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.

Liberty's Prisoners chronicles how the penitentiary, though initially designed as an alternative to corporal punishment for the most egregious of offenders, quickly became a holding tank for those who attempted to lay claim to the new nation's promise of liberty.

Household Goods and Good Households in Late Medieval London looks at how increased consumption in the aftermath of the Black Death reconfigured long-held gender roles and changed the domestic lives of London's merchants and artisans for years to come.

The Silver Women argues that Black West Indian women made the construction of the Panama Canal possible by providing the indispensable everyday labor of social reproduction. The book links this labor to the histories of U.S. imperial infrastructure, the global Caribbean diaspora, and women’s own survival.

The abortion market was a powerful economic force in American life. While we may have imagined securing an abortion as a hidden, woman-only experience before 1973, this history reveals the extent to which businesses and businessmen openly selling abortion access shaped the experience of buying abortions for millions of women.

Through a set of never-before-studied records, CJ Jones illustrates how Dominicans reconciled their order’s rules with their own concrete circumstances and with the changing world around them and offers a new history of the medieval liturgy from the perspective of women’s communities.

In Citizens of the World, Megan Threlkeld profiles nine women who between 1900 and 1950 invoked world citizenship to demand participation in shaping the global polity and to express women's obligation to work for peace and equality.

Women Healers recovers the medical practices of Euro-American, Native American, and Black women in early Philadelphia. Rather than declining in influence, women healers continued their authoritative work, engaged in the healthcare marketplace, and resisted physicians’ attempts to marginalize them well into the nineteenth century.