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We Rode the Rhythms as One

On the Poetry of Etheridge Knight

Edited by Norman Minnick
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, History, American History, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, African American History
Series: Under Discussion

Believing in the transformative power of the spoken word

The Death Penalty in the Eighties

An Examination of the Modern System of Capital Punishment

By Welsh S. White
Subjects: History, American History

The Death Penalty in the Nineties

An Examination of the Modern System of Capital Punishment

By Welsh S. White
Subjects: History, American History

Robert Altman's Nashville

An Archival Exploration

By Justin Wyatt
Subjects: Media Studies, Cinema Studies, American Studies, History, American History
Series: Out of the Archives

Unraveling what an American slice-of-life film can still tell us after 50 years

Journey into Northern Pennsylvania and the State of New York

By Michel Guillaume Jean de Crèvecoeur
Subjects: Memoir, History, American History

Teamsters Metropolis

By Ryan Patrick Murphy
Subjects: History, Labor History, American History, Sexuality Studies, Michigan and the Great Lakes, History

How an unruly union culture helped workers establish comfortable, suburban living

Under the Campus, the Land

Anishinaabe Futuring, Colonial Non-Memory, and the Origin of the University of Michigan

By Andrew Herscher
Subjects: Native American and Indigenous Studies, History, American History, Michigan and the Great Lakes, Ann Arbor/University of Michigan

A critical examination of the role of U.S. universities in colonization

When Charlie Met Joan

The Tragedy of the Chaplin Trials and the Failings of American Law

By Diane Kiesel
Subjects: Biography, History, American History

Exploring the lasting impacts of the Little Tramp’s real-life courtroom drama

Pleasure Grounds of Death

The Rural Cemetery in Nineteenth-Century America

By Joy M. Giguere
Subjects: American Studies, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, History, American History, Cultural Studies

Revealing how landscapes dedicated to the perpetual care of the dead mirrored the transformations and conflicts of the nineteenth century in American society

Corpse Crusaders

The Zombie in American Comics

By Chera Kee
Subjects: American Studies, Media Studies, New Media, Literary Studies, American Literature, History, American History, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Writing, Race and Ethnicity

Unearthing the undead stalking the panels of action/adventure and superhero comics

Conspiracy Theories and the Failure of Intellectual Critique

By Kurtis Hagen
Subjects: Philosophy, History, American History

Bias skews results

Bath Massacre, New Edition

America's First School Bombing

New Edition, Updated and Expanded Edition

By Arnie Bernstein
Subjects: Michigan and the Great Lakes, True Crime, History, History, American History

In Contempt

Defending Free Speech, Defeating HUAC

By Ed Yellin & Jean Fagan Yellin
Subjects: Memoir, History, American History, Political Science, Law and Judicial Politics

How an American Family Went to the Supreme Court with a First Amendment Defense and Beat HUAC

Stamping American Memory

Collectors, Citizens, and the Post

By Sheila Brennan
Subjects: American Studies, History, American History
Series: Digital Humanities

Awarded the University of Michigan Press / Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory (HASTAC) publication prize for Notable Work in the Digital Humanities

The Silent Guns of Two Octobers

Kennedy and Khrushchev Play the Double Game

New Edition, Updated

By Theodore Voorhees
Subjects: Political Science, American Politics, History, American History

Far from the brink

"Destined to Fail"

Carl Seashore's World of Eugenics, Psychology, Education, and Music

By Julia Eklund Koza
Subjects: Education, Music, Disability Studies, History, American History, Psychology, Race and Ethnicity

How eugenics became a keystone of modern educational policy

Informing a Nation

The Newspaper Presidency of Thomas Jefferson

By Mel Laracey
Subjects: Political Science, American Politics, History, American History

How a dynamic, controversially elected president used the media to promote his image and policies

Sit-Down

The General Motors Strike of 1936-1937

With a New Foreword by Kim Moody

By Sidney Fine
Subjects: History, American History, American Studies, Michigan and the Great Lakes, History
Series: Class : Culture

Studies the most significant American labor conflict of the 20th century

Performing Flight

From the Barnstormers to Space Tourism

By Scott Magelssen
Subjects: Theater and Performance, American Studies, History, American History

A century of human aviation and space travel, seen through the lens of performance

The Silent Guns of Two Octobers

Kennedy and Khrushchev Play the Double Game

By Theodore Voorhees
Subjects: Political Science, American Politics, History, American History

Far from the brink

States at War

A Reference Guide for Michigan in the Civil War

By Richard F Miller
Subjects: Michigan and the Great Lakes, History, History, American History

The definitive guide for researching Michigan’s experience throughout the Civil War

An Independent Empire

Diplomacy & War in the Making of the United States

By Michael S. Kochin & Michael Taylor
Subjects: Political Science, American Politics, History, American History

How the United States used methods of imperial diplomacy to recast itself into a global juggernaut

Zombie History

Lies About Our Past that Refuse to Die

By Peter Charles Hoffer
Subjects: History, American History, Political Science, American Politics

You can’t outrun it, but you can outsmart it

Adoption, Memory, and Cold War Greece

Kid pro quo?

By Gonda Van Steen
Subjects: American Studies, History, American History, European History, Classical Studies, Greek, Literary Studies, European Literature

Reveals the history of how 3,000 Greek children were shipped to the United States for adoption in the postwar period

Provocative Eloquence

Theater, Violence, and Antislavery Speech in the Antebellum United States

By Laura L. Mielke
Subjects: Theater and Performance, American Studies, History, American History, Literary Studies

Shows how theater was essential to the anti-slavery movement’s consideration of forceful resistance

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