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Publications

Fear of a Black Republic: Haiti and the Birth of Black Internationalism in the United States

Fear of a Black Republic: Haiti and the Birth of Black Internationalism in the United States

Rethinking Social Movements after '68: Selves and Solidarities in West Germany and Beyond

Rethinking Social Movements after '68: Selves and Solidarities in West Germany and Beyond

Communism in Eastern Europe

Communism in Eastern Europe

The Military and the Market

The Military and the Market

Assata Taught Me: State Violence, Racial Capitalism, and the Movement for Black Lives

Assata Taught Me: State Violence, Racial Capitalism, and the Movement for Black Lives

Ideas in Unexpected Places: Reimagining the Boundaries of Black Intellectual History

Ideas in Unexpected Places: Reimagining the Boundaries of Black Intellectual History

Abortion Care as Moral Work: Ethical Considerations of Maternal and Fetal Bodies

Abortion Care as Moral Work: Ethical Considerations of Maternal and Fetal Bodies

For the Many: American Feminists and the Global Fight for Democratic Equality

For the Many: American Feminists and the Global Fight for Democratic Equality

Freedom's Captives: Slavery and Gradual Emancipation on the Colombian Black Pacific

Freedom's Captives: Slavery and Gradual Emancipation on the Colombian Black Pacific

Indigenous Life After the Conquest: The De la Cruz Family Papers of Colonial Mexico

Indigenous Life After the Conquest: The De la Cruz Family Papers of Colonial Mexico

The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance

The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance

As If She Were Free: A Collective Biography of Women and Emancipation in the Americas

As If She Were Free: A Collective Biography of Women and Emancipation in the Americas

A Companion to Medieval Ethiopia and Eritrea

A Companion to Medieval Ethiopia and Eritrea

A Companion to American Women’s History, 2nd Edition

A Companion to American Women’s History, 2nd Edition

The Sum of Our Dreams: A Concise History of America

The Sum of Our Dreams: A Concise History of America

From Left to Right: Lucy S. Dawidowicz, the New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History

From Left to Right: Lucy S. Dawidowicz, the New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish...

Conversion, Circumcision, and Ritual Murder in Medieval Europe

Conversion, Circumcision, and Ritual Murder in Medieval Europe

Never Caught, the Story of Ona Judge

Never Caught, the Story of Ona Judge

Vagrants and Vagabonds: Poverty and Mobility in the Early American Republic

Vagrants and Vagabonds: Poverty and Mobility in the Early American Republic

Alan Brinkley: A Life in History

Alan Brinkley: A Life in History

To Turn the Whole World Over, Black Women and Internationalism

To Turn the Whole World Over, Black Women and Internationalism

Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs

Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs

A Girl Stands at the Door: The Generation of Young Women Who Desegregated America's Schools

A Girl Stands at the Door: The Generation of Young Women Who Desegregated America's Schools

Countless Blessings: A History of Childbirth and Reproduction in the Sahel

Countless Blessings: A History of Childbirth and Reproduction in the Sahel

A Specter Haunting Europe: The Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism

A Specter Haunting Europe: The Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism

Transforming Africa's Religious Landscapes: The Sudan Interior Mission (SIM), Past and Present

Transforming Africa's Religious Landscapes: The Sudan Interior Mission (SIM), Past and Present

Looking Forward: Prediction & Uncertainty in Modern America

Looking Forward: Prediction & Uncertainty in Modern America

Governing Islam: Law, Empire, and Secularism in Modern South Asia

Governing Islam: Law, Empire, and Secularism in Modern South Asia

La honte au Sahel:Pudeur, respect, morale quotidienne

La honte au Sahel:Pudeur, respect, morale quotidienne

Victors and Vanquished: Spanish and Nahua Views of the Fall of the Mexica Empire

Victors and Vanquished: Spanish and Nahua Views of the Fall of the Mexica Empire

Trans*historicities, special issue of Transgender Studies Quarterly

Trans*historicities, special issue of Transgender Studies Quarterly

Radical Friend: Amy Kirby Post and Her Activist Worlds

Radical Friend: Amy Kirby Post and Her Activist Worlds

Modern Empires, A Reader

Modern Empires, A Reader

Brokering Servitude: Migration and the Politics of Domestic Labor During the Long 19th Century

Brokering Servitude: Migration and the Politics of Domestic Labor During the Long 19th Century

 Sara Levy's World: Gender, Judaism, and the Bach Tradition in Enlightenment Berlin

Sara Levy's World: Gender, Judaism, and the Bach Tradition in Enlightenment Berlin

Collecting The World: Hans Sloane and the Origins of the British Museum

Collecting The World: Hans Sloane and the Origins of the British Museum

Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge

Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge

Curtain of Lies: The Battle over Truth in Stalinist Eastern Europe

Curtain of Lies: The Battle over Truth in Stalinist Eastern Europe

Dracula

Dracula

Lost in the USA: American Identity from the Promise Keepers to the Million Mom March

Lost in the USA: American Identity from the Promise Keepers to the Million Mom March

 Spanish Dollars and Sister Republics: The Money That Made Mexico and the United States

Spanish Dollars and Sister Republics: The Money That Made Mexico and the United States

Everyman In Vietnam: A Soldier's Journey into the Quagmire

Everyman In Vietnam: A Soldier's Journey into the Quagmire

Scarlet and Black, Volume 1: Slavery and Dispossession in Rutgers History

Scarlet and Black, Volume 1: Slavery and Dispossession in Rutgers History

Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive

Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive

Annals of Native America: How the Nahuas of Colonial Mexico Kept Their History Alive

Annals of Native America: How the Nahuas of Colonial Mexico Kept Their History Alive

Margins of the Market: Trafficking and Capitalism across the Arabian Sea

Margins of the Market: Trafficking and Capitalism across the Arabian Sea

Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women

Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women

Race and Retail: Consumption Across The Color Line

Race and Retail: Consumption Across The Color Line

The Murder of King James I

The Murder of King James I

Africa and World War II

Africa and World War II

Rutgers since 1945: A History of the State University of New Jersey

Rutgers since 1945: A History of the State University of New Jersey

Republic of Spin: An Inside History of the American Presidency

Republic of Spin: An Inside History of the American Presidency

The Papers of Thomas A. Edison, Vol. 8 New Beginnings, January 1885-December 1887

The Papers of Thomas A. Edison, Vol. 8 New Beginnings, January 1885-December 1887

Running Dry: Essays on Energy, Water, and Environmental Crisis

Running Dry: Essays on Energy, Water, and Environmental Crisis

Democracy: A World History

Democracy: A World History

The Match Girl and the Heiress

The Match Girl and the Heiress

The Rise of the Military Welfare State

The Rise of the Military Welfare State

Abortion After Roe

Abortion After Roe

Malintzin: Una mujer indígena en la Conquista de México

Malintzin: Una mujer indígena en la Conquista de México

Pesos and Politics: Business, Elites, Foreigners, and Goverment in Mexico, 1854-1940

Pesos and Politics: Business, Elites, Foreigners, and Goverment in Mexico, 1854-1940

Asian Slaves in Colonial Mexico: From Chinos to Indians

Asian Slaves in Colonial Mexico: From Chinos to Indians

Lincoln's Last Speech: Wartime Reconstruction and the Crisis of Reunion

Lincoln's Last Speech: Wartime Reconstruction and the Crisis of Reunion

Stalingrad: The City that Defeated the Third Reich

Stalingrad: The City that Defeated the Third Reich

Feminism Unfinished: A Short, Surprising History of American Women's Movements

Feminism Unfinished: A Short, Surprising History of American Women's Movements

Negotiated Power: The State, Elites, and Loval Governance in Twelfth-to Fourteenth-Century China

Negotiated Power: The State, Elites, and Loval Governance in Twelfth-to Fourteenth-Century China

Late Byzantine and Early Ottoman Studies

Late Byzantine and Early Ottoman Studies

Selling Our Death Masks: Cash-for-Gold in the Age of Austerity

Selling Our Death Masks: Cash-for-Gold in the Age of Austerity

Chinese Cubans: A Transnational History

Chinese Cubans: A Transnational History

Rethinking the Struggle for Puerto Rican Rights

Rethinking the Struggle for Puerto Rican Rights

The Human Shore: Seacoasts in History

The Human Shore: Seacoasts in History

The Stalingrad Protocols: Soviet Eyewitness Reports of the Battle

The Stalingrad Protocols: Soviet Eyewitness Reports of the Battle

Daoism in the Twentieth Century: Between Eternity and Modernity

Daoism in the Twentieth Century: Between Eternity and Modernity

Lincoln's Hundred Days: The Emancipation Proclamation and the War for the Union

Lincoln's Hundred Days: The Emancipation Proclamation and the War for the Union

Pacific Worlds: A History of Seas, Peoples, and Cultures

Pacific Worlds: A History of Seas, Peoples, and Cultures

The Construction of Authority in Ancient Rome and Byzantium: The Rhetoric of Empire

The Construction of Authority in Ancient Rome and Byzantium: The Rhetoric of Empire

Between Christian and Jew: Conversion and Inquisition in the Crown of Aragon, 1250-1391

Between Christian and Jew: Conversion and Inquisition in the Crown of Aragon, 1250-1391

Brown in the Windy City: Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in Postwar Chicago

Brown in the Windy City: Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in Postwar Chicago

Repercussions of the Atlantic Slave Trade: The Interior of the Bight of Biafra and the African Diaspora

Repercussions of the Atlantic Slave Trade: The Interior of the Bight of Biafra and the African...

Refiguring Women, Colonialism, and Modernity in Burma

Refiguring Women, Colonialism, and Modernity in Burma

The Cronaca di Partenope: An Introduction to and Critical Edition of the First Vernacular History of Naples (c. 1350)

The Cronaca di Partenope: An Introduction to and Critical Edition of the First Vernacular History...

Against Thrift: Why Consumer Culture is Good for the Economy, the Environment, and Your Soul

Against Thrift: Why Consumer Culture is Good for the Economy, the Environment, and Your Soul

Mining and the State in Brazilian Development

Mining and the State in Brazilian Development

Changing the World Changing Oneself

Changing the World Changing Oneself

The Skull Collectors: Race, Science, and America’s Unburied Dead

The Skull Collectors: Race, Science, and America’s Unburied Dead

No Permanent Waves: Recasting Histories of U.S. Feminism

No Permanent Waves: Recasting Histories of U.S. Feminism

Desert Kingdom: How Oil and Water Forged Modern Saudi Arabia

Desert Kingdom: How Oil and Water Forged Modern Saudi Arabia

Living for the City: Migration, Education, and the Rise of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California

Living for the City: Migration, Education, and the Rise of the Black Panther Party in Oakland,...

Here in This Year: Seventeenth-Century Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Valley

Here in This Year: Seventeenth-Century Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Valley

Beauty Shop Politics: African American Women's Activism in the Beauty Industry

Beauty Shop Politics: African American Women's Activism in the Beauty Industry

The Brokered World: Go-Betweens and Global Intelligence, 1770-1820

The Brokered World: Go-Betweens and Global Intelligence, 1770-1820

Prophecy, Alchemy, and the End of Time: John of Rupescissa in the Late Middle Ages

Prophecy, Alchemy, and the End of Time: John of Rupescissa in the Late Middle Ages

Becoming Historians

Becoming Historians

The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, Volume 5

The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, Volume 5

Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America, 1877-1920

Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America, 1877-1920

Daoist Modern: Innovation, Lay Practice, and the Community of Inner Alchemy in Republican Shanghai

Daoist Modern: Innovation, Lay Practice, and the Community of Inner Alchemy in Republican Shanghai

The World Turned Inside Out: American Thought and Culture at the End of the 20th Century

The World Turned Inside Out: American Thought and Culture at the End of the 20th Century

Welfare in the United States: A History with Documents, 1935–1996

Welfare in the United States: A History with Documents, 1935–1996

The Long Road to Baghdad: A History of U.S. Foreign Policy from the 1970s to the Present

The Long Road to Baghdad: A History of U.S. Foreign Policy from the 1970s to the Present

 Heart Religion in the British Enlightenment: Gender and Emotion in Early Methodism

Heart Religion in the British Enlightenment: Gender and Emotion in Early Methodism

Jury, State, and Society in Medieval England

Jury, State, and Society in Medieval England

Fruits and Plains: The Horticultural Transformation of America

Fruits and Plains: The Horticultural Transformation of America

Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America

Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America

From that Place and Time: A Memoir, 1938-1947

From that Place and Time: A Memoir, 1938-1947

Telling Histories: Black Women Historians in the Ivory Tower

Telling Histories: Black Women Historians in the Ivory Tower

To Rise in Darkness: Revolution, Repression, and Memory in El Salvador

To Rise in Darkness: Revolution, Repression, and Memory in El Salvador

Alltag, Erfahrung, Eigensinn: Historisch-anthropologische Erkundungen

Alltag, Erfahrung, Eigensinn: Historisch-anthropologische Erkundungen

African or American?: Black Identity and Political Activism in New York City, 1784-1861

African or American?: Black Identity and Political Activism in New York City, 1784-1861

A Fragile Freedom: African American Women and Emancipation in the Antebellum City

A Fragile Freedom: African American Women and Emancipation in the Antebellum City

The Sex of Class: Women Transforming American Labor

The Sex of Class: Women Transforming American Labor

The American Mission and the 'Evil Empire'

The American Mission and the 'Evil Empire'

Science and Empire in the Atlantic World

Science and Empire in the Atlantic World

Dominance By Design: Technological Imperatives and America’s Civilizing Mission

Dominance By Design: Technological Imperatives and America’s Civilizing Mission

Evangelical Christians in the Muslim Sahel

Evangelical Christians in the Muslim Sahel

Elusive Equality: Gender, Citizenship, and the Limits of Democracy in Czechoslovakia, 1918–1950

Elusive Equality: Gender, Citizenship, and the Limits of Democracy in Czechoslovakia, 1918–1950

Bracing for Armageddon: Why Civil Defense Never Worked

Bracing for Armageddon: Why Civil Defense Never Worked

In Defense of Christian Hungary: Religion, Nationalism, and Antisemitism, 1890-1944

In Defense of Christian Hungary: Religion, Nationalism, and Antisemitism, 1890-1944

Revolution on My Mind: Writing a Diary Under Stalin

Revolution on My Mind: Writing a Diary Under Stalin

Malintzin's Choices: An Indian Woman in the Conquest of Mexico

Malintzin's Choices: An Indian Woman in the Conquest of Mexico

Slumming: Sexual and Social Politics in Victorian London

Slumming: Sexual and Social Politics in Victorian London

 A Most Amazing Scene of Wonders: Electricity and Enlightenment in Early America

A Most Amazing Scene of Wonders: Electricity and Enlightenment in Early America

Relative Intimacy: Fathers, Adolescent Daughters, and Postwar American Culture

Relative Intimacy: Fathers, Adolescent Daughters, and Postwar American Culture

Seeing the Invisible in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

Seeing the Invisible in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

Choice & Coercion: Birth Control, Sterilization, and Abortion in Public Health and Welfare

Choice & Coercion: Birth Control, Sterilization, and Abortion in Public Health and Welfare

From Welfare to Workfare: The Unintended Consequences of Liberal Reform, 1945-1965

From Welfare to Workfare: The Unintended Consequences of Liberal Reform, 1945-1965

Landscapes of Struggle: Politics, Society, and Community in El Salvador

Landscapes of Struggle: Politics, Society, and Community in El Salvador

The Other Women’s Movement: Workplace Justice and Social Rights in Modern America

The Other Women’s Movement: Workplace Justice and Social Rights in Modern America

Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma

Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma

 Out of the Shtetl: Making Jews Modern in the Polish Borderlands

Out of the Shtetl: Making Jews Modern in the Polish Borderlands

Home Fires Burning: Food, Politics, and Everyday Life in World War I Berlin

Home Fires Burning: Food, Politics, and Everyday Life in World War I Berlin

The New Solomon: Robert of Anjou (1309-1343) and Fourteenth-Century Kingship

The New Solomon: Robert of Anjou (1309-1343) and Fourteenth-Century Kingship

Sesame and Lilies: John Ruskin

Sesame and Lilies: John Ruskin

Southern Discomfort: Women’s Activism in Tampa, Florida, 1880s-1920s

Southern Discomfort: Women’s Activism in Tampa, Florida, 1880s-1920s

An Agrarian Republic: Commercial Agriculture and the Politics of Peasant Communities in El Salvador, 1823-1914

An Agrarian Republic: Commercial Agriculture and the Politics of Peasant Communities in El...

Identity and Struggle at the Margins of the Nation-State: The Laboring Peoples of Central America and the Hispanic Caribbean

Identity and Struggle at the Margins of the Nation-State: The Laboring Peoples of Central America...

Marriage in Maradi: Gender and Culture in a Hausa Society in Niger, 1900-1989

Marriage in Maradi: Gender and Culture in a Hausa Society in Niger, 1900-1989

Mothers of a New World: Maternalist Politics and the Origins of Welfare States

Mothers of a New World: Maternalist Politics and the Origins of Welfare States

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