture. More than twenty writers and artists reflect on the conflicting visions of American land, engaging with colonial legacies, national identity, and resilience.
Jane Colden (1724–1760) was America’s first woman botanist. This richly illustrated account of her life and work examines Colden’s original writing, the correspondence of her father, Dr. Cadwallader Colden, and eighteenth-century botanic sources, and restores her legacy as one of the country’s great botanists.
Andrew Morris tells the story of how Hurricane Camille, which struck the Mississippi Gulf Coast in 1969, changed the way the nation responded to disasters—drawing civil rights activists, conservative white southerners, liberal Congressional Democrats, and President Richard Nixon into a reconfiguration of the nation’s disaster policy.
The Atlantic Republic of Letters offers an alternative intellectual history of early America. Situating Benjamin Franklin’s Philadelphia in the context of a broader Atlantic intellectual world, it shows how early American intellectuals helped to devise and put into practice colonialism.
Slave Rebellions and the Making of the Modern Prison reveals how slave rebellions that were brutally crushed in their time shaped the ideas and practices of racial violence that were enacted into law. These liberatory struggles shaped how lawmakers established the legal traditions that created the modern prison.
Gradual Abolition, Black Legal Culture, and the Making of National Freedom
Sarah L. H. Gronningsater
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781512829709
Pub Date: March 2026
Format: Paperback
416 Pages
The Rising Generation chronicles the history of emancipation in the United States through the cradle-to-grave experiences of a remarkable generation of black northerners. It focuses on the efforts of the “children of gradual abolition,” who, as grown-ups, shaped national and state campaigns for legal equality and the end of slavery.
Business, Poverty, and Liberalism in the American Century
Brent Cebul
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781512829716
Pub Date: March 2026
Format: Paperback
432 Pages
In Illusions of Progress, Brent Cebul traces the rise of what he terms “supply-side liberalism” back to the 1930s and contends that, by binding national visions of progress to the local interests of capital, liberals often entrenched the very inequalities of power and opportunity they imagined their programs solving.
Undoing Slavery excavates medical and legal history to understand the abolitionist focus on the body on its own terms. Facing many challenges to their goal of restoring embodied self-sovereignty to the enslaved, abolitionists learned that legal rights alone, while necessary, were not sufficient either to protect or heal the bodies of African-descended people from the consequences of slavery and racism.
Britain's Occupation of Philadelphia During the American Revolution
Aaron Sullivan
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512829693
Pub Date: March 2026
Format: Paperback
304 Pages
Focusing on the British occupation of Philadelphia from 1777 to 1778, The Disaffected highlights the perspectives of those wearied by and withdrawn from the War for Independence and reveals the consequences of a Revolutionary ideology that assumed the nation's people to be a united and homogenous front.
