Science, Ethnography, and Personhood in the Americas, 1830-1940
In the 19th century, personhood was a term of regulation and discipline in which slaves, criminals, and others, could be "made and unmade." Yet it was precisely the fraught, uncontainable nature of personhood that necessitated its constant legislation, wherein its meaning could be both contested and controlled. Examining scientific and literary ......
The Paris of Picasso, Stravinsky, Proust, Renault, Marie Curie, Gertrude
McAuliffe portrays Paris in full flower at the turn of the 20th century, where creative dynamos set their respective circles on fire with their revolutionary visions and discoveries. But all was not well in this world, underscored by ominous drumbeat of the approaching Great War-a cataclysm that would brutally bring the Belle Epoque to its close.
The Story of the Great Subway Expansion That Saved New York
Published in conjunction with the History of the City of New York Project. ...a valuable case study in the micropolitics of one of the Progressive era's signature projects. (The Wall Street Journal) Illuminating ... (New York magazine)
The Story of the Great Subway Expansion That Saved New York
Published in conjunction with the History of the City of New York Project. ...a valuable case study in the micropolitics of one of the Progressive era's signature projects. (The Wall Street Journal) Illuminating . . . (New York magazine)
The Lives of Trans Men at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Skidmore presents the incredible stories of how trans men assimilated into mainstream communities in the late 1800s. Winner, 2018 U.S. History PROSE Award.
The Lives of Trans Men at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Winner, 2018 U.S. History PROSE Award The incredible stories of how trans men assimilated into mainstream communities in the late 1800s In 1883, Frank Dubois gained national attention for his life in Waupun, Wisconsin. There he was known as a hard-working man, married to a young woman named Gertrude Fuller. What drew national attention to his ......
Students' Rights and Racial Justice in the Long 1960s
A powerful history of student protests and student rights during the desegregation era In the late 1960s, protests led by students roiled high schools across the country. As school desegregation finally took place on a wide scale, students of color were particularly vocal in contesting the racial discrimination they saw in school policies and ......
Afro-Asian Solidarity in 20th-Century Black America, Japan, and Okinawa
Introduces the dynamic process out of which social movements in Black America, Japan, and Okinawa formed Afro-Asian solidarities against the practice of white supremacy in the twentieth century.
