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The American Literatures Initiative
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AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE SERIES

General Editors:
Neil Foley, University of Texas,
Kevin Gaines, University of Michigan
Martha Hodes, New York Universiy,
and Scott Sandage
, Carnegie Mellon University

New York University Press's American History and Culture series seeks to document the full breadth of American experience. We encourage manuscripts on diverse themes, including race, gender, region, religion, politics, and culture, with an emphasis on transformative phenomena in American life. Combining the analytical strengths of cultural history with the rigorous standards of social history, our series seeks to illuminate the origins, evolution, and aftermath of historical transformation.

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published:

Raising Freedom's Child
The Image of the Black Child and the Meaning of Liberty after Emancipation
Mary Niall Mitchell

Children's Nature
Summer Camps in New York State, 1919-1941
Leslie Paris

Newark
A History of Race, Rights, and Riots in America
Kevin Mumford

A Feeling of Belonging
Asian American Women's Public Culture, 1930-1960
Shirley Jennifer Lim

Provincetown
From Pilgrim Landing to Gay Resort
Karen Christel Krahulik

Impossible to Hold
Women and Culture in the 1960s
Edited by Avital H. Bloch and Lauri Umansky

Black and Brown
African Americans and the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1920
Gerald Horne

The Body Electric
How Strange Machines Crafted the Modern American
Carolyn Thomas de la Peña

One Nation Underground
A History of the Fallout Shelter
Kenneth D. Rose

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner Now?
Multicultural Conservatism in America
Angela D. Dillard

forthcoming:

Hedda Hopper and the Politics of Hollywood Gossip
Jennifer Frost

Brainwashing
The Anxious Mind of Cold War America
Sharon Ullman

Bartleby, the Counter Jumper
Clerks and the Making of the Middle Class in Nineteenth-Century America
Brian Luskey

America's Forgotten Holiday
May Day and Nationalism, 1867-1960
Donna T. Haverty-Stacke


 








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