The Soiling of Old Glory: The Story of a Photograph That Shocked America

In 1976, Boston was bitterly divided over a court order to desegregate its public schools. Plans to bus students between predominantly white and Black…
“A Good Poor Man’s Wife”: Being a Chronicle of Harriet Hanson Robinson and Her Family in Nineteenth-Century New England

A shrewd observer of 19th-century America, Harriet Hanson Robinson’s participation in important events and her salty comments, preserved and recorded…
After King Philip’s War: Presence and Persistence in Indian New England

The 1676 killing of Metacomet, the tribal leader dubbed “King Philip” by colonists, is commonly seen as a watershed event, marking the end of a bloody…
Relocating Eden: The Image and Politics of Inuit Exile in the Canadian Arctic

n the early 1950s, a number of Inuit men, women, and children were loaded on ships and sent to live in the cold and barren lands of the Canadian High…
A Documentary History of Communism and the World: From Revolution to Collapse

In the ten years since the last edition of this book, the world has undergone tremendous and, seemingly irrevocable change. With the virtual demise of…
The Jewish Response to German Culture: From the Enlightenment to the Second World War

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