Books in the series examine political and social change in the broadest dimensions from 1865 to the present, including ideas about the ways people have sought and wielded power in the public sphere and the language and institutions of politics at all levels. The series is motivated by a desire to encourage synthetic perspectives.
Series Editors:
Keisha N. Blain
Professor of History and Africana Studies, Brown University
Margot Canaday
Professor of History, Princeton University
Matthew Lassiter
Professor of History, University of Michigan
Stephen Pitti
Professor of History and American Studies, Yale University
Thomas J. Sugrue
Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and History, New York University
Staff Editorial Contact:
Robert Lockhart, Senior Editor rlockhar@upenn.edu
Chicago, Ethiopianism, and the Black Apocalyptic Imagination
Kai Parker
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9781512827521
Pub Date: May 2025
Format: Hardcover
288 Pages
How Black Protestants in Chicago created Ethiopianism, a transnational religious movement against Western imperialismCity of Black Souls uncovers the history of how, from the late nineteenth to the...
Black Republicans left an indelible mark on the history of their party, the civil rights movement, and twentieth-century political developmentReflecting on his fifty-year effort to steer the Grand Old...
Race, Rights, and Reform in the U.S. Farm Labor Camp Program
Verónica Martínez-Matsuda
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512826920
Pub Date: October 2024
Format: Paperback
376 Pages
An examination of the Farm Security Administration's migrant camp system and the people it servedToday's concern for the quality of the produce on our plates has done little to guarantee U.S. farmworkers...
The history of the ultraconservative movement, its national network, and its influence on Republican Party politicsDonald Trump shocked the nation in 2016 by winning the presidency through an ultraconservative,...
Barbara Jordan’s Life and Legacy in Black Politics
Mary Ellen Curtin
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781512825800
Pub Date: September 2024
Format: Hardcover
480 Pages
An important new biography of Barbara Jordan, the first Black woman from the South to serve in CongressDuring her keynote speech at the 1976 Democratic Party convention, Barbara Jordan of Texas stood...
Mass movements and social protest forced mid-century Republicans to articulate their own form of liberalismAs poor and working people organized themselves on the job, in the streets, and at the polls...
Cold War Refugee Policy, the Cuban Diaspora, and the Transformations of Miami
Mauricio Fernando Castro
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9781512825725
Pub Date: March 2024
Format: Hardcover
296 Pages
In Only a Few Blocks to Cuba, Mauricio Castro shows how the U.S. government came to view Cuban migration to Miami as a strategic asset during the Cold War, in the process investing heavily in the city’s...
Mexican Arizona and the Politics of Educational Equality
Laura K. Muñoz
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781512825114
Pub Date: December 2023
Format: Hardcover
288 Pages
Desert Dreams chronicles seventy-five years of Mexican American efforts to attain educational equality in Arizona, from its territorial period in the nineteenth century to the post–World War II era....
From workplace accidents to polio epidemics and new waves of immigration to the returning veterans of World War II, the first half of the twentieth century brought the issue of disability—what it...
The Politics of Sexual Privacy in Northern California
Clayton Howard
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512824742
Pub Date: March 2023
Format: Paperback
392 Pages
The right to privacy is a pivotal concept in the culture wars that have galvanized American politics for the past several decades. It has become a rallying point for political issues ranging from abortion...
