Charlene Mires’s chronicle of the lost history of Independence Hall argues that the building’s significance cannot be fully appreciated without assessing its full political, cultural, and social history. Reissued with a new preface that discusses the importance of the 250th anniversary of the nation’s founding to public perception of the site.
Sexuality, Humanism, and Ephemeral Performances in Fifteenth-Century Italy
Ralph J. Hexter
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 9781512828542
Pub Date: December 2025
Format: Hardcover
320 Pages
Through his excavation of two fifteenth-century Latin comedies about the entrapment of a priest who is eager for sexual activity with men—Janus the Priest and The False Hypocrite—Ralph Hexter shows how characters deployed coded language to navigate same-sex relationships. Includes the first published English translations of both plays.
Black Reconstruction and Its Legacies in Baltimore, 1865-1920
Dennis Patrick Halpin
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781512828788
Pub Date: October 2025
Format: Paperback
248 Pages
Dennis Patrick Halpin argues that Baltimore is key to understanding the trajectory of civil rights in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. A Brotherhood of Liberty traces the civil rights victories scored by black Baltimoreans that inspired activists throughout the nation and subsequent generations.
Headstrong explores the experiences of women porters, called kayayei, in Accra, Ghana. Drawing on a decade of fieldwork, anthropologist Laurian R. Bowles illustrates how race, sexuality, and gender manifest in the daily labor and lives of kayayei.
Cracked Foundations reveals that the postwar suburban boom was built on debt and speculation. Historian Michael R. Glass shows how home mortgages and municipal bonds made suburban life increasingly precarious and insecure, and how they established inequalities that have persisted to this day.
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.
Black Women’s Anti-Rape Activism amid the War on Crime
Caitlin Reed Wiesner
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781512828269
Pub Date: September 2025
Format: Hardcover
256 Pages
In the 1970s, Black anti-rape organizers inflected Black women’s tradition of community-based caring with Black feminist condemnation of patriarchal and state violence. Between the Street and the State deepens our understanding of Black women’s anti-rape activism by attending to how their tactics shifted in response to the federal War on Crime.
Mercantile Mischief and Popular Pedagogy in Premodern England
Susan E. Phillips
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9781512826975
Pub Date: September 2025
Format: Hardcover
344 Pages
Exploring the phrasebooks and guides to conversations that flooded the marketplace in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Susan E. Phillipsoffers a new account of premodern education that offered non-elite readers lessons in navigating the premodern marketplace and uncovers a pedagogy that is expansive, flexible, and inclusive.
